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The Coming New Renaissance
The Total Solar Eclipse of the same length as the recent one in December 2021 was 560 years earlier, in the year1461 AD. When one explores the conditions in the world at that time, one discovers that circumstances were eerily similar to the state of the world today.
The Great Plague (The Black Death) devastated Europe and many parts of the rest of the world, reducing populations by millions of inhabitants, breaking up families, cultures, governments, and other entities in profound ways. Its effects lasted into the fifteenth century and were still felt in 1461. The influence of COVID echoes this in our day, and although waning, it is still a major influence in many ways. In the same way that certain creative forces for change were forced underground, into the collective unconscious, we see the same thing happening today.
TheSpanish and Portuguese were in the process of colonising (i.e., murdering and plundering) the advanced populations of central and south America, especially the Aztecs and Mayans, and then continued to occupy much of central and south America.And at Isabella’s command, Columbus ‘discovered’ North America and colonised that massive region, followed by religious fanatics who massacred Indigenous populations all over the western hemisphere, by spreading disease and accelerating senseless violence.
Synchronistically, this was the time when the Italian painter, Paolo Ucello painted his famous “Saint George and the Dragon,” which I have used as a frontispiece to my new book about the coming transformation of the patriarchy, “Awakening from the Serpents’ Dream: Symbols of the Divine Feminine and Women’s Power.” The painting apparently shows St George, the patron saint of England, killing a dragon threatening a virginal maiden, in front of the dragon’s cave. St. George wears silver armour, protecting himself from the sexual allure of the maiden. However, when you look more closely, you can see that she has a leash in her hand and it goes around the neck of the dragon, showing that rather than being a threat, it symbolises her split-off sexual/feminine nature, which coincided with women’s persecution in those times.
Maybe it is on only coincidental, but the master painter and architect Brunelleschi developed the art of ‘perspective’ and was able to design and build the extraordinary cathedral dome of Florence, the core of the Italian Renaissance.
This was a time when women were being persecuted for natural healing, for identifying with nature and the natural world, for expressing their sexuality, and for supposedly exercising their magical, seductive powers over men. It was just after the time of Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, as well as the English ‘War of the Roses’ in Europe, and it seemed as though the then world was to beat war forever. Women were excluded from the academic and medical professions, which continued to teach and transmit knowledge in Latin, so the general population lacked access to information about herbs and other medications. And this was about to change.
On the other hand, Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and Michelangelo (b. 1475) were both born around this time, and they heralded the Renaissance in their works and ideas of an age of humanism that lasted 200+ years and led to a new perception of the world and humanity’s place in it.
This was also one of the rare times in history where significant and powerful, women emerged, such as Hildegard von Bingen (twelfth century), a polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbalism, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history, and Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the most powerful and influential female figures of the Middle Ages, inheriting vast estates at the age of 15, and marrying and birthing both French and English kings. These women, among others, brought a feminine spirit into their age, despite their assigned roles.
A major transformation of the world was happening, and I expect this to occur again soon. Already many, behind the scenes of the insane public worlds of those who control our world financially and politically, are many of us who are quietly preparing to emerge into the collective unconsciousness of a world society, and undertake to transform not only politics, but also gender identify, religion and the creative arts, from top to bottom.
A. T. Mann is an astrologer, architect, author, artist, designer and teacher. → atmann.net → @atmann4
Image courtesy of New York City Public Library Archives.
The Coming New Renaissance
The Total Solar Eclipse of the same length as the recent one in December 2021 was 560 years earlier, in the year1461 AD. When one explores the conditions in the world at that time, one discovers that circumstances were eerily similar to the state of the world today.
The Great Plague (The Black Death) devastated Europe and many parts of the rest of the world, reducing populations by millions of inhabitants, breaking up families, cultures, governments, and other entities in profound ways. Its effects lasted into the fifteenth century and were still felt in 1461. The influence of COVID echoes this in our day, and although waning, it is still a major influence in many ways. In the same way that certain creative forces for change were forced underground, into the collective unconscious, we see the same thing happening today.
