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Is 2020 A Collective Dark Night of the Soul?

Is 2020 A Collective Dark Night of the Soul?

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Is 2020 a Dark Night of the Soul for humanity? Perhaps, but we’ve seen worse. We will get over this. We just need to relearn how to take care of each other.

Is 2020 A Collective Dark Night of the Soul?

 

 

Right now, the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul. ~ Flannery O’Connor

Humanity has already lived through worse times, it is true. But the complexity of our Global society is making us face significant challenges as the many pandemic scenarios are starting to show on the horizon.

Inside Spiritual circles, the dark night of the soul is known as a baptism of fire to the spiritual seeker, a true Initiation of sorts. Once that point is reached, there is no other possibility of returning to the earlier state. Still, we only have to go ahead and start learning to readapt to a ‘New Life “.  Life offers us at that moment only possibilities of change, which can also be a liberating experience, presenting itself as a real growth challenge for the foundation of the expansion of consciousness.

 

What is a “Dark Night of the Soul Experience”?

The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul. ~ Caroline Myss

 

During this soul experience, we tend to bounce between solitude and loneliness. Like the hermit, we have only our eternal company to cross the River Styx from our experience of symbolic death It is necessary to find harmony and balance to face the visit of our dark nights serenely. They are usually generated by negative emotional experiences, such as grief, separation, unsuitable changes, or any events that put the individual’s coping capacity at risk. Tribulations are arising from sudden changes.

These emotional situations are catalysts through which they point out the need for a specific change in our lives. It is necessary to recognize these signs, even in the middle of the storm. We can never leave issues that cause us suffering for later, hoping that they will resolve themselves. It is necessary to confront them, digest them, question them, and reframe them. Only then can we reconnect with our essence and move on because there is no worse pain than emotional pain.

 

 

However, we can say for sure that since we entered the 21st century, certainly 2020 has been the worst of years. So far, we have had 9/11, the Syrian War (and a lot of tension in the Middle East), deadly tsunamis, and even a nuclear accident in Japan, not to mention the terrible terrorist attacks across Europe. But none of these surpasses what is happening in 2020, the number of people killed, and the combination of political, social, and economic factors causing the worst crisis of the century. And it is not just the pandemic … there are a lot of things happening at the same time.

 

Experiencing Again a Mini Dark Age

For those of us that are firm believers in the Stellar movements, the astrological forecasts about the pandemic and the eminent world crisis are not kind at the moment. Many Astrologers announced since last year that the Year 2020 would be challenging, but no one saw what was in reserve for all of us.

Everything looks like a nightmarish reality taken straight from Twilight Zone Episodes.

A pandemic invited us to practice social distancing, forced us to stay indoors, something we never imagined. People with masks on the streets, commerce, and normal daily activities paralyzed people, saying that money is more important than life. We are witnessing the proliferation of a lot of fake news and scientific denialism that makes us feel that we are going back to the Middle Ages.

We live through many conflicts in world politics, social upheaval, diplomatic tensions at the borders, the world’s economy again badly shaken, fires, and things exploding. It is a lot to take care of.

Who has not had a moment of emotional instability this year? Please throw the first stone!

 

The Path of Recovery in 2023

“Astronomy compels our soul to look up and take us from our world to another.” ~ Plato



Many prominent Astrologers are admitting 2020 to have been the worst year of the century.

They also say that the impact and its effects are going to be felt in the coming years.

Astrologically speaking, all the challenges and aspectation will start to alleviate our circumstances in the next three years. We will need some time to reflect on this incredible and eerie experience and also to decide how to we want to re-write our own history on this planet.

After the disappearance of this horrible threat, we will need time to dig ourselves out of this world crisis.

But don’t despair just yet, the astrological configurations are starting to turn, and the dark clouds are dissipating right around the arrival of the new year!

 

After a Collective Dark Night, the Rebirthing, a new Renascence

“Light is especially appreciated after dark.” ~ Jewish Texts

 

The so-called “Dark Ages” lasted a thousand years, a long period where very primitive culture and values dominated the European continent. After that, we literally were reborn.

The arts, culture, philosophy, and sciences have evolved a lot concerning medieval structures. We have abandoned this more wild and primitive side. After burning people at stake, we made progress. At the height of the Renaissance, in the year 1518, Uranus was in the sign of Taurus, and Pluto and Saturn were in Capricorn, just as they are now. In other words, we speak of the same astral situation, the same map in the sky. These are growth cycles, and now it’s time for the light to shine brightly!

Here is an interesting curiosity about astrology and the year 2020: French astrologers Henri Gouchon and André Barbault studied the peaks of crisis for mankind and published astrological studies predicting that the worst crisis of modern Humanity would occur between the years 2020 and 2022.

In 1946, the Astrologer Henri Gouchon released his definitive research study called the “Planetary Concentration Index of Slow Planets.” The research presents an analogy between the relative distance of the planets Jupiter and Neptune and the repercussion of these in relation to Earth.



A few years later, André Barbault improved this analysis, even more, this version being the most used until today. The study shows the peaks that find moments when the statistical result of Humanity’s feelings tends towards optimism, hope, and progress through elaborated graphics. In the valleys, when the graphs go down, are the moments when fear and discouragement are feelings that become more present. In these moments of falling emotions, events such as the First and Second World Wars and the Cold War are positioned.

When we look at the charts from 2014, we see that it is in that year that they start a vertiginous descent that goes until 2022. It is in the time interval between 2020 and 2022 that we have represented the most adverse moment of the entire 21st century.

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The stellar dance of Planets on the night sky is also a powerful tool of self -Knowledge, and Self-Realization. They are a divine gift to Humanity as it stands for a path of ageless wisdom. When we had a year as bad as 2020?

It is not astrology that gives us this answer, but Science. We can site many different instances that were low points in the history of humankind and this planet. The Black Death in 1348, Spanish flu in 1918, the Holocaust between 1941 and 1945.  Yet, the worst year in all our history is, according to Science, the year 536 A.D.

A group of American scientists, led by Harvard University archaeologist and historian Michael McCormick, discovered through an analytical study of a glacier in Switzerland that a “mysterious fog” fell over Europe, the Middle East, and some regions of Asia for 18 months. Along with this mysterious fog, the temperature also dropped a lot, and the Earth faced frigid and dark days and months.

Crops were utterly ruined, causing famine and an economic crisis that lasted for more than a century.

At that time, the sun emitted a dull light, just like the moon, all year round. There are records of food shortages in documents from countries as far away as Ireland, Mesopotamia, and China!



Later Science proved that the fog did not have such mysterious origins. Studies have shown that an Icelandic volcano was to blame for the night that lasted more than 1 year and made 536 the worst year in human history.

Just 5 years later, specifically in the year 541 AD, there was a plague pandemic that left around 100 million dead across the East and 25 million in Europe. The bacteria started to spread in an Egyptian port and took over the entire Roman Empire. The disease became known as the plague of Justinian. It occurred during the reign of Justinian I, the Byzantine emperor, who reigned from 527 to 565.

Looking back at such challenging times makes 2020 a child’s play. We will get over this. We just need to learn how to take care of each other.

 

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