If you have not yet read my first and second 2012 articles, I strongly encourage you to do so, as this one won't make much sense without that background.

In the first and second articles, I explain how our world is moving from 3rd-dimension Capricorn energy into 5th-dimension Aquarian energy. I further explain that, as individuals, we are making a karmic shift and leaping or falling into the new Age of Aquarius, which is now upon us.

Because I feel that karma is such an integral part of this shift, I want to discuss it in more detail and devote this entire article to it.

I have written two other articles that greatly supplement this one and I encourage you to read them:
Uraneous ~ Glyph discusses Intradependence; and Christ & Astrology discusses Karma and Predestination.

Most people generally know what karma is from the phrase, 'what goes around, comes around'. What people often don't realize is that there are different types of karma. Karma is a vast conceptual and energetical force, and there are multiple aspects to it. It's not a simple tit-for-tat element that can be contained inside one vengeful little catch-phrase.

Because of the current Capricorn-to-Aquarius Age shift, the two aspects of karma I am focusing on here are the Saturn and Uraneous aspects.

The Saturnian age of karma, the one that is leaving, is the one we have all lived in our whole lives. This aspect of karma is denoted by a large group, or community, karma. Primarily it consists of our immediate and extended family, our friends, our society, and our world as a whole.

Because we have lived in the Capricorn Age of external community (and thus governmental) dependence, it follows that our karma is also based on the community. The primary function of Saturn and Capricorn karma is not necessarily about the individual's helpful actions vs. harmful actions. It's much broader than any individual and encompasses the survival of the society as a whole.

For examble, in the shadow-side energy of Capricorn society, a man or woman who goes to work each day and earns enough money to keep a roof over themselves and their family is viewed as acceptable in society. If this person decides to beat their spouse or kids at home, or perform other 'private' crimes, it's largely ignored by the group as a whole, because this person is maintaining the physical structures that their society requires.

In contrast, a homeless person sitting on the sidewalk receives more contempt and ostracism from the group than if he had committed unspeakable crimes. With Saturnian (or group) karma, the sacrifice of an individual is often justified by the well-being of the group... and the group is threatened when someone fails to conform to and maintain those required societal structures.

This is how Saturn karma is created. It is defined by patterns we repeat over and over in order to gain security within our society, and therefore in our individual lives. Those patterns are reinforced by fear of the ostracism and punishment meted out to each individual when he fails to meet the demands of the group, and the rewards he receives when he does meet them.

This starts with our family when we are born and growing up. We are taught by our immediate caregivers how we must act, think, feel, and live in order to be safe and survive within the group. From there, our community dictates how we must behave within our greater neighborhood. City and national laws then require us to go to school, work, court, pay taxes, obey laws, and defend our country in peace and war.

The experiences we have in the Capricorn society are accepted or rejected based on the judgement of the group. So most everyone tends to have the same experiences and lives essentially the same lives as everyone else. For example, in America we watch the same movies and listen to the same music. We read the same books. We watch the same shows on television. We define our life experiences within the framework of what is acceptable to communicate to others and share with them. If we can't externally communicate something or share it with others of the group, we deny that it exists.

Obviously, this is a rigid society to live in. Saturnian karma is about conformity. The ultimate reason for artificially forcing individuals to conform is to create an outer framework of security and stability for society as a whole. Saturn knows that without a stable, secure, organized external society there can be no individual security or existence. At its best, Saturn karma creates lasting community and housing structure, neighborly help, and healthy habits and life patterns an individual can rely on for support all the days of his life.

At its worst, the society degenerates into extreme oppression and dependence on external policy and government... Communism. (There is an even worse scenario... the descent into a military-ruled police state, but that is Scorpio/Pluto karma and not covered here.)

Communism

Saturn conditioning imposes on our individual inclinations and overrides them. This creates a severe, external karma of ruts and repeating cycles that are very difficult for an individual to break... no matter how hard he tries. Even though a person struggles and struggles to change them over a long period of time, decades even, he may well fail. The external system (be it family, friends, or the nation) does not provide the resources for an individual to flourish and survive when he bucks the system. To a large degree, conformity to the accepted rules of society - whether they are just or not - is unequivocally required for the individual to live.

For this reason, Saturnian karma is made of patterns and ruts that are repeated over and over by almost everyone in the immediate family, society, community, and nation. Brother oppresses brother and neighbor oppresses neighbor. Everyone keeps everyone else in order and in line. As long as the society that imposes these strictures exists, they are nearly impossible for an individual to break out of.

Some of these patterns are healthy and good, such as responsibly working to earn resources and provide for our families; and they should be maintained whether we live in a Capricorn society or not. Some are negative and bad for us, such as family-pattern alcoholism and violence, and cause us to sabotage our self-respect and ultimate happiness over and over.

Strong family or group karma may be linked through decades or centuries of family history. Common negative patterns include generational alcohol and drug abuse; physical and emotional violence; long cycles of poverty and hardship; genetic physical, mental, and emotional disease. Sometimes there is a 'family curse' associated with a particular group throughout generations (such as the Kennedys).

