The Real Meaning of Global Warming

I do not like global warming being used as yet another stick to beat people with. “Here’s this wonderful planet and we are destroying it. It shows what bad people we are, and to redeem ourselves we must change our ways and stop doing lots of the things we enjoy doing. And it’s our duty to give a hard time to anyone who won’t change.”

Oh dear, that sounds like an evangelist preacher. Funny, that.


Of course there are major environmental issues, but they are much broader than CO2 emissions which, politically, it has all been boiled down to. And if you stand back from the fray, it’s not at all certain that man-made CO2 is the chief cause of global warming.

All we can say is that global warming is happening. That is certain. Let’s not rush in too quickly with judgments about it, that it is a bad thing and must be stopped, and that we are the bad people causing it.


Let’s be astrologers instead. We are used to thinking symbolically, we know that life works that way, that outer and inner reflect each other in all sorts of ways, not just via the planets.

As astrologers we know that human consciousness is changing because the earth herself is changing. So if the earth is warming up, that says something about humanity collectively ‘warming up’.

Every astrologer will probably have a different take on exactly what this might mean.

I’d say something like this: Humanity’s heart is warming up. By no means everybody, not even a majority. Maybe just a small minority, but this is enough to make a difference to the world. And it has been accelerating in the last few years, just as global warming has accelerated. I can’t prove this, but I’d also say, given the profound connection between inner and outer, how could it not be true?

As Ken Carey writes (or channels!) in The Third Millennium:

“You who have been motivated by love bring to bear on collective human awareness an influence much greater than your historical reason might suppose. Individually you have an impact on the collective predispositions of your species far greater than that of those who are merely treading the timeworn paths of self-centeredness.”

Another way of looking at it is that the earth is heating up, so we are heating up: i.e. the issues facing us collectively are getting hotter and more clearly defined. We are in a place, or have been brought to a place, that we have never been before. ‘Civilisation’ as we know it is not a permanent state of humanity, it is merely a few thousand years old and, if we are to believe the significance of global warming, it is about to change, about to tip over into something else.

Civilisation has had many great achievements, but it has also intensified traits such as the mob-mind, where we surrender our judgement to others; greed, or the accumulation of wealth for its own sake; the perception of humans as purely physical, self-centred beings, divorced from their true nature; the natural world as an inanimate resource to be exploited; the institutionalisation of power and dominance as ways of relating; and so on.


We are at a point where we can see this as never before. And global warming is accelerating, so human consciousness is fast reaching a tipping point, a global tipping point. I don’t mean this in a doom-laden way at all. Of course a lot of things will go wrong, they always have done. But we are also collectively going to learn from the past, and a way of being that is several thousand years old will begin to change.

So keep doing the amazing things you do, the blogging, the writing, the downloading from the spirit-world, talking to animals, whatever it is. Because even though we’re a minority, there’s a lot more of us than there used to be, and it’s changing the world! Maybe there’s something in that 2012 stuff after all?


I mentioned Ken Carey. I’ve been re-reading his ‘Return of the Bird Tribes’, which is an amazing book. It’s one of those books that will occasionally jump of a shelf and ask to be read. It’s a bit like you know how you get a sense sometimes that you’re being looked after, a sense of spirit guides – or maybe you’re the sort who can just go and chat to them (women seem to be better at this than men)? Well it’s like humanity has them collectively, which to me is common sense. And this book Return of the Bird Tribes is an account of the history of humanity and its true purpose from the point of view of one of these collective spirit guides.

You can tell I’m having a Neptune transit!