CHAPTER ONE: What the Ancients Knew 

We must not be terrified by our current situation. We must understand that there are cycles of history, just as there are cycles to the seasons, and that democracies will always descend into a period of decadence, corruption, tyranny and collapse. But on the other side, if we stand up, we will witness a rebirth of freedom. Alex Jones. (The Great Awakening).

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Though I’m not a professional astrologer by any means, it’s always seemed like common sense to be aware of how I’m wired, in what ways I’m compatible with those around me, and to understand current events in larger context.

I didn’t seek it out. It’s something I was born with. It comes natural to me. However, I know that for many it’s a closed book. One that’s taboo. Some bring skepticism to the subject, others dismissive ridicule. What’s available to the public ranges from popularized, for-entertainment-only quackery to profoundly deep, astronomy-based science.

Here, of course, we’re talking about the latter. There’s a full spectrum of astrologies. Some are solar-based. Others, both Hebraic and Arabic, are lunar-based. Ancient Chinese astrologers looked not to the planets, but literally to the stars.

Also note that like any other science (defined simply as with knowledge), astrology has positive uses as well as opposite-and-equal abuses. One positive application is its use as a tool of medical diagnosis. For example, Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, stated that no one could qualify as a healer who was not well versed in astrology. Even up to current practice, medical astrology is used to discern between chronic, natal imbalances and transitory disturbances that will, predictably, pass.

An example of abuse is unethical exploitation of occult information by robber barons who make “killings,” anticipating and taking advantage of stock market upswings and reversals. J.P. Morgan famously said, “Millionaires don’t use astrology. Billionaires do.”

In either case, having advanced knowledge of the timing of events is extraordinarily useful.

Please bear with me here, because understanding the larger context and then narrowing the focus to the present moment is an exercise in restoring hope and clarity to a time of confusion and despair.

This is not meant to be a treatise on astrology, so let me be brief and cut to the chase as quickly as possible. By understanding the valid place of astrology as a gatekeeper between secular science proponents on one extreme and religionists on the other, it’s possible to reach a middle ground where both sides are reconciled, restoring balance and unity to our views.

I’ll briefly provide you with an overview of what ancients in many civilizations agree about cycles of time and humanity’s evolution. Then I’ll drill down on the immediate time, to describe the massive, long-foreseen paradigm shift now in progress.

Finally, arriving at my purpose for writing The Quantum Solution, I’ll describe both the potentials and responsibilities becoming available to citizens of planet Earth now. I’ll put the current times in perspective, describing what current astrologers have to say about the upsurge of information exposing corruption and capture of intuitions across the board in order to clear the decks, preparing the way for a renaissance – the longed-for re-birth of hope, integrity, freedom and cooperation on a planetary scale.

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Because, as I said, I’m not qualified to tell you first-hand about astrological cycles of time, for the most part I’ll quote or paraphrase from those best qualified to do so.

The Constellations Work Like a Celestial Clock Astrologers ancient and modern alike concur that human events are influenced by the stars. In contrast to current linear models of history, the ancient authors recognized patterns of repeating, spiraling cycles of degeneration followed by regeneration.

Why is this important to us? Because at a biological level, our physical, emotional and mental lives are definitely, if mysteriously, influenced by solar, lunar and even larger planetary cycles as well. Evidence of quantum entanglement indicates that human consciousness is connected in non-local ways to the movement of the heavenly bodies.

Nor is this news. Early scriptures calculated predictable cycles of human history, leading up to where we are now, and indicating what we are likely to experience next

In addition, the Vedas of India as well as Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Mayan and Greek and biblical mythologies all hint at humanity’s connections with extraterrestrials. However, much of ancient knowledge has been either lost or concealed from the public.

Because knowledge is power, gatekeepers are known to make whatever would empower the masses taboo, off limits, while about-facing to hoard such knowledge exclusively for their own benefit. Political rulers and money magnates, for example, are known to consult astrologers for personal gain. Hitler was fascinated by the seemingly occult, including astrology.

What we do know is that Vedic scriptures, Western astrology, and Native American traditions agree that historical ages move through vast ascending and descending cycles of time.