Common positive patterns include family unity and protection; taking care of one another during illness or instilling a healthy lifestyle and good moral judgement; handing down vocational or technical knowledge and ability through generational teachings; sharing housing or monetary resources through inheritance (such as the Hiltons); or simply passing along 'good genes'.

Even though negative Saturnian karma is nearly impossible to change, it does not mean we should simply not try. Violence, addictions, bad habits, negative thought patterns, and general self-sabotage should always be battled against and attempted to heal... whether we appear to be winning the battle or not. We should always try to do right by each other and ourselves, and stand by good morals and principals even when those efforts seemingly fail. Combating the Saturn type of karma is a battle of will and endurance, not of strength.

This is why even when it seems a pattern is licked for good, it can crop up again years later. For example, a former alcoholic can relapse after years or decades of remission. Even though the individual was able to rise out of his karmic rut for a while, the conditioning and societal influences that contributed to the alcoholism did not change. Although the individual may have changed, the society or group he lived in did not; and years later the individual went down again under the same relentless karmic pull.

Excuses, Excuses

Because Saturn karma can be so widespread, encompassing numerous people and time spans, individuals often use it to deny responsibility for their actions. Peer pressure is an integral part of Saturn karma, and while it is not always possible to resist it, some people use it to justify their own willingness and desire to destroy others.

This is the very definition of mob violence mentality, as the individuals feel that if everyone in the group is guilty, no one is guilty. They think that if they hide within the group, the group will protect them from the consequences of their actions. If 'everyone' is doing it, the sheer number of people and length of time the action was done will somehow override and erase the wrong it has caused. This is a true case of 'might is right', and the strongest man (or mob) seemingly wins.

However, Saturn karma can be short-sighted in this respect. Saturn can be so focused on winning the battle that it loses the war.

We have now moved into the Age of Aquarius and Uranian karma. We are moving from a time of dependency on community, or group karma, into a time of individualism, or independent karma. And individual karma means individual responsibility.

This is the period we have entered into, the 5th dimension and the Age of Aquarius.

Separatism

At the opposite end of the spectrum from Communism is Separatism (or anarchy), which is ruled by Uraneous, ruler of Aquarius. This is an absence of government, of rules, and of any conformity that might bind people together and submit them to each other's limiting influence for the sake of security. Individuals refuse to cooperate or conform in any way because it might impinge on their personal freedoms. With this type of karma it's every man for himself; and the individual feels he owes no one anything, as he provides for himself and accepts nothing from others.

Because these individuals are not enslaved to anyone else's ideas or principals, each person has his own experiences in life that he has neither the need nor means to share with others, unless they too happen to have had like experiences. This opens a much broader individual perspective, as there is no one to tell an individual what is possible or not possible, or to limit him in any way. He is able to accept a myriad of experiences that life may bring, and open himself to possibilities of a world that is limitless.

The extreme separatist society usually cannot be maintained, as it's practically impossible to not depend on somebody for something - even if it's simply the atmosphere that provides the air you breath, the sun for warmth and light, or water to drink and plants to eat. At some point, everyone depends on something or someone for security other than themselves. At some point, everyone needs someone else to communicate with and share their lives with in order to make life worth living. And sharing requires, to some degree, compromise and conformity. So most separatists usually relent in their individualism enough to band into little like-minded groups that fight together and share resources.

Capitalism, Democracy, and the Leap

The long age of Capricorn defined our community structures and created a firm base that will not be easily dissolved. Each Age builds on one another. We NEEDED the external structures of law and order and community cooperation created in the Capricorn system to be able to move successfully into the next era.

Now the Aquarian Age will bring its own gifts of individuality to our society, and community dependence will move into the background so that the focus is fully on the individual.

The incoming separatist Uranian energy of the 5th dimension clashing with the outgoing, oppressive Saturnian energy of the 3rd dimension could bring on a worst-case scenario. It is within the realm of possibility that our conformist society will break into a million pieces... and we will all become survivalists living in the woods and battling each other for resources. This is a doomsday scenario that many people fear will actually happen, and some are taking extreme measures to prepare for it.

However, the ultimate goal of the fusion of Capricorn and Aquarian society is intradependence. Here we have the group cooperation and organization of Capricorn, combined with the rugged individual vision of Aquarius.

Apart, the two are diametrically opposed. When you have only one or the other, you have a failed society, such as we have currently. Capricorn on its own deteriorates into the dependency on government and lack of freedom that is Communism. Aquarius on its own deteriorates into each individual as a law unto himself and with only himself to depend on, which is Survivalism.

