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Chapter One
A Thousand Years of Yin
A thousand years of Yang, gone.
A thousand years of him, been.
Now, a thousand years of Yin begin
as the cosmic clock assures
and the tides of time secure -
the next one thousand years
belong to her.
December 31st 1999, marked the last day of the last month of the last
thousand years, a millennium in which the male energy, the Yang, the
One (1), dominated. But that time has passed. It is no more. Feminine
rays are now being cast by the cosmic sun and it is time for the female
energy, the Yin, the Two (2) to take her place on the great life stage.
Irrefutably, with the dawning of the year 2000, the Age of the Female arrived.
Numbers
"Numbers rule the universe.
Everything is arranged according to number and mathematical shape."
This profound statement was made by the famous mathematician/scientist,
Pythagoras, approximately twenty-five hundred years ago. It is this
fact which corroborates the rise of the female - a prodigious event in
world history whose occurrence has clearly not been accidental.
Numbers rule the universe because everything can be reduced to numbers.
And what are numbers? They are nothing more than symbols, ciphers and
codes depicting, illustrating, defining and describing life and its
functions. Do away with numbers and civilization as we know it would
collapse. Light, sound, music, computers, financial institutions,
commercial enterprise, scientific research and media communication
would all be non-existent. Life, as we know it, would come to a
screeching halt were it not for numbers. Incontrovertibly, life is
numbers and when we think about it, there is nothing that does not have
a numerical foundation, including millennia.
Besides being a renowned mathematician, scientist and philosopher of
his time, Pythagoras was also regarded as being the first numerologist
- one who associates numbers with life. Even the famous Greek
philosopher, Aristotle, wrote: "The Pythagorean ... having been brought
up in the study of mathematics, thought that things are numbers ... and
that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number." (qtd. in O'Connor and
Robertson). Thus, because of Pythagoras, numerology - the art and
science of numbers and their relationship to life - was born.
Numerology has merit. It is a science as well as an art, just like
medicine. It may not maintain a sense of public acceptance or awareness
at this time, but that does not invalidate its reality. There was a
time, as we are all aware, when the consensus of the earth's population
believed the earth was flat and that the four corners of the world
were, indeed, four corners. Then Columbus came along and altered the
consensus of the public consciousness. The world was now round, not
flat, and those believing differently were simply living in the past,
and any knowledge such believers espoused about the earth being flat
were simply erroneous.
Numerology, a mathematical tool for understanding the framework of
life, is simply one of those bodies of knowledge lying underneath the
surface of the vast ocean of visible form. As a metaphysical
science, numerology will gain acceptance during this next millennium as
its truth is revealed. The positive thing about numerology is that it
can be proven; its truth determined scientifically, and the scientific
truth is that the next thousand years will be ruled by all things Yin.
Furthermore, it's an acknowledged fact that simply because something is
not openly active and generally obvious it does not necessarily lack
merit. Science is the discipline of discovering the unknown, of making
the imperceptible, perceptible. In the last thousand years, science
concentrated on external realities. With the turning of the millennia
tide, more attention will now be given to internal realities. Being the
solo player, for example, a function of male One (1) energy will, in
part, be openly replaced by partnership and teamwork, a feminine Two (2)
trait.
There will be other visible changes. Men will soften, become more
receptive, sensitive, caring, intuitive. In fact, science is now
proving that intuition is a reality and that many top executives use
their intuitive skills to solve problems. This trend will definitely
increase and the best of the best will be sought, not just for their
logic, but for their gut instincts as well. Is this to say that all men
will become feminine during this new age? Of course not. But the
paradigm of what a man and woman were during the last thousand years is
definitely undergoing a metamorphosis, as any sentient soul will
acknowledge.
Numerology is neither back room hocus-pocus nor crystal ball gazing. It
is science - an empirical method of ascertaining the super-structure
and divine design of life. It is no less real than genetic code or the
atomic structure of elements. It has existed since time immemorial and
the world should be forever grateful to Pythagoras for his enlightened
genius which opened the door to the inner reality and secrets of life
through numbers.
Chance or Design
Is it by chance that the next thousand years will be the Age of the
Female and embrace her energy? No. It is by design, spiritual-cosmic
design. Order is the first law of the universe, and just as the great
cosmic pendulum swayed within the polar field of the One (1) vibration
for the last thousand years, it has now reversed its direction, passed
the polar midpoint and is transiting the energy field of the Two (2).
Hermes Trismegistus, the alleged teacher of the magical system known as
Hermiticism, is said to have provided the wisdom of light in the
ancient mysteries of Egypt. He said that if a pendulum swings one way,
it must, by its very nature, swing the other. From positive pole to
negative pole and back again ceaselessly sways the great cosmic clock
to a timeless, relentless rhythm, a rhythm which honored him for the
last thousand years but which, by predictable circle, cycle and tide,
will now honor her for the next thousand.
The Hour Glass of
Circles, Cycles and Sides
Life is a construct of circles, cycles and sides--
timeless tides of constantly-flowing energy
swaying to and fro to the polar rhythm
of the Great Cosmic Pendulum.