TheSpanish and Portuguese were in the process of colonising (i.e., murdering and plundering) the advanced populations of central and south America, especially the Aztecs and Mayans, and then continued to occupy much of central and south America.And at Isabella’s command, Columbus ‘discovered’ North America and colonised that massive region, followed by religious fanatics who massacred Indigenous populations all over the western hemisphere, by spreading disease and accelerating senseless violence.
Synchronistically, this was the time when the Italian painter, Paolo Ucello painted his famous “Saint George and the Dragon,” which I have used as a frontispiece to my new book about the coming transformation of the patriarchy, “Awakening from the Serpents’ Dream: Symbols of the Divine Feminine and Women’s Power.” The painting apparently shows St George, the patron saint of England, killing a dragon threatening a virginal maiden, in front of the dragon’s cave. St. George wears silver armour, protecting himself from the sexual allure of the maiden. However, when you look more closely, you can see that she has a leash in her hand and it goes around the neck of the dragon, showing that rather than being a threat, it symbolises her split-off sexual/feminine nature, which coincided with women’s persecution in those times.
Maybe it is on only coincidental, but the master painter and architect Brunelleschi developed the art of ‘perspective’ and was able to design and build the extraordinary cathedral dome of Florence, the core of the Italian Renaissance.
This was a time when women were being persecuted for natural healing, for identifying with nature and the natural world, for expressing their sexuality, and for supposedly exercising their magical, seductive powers over men. It was just after the time of Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, as well as the English ‘War of the Roses’ in Europe, and it seemed as though the then world was to beat war forever. Women were excluded from the academic and medical professions, which continued to teach and transmit knowledge in Latin, so the general population lacked access to information about herbs and other medications. And this was about to change.
On the other hand, Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and Michelangelo (b. 1475) were both born around this time, and they heralded the Renaissance in their works and ideas of an age of humanism that lasted 200+ years and led to a new perception of the world and humanity’s place in it.
This was also one of the rare times in history where significant and powerful, women emerged, such as Hildegard von Bingen (twelfth century), a polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbalism, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history, and Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the most powerful and influential female figures of the Middle Ages, inheriting vast estates at the age of 15, and marrying and birthing both French and English kings. These women, among others, brought a feminine spirit into their age, despite their assigned roles.
A major transformation of the world was happening, and I expect this to occur again soon. Already many, behind the scenes of the insane public worlds of those who control our world financially and politically, are many of us who are quietly preparing to emerge into the collective unconsciousness of a world society, and undertake to transform not only politics, but also gender identify, religion and the creative arts, from top to bottom.
A. T. Mann is an astrologer, architect, author, artist, designer and teacher. → atmann.net → @atmann4
Image courtesy of New York City Public Library Archives.
The Coming New Renaissance
The Total Solar Eclipse of the same length as the recent one in December 2021 was 560 years earlier, in the year1461 AD. When one explores the conditions in the world at that time, one discovers that circumstances were eerily similar to the state of the world today.
The Great Plague (The Black Death) devastated Europe and many parts of the rest of the world, reducing populations by millions of inhabitants, breaking up families, cultures, governments, and other entities in profound ways. Its effects lasted into the fifteenth century and were still felt in 1461. The influence of COVID echoes this in our day, and although waning, it is still a major influence in many ways. In the same way that certain creative forces for change were forced underground, into the collective unconscious, we see the same thing happening today.
TheSpanish and Portuguese were in the process of colonising (i.e., murdering and plundering) the advanced populations of central and south America, especially the Aztecs and Mayans, and then continued to occupy much of central and south America.And at Isabella’s command, Columbus ‘discovered’ North America and colonised that massive region, followed by religious fanatics who massacred Indigenous populations all over the western hemisphere, by spreading disease and accelerating senseless violence.
