It would probably be helpful for those interested in this question to again listen to the lecture, Aquarian Mission, which I gave a few years back in California. We were talking then about this movement into the current Age, and looking at lessons from the two previous Ages that may not have been fully resolved within those Ages. While I would not say that a given Age "represents the qualities of the preceding Age," I would say that a given Age must resolve the unresolved energies of the preceding Age. I hope this does not merely sound like "double talk," since from a cosmic perspective, they are quite different. Every "Age" raises energies which influence the issues and creative contrivances that arise during that "Age." Resolution, however, often comes in the following "Age."

This is really not so different than experiences one has in the various "ages" of his/her own life. Take the situation of an individual being in high school, which is, in your own culture, the time of learning. If that individual is not engaged in learning what is presented (for whatever reason the ego mind presents), then that one may pass entirely through the "learning age," but may never harvest the skills of reading or performing math skills. But let us say in a later "age," (the "adult age") this same person recognizes that s/he needs the skills that were presented during the "learning age." S/he may return to a scholastic environment of one kind or another to gain the skills needed. While one individual may do this in the "adult age," yet another may do it in the "elder age." In the same way, each "Age" experienced by the whole planet will usually leave certain elements to be resolved or learned (perhaps relearned), by the succeeding "Age." Thus, the cycle is not so different from the life cycle of a human. Of course, during a single "Age" on earth, one is likely to have a number of lifetimes. It is as if the cosmic process is giving everyone as many opportunities as possible to work out the undealt-with issues which arise as part of the process of growth.

As far as the "promise of this new Age" is concerned, you might guess that such has to do with whatever challenges one brings into "this new Age." Clearly, from the energies you recognize as "Aquarian," you could say that this new Age holds the potential for moving more fully (and hopefully easily) into a group consciousness that is creatively whole. But we must recognize that some of the completion and resolution of this movement will likely fall into the Capricorn Age. This is true not because such goes with Capricorn energies, but rather because it simply may not be fully accomplished in a given (Aquarian) Age. The potential is now being invoked for the collective whole to experience itself with the same level of uniqueness as have a plethora of human beings. "How," you might ask, "can the collective whole recognize itself?" Good question! "And, to whom might it recognize itself in relation?" Another good question! These are the questions for this "Age" to consider. While it might seem at this point as if there are not certain answers to these questions, please recognize that this "Age" is just beginning. Of course, it is impossible to predict the culmination of learning for an "Age" at its very beginning. Thus, consider this "Age," just as you consider yourself, a "work in progress."