The perfect fusion of these two powerful energies is intradependence, or Capitalism, which is the cornerstone of a successful society. True Capitalism is what the founding fathers envisioned and fought for when they created the United States of America. It's what Democracy originally stood for... a general structure of government that provides a rudimentary support for the people... but enough individual freedom that the people control their own lives. The people, in turn, are responsible enough to bear this great freedom and don't require the external law of the group to force them to behave in an acceptable way. At its best, the government helps the people obtain MORE freedom, and the people contribute freely to make their government successful and able to support them.

The age of Group Karma is over. The new age of Individual Karma has begun.

While Saturn rules group karma, Uraneous rules individual karma. 'Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.' 'As you sow, so shall you reap.' This is Uranian karma. This means that, as we have entered the Aquarian Age, from here on out our lives will be largely determined by the choices we make as individuals. While we will have the power to make our own decisions, we will equally bear responsibility for the consequences.

I will not go too deeply into individual karma here, because I did so in my previous article 2012: Part 2. Suffice it to say that as we leap or fall into the Age of Aquarius in our individual karma, the danger is that we will not make the leap to intradependence but will fall into separatism and survivalism. Because Aquarius rules the day, where each of us ends up will be according to each of us as individuals.

Group karma no longer applies. Group experience no longer applies. Each person now has the responsibility and the power to make his or her own decisions. Those who were strong in their group karma and allowed their families or society as a whole to dictate their actions will no longer be able to hide behind them. They will be forced to make their own choices.

But wait, it's not all about Government. Remember we are entering the 5th Dimension.

Earlier I said that shadow-side Saturn societies tend to think might is right, and though they may win the battles, they can lose the war. Why?

Saturn is about the past. Uraneous is about the deep past.

Saturnian karma accumulates like layers of rock and strata that build up slowly over long periods of time. Each new layer builds upon the other and hides the one beneath. This is why people tend to forget their histories under social conditioning and usually are unable to (or don't care to) look back and remember the past. However, these layers also tend to repeat periodically. So even though people don't care to remember the past, they tend to live it over and over in repeating cycles, whether they recognize it or not.

Uranian karma is like an oil shaft that cuts deep down through the Saturnian layers of internalized community brainwashing and conditioning. It goes through all of it, until it reaches the core of who the individual is as a person, and who he was before he led his life of conformity. In a single instant, Uraneous brings a core sample of that person's soul, plus the Saturn strata portions, back up to the surface of his life.

Uraneous is not about moving on and denying the past, or subconsciously repeating it over and over. It's about going to the heart of it and extracting the most important parts of ourselves in order to resurrect them... the parts that are immortal and never die. It's about looking at a small sample of each layer in our lives so we can view our lives as a whole. In this way, Uranian karma confronts every aspect of our existence in one small portion, and we are unable to hide or deny any of it. We can 'see the entire universe in a grain of sand'.

Saturn rules mortality and death... physical death, the death of the body, and long buried or forgotten parts of ourselves that seem gone forever. This is good and necessary when we outgrow something and no longer need it. We must have the ability to release things regarding ourselves that we don't like or want, and be rid of them forever.

However, Uraneous is about undying spirit, eternity, and things you can't get rid of. So parts of ourselves that we chose to abandon or were forced to forget long ago under the imposing Saturn influence, will now be resurrected and brought up into our everyday lives. Any issues we buried without working them through will come up for reexamination so that we can truly resolve them once and for all.

This is the time to finally break those Saturnian karmic cycles and start anew, afresh, and alone. Group karma will no longer hold sway over us. Now the possibilities and probabilities are endless. No longer will our experiences be limited by the group. Individuals will have individual experience. Uraneous will delve down deep into the individual's core being and core self, and that person's new life will be determined based on who he is inside.

Each person's coming experiences will depend on himself as an individual. His focus will no longer be on policing his neighbor or being responsible for his neighbor's actions. His karma will be directed towards himself and his responsibility for his own life. In this way, he will create his own upcoming scenarios.

WHO we share our experiences with will also be determined by who we are as individuals. Now like attracts like. No longer will people be forced to live, work, and be together with others simply because society dictates it. The new Aquarius Age will pair us with individuals of like mind, common views, and similar life paths.

For those with whom we felt strong bonds of love and connection in the Capricorn Age, we will have an even stronger bond with them in the Aquarian Age. As for the people we were with in the Capricorn Age for superficial reasons (such as money), we will likely separate from them, possibly forever. From now on, people will be with each other by choice... not by dependence or because no one better came along.

In short, the Aquarian Age is releasing us as individuals from the responsibility of being responsible for everyone else, in favor of being responsible for ourselves. We'll have no one to prevent us from our successes, but no one to blame for our failures. In the new era, we stand and fall on our own merits.

It's up to each of us to learn well the positive lessons of the Capricorn Era, and carry them into the Aquarian Age. Whilst being responsible for ourselves in the new era, we must bring with us the willingness to cooperate with others, the ability to maintain a rudimentary social organization, and the desire to care for our families & neighbors and help them whenever possible. Perhaps society will no longer 'force' us to do these things. But we shouldn't have to be forced. We should want to do them anyway.