Synchronistically, this was the time when the Italian painter, Paolo Ucello painted his famous “Saint George and the Dragon,” which I have used as a frontispiece to my new book about the coming transformation of the patriarchy, “Awakening from the Serpents’ Dream: Symbols of the Divine Feminine and Women’s Power.” The painting apparently shows St George, the patron saint of England, killing a dragon threatening a virginal maiden, in front of the dragon’s cave. St. George wears silver armour, protecting himself from the sexual allure of the maiden. However, when you look more closely, you can see that she has a leash in her hand and it goes around the neck of the dragon, showing that rather than being a threat, it symbolises her split-off sexual/feminine nature, which coincided with women’s persecution in those times.
Maybe it is on only coincidental, but the master painter and architect Brunelleschi developed the art of ‘perspective’ and was able to design and build the extraordinary cathedral dome of Florence, the core of the Italian Renaissance.
This was a time when women were being persecuted for natural healing, for identifying with nature and the natural world, for expressing their sexuality, and for supposedly exercising their magical, seductive powers over men. It was just after the time of Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, as well as the English ‘War of the Roses’ in Europe, and it seemed as though the then world was to beat war forever. Women were excluded from the academic and medical professions, which continued to teach and transmit knowledge in Latin, so the general population lacked access to information about herbs and other medications. And this was about to change.
On the other hand, Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and Michelangelo (b. 1475) were both born around this time, and they heralded the Renaissance in their works and ideas of an age of humanism that lasted 200+ years and led to a new perception of the world and humanity’s place in it.
This was also one of the rare times in history where significant and powerful, women emerged, such as Hildegard von Bingen (twelfth century), a polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbalism, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history, and Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the most powerful and influential female figures of the Middle Ages, inheriting vast estates at the age of 15, and marrying and birthing both French and English kings. These women, among others, brought a feminine spirit into their age, despite their assigned roles.
A major transformation of the world was happening, and I expect this to occur again soon. Already many, behind the scenes of the insane public worlds of those who control our world financially and politically, are many of us who are quietly preparing to emerge into the collective unconsciousness of a world society, and undertake to transform not only politics, but also gender identify, religion and the creative arts, from top to bottom.
A. T. Mann is an astrologer, architect, author, artist, designer and teacher. → atmann.net → @atmann4
Image courtesy of New York City Public Library Archives.
The Coming New Renaissance
The Total Solar Eclipse of the same length as the recent one in December 2021 was 560 years earlier, in the year1461 AD. When one explores the conditions in the world at that time, one discovers that circumstances were eerily similar to the state of the world today.
The Great Plague (The Black Death) devastated Europe and many parts of the rest of the world, reducing populations by millions of inhabitants, breaking up families, cultures, governments, and other entities in profound ways. Its effects lasted into the fifteenth century and were still felt in 1461. The influence of COVID echoes this in our day, and although waning, it is still a major influence in many ways. In the same way that certain creative forces for change were forced underground, into the collective unconscious, we see the same thing happening today.
TheSpanish and Portuguese were in the process of colonising (i.e., murdering and plundering) the advanced populations of central and south America, especially the Aztecs and Mayans, and then continued to occupy much of central and south America.And at Isabella’s command, Columbus ‘discovered’ North America and colonised that massive region, followed by religious fanatics who massacred Indigenous populations all over the western hemisphere, by spreading disease and accelerating senseless violence.
Synchronistically, this was the time when the Italian painter, Paolo Ucello painted his famous “Saint George and the Dragon,” which I have used as a frontispiece to my new book about the coming transformation of the patriarchy, “Awakening from the Serpents’ Dream: Symbols of the Divine Feminine and Women’s Power.” The painting apparently shows St George, the patron saint of England, killing a dragon threatening a virginal maiden, in front of the dragon’s cave. St. George wears silver armour, protecting himself from the sexual allure of the maiden. However, when you look more closely, you can see that she has a leash in her hand and it goes around the neck of the dragon, showing that rather than being a threat, it symbolises her split-off sexual/feminine nature, which coincided with women’s persecution in those times.
