Sigil of the Aeon

The Emerging Iconography of New Occultism

I. Aquarius

“This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius…” sang a band called The 5th Dimension in 1969. Many untrained pop culture mystics of the 20th century were expecting a theosophical New Age of peace, love & crystals.

The occult counterculture turned its attention to the procession of stellar equinoxes. And while astrologers and mystics disputed the precise historical details there was a widely sensed epochal shift in the collective imagination that slowly seized upon the idea transitioning from Pisces to Aquarius.

Aquarius is an ancient Mediterranean word for water-carrier or water-pourer. How would we say that today? The Great Hydrator? Lord Plumbing? MC Flow? A new presiding symbol suggested watery power, renewal & replenishment. An oasis of new thinking. Dissolving boundaries. Turning inwards.

The mass psyche of electrified modernity was groping for a vibe that would align its collective subconscious with the contemporary needs of the biosphere and a new vision of the heavens. Archetypes were adjusting their positions.

Xagick has a deep affinity for these kinds of concepts. We are interested in maximizing our access to underworlds, interworlds & overworlds (i.e. the unformatted intra-ontological domain) in a manner adapted to the technological, sociological, cognitive, and aesthetic qualities of tomorrow’s civilization.

New rules. New values. A new principal formula of magic? What symbol should encode, symbolize & support the best-fit occult tactics for this bio-digital “new axial age”? What is the resonant motif? The new ontologically flooded icon of the Metamodern Age? What is the condensed archetypal grimoire and instructional emblem of magic in a planetary bio-digital epoch? What is the arch-sigil of the Gaianthropocence, the presiding totem of the period in which “the next guru is the sangha,” the hieroglyph of the anima mundi that determines the angle of “good magic” in the era of creative retribalization?

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