Below is an excerpt from Indigo Adults by Kabir Jaffé and Ritama Davidson, presenting the core characteristics of the coming Aquarian Age. This is the energy that has increasingly entered the human world over the past few centuries and begun to transform it. When we understand the changes it brings, it becomes easier to grasp not only the global shifts taking place, but also how we ourselves can participate in these changes more consciously.
*“What does Aquarius bring us?
Some of its primary messages are freedom, progress, individualism, intellectual knowledge, and group consciousness.
We first felt these energies on the planet when the vernal equinox entered the transition between Pisces and Aquarius, sometime around the year 1700. Aquarius is an air sign, and air is the element of the mind. This zodiacal sign acts primarily through the third eye (the sixth chakra), located between the eyebrows.
This chakra is connected to two levels of our intellect: analysis and intuition. The intensified stimulation of the third eye by Aquarian energies awakens in humanity a new level of mental activity, understanding, and intuition, which leads us toward subtler worlds.
The Industrial Revolution, the discovery of electricity (electricity is under the sign of Aquarius), and now the emergence of the information age are all the result of heightened intellectual activity accessed through the third eye. This stimulation of the third eye and the mind creates a fundamentally different human psychology for the Aquarian Age, based on increased mental activity.
Our intellectual activity has reached a new level, and one of its most evident expressions is our desire to understand. Our minds are searching; we want to know. The average person in developed countries can read and write, uses computers, and lives in a world of technological and scientific wonders.
We approach life not only with feeling, but also with reason. We do not believe simply because someone tells us to; we want information, facts, reasons, and proof. We want to make our own choices.
Yet it is not only intellectual capacity that increases through the third eye. It has two aspects, often called ‘petals.’
The lower petal is responsible for the analytical mind, with its qualities of intelligent thinking and reasoning. This petal governs the intellectual characteristics already described.
The upper petal governs what we most often call intuition. Here the word ‘intuition’ is used in a more specific sense: as a sensory faculty that enables us to connect with a different world of energy, thoughts, and feelings. Most of us are accustomed to using the word ‘intuition’ in a more earthly sense, such as maternal intuition.
But the term has another meaning as well. Here we are speaking of a form of intuition oriented toward higher spiritual knowing. This kind of intuition encompasses a broader network of connections and interactions within and around us. It is linked to higher mental faculties, to Existence itself and to the Soul. This is the place from which insights arise—often as sudden clarity or illumination—and from which genius draws its inspiration.
Another characteristic of intuition is the capacity for self-inquiry. Through the third eye and its upper petal, we can explore our own thoughts and feelings. This may not sound extraordinary to some. Many would say, ‘Of course I can observe my own thoughts and feelings. I know when I am angry, sad, or happy.’ But intuition goes further. It is the ability to look more deeply into our feelings, to sense subtle nuances, and to understand deep psychological motives. We can trace what appears to be a momentary feeling back into the past—to childhood, and even further. We come to see how particular patterns of behavior or feeling have been passed down from our ancestors or even from previous incarnations.
This capacity for deep self-inquiry is a new mode of thinking that has only recently gained such wide scope. Its emergence in our psyche has given rise to new currents in psychology and to the widespread contemporary interest in self-development and self-improvement.
Another aspect of the upper petal is the need for higher meaning and purpose. We live for values and goals. We hold a complex worldview in which we are connected to something greater than ourselves, and we seek our place and mission within this whole. We begin to realize that life unfolds through profound interaction—that we are not separate individuals, but part of an interwoven fabric of energy. We see that every particle is connected to all others and that everything affects everything else. It is precisely the all-pervasive Aquarian energy, stimulating the upper petal of the third eye, that stands behind today’s popular movements of self-knowledge and self-improvement. If you reflect on it, they mirror a newly emerging capacity to look more deeply within ourselves; our desire to know who we truly are; our exploration of the mysterious forces of psychology, energy, soul, and spirit; and our growing awareness that we are connected within one great whole.”*
— Kabir Jaffé & Ritama Davidson, Indigo Adults
Note: The quotations are translated from Bulgarian and are not presented as verbatim citations.
