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The Aging of Aquarius the New Age Grows Up CELEBRATING 25 YEARS IN PUBLICATION Enlighten Up! with The Aquarian SUMMER 2017 Volume 25 • Issue 2 INSIDE FEATURES The Aging of Aquarius The New Age grows up ..............1 A Tarot reading for The Aquarian .....3 Make your own bone broth ........5 OPINION In defense of millennials .............1 Suzuki: Shrink the work week ....6 Sharing close encounters ............11 Master your money....................15 Let go of stress ...........................16 COLUMNS Cohen: Your passion is your prayer ........................................4 Growing up trans: Beyond “boys’ and girls’ toys” ........................7 Wheelwright: Be free like a gull ...10 Lakser: Dating over forty...........13 Cassiopeia: Life is a party, enlighten up! ......................... 18 BOOKS The Dorito Effect ........................14 Millennials are Aquarius the Solution, not the Problem By YVONNE THOMPSON hen you work in the field of leadership, you Wtake on a special fiduciary role where openness and exploration with clients is critical. I am always Has Dawned careful not to declare absolutes or ever believe I have the answers for another person. I have seen a lot over the past 30 years and rarely do I get worked up about Is the New Age past its prime? things anymore. Last week was a real exception. I found myself By SUSAN HURRELL years before the swinging sixties. Occultism, watching Simon Sinek’s viral YouTube interview Freemasonry, spiritualism, Theosophy, Mesmerism, about “Millennials in the Workplace” and it made t has been 50 years since we first sang “When the secret orders like the Hermetic Order of the Golden me crazy. I felt like he set us back 50 years in Imoon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns Dawn, the Ordo Templi Orientis and the breakaway leadership evolution. If he was simply seeking with Mars.” The dawning of the Age of Aquarius Christian “New Thought” churches of Universalism, publicity, he was successful. But if he is trying to be brought forward two counterculture movements to Unitarianism, and Religious Science were powerful credible in a complex world of significant leadership challenge the standards of Western society – the influences on spiritual thought from the mid-19th shift, that's another story. hippie era and century forward. When we take an entire generation, and categorize the New Age New religious them – label them and call them names – it is no movement. movements different than doing this with a race of people. It Hippie life was Our New Age is more middle-aged – like Wicca, simply sets us all back. infused with the Bahá’í Sinek references research. We must be careful rock music, a baby boom religion no longer Faith, Christian when we use research to ensure it is credible and peer casual drug use, Science and reviewed. I confess, I do not know which studies he sexual liberation relegated to the baby boom generation. S c i e n t o l o g y, refers to or their source. One reason for this is that I and women’s continue to do not spend time researching and exploiting things empowerment emerge, rise and like generational differences, preferring to spend – liberating people from the shackles of post-war fall, fascinating the academic community even as my time understanding the human experience as a propriety and restricted cultural thinking. What they satiate seekers of spiritual fulfillment. whole. flower power did for our bodies and minds, the New Back in the 60s, the Beatles went to Rishikesh, Simon states there are four factors impacting Age movement did for our souls and spirits. the Rolling Stones went to Marakesh and Hinduism, millennials in the workplace: parenting, technology, The New Age movement was the contemporary Buddhism and Sufism became a more present part patience and environment. Please note, I will not manifestation of philosophies that influenced spiritual thought and practice over one hundred See AGE OF AQUARIUS on page 8 See MILLENNIALS on page 12 2 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com www.aquarianonline.com SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! 