Note from Qharmony:
This is such a fascinating topic that I thought I would post it here in the channeling section so more people would see it and read it. Definitely the original musical HAIR could be considered channelled work and creative genius.
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Age of Aquarius? Says who?
Posted February 14th, 2009 by yarraman
in Ascension

This whole dawning of the Age of Aquarius today,
on this particular date, sorta has me wondering.

As I understand it folks are basing all this on the song from 'Hair',
not any particular science. It's simply that astrology sees
that the alignment of our current skies match the lyrics of a song.

So here are my questions. Did the guys who wrote that song do it
through some special guidance, and that same special guidance allowed
those particular lyrics to stay in our minds for...oh..geeze, when
was Hair...1960's?...over 40 years? I mean, let's face it, how many
lyrics of other songs of the time are so 'main streamed' into our
conscious awareness? The songs we remember most seem to have some
message for the future in them, some hope, something loving and positive.
Did the songwriters receive some special download back in the '60's, get
implanted with a certain idea by Universe?

Did we, the general population, hear that song over and over until
it stuck in our minds, and we sorta stored that info for the time
when the stars moved into alignmnet in accordance with the song?

Then the astrologers realized that the current alignment matched
up with the song lyrics and said AHHH HAAAA, it's today 14 Feb 2009?

I've been googling around looking for information about this the
past couple of days...you know me, nosey as all get out. Most
of the science sites say that nobody knows for sure an exact date
when the ages change...not even past ages. Various sites had
various ideas, some say the Age dawned in the 1940's. I also
gotta say that every single place I found reference to today being the
correct date also referred to the lyrics of the song. There
doesn't seem to be any 'pure' science reference to this date.

So did we, the Earth Humans, bring on the dawning of the Age of
Aquarius? Ourselves? Sounds a bit strange, but perhaps that's
exactly what DID happen. Enough folks are aware enough and awake
enough to bring on the Age of Aquarius today because we WANT IT.
Maybe this is how humans, as a species, co-create Universe.

We all had the idea that the Age of Aquarius would bring, love
peace and harmony (I forget the exact words of the song)...a stageplay
that was a statement of our time in the 60'-70's just might been
the catalyst for humanity to do it's first super-big co-creation here
on Earth. Everything was set in motion in the 60's and brought to
fruition today, St. Valentines Day, a day for thinking about love.

The stars woulda been in this alignment anyway. Some folks woulda
remembered, most would not. But somebody, some bright light somewhere
said 'Hey...this can be TODAY! The Word. When the word reached
the Collective Consciousness of Earth Humans there was an agreement
that, yes, today was the perfect day for it...and so it is.

So it appears WE DID THIS. It was a possibility. It was only a possibility.
Someone, somewhere, wrote down this possibility as lyrics for a song in a
play. WE...Earth Humans...brought that possibility right on down here to Earth
and when the stars were just right, we anchored that possibility right
into what IS. The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius IS today. Says
who? WE DO!

This Critical Mass stuff is great! We are there! We made it!
We are Creators!

I suggest we get to work on John Lennon's 'Imagine' next, guys.

yarra
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From the author of HAIR's website

Submitted by Qharmony on 15 February 2009 - 12:47am.

Hi Yarra,
Great blog topic! I myself had thought all of the same things you said! I also wondered what the inspiration for the song had been, so I went looking. It seems that James (Jim) Rado, one of the authors of the song and the musical HAIR, has put up a new website (as of Dec 30, 2008). I have copied several most interesting parts below. It's long but well worth reading. The website is still under construction, so some areas are very bare but look interesting, like the one called The Aquarian Zone.

One encyclopedia I read said that Jim & Jerry (the authors) consulted with an astrologist before writing the musical and song lyrics. It was mid-60's in New York. Jerry died in 1991 of cancer, but Jim is still alive. So, only Jim could say for sure who the astrologer was and what their inspiration was. Hopefully, he will add more to the website. Jim is now 76. He was age 33-35 when writing the play and Jerry was age 23-25.

http://www.hairthemusical.com/musical.html

HAIR was created as an original idea by Gerome Ragni (Jerry) and, myself, James Rado (Jim). We collaborated on the story, text, characters, dialogue and lyrics beginning in late 1964, continuing over the years 1965, 1966 and 1967.
HAIR was a theatrical breakthrough in many ways. Galt MacDermot was the composer who set the lyrics to music. It was the first show with a truly integrated cast. It had the hypnotic aura of a miracle about it. Everyone connected to it felt it.

HAIR is about a group of young people in New York City's East Village who band together as a TRIBE. They are a New York contingent of flower children, (a freeform phenomenon that had begun a little earlier in Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco and would subsequently spread to Europe & elsewhere). Taking on the feel of an American Indian tribe, they question authority and the society they are living in and the war in Asia. They seek to find a new way. They yearn to change the world. They begin by recreating themselves. They find a potent organic natural esthetic; the most dramatic visible element, all the men grow their hair long. They tune in to Eastern thought & meditation. They turn on and drop out. They hang out in self-made clouds of incense and grass. They laugh and cavort, as they find a new freedom of expression and camaraderie. They live in crash pads, in the parks and on the streets. Unkempt, wild, free, and deep, they are unique, colorful, something genuinely original and beautiful...and so hip (yet in a different style from the earlier hipsters and beatniks). A new word is coined to identify them. They come to be called hippies. They try to live by the philosophy of "Peace and Love." They are on a trip of liberation. They commune, join hands in protest and in song. Within the context of the play, they struggle for the light, but are forced to fight & die, only to be reborn, again to suffer more, then to rise from the ashes, to glow, to shine...

