An Aquarian President

I find this election especially interesting as a yogi. My teacher, Yogi Bhajan, taught us that the age of Aquarius is upon us. It marks a shift in consciousness; a transition from “I” to “we,” among other things and we need a president who can respond to that consciousness.

In the Aquarian age, we're taught, things will happen faster. Cause and effect still applies, of course. If you kick a door, it still kicks you back, and if you murder someone, there will still be consequences. The difference is that the time between action and reaction will be almost instantaneous. I'm talking about karma; but karma isn't a moral issue. It means everything happens faster.

That includes information. If information can be accessed quicker, then more information will be available. If you want to know about life on another continent, you don't have to go live a lifetime there. You will have all you need to know about it readily available. Which leads me to the next transition - globalization. Not only will things start happening faster, but they will happen on a global scale. What you do in North America will quickly affect someone in Australia.

There will be more polarization - you're either with us or against us, black or white, plus or minus. There will be less secrets. If you really sit down and listen to someone, even now, you can tell how they're feeling and what they're thinking even though they may want to hide it.

If this all sounds frightening, then that's probably because it is. We know it's scary because we're already experiencing it and we're already having problems coping. Have you noticed any of these things happening? Global warming, Wikipedia, Google maps, the war against terror, the world economy... Is anything going on in your personal life that seems more Aquarian? Yogi Bhajan has taught us that the transition from the Piscean age into the age of Aquarius is from 1992 until 2012. Think about all the changes that have occurred in the last 16 years.

Many calendars predict some big or catastrophic event in 2012. I'm not sure what will happen during that year, but I suspect that the world isn't going to end. As I said, we are already in the transition. Indeed, we are at the tail end and you can already see things start to settle in. Technology is maturing, computing speed hit a ceiling, people are adapting to ecological, economic and personal needs.

But while we get settled in to the new age, the next four years, I'm sure, will be just as crazy, if not crazier, than the last few. The next president of the United States will have to carry us through these next four years of transition and he will have to be able to respond quickly and react appropriately to situations never before conceived of. The only possible way to do that is intuitively. He needs to have a gut feeling and to trust it. And he needs to remain neutral and humble so that he can be in a position of service for all. I'm not saying anything about which candidate is better suited for this task, but my intuition tells me that Obama fits the bill and I'm glad he got elected. Even knowing nothing about the man or his platform, just the fact that there is a change in the White House seems appropriate for this time of vast changes.

Keeping with the spirit of the Aquarian age, Obama's term is going to be either a catastrophic failure or an incredible success and I'm hoping for the latter.