Within this flux is the crux
of man's secret identity--
his coming and going,
rising and falling,
crying, sighing,
living, dying,
laughing,
smiling,
tears, fears,
relentless years -
endless revolution.
Helpless to challenge
the forces which move him,
man's hope is to understand
the infinite Source sustaining him,
to honor, embrace and surrender to It;
to accept and adjust to the Reality of that
which is, avoiding the illusion of that which is not.
Other Traits
The gigantic millennia shift from Yang to Yin has also been responsible
for earthman's debarkation from his own world in efforts to explore
other worlds and celestial bodies such as our own moon, the planet mars
and beyond. In fact, the moon has not only been regarded throughout the
history of mankind as feminine by nature, it is also ruled by the
number Two (2). Therefore, it certainly isn't a coincidence that
earthman landed on the moon when he did, in the Twentieth Century - a
Two (2) cipher in reduction (20 = 2 + 0 > 2). Other signposts of this
age are the focus on relationships, the rise of competitive athletics,
especially for females; gangs, terrorism, the advancement of IT
technologies, personal data collection, invasion of privacy, sexual
gender issues, teamwork and partnership, the morass of confusion
accosting and besieging the general public mostly because of these
numerical polar shifts; the expansion of networking in the business
world; the rise of women, not only in business, but in all walks of
life and the exposure of hidden knowledge, which will become more
obvious as the millennium matures.
As an example of these changes, remember when fathers would shake their
son's hands rather than give them a hug or a kiss or a supportive word
of encouragement because fatherly hugs and kisses to a son were deemed
inappropriate? Remember when it was unmanly for a man to cry in public
or express any 'feminine' emotion, even in the isolation of his own
privacy? No? Well, there was a time when fathers in general would only
shake their son's hands and never show them physical affection. There
was a time when men would not cry in public because to do so was
thought to be a violation of their masculinity. There was a time when
the only support a child got from his father was silence and
indifference because such behaviors were thought to make young men
strong. It was the mother who was the primary nurturer, not the father.
That model is now changing.
Interestingly, parenting and spousal roles are clearly undergoing a
metamorphosis. The former image of the male being the bread-winner is
changing, as well as the mother being the primary nurturer. It is not
unusual to have the female part of the household now earning more than
her male counterpart, and fathers are taking a much more active role in
the raising of their children. It is not uncommon in divorce cases to
have primary custody of the children being awarded to the father, not
the mother. Too, since women have entered the workplace, many of the
physical ailments normally associated with men are on the rise in
women. Whereas in the not too distant past only one income was
sufficient to manage the affairs of a household, now it generally
requires two.
All of these characteristics are attributable to the gigantic
vibrational wave of Two (2) energy which has now, like the tidal wave of
a completely new ocean, washed over us, encircling, entangling,
embroiling, embracing, engaging, enveloping, enlightening, involving,
saturating and surrounding us with, and even submerging us in, its
aqueous presence. Without a doubt, during the next thousand years
feminine energy will rain upon the earth and the female, having been
subordinate for the last thousand years will now reign supreme.
The Clash of Opposites
The change of millennia from One to Two energy is not to be taken
lightly. One and Two are exact opposites in form and function.
Therefore, the enormous shift from one set of energy characteristics to
the other can cause, and often does, extreme havoc. As we know, men and
women have a difficult time understanding one another because they're
opposites. Each gender processes information differently from the other
and is motivated by contrasting desires. While men tend to be logical,
insensitive, direct, active and unbending, women tend to be emotional,
intuitive, indirect, passive and adaptable. Men hunt, women support.
Men like looking; women like being looked at. These are not casual
differences. They are intrinsically diametrically opposed gender-rooted
issues and their differences have created challenges and problems
between the sexes since the beginning of time.
The last thousand years were primarily electrified and energized with
masculine matter and substance. However, that has now been replaced
with female vibratory matter and substance. Our world now exists in a
millennium mist of energies exactly opposite from the last thousand
years. See the problem? And because the shift is still new, the earth
is still in its adjustment/gestation phase and will be until
approximately the year Twenty-One Hundred (2100). Whether the phrase
"it's a man's world" will be adjusted to "it's a woman's world" remains
to be seen, but the reality of the matter is, it is a whole new world
we're living in, a world dominated by feminine, not masculine, energy.
Those who can adjust will survive; those who can't are in for a
more-than-bumpy ride.
Caution, however, should be offered to those people who jump too high
and too far for joy at the receipt of such news. As everything in this
creation has two sides, one positive and one negative, so does the
Two (2) vibration. Female characteristics, as those of the male,
have positive and negative tendencies. Look at the last thousand years
of male-dominated energy. There were good and bad aspects to it. So it
is with this new thousand year cycle. There will be good times. There
will be bad times. There will be ups. There will be downs. There will
be bask-in-the-sun periods of beautiful weather and there will be
tumultuous storms. It's the nature of life.