Maybe it is on only coincidental, but the master painter and architect Brunelleschi developed the art of ‘perspective’ and was able to design and build the extraordinary cathedral dome of Florence, the core of the Italian Renaissance.
This was a time when women were being persecuted for natural healing, for identifying with nature and the natural world, for expressing their sexuality, and for supposedly exercising their magical, seductive powers over men. It was just after the time of Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, as well as the English ‘War of the Roses’ in Europe, and it seemed as though the then world was to beat war forever. Women were excluded from the academic and medical professions, which continued to teach and transmit knowledge in Latin, so the general population lacked access to information about herbs and other medications. And this was about to change.
On the other hand, Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and Michelangelo (b. 1475) were both born around this time, and they heralded the Renaissance in their works and ideas of an age of humanism that lasted 200+ years and led to a new perception of the world and humanity’s place in it.
This was also one of the rare times in history where significant and powerful, women emerged, such as Hildegard von Bingen (twelfth century), a polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbalism, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history, and Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the most powerful and influential female figures of the Middle Ages, inheriting vast estates at the age of 15, and marrying and birthing both French and English kings. These women, among others, brought a feminine spirit into their age, despite their assigned roles.
A major transformation of the world was happening, and I expect this to occur again soon. Already many, behind the scenes of the insane public worlds of those who control our world financially and politically, are many of us who are quietly preparing to emerge into the collective unconsciousness of a world society, and undertake to transform not only politics, but also gender identify, religion and the creative arts, from top to bottom.
A. T. Mann is an astrologer, architect, author, artist, designer and teacher. → atmann.net → @atmann4
Image courtesy of New York City Public Library Archives.
The Coming New Renaissance
The Total Solar Eclipse of the same length as the recent one in December 2021 was 560 years earlier, in the year1461 AD. When one explores the conditions in the world at that time, one discovers that circumstances were eerily similar to the state of the world today.
The Great Plague (The Black Death) devastated Europe and many parts of the rest of the world, reducing populations by millions of inhabitants, breaking up families, cultures, governments, and other entities in profound ways. Its effects lasted into the fifteenth century and were still felt in 1461. The influence of COVID echoes this in our day, and although waning, it is still a major influence in many ways. In the same way that certain creative forces for change were forced underground, into the collective unconscious, we see the same thing happening today.
TheSpanish and Portuguese were in the process of colonising (i.e., murdering and plundering) the advanced populations of central and south America, especially the Aztecs and Mayans, and then continued to occupy much of central and south America.And at Isabella’s command, Columbus ‘discovered’ North America and colonised that massive region, followed by religious fanatics who massacred Indigenous populations all over the western hemisphere, by spreading disease and accelerating senseless violence.
Synchronistically, this was the time when the Italian painter, Paolo Ucello painted his famous “Saint George and the Dragon,” which I have used as a frontispiece to my new book about the coming transformation of the patriarchy, “Awakening from the Serpents’ Dream: Symbols of the Divine Feminine and Women’s Power.” The painting apparently shows St George, the patron saint of England, killing a dragon threatening a virginal maiden, in front of the dragon’s cave. St. George wears silver armour, protecting himself from the sexual allure of the maiden. However, when you look more closely, you can see that she has a leash in her hand and it goes around the neck of the dragon, showing that rather than being a threat, it symbolises her split-off sexual/feminine nature, which coincided with women’s persecution in those times.
Maybe it is on only coincidental, but the master painter and architect Brunelleschi developed the art of ‘perspective’ and was able to design and build the extraordinary cathedral dome of Florence, the core of the Italian Renaissance.