The authors of HAIR played with the idea that this movement was connected astrologically to the heavens, to the coming of the Age of Aquarius...

Analysis
[Unknown author's comments and analysis:]
The least known and most mysterious part of the hippie world runs through the whole musical HAIR; the mysticism and symbolism of Aquarius. Aquarius is called upon in the opening scene of the musical. This call is an indication of the mystical world consciousness that the hippies possess and that summons in the equivalence of the Age of Aquarius with the age of peace, love, and positive use of sociological and scientific studies.

The hippies, representative for all people and to be taken as an example for them, have checked the traditional ideas and ways of life and have freed themselves from the ordered narrowness of life. Their uppermost ideal is the happiness and health of mankind (inventors of "granola", promoters of "organic, pesticide-free food", practitioners of meditation, explorations of various types of body work, etc.). The hippies do not accept any responsibility towards the state or the moral code but do accept the responsibility for those people who are helpless against the impersonal power of the state.

A person can only be free if he starts to deal with himself first, as emphasized in East Asian religious philosophy, if he realizes that all of nature is God and that he himself is a part of nature: free in his thoughts and decisions and only responsible for the happiness that makes him a human being. A person born under the sign of Aquarius receives a dominating role in this new age in which the harmony of the world and the definition of freedom is reorganized based on an understanding of a pantheic god.

Claude Hooper Bukowski's birth sign is Aquarius and he is the main figure in the musical, damned to genius or madness. He suffers the terrible fate of a prophet of a new, misunderstood and denied way of thought. Claude is torn between the polar forces: between the genius that is freedom, which is the true life in him, and the madness that rages around him and challenges him. Claude is however also responsible for his own fate. As he appears in uniform at the end of the play amongst his friends and remains invisible to them, he suffers a symbolic death that is a direct consequence of his actions. Claude is a plastic hippie who still respects the reality of his surroundings and the existing society too much. He sees the necessity of change that would break with the current state of things today, but he cannot put it into action. He is intelligent, reflects on the symptoms of the time, hesitates with important decisions -- he is Hamlet's hippie brother.

The difficulties of realizing the ideal of a new order are shown clearly in Claude's character, a personification of the Aquarius myth. Berger, the hippie leader, is Claude's mate and opponent. He personifies the hippies' ideal and has successfully detached himself from the demands of his surroundings. His personality is marked by a radical emotionally influenced attitude toward the bourgeois way of life that he lives in conflict with. When Berger compares himself ironically to Lucifer in one song, it is easy to recognize the opinion that that hippie leader is compatible with the despiser and destroyer of the so-called straight world. Berger is the constrast to Claude, the hipster, who can only free himself from the traditional way of thinking with difficulty. However Berger tries hard to include Claude in the communal life of the hippes and to integrate him as a member of the group.

The result of these attempts is that they both live together with Hud, a member of the Black Flower Power movement, and of course with Sheila, who, although she has a liking for Claude, feels herself more attracted to Berger.

Claude is the leader of the group together with Berger. However he shows that he cannot handle the expectations of the hippie way of life and society when he doesn't burn his military service papers at the be-in. His fear of society culminates in a horrifying LSD trip, where he experiences the history of America in an hallucation projected from the time of the American war of independence up to the present day. This vision shows him the continuous wars and the never-ending cruelty amonst people. Politics are only indirectly important in this scene. More important is the demonstration of the alienation of the society from the ideals of the humane world. After the experience of this trip, Claude tries to escape from the world in a way that is unpractical as far as the hippies are concerned. Claude proves however that he is a victim of his weakness toward society. His wish to become invisible and to perform miracles is fulfilled in a contrary way in the closing scene. On a Vietnam battlefield he lays down his rifle for all to see, and he suffers a sacrificial death while remaining invisible to the hippies. His accusing and throught-provoking song is picked up by the Tribe, who then take the ideas even futher and invite the audience to recognize tolerance, love and freedom as the highest aims.
"Singing our space songs on
A Spider web sitar
Life is around you and in you...
Let the sun shine in."

In the musical HAIR, youth protests against war and military service, against intolerance, brutality and the dehumanization of society. The hippie existence is shown as a possible alternate way of life in which love, happiness and freedom dominate. When hippies give their opponents and enemies flowers, they are hoping for the positive result of this gentle gesture. And so it is correct to give their ways the name "flower power."

HAIR is a serious play. The cheerful scenes, especially in the first half, reflect the happy way of life the hippies lead. The jokes and ironic comments are a subliminally effective method of showing up society.
The authors intend to give an impulse to rethink and test validity of the traditional values for the current age.