The Vedas are the world’s oldest known scriptures. Originally revealed to seers in deep meditation, they were initially passed verbally from one generation of teachers to the next and only penned down about 5,000-7,000 years ago. These Sanskrit hymns to glories of God include not only spiritual knowledge but practical sciences as well as, including the Ayurveda — an energetic approach to healing.

Now, in this tradition, a complete cycle of time, a Yuga, lasts approximately 24,000 years. It is comprised of a descending cycle of 12,000 years in which virtue gradually decreases, followed by ascending cycle of another 12,000 years when virtue gradually increases.

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At present, humanity has bottomed out of the descending cycle: the Kali Yuga. Heather Ensworth details the dates of this transition with researcher/author Bibhu Dev Misra.

Kali is the fierce Hindu goddess death, time and change, who destroys evil in order to protect the innocent. The Kali Yuga was a dark time. Mental abilities declined. Morality plummetsed As wickedness increased, so did fear, anguish, anger, disease and scarcity. (Sound familiar?)

But after completing the 12,000 year descending cycle from Satya Yuga to Kali Yuga, the sequence has reversed. An ascending cycle of 12,000 years has begun, moving once again towards to the golden age of the Satya Yuga.

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Western astrology clocks the ages in terms of the zodiac. Each astrological age lasts approximately 2,147 years as it moves counter-clockwise through the twelve zodiac constellations. A complete cycle comprises one great year, which lasts, give or take, 25,764 years (compared to the 24,000 yuga cycle).

According to Western astrology, humanity is currently in the process of transitioning from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius. (More on this a bit later, below.) In contrast, the Greeks (as well as their antecedents, the Atlanteans and later, other occult organizations springing up over time) describe cycles of time of varying durations in terms of metals.

A golden age represents a blossoming spring, where virtue, religion, and the arts flourish. It is followed by a silver age of conquest and pride, then by a bronze age which declines into materialism, atheism and degeneration. A final iron age (which corresponds with the Kali Yuga), is characterized by confusion of castes, election of dictators, tyranny of the state and atrophy of industry. (As an exception, the Greek poet Hesiod inserted a fifth age between the bronze and the iron ages: a golden age of heroes.)

The New Testament also alludes to astrology’s changing times. Quotes are cited referring to both the signs of Pisces, the fish, and to Aquarius, the water bearer. For example, Jesus is said to be the fisher of men, referenced in Matthew 4:19. “And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” And Luke 5:9-11 “For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.”

Jesus is also said to guide his disciples to the house of Aquarius. In Luke 22, 8-10. Jesus said to Peter and John, “Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover. Where do you want us to prepare it? When you’ve entered the city, a man carrying a water jug will meet you. Follow him into the house he enters.” The men with the water jug represent the house of Aquarius.

Thus scholarly interpretations regard Passover as the passing over to a new era. Jesus also was aware of the difficulties inherent in transitional times such the current one, moving from Pisces to Aquarius. “When you hear of wars and rebellions, don’t be alarmed. Indeed, it is necessary that these things take place first, . . . ”

Shifting to the Age of Aquarius. According to modern astrologers, a great shift has begun from the Piscean age to the Aquarian. Undoubtedly, we are living during a time of profound change. Many have said much on the subject. Very briefly: The age of Pisces, commencing with the birth of Christ, is characterized as one of devotion, worship and artistic creativity, with a dark underbelly of addiction and delusion.

On the one hand, the age of Pisces, ruled by Neptune, is about spirituality and self-sacrifice, but also about pain, suffering, and escape. For the most part, the masses are taught to passively turn their power over to a guru or a religion. The keynote of Pisces is “I Believe.”

In contrast, the keynote of the Aquarian age is “I Know.’ During this time, lasting from 2,000 to 2,300 years, humanity will take back its power to find the teacher within, restoring awareness of intuition and connection to the field of quantum intelligence.

Attention will shift towards networking and global concerns. Uranus, the ruler of Aquarius, is associated with technological advances and also with rebellion – a powerful urge for freedom and individual choice. Its challenge will be to allow change to happen, rather than resisting the new; to look forward to the future with curiosity, not fear; to remain open, flexible and ready to pivot.