This was a time when women were being persecuted for natural healing, for identifying with nature and the natural world, for expressing their sexuality, and for supposedly exercising their magical, seductive powers over men. It was just after the time of Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, as well as the English ‘War of the Roses’ in Europe, and it seemed as though the then world was to beat war forever. Women were excluded from the academic and medical professions, which continued to teach and transmit knowledge in Latin, so the general population lacked access to information about herbs and other medications. And this was about to change.
On the other hand, Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and Michelangelo (b. 1475) were both born around this time, and they heralded the Renaissance in their works and ideas of an age of humanism that lasted 200+ years and led to a new perception of the world and humanity’s place in it.
This was also one of the rare times in history where significant and powerful, women emerged, such as Hildegard von Bingen (twelfth century), a polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbalism, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history, and Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the most powerful and influential female figures of the Middle Ages, inheriting vast estates at the age of 15, and marrying and birthing both French and English kings. These women, among others, brought a feminine spirit into their age, despite their assigned roles.
A major transformation of the world was happening, and I expect this to occur again soon. Already many, behind the scenes of the insane public worlds of those who control our world financially and politically, are many of us who are quietly preparing to emerge into the collective unconsciousness of a world society, and undertake to transform not only politics, but also gender identify, religion and the creative arts, from top to bottom.
A. T. Mann is an astrologer, architect, author, artist, designer and teacher. → atmann.net → @atmann4
Image courtesy of New York City Public Library Archives.
The Coming New Renaissance
The Total Solar Eclipse of the same length as the recent one in December 2021 was 560 years earlier, in the year1461 AD. When one explores the conditions in the world at that time, one discovers that circumstances were eerily similar to the state of the world today.
The Great Plague (The Black Death) devastated Europe and many parts of the rest of the world, reducing populations by millions of inhabitants, breaking up families, cultures, governments, and other entities in profound ways. Its effects lasted into the fifteenth century and were still felt in 1461. The influence of COVID echoes this in our day, and although waning, it is still a major influence in many ways. In the same way that certain creative forces for change were forced underground, into the collective unconscious, we see the same thing happening today.
TheSpanish and Portuguese were in the process of colonising (i.e., murdering and plundering) the advanced populations of central and south America, especially the Aztecs and Mayans, and then continued to occupy much of central and south America.And at Isabella’s command, Columbus ‘discovered’ North America and colonised that massive region, followed by religious fanatics who massacred Indigenous populations all over the western hemisphere, by spreading disease and accelerating senseless violence.
Synchronistically, this was the time when the Italian painter, Paolo Ucello painted his famous “Saint George and the Dragon,” which I have used as a frontispiece to my new book about the coming transformation of the patriarchy, “Awakening from the Serpents’ Dream: Symbols of the Divine Feminine and Women’s Power.” The painting apparently shows St George, the patron saint of England, killing a dragon threatening a virginal maiden, in front of the dragon’s cave. St. George wears silver armour, protecting himself from the sexual allure of the maiden. However, when you look more closely, you can see that she has a leash in her hand and it goes around the neck of the dragon, showing that rather than being a threat, it symbolises her split-off sexual/feminine nature, which coincided with women’s persecution in those times.
Maybe it is on only coincidental, but the master painter and architect Brunelleschi developed the art of ‘perspective’ and was able to design and build the extraordinary cathedral dome of Florence, the core of the Italian Renaissance.
This was a time when women were being persecuted for natural healing, for identifying with nature and the natural world, for expressing their sexuality, and for supposedly exercising their magical, seductive powers over men. It was just after the time of Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, as well as the English ‘War of the Roses’ in Europe, and it seemed as though the then world was to beat war forever. Women were excluded from the academic and medical professions, which continued to teach and transmit knowledge in Latin, so the general population lacked access to information about herbs and other medications. And this was about to change.
On the other hand, Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and Michelangelo (b. 1475) were both born around this time, and they heralded the Renaissance in their works and ideas of an age of humanism that lasted 200+ years and led to a new perception of the world and humanity’s place in it.
