The year 2000: Making the choice to change

The year 2000: Making the choice to change

By Tishy Bruce

JAKARTA (JP): What is the meaning behind the number 2000? Why
is it relevant in this new Age of Aquarius? What is the Age of
Aquarius?

In numerological terms, the number 2 relates to balance and
co-operation. The number 0 relates to recognizing our inner
gifts: looking to see what is right for us, what we are good at,
what makes us feel at ease and what makes us feel happy, creative
and strong inside. It is a number that also means balance,
completion, roundedness of self and becoming whole.

It is well known that the Age of Aquarius is a new beginning
for humanity. During this Age, humanity as a whole will finally
learn and act upon the knowledge that peace and love and harmony
are possible and are a lot more fulfilling than anger, war and
chaos.

The increased frequency of electromagnetic vibrations evident
over the last few years has effected the Earth and its people in
various ways. There has keen upheaval and chaos around the world
(not just in Indonesia) in the form of weather anomalies and
geophysical changes.

On the geophysical front, these changes in electromagnetic
frequency have been shown by the incredible number of
earthquakes, eruptions, floods and stormy conditions.

These changes in electromagnetic frequencies also effect us on
emotional and mental levels and in many different ways: those
actually struck by the geophysical upheavals have been made
homeless, have lost their loved ones, have lost material
possessions and have suffered the trauma of those conditions.

Onlookers too have felt traumatized by their own conflicting
emotions of compassion, hopelessness and inadequacy. Throughout
the world there seems to have been an escalation in interracial
or cultural wars resulting in an enormous loss of life and,
again, terrible trauma. On the personal front, many people have
felt that they are going through a time of change and have felt
their own personal chaos and conflict. Things have seemed out of
control.

State of balance

However, we have the ability to ride these waves of change by
staying in a state of balance which can enable us to take an
overview of any situation. We can learn to cooperate with the
forces of chaos by understanding that behind and beyond chaos
there is calm. All states have an opposite and equal balancing
force, and it is this that we have to recognize and grasp -- with
both hands. Each negative has a positive: a balance.

The dramatic changes which have occurred around the world and
in our personal life may have moved us to anger. However, that is
okay too, as -- used constructively -- deep anger has a passion
just as deep as love has. All emotional states can be viewed
positively.

The energy of passion can lift us out of depression and
lethargy into a state of movement and enthusiasm. There is a
magnificence in the energy of passion that we can harness
constructively to insist upon change.

The energy during the next few months is markedly different
from the energy of the early months of this year. It is an
innovative energy that impels us to move from old, often
traditional, modes of thinking. Let us use this energy to change.

Change is good. It makes us strong. It gives us an opportunity
to rethink our values. In fact, we are becoming so desperate to
change that we are, at last, recognizing that as individuals we
need to make our own stand for what we feel is right.

We will become much more aware of the power of the individual
to effect change within a group. The group may be your family,
your community, your country or your planet. Once a person is
open to their individuality they become aware that they need to
express themselves.

This is the time within the Age of Aquarius that we can dream
of our future and make it happen. Just the realization that we
care earns us our own self-respect. Honoring yourself is
recognizing your inner gifts.

Honor

This quote from Caroline Myss' recent book: Why People Don't
Heal and How they Can is appropriate:

"Honor is essential to healing, more essential than is
probably realized. Honor is honesty. It is the promise to oneself
above all not to negotiate the boundaries of dignity for material
gain."

Living with such integrity magically expands to teach us
respect for all other forms of life. Have you noticed how many
self-awareness courses there are? How many courses are available
that enable people to reevaluate their modus operandi at work to
cooperate with fellow workers and respect their input; have you
noticed how people are trying to bring their own set of
individual values into work?

People are tired of fear: they want to be honest, expressive
and true to their inner driving force.

Incidentally, alternative therapies of all types can be
helpful in achieving a state of balance, and can help us release
subconscious fears by adjusting our energy so that it is in a
state of openness. More and more people are recognizing that if
they deal with their emotional, mental and spiritual needs they
suffer less stress and are happier and healthier.

They are using alternative therapies to achieve this end.
Meditation can help us recognize our inner powers and can help us
change thought patterns (on a macro and microcosmic level).

If we can insist upon giving ourselves time to reflect and
balance, we can affect lasting change. We have the knowledge of
what chaos brings. Now we can use this knowledge and bring it to
a higher state: wisdom. We need to learn more about each other --
not just about people but nature in all its various guises. We
can learn to cooperate and negotiate from a point of empathy.

We do not need to bulldoze our way through life feeling that
we are the only ones that are right; we need to be humble enough
to truly listen to other people's points of view. We can develop
tolerance. Everybody and everything is right.

Balance and cooperate with yourself and others. Recognize that
you cannot live without feeling good about yourself (number 0).
There is a trinity of 0's this year. Three is a stabilizing
number, a number that relates to creativity and a number that
recognizes God within Man. Number 2 has an energy that inspires
you to expand this feeling to your immediate group.

The Age of Aquarius relates to the ability to value yourself
as an individual within a group: to use your individual talents
to cooperate with others without fear of lacking. In this year,
and the years that follow, we will understand that we can trust.
We can lean upon our trust in our own integrity and our knowledge
of the laws of energy (like attracts like) to drop distrust. We
can create a world of peace and love. We can, individually, learn
the art of balance and cooperation. We -- YOU -- can do this.