This WSJ article made me think about how Aquarius is the sign of the scientist and brilliant thinker, but it is a fixed sign and not easily convinced away from the status quo.
Two recent Netflix documentaries have ignited a firestorm among members of the scientific community who have challenged the credibility of the work.
The popular shows are “Unknown: Cave of Bones,” which explores what could be the world’s oldest graveyard, and “Ancient Apocalypse,” about an advanced civilization hypothesized to have gone extinct around the last ice age. Each made the Netflix global top 10 list when they debuted in July 2023 and November 2022, respectively.
But many archaeologists and anthropologists—in critiques published in scientific journals, academic and professional websites, YouTube videos, and a letter to Netflix—argue the shows promote theories that don’t represent a scientific consensus and shouldn’t be labeled as documentaries.
Ancient Apocalypse is a brilliant serious from Graham Hancock that poses questions that arise from unexplained mysteries around the world. I’ve followed Hancock for over 30 years and I imagine many of my readers have as well. His work is well-researched and well-sourced, and in my view very convincing. Mainstream archaeology continues to insist that the Great Pyramid in Egypt was built around 2500 BCE even though the theories of how it was built cannot even be reproduced today with our modern tools and equipment. The recent discovery of Gobekli Type has pushed back scientific estimates of the origin of organized societies by several thousand years. Archaeologists have pushed back against theories of ancient civilizations even though the evidence for these theories continues to increase. (Note that Hancock is not one who argues for these civilizations being created by UFOs but rather that there are ancient civilizations for which we have no documentation or evidence other than what they left behind.)
The letter to Netflix referenced in the WSJ article states:
This series publicly disparages archaeologists and devalues the archaeological profession on the basis of false claims and disinformation. I write to encourage you to correctly classify the genre of the show, to provide disclaimers about the unfounded suppositions in the show, and ideally to balance the deleterious content in the show with scientifically accurate information about our human past.
We are also somewhere in the doorway between the Age of Pisces and the Aquarian Age, brilliantly described in the quote in the image above. The modern rulership of Uranus gives Aquarius that reputation for eccentricity and rebellion, and that adds a layer of independence to the Aquarian personality. Still, it can’t erase the Saturnian conservatism and fear of change, giving Aquarius a duality in which paradigms are broken only after extreme conflict, and then when the new paradigms become the status quo they must be broken again. Changes under fixed signs do not come easily and some breakage will occur.
The French Revolution is a good example of the cycle of revolution, having occurred when Pluto was last in Aquarius, 1778-1797. Social inequality under Pluto in Capricorn during the previous 15 years had led to hunger and great poverty (sound familiar?) and enlightenment ideas which had been simmering throughout the 18th century finally emerged under Pluto in Aquarius to foment revolution and the storming of the Bastille which began the Revolution.
Revolutionary fervor can spread like wildfire lit by one small match when the climate is right – a dry summer or in this case, a Capricornian Pluto compression of human rights. Then Pluto changes signs and BAM, transformation begins. I think we will be seeing something similar over the next 20 years with Pluto in Aquarius, not only in the fields of science and medicine but in all areas of human thought and philosophy. It’s human nature to disbelieve things we have not ourselves experienced, but the Uranian influence opens the mind to new thought – discovery and invention, something that cannot be done when we are stuck in a past of outdated paradigms.
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