This was also one of the rare times in history where significant and powerful, women emerged, such as Hildegard von Bingen (twelfth century), a polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbalism, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history, and Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the most powerful and influential female figures of the Middle Ages, inheriting vast estates at the age of 15, and marrying and birthing both French and English kings. These women, among others, brought a feminine spirit into their age, despite their assigned roles.
A major transformation of the world was happening, and I expect this to occur again soon. Already many, behind the scenes of the insane public worlds of those who control our world financially and politically, are many of us who are quietly preparing to emerge into the collective unconsciousness of a world society, and undertake to transform not only politics, but also gender identify, religion and the creative arts, from top to bottom.
A. T. Mann is an astrologer, architect, author, artist, designer and teacher. → atmann.net → @atmann4
Image courtesy of New York City Public Library Archives.
The Coming New Renaissance
The Total Solar Eclipse of the same length as the recent one in December 2021 was 560 years earlier, in the year1461 AD. When one explores the conditions in the world at that time, one discovers that circumstances were eerily similar to the state of the world today.
The Great Plague (The Black Death) devastated Europe and many parts of the rest of the world, reducing populations by millions of inhabitants, breaking up families, cultures, governments, and other entities in profound ways. Its effects lasted into the fifteenth century and were still felt in 1461. The influence of COVID echoes this in our day, and although waning, it is still a major influence in many ways. In the same way that certain creative forces for change were forced underground, into the collective unconscious, we see the same thing happening today.
TheSpanish and Portuguese were in the process of colonising (i.e., murdering and plundering) the advanced populations of central and south America, especially the Aztecs and Mayans, and then continued to occupy much of central and south America.And at Isabella’s command, Columbus ‘discovered’ North America and colonised that massive region, followed by religious fanatics who massacred Indigenous populations all over the western hemisphere, by spreading disease and accelerating senseless violence.
Synchronistically, this was the time when the Italian painter, Paolo Ucello painted his famous “Saint George and the Dragon,” which I have used as a frontispiece to my new book about the coming transformation of the patriarchy, “Awakening from the Serpents’ Dream: Symbols of the Divine Feminine and Women’s Power.” The painting apparently shows St George, the patron saint of England, killing a dragon threatening a virginal maiden, in front of the dragon’s cave. St. George wears silver armour, protecting himself from the sexual allure of the maiden. However, when you look more closely, you can see that she has a leash in her hand and it goes around the neck of the dragon, showing that rather than being a threat, it symbolises her split-off sexual/feminine nature, which coincided with women’s persecution in those times.
Maybe it is on only coincidental, but the master painter and architect Brunelleschi developed the art of ‘perspective’ and was able to design and build the extraordinary cathedral dome of Florence, the core of the Italian Renaissance.
This was a time when women were being persecuted for natural healing, for identifying with nature and the natural world, for expressing their sexuality, and for supposedly exercising their magical, seductive powers over men. It was just after the time of Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, as well as the English ‘War of the Roses’ in Europe, and it seemed as though the then world was to beat war forever. Women were excluded from the academic and medical professions, which continued to teach and transmit knowledge in Latin, so the general population lacked access to information about herbs and other medications. And this was about to change.
On the other hand, Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and Michelangelo (b. 1475) were both born around this time, and they heralded the Renaissance in their works and ideas of an age of humanism that lasted 200+ years and led to a new perception of the world and humanity’s place in it.
This was also one of the rare times in history where significant and powerful, women emerged, such as Hildegard von Bingen (twelfth century), a polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbalism, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history, and Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the most powerful and influential female figures of the Middle Ages, inheriting vast estates at the age of 15, and marrying and birthing both French and English kings. These women, among others, brought a feminine spirit into their age, despite their assigned roles.