The important practical implication of the difference between the two ages is this. In the 1960’s, murdering a handful of revered leaders whom the populace put on a pedestal (including the Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X) shut down an entire generation.

In the future, the response will be very different. Where before, deep state globalists seemed to have the upper hand, and the masses, like sheep, believed they had no power to protect themselves from the ravenous wolves who presume to lead over them, astrology says NO. Not now. Because “the times, they are a changing.”

An Aquarian generation will respond to intimidation by standing shoulder to shoulder against oppression. Assassinations would double and redouble determination to take on collective responsibility to pick up the fallen flag and complete their beloved leaders’ work.

Astrology NOW. Narrowing the focus down, let’s now turn to the immediate time to review what prominent teachers have to say today. The short-list includes Pam Gregory, Heather Ensworth and Molly McCord, with a host of others following suit. Important to note is that what they’re seeing is neither a fated nor unalterable future, but rather a shift in energetic potentials whose non-physical existence resides within the invisible yet every real middle, e=energy level of the Quantum Life Wheel.

What actually occurs will depend upon a combination of individual choice and collective action. Which of the options amongst many possibilities will prevail is up to each one of us. As “team humanity,” we have the potential to generate a critical mass of positive change . . . or not.

In any event, today’s astrologers agree that starting in 2020, we’ve seen increasing exposure of widespread, entrenched, long-term corruption throughout public institutions – churches and governments, as well as the legal, education and healthcare professions. This exposure (“shining a light on darkness”) serves as the necessary catalyst to eventual reformation across the board.

They also recognize that surfacing rampant abuses in order to clear them out will meet with desperate and therefore ruthless suppression by current powerholders with vested interest in maintaining the status quo. During 2024, we experienced transitions as outer planets started to change location, significantly affecting collective consciousness.

This shift is not unlike a birthing process, full of unknowns and, in the short-term, painful. This rebirthing (which Alex Jones, among others, recognizes as prelude to the next renaissance) will continue through 2026, after which, life will bear little resemblance to the now familiar.

In the short-term, Pam Gregory in particular urges us to “stay on your eagle’s perch.” As a follower of Joe Dispenza, she’s an advocate of mindfulness and meditative practices. She tells her viewers to keep an overview. Focus on hope for the future. Don’t get caught up in the chaos of the immediate moment. Understand where its leading — towards “New Earth,” full of positive, hopeful potentials.

She places importance on the natal chart of the U.S., set for July 4, 1776. Although she’s a Brit, she rightly says what happens in this country has a ripple effect upon nations across the globe. In particular, she notes that the U.S. is in its “Pluto return.” What it means is that this powerful planet has traveled full circle to return to the same place and degree that it was at the time of the nation’s founding.

Pluto is a planet of profound transformation. It’s located in the U.S. second house, a placement that denotes values, both moral and economic. Astrologically speaking, the country is due for a major rethinking and upgrade of its founding beliefs. The economy is also likely to see major re-visions of its agricultural practices and fiscal foundations.

Great astrological attention is being given to Pluto’s recent ingress into Aquarius for the first time in over 200 years. The last time it occurred saw both the American and French revolutions, as well as the beginnings of the industrial revolution. This aspect will last about twenty years, so nothing is likely to happen over night. But it would be well to martial the expressions of these revolutionary aspects more wisely and deliberately than the last time around.

Perspective Bottom line: Increased awareness of the gradual shifting of outer planets gives us cause for renewed hope. There’s a light at the end of an apparently endless dark tunnel of corruption, chaos and despair. As astral energies change, what earlier was impossible will become not only possible but, in some form or fashion (up to us), inevitable.

Here, knowledge is power. Being aware of what the ancients foretold and modern astrologers confirm, we’re equipped with a better understanding of the dynamics we’re dealing with, as well as the latent but powerful potentials for positive change embedded therein. Those in the know have the means to make better decisions, take effective action and achieve better results.

Conclusion The progression of Chapter One has been to start with an overview and then focus one step at a time, from largest and grandest to the smallest and most immediate. Which ends with me. Now.