3 A 25th Anniversary Tarot Reading for The Aquarian In honour of The Aquarian's 25th anniversary, we Future – Page of Swords asked tarot card reader, astrologer and longtime Aquarian writer, Nancy Gill, to do a tarot In future, let The Aquarian’s natural card reading for The Aquarian. curiosity lead the way. Readers are getting so busy they rely on By NANCY you doing the research and o as a 25th letting them Sb i r t h d a y know what to treat The watch for. Your Aquarian back issues are requested a tarot like a library of card reading. I knowledge for folks used a basic three to access. Readers card spread first and are thankful they can then pulled cards to do so at their leisure. answer key questions. On your website, I see a “Questions from Readers” page being Basic Three quite busy as people Card Layout become more and more engaged. This page will Past – Tower also be used to help editors decide what topics will The Aquarian was a mover be of interest to a majority and a shaker when it first of readers. Be open to started. Bringing awareness feedback. Listen to what the of universal truths to people, readers are saying. An “Ask challenging the establishment Our Expert” page would also and established ways of seeing do well. Readers would be able things. Offering information to ask a card reader, astrologer, that might throw people out of their spirit. The Aquarian also enlightens people about relationship consultant, dietitian, comfort zone. The Aquarian also changed the way what’s going on behind the scenes in established aromatherapist, vegan cook, and people saw how a paper could be run. A free and industries as they relate to the environment and others for general answers or directions. successful paper? Who knew! healthy living. The Aquarian encourages readers to live more fulfilling lives by letting them know about A lot is changing right now in North America Present – Ten of Pentacles services and tools available. The newspaper reflects and the world. Here are a few questions for The the belief that, “With a good foundation you can build Aquarian answered through the tarot. The Aquarian is in a solid position, able to provide a strong house.” Nutrition, the planet, sustainability, information to assist so many readers in their maintaining a well-rounded approach to life – you’ve exploration of things related to body, mind and got it all. See TAROT READING on page 19 We are a Spiritualist Church following The Seven Principals as acknowledged by The Spiritualist Church of Canada. Our Church is based on healing. Services held at 10:30 a.m. 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month Closed July & August 48 Holland Road, West St. Paul Rec Centre/Sunova Centre [email protected] (204) 390-6609 or (204) 338-5505 4 SUMMER 2017 ~ Enlighten Up! www.aquarianonline.com From the Heart By ALAN COHEN Your Passion is Your Prayer he powerful movie Dangerous Beauty recounts At another time I sat through a fairly boring church shows most of the home as blue, indicating the area that Tthe story of Veronica Frankl, a 16th century Christmas service. As soon as the service was over and is well-insulated. Some of the areas, especially around Venetian courtesan (prostitute for noblemen) who people were milling out, some upbeat music came over doors and windows, are glowing red, indicating the wins the hearts of her clients. Veronica is beautiful, the loudspeaker. I looked up into the balcony and saw places where heat is leaking out. witty, and full of passion for life and her profession. two teenagers who came alive and started dancing to Over a long period of time we have been trained to Her clients feel her terrific life force, and they are this music. Suddenly my heart lifted. It was the first believe that life is about staying insulated, rather than lifted from the grayness of their lives. shred of aliveness I felt during the service. I think glowing with passion. God, however, is most present The Great Inquisition overtakes Venice, and Jesus would have appreciated it, too. and obvious where people are happy and alive. This Veronica is brought means that there to trial on charges is more genuine of witchcraft. The prayer happening judge sternly tells her at football games that if she confesses than most churches. to being a witch, her If churches could work up enthusiasm, life will be spared. In Photo by Lukas Budinsky a stirring courtroom presence of attention, soliloquy, Veronica and spirit as well declares, “I confess. as professional . .I confess that I football, religion find more ecstasy in our country in passion than in would really rock. prayer. Such passion But many people is prayer.” walk out of most For those of us who churches more dead have been taught that than alive. If next prayer or spirituality Sunday we made a requires denying our rule that only those passion, Veronica’s people who would statement may come really love to go to as a shock. But, church go, I wonder as Phillip Brooks what attendance noted, “Prayer is not would look like. the overcoming of But the good news God’s reluctance, but is that the energy the taking hold of in church would be God’s willingness.” spectacular. I would And what is God’s “When you love what you are doing, you are God in action.” rather teach to a small willingness, but the experience of joy and abundance Then there was the time I spoke at a small church in group who really want to be there, than to a large group in every area of life? the Midwest.
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