Octopus Rising

Musings on the dominant archetype of the coming age

“This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…” sang an American band called The 5th Dimension in 1969.

Many Western enthusiasts expected a new age of peace, love & crystals. The occult counterculture of late modernity turned its attention to the procession of the stellar equinoxes. Astrologers and mystics dispute the particular historical details, but the…