To do so, I first have to back track to tell you about the continuing role the German psychologist Carl Jung has played in my life, leading up to the current day. It started after I dropped out of graduate school. I told an English advisor he could keep the NDEA IV Fellowship that would have paid for a Ph.D. in trivia. According to department rules, my proposed thesis on Shakespeare was disallowed. That field was overdone. I’d have to pick a subject less known, and never written on. Not interested.

So the following year, I continued reading on my own, on the subjects that mattered to me. Significantly, I trudged through Volume 13 of Jung’s collected works, Alchemical Studies. What stayed with me was a picture drawn by one of his patients. A bird stands on the ground in front of a large, thick tree. There’s a door leading to the inside of the tree. But it’s locked. The bird weeps because it’s stuck outside.

That bird’s soul sadness resonated. I identified. (Getting ahead of myself, in retrospect, that’s what the shift to the Quantum Paradigm will change for those soul-stuck on the outside of the Tree of Life, the result of cultural conditioning.)

Two years later, as a violin student living in Düsseldorf, Germany, I burrowed deep into Jung’s memoir, Memories, Dreams and Reflections. The memorable take away was the fastest cure of his career. A neurotic young woman, raised by atheist parents, was instantly healed by reconnecting with her Jewish grandfather’s scholarly piety. She remembered who she was. It touched a psychic nerve. My landlord at the time was an elderly portrait painter. He insisted I was not American, and asked about my family roots. I had no idea.

His questions sparked letters to grandparents on both sides, asking about their ancestors. It turns out that I owe coloring and bone structure to my father’s father’s Native American lineage. My fathers’ mother, whose maiden name was Brooks, went directly back to the Mayflower (my father was named after one of its passengers, William Kirby Brewster).

Further back, the line traced to Lady Jane Gray, who, had she been born male, would have been King of England (rather than being executed in the Tower of London along with her tragically ambitious young husband). My mother’s mother’s was of Viennese descent, almost as if there were a karmic connection to my violin, made in Vienna in 1776 by Mathias Thir.

And my mother’s father’s father was of Russian Jewish stock. Though a tailor by profession, according to Grandpa Dave, he was a biblical scholar and saintly man.

Bingo!

During that same time, I immersed myself in the Wilhelm-Baynes translation of the venerable Chinese I Ching. Jung wrote its introduction. He admitted he was reluctant to do so, worried that it might put his reputation at risk. However, he felt a responsibility to sponsor it as a valuable tool for making the unconscious conscious.

To solve his dilemma, he removed himself by asking the I Ching itself what it wanted readers to know about this translation. Five years later, I followed his example, asking in the introduction to my small, jargon-free version what it had to offer its readers. (N.B. Dynamics of the Quantum Paradigm are inherent in the I Ching, as it slowly taught me through persistent, careful attention.)

Now, in doing the research for this chapter, I recently came across yet another of Jung’s contributions. Once again, he expressed grave reluctance to be associated with a fringe topic. But again, he felt a responsibility to take on a subject he regarded as having immense psychological implications — worldwide UFO observations. Surprisingly, in the very first pages of Flying Saucers, Jung mentions the astrological precession of ages of which the ancients knew, taking them for granted as fact.

He was keenly aware that humanity is approaching a time of massive shift, and that somehow, the surfacing awareness of ET presence is critically important to successfully navigating that shift! Getting a bit ahead of the story, which we’ll circle back to in Chapter 5, Jung concluded that humanity has something akin to a cellular memory, which he could only identify as an unconscious resonance with ET influence.

CONCLUSION

Currently, humanity has entered the gradual process of rewaking up to its full potential once again, having rounded the low ebb of forgetfulness in what’s known as the kali yuga — the ultimate stage of decline in a long-standing, repeating, five-thousand,-year cycle of consciousness.

What is strikingly different this time around is this. By living from the Center of the Quantum Life Wheel described in Chapter Three and linking its levels in a continuous infinity loop, we now have the rare and precious opportunity to transcend duality, to leap outside the cycles of remembering and forgetfulness. — to remain fully conscious and aware of who we truly are in an enduring, consistent way. Truly a renaissance — the foreseen rebirth into a better age of existence.