Here's another caution - one for gender enthusiasts. In consideration
of the grand circle and cycle of life in which what goes around comes
around, the possibility exists of a person being one gender in one life
and the opposite gender in a subsequent life. An over-exuberant female,
for example, might one day be reincarnated as a man in a woman's world,
or an over-exuberant male could be incarnated as a female in another
life. This would tend to bring into stasis a consciousness in
disequilibrium. Nature always works to balance, and getting too far to
the edge of the male or female polarity will always bring a
reconciliation and adjustment of the energies involved. Bodies are just
shells encasing the soul. Gender can change from life to life.
Therefore, we should appreciate our gender but not cling to it for, in
reality, the soul has no gender.
For those who do not believe in or subscribe to the possibility of
reincarnation, the thought is offered that energy can neither be
created nor destroyed. Since our souls are divine energy, they cannot
be destroyed, and, therefore, are constantly taking on a new form when
the current one wears out or is discarded in some way. There is no
universal spiritual law which says that once a man, always a man or
once a woman, always a woman. Genders change. How poetically just it
would be for any of us to take on the opposite form in another life
from the one to which we were, perhaps, overtly attached to in this
life?
Let it also be known that the female energy taking precedence during
this millennium is not restricted to form or gender alone. The feminine
Two (2) energy affects and pervades every living thing on this planet
regardless of gender. Therefore, the Age of the Female is not so much
about form. It is about energy. In other words, everyone will also be
infused with the cosmic currents of the female vibration, even more
than they have been in the past. Every one of us is a mixture of
masculine and feminine energy, not to be equated with 'macho' and
'effeminate'. There is, for example, no numerology chart totally devoid
of either One or Two energy. We all have these vibrations in our basic
composition. Masculine and feminine are simply two of the contrasting
words used to describe the intrinsic polarities found in nature.
Other Appellations
This Age of the Female could have other appellations. The number Two
also rules 'other people' and, therefore, this millennium might also be
known as The Age of Others. Additional labels could be The Age of
Relationship, The Age of Teamwork, The Age of Conflict and Resolution,
The Age of Diplomacy - all concepts falling under the rulership of the
Two energy.
This 2nd Millennium is also the Age of Duality, so anything having to
do with opposing polarities will be intensified and brought into focus
in a major way. Thus, our inevitable battle and struggle with good
versus evil will not only continue to course through our veins, it will
ooze from our pores, saturating our lives with moral, ethical and
spiritual choices unlike any with which we have had to contend
heretofore.
The positive solution - always make the "Up Choice," that choice which
takes us upward, not downward; that choice which moves us in the
direction of that which is pure and noble rather than that which is
impure and ignoble; that choice which directs us into the comforting
and edifying illumination of the light, as opposed to that which leads
us down the ladder of life into the abysmal morass of cold, dark, dank
and dismal labyrinthine dungeons where shadows are non-existent - a
scary thought because shadows cannot exist without even a scintilla of
light.
If there is any one challenge besetting the Age of the Female, it will
be balance - the act of bringing equilibrium to opposing forces,
ideals, philosophies, egos. Our world is now too small, too compact,
too full of global issues affecting everyone for everyone not to be
concerned about each other. It is really a time to learn to get along,
to embrace tolerance, understanding, patience and kindness. We're all
in this boat called 'Earth' together, and if we rock it back and forth
too drastically without concern for its seaworthy stability, we run the
risk of sinking it, more now than ever before.
Even on a personal level, our individual goal should be to always work
to balance, even if the world seems to be running wild and
teeter-tottering dangerously out of control. In fact, under this 11/2
vibration there is the distinct possibility of intranational as well as
international global rivalries. Terrorism, for example, is now a fact
of everyday life on a world basis, just as street gangs are a fact of
daily life in major cities throughout many countries. Individually, we
may not be able to balance the macroscopic world, but we can balance
our own personal microscopic worlds, and just because the world may be
out of balance does not mean we have to be. In fact, maintaining a
personal state of stasis may well be our best defense from being
embroiled in any external confusion and chaos which might arise from
the discord of conflicting, opposing polarities during this age.
Summary
All in all, the Age of the Female, this thousand years of Yin, will be
an exciting and dynamic time for the inhabitants of earth because our
consciousness as a one-world people will be undergoing an extreme
metamorphosis, especially in the first one hundred years. This is not
an age which will focus on that which is singular, separate or
autonomous. This is an age which is and will continue to be involved
with those energies which are relationship and partnership oriented; on
that which is equal, fair and balanced; on that which is saturated with
others being involved with others. It is the time for females and
feminine energy to have their due, a time where emotion and intuition
will wax like the fullness of the moon on a clear and starry night.
Thus, there will be reflection as well as creation; absorption as well
as radiation. There will be opposition and contrast, confliction and
distinction. This new age will be an age which will rock,
teeter-totter, swing and sway to energies far more powerful than man's
ability to control or manipulate. It is an age in which we would be
well-served to buckle up, hang on, stay balanced, disciplined, kind and
caring because, to be sure, we're in for the ride of our lives.
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