A major transformation of the world was happening, and I expect this to occur again soon. Already many, behind the scenes of the insane public worlds of those who control our world financially and politically, are many of us who are quietly preparing to emerge into the collective unconsciousness of a world society, and undertake to transform not only politics, but also gender identify, religion and the creative arts, from top to bottom.
A. T. Mann is an astrologer, architect, author, artist, designer and teacher. → atmann.net → @atmann4
Image courtesy of New York City Public Library Archives.
The Coming New Renaissance
The Total Solar Eclipse of the same length as the recent one in December 2021 was 560 years earlier, in the year1461 AD. When one explores the conditions in the world at that time, one discovers that circumstances were eerily similar to the state of the world today.
The Great Plague (The Black Death) devastated Europe and many parts of the rest of the world, reducing populations by millions of inhabitants, breaking up families, cultures, governments, and other entities in profound ways. Its effects lasted into the fifteenth century and were still felt in 1461. The influence of COVID echoes this in our day, and although waning, it is still a major influence in many ways. In the same way that certain creative forces for change were forced underground, into the collective unconscious, we see the same thing happening today.
TheSpanish and Portuguese were in the process of colonising (i.e., murdering and plundering) the advanced populations of central and south America, especially the Aztecs and Mayans, and then continued to occupy much of central and south America.And at Isabella’s command, Columbus ‘discovered’ North America and colonised that massive region, followed by religious fanatics who massacred Indigenous populations all over the western hemisphere, by spreading disease and accelerating senseless violence.
Synchronistically, this was the time when the Italian painter, Paolo Ucello painted his famous “Saint George and the Dragon,” which I have used as a frontispiece to my new book about the coming transformation of the patriarchy, “Awakening from the Serpents’ Dream: Symbols of the Divine Feminine and Women’s Power.” The painting apparently shows St George, the patron saint of England, killing a dragon threatening a virginal maiden, in front of the dragon’s cave. St. George wears silver armour, protecting himself from the sexual allure of the maiden. However, when you look more closely, you can see that she has a leash in her hand and it goes around the neck of the dragon, showing that rather than being a threat, it symbolises her split-off sexual/feminine nature, which coincided with women’s persecution in those times.
Maybe it is on only coincidental, but the master painter and architect Brunelleschi developed the art of ‘perspective’ and was able to design and build the extraordinary cathedral dome of Florence, the core of the Italian Renaissance.
This was a time when women were being persecuted for natural healing, for identifying with nature and the natural world, for expressing their sexuality, and for supposedly exercising their magical, seductive powers over men. It was just after the time of Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years’ War, as well as the English ‘War of the Roses’ in Europe, and it seemed as though the then world was to beat war forever. Women were excluded from the academic and medical professions, which continued to teach and transmit knowledge in Latin, so the general population lacked access to information about herbs and other medications. And this was about to change.
On the other hand, Leonardo da Vinci (b. 1452) and Michelangelo (b. 1475) were both born around this time, and they heralded the Renaissance in their works and ideas of an age of humanism that lasted 200+ years and led to a new perception of the world and humanity’s place in it.
This was also one of the rare times in history where significant and powerful, women emerged, such as Hildegard von Bingen (twelfth century), a polymath proficient in philosophy, musical composition, herbalism, medieval literature, cosmology, medicine, biology, theology, and natural history, and Eleanor of Aquitaine who was one of the most powerful and influential female figures of the Middle Ages, inheriting vast estates at the age of 15, and marrying and birthing both French and English kings. These women, among others, brought a feminine spirit into their age, despite their assigned roles.
A major transformation of the world was happening, and I expect this to occur again soon. Already many, behind the scenes of the insane public worlds of those who control our world financially and politically, are many of us who are quietly preparing to emerge into the collective unconsciousness of a world society, and undertake to transform not only politics, but also gender identify, religion and the creative arts, from top to bottom.
A. T. Mann is an astrologer, architect, author, artist, designer and teacher. → atmann.net → @atmann4
Image courtesy of New York City Public Library Archives.