The Age of Aquarius
A Mythic Blueprint for Ego Dissolution
The Age of Aquarius, is a time often associated with spiritual awakening, intellectual evolution, and the dismantling of outdated structures. It calls for transformation, not through external dogma or hierarchical systems, but through an intentional, self-generated path of inner alchemy. I have spent the past decade, unconsciously at first, birthing this new paradigm. At the heart of this transformation lies a psychological system designed to guide individuals through ego dissolution, rebirth, and spiritual integration. Where I stumbled through the process and used the last five years of research and applying what I learned to myself, within my books Alchemy of the Psyche, Rebirth of Nyx, and Dawn of the Sacred Age, I have structured this process, and refined and perfected it, so it becomes as streamlined and direct as it can be.
These three books are the foundation of the mystery school initiation process. Where my other work deepens it, through one more book outlining the tools in the process, and finally three fiction stories (of which so far one has been completed), detail the process in the form of long form narrative and myth. Within this the figures of Lucia and Bassareus serve as archetypal models for this process, embodying the journey from the fractured self to the fully integrated, whole being.
Lucia: The Accepting Self
Lucia represents the archetype of the Accepting Self, a living symbol of unconditional self-acceptance and love. Yet in the myth she starts of as the externalized burden of shame and judgment. She is the scapegoat who takes on all projections and yet emerges as the Accepting Self. In this form she holds it all without resistance, thus revealing that there was nothing to reject in the first place. By engaging with her myth, people slowly internalize her acceptance, transforming their superego from an oppressive force into a compassionate guide. Lucia reveals the deeper truth, that the scapegoat was always sacred. The rejected self was always divine. Redemption was never external, it was just the removal of illusion.
Lucia as archetype acts as the container for healing. Becoming the vessel in which the unconscious content can be held with unconditional self-acceptance. This is then also what she is a model for. As an embodiment of acceptance, Lucia teaches people to internalize the same sense of wholeness, which allows them to dissolve the oppressive structures of the superego.
The myth further provides a structured, intentional system where the painful parts of the ego can be processed without the destructive chaos often associated with ego death. Lucia becomes the compassionate initiator, guiding the initiate through the dissolution process in a non-violent, transformative way. By allowing the feelings of rejection, lack of care, or being emotionally unseen onto Lucia and then imitating her acceptance, the initiate gradually transforms their relationship with their own psyche, beginning the journey toward ego dissolution and self-liberation. Slowly allowing to hold the full range of emotions from grief and rage, to joy and ecstasy, to be held, without clinging or avoiding them.
Lucia and Bassareus thus serve as mirrors for the internal process of death and rebirth. But rather than being strictly gendered in function, they each hold the full cycle within themselves, offering different ways for people to engage in the transformation. Lucia models the process of radical self-acceptance, while Bassareus models the process of self-redemption through pain. Lucia Nyktelios serves as the symbolic guide for this transformation, much like an archetypal healer. She provides spiritual nourishment but does not "fix" people, instead, she helps them hold space for their pain​.
Bassareus: The Archetype of Transformation
Bassareus embodies the wound and its transcendence. The deep suffering of the inner child, but also the potential for rebirth. He is both, the lost, abandoned, scapegoated child (the raw pain, the brokenness), yet, the one who redeems himself from within (not through external salvation, but by realizing his true nature). This allows people to, externalize their wounded self onto him, making it safe to process.
To see his myth and story as proof of their own potential, that they can rise from the same type of wound, not by erasing it, but by becoming the one who redeems it. He represents the scapegoat-redeemer complex, embodying a dismembered god who regains wholeness. Bassareus shows that the pain does not need to be rejected, it needs to be held, accepted, and transformed from within. Which Lucia as figure assists with. Bassareus and Lucia work together as archetypal figures that guide individuals through ego dissolution. Lucia shows the path of self-acceptance, while Bassareus embodies the victim-child-redeemer cycle. The scapegoat-redeemer complex itself is what the ego is structured by, which includes the super ego as its enforcer.
The Process of Ego Death and Rebirth
The purpose of this mythic system is to guide people through ego dissolution in a structured, controlled way. The method works by, projecting the Old Self onto the former forms of Lucia (Societal Rejection) and Bassareus (Victim-child). People then can externalize their self-judgment, guilt, and fears within this process without feeling that they are losing themselves in the process. Both of them become a container for the suffering that individuals carry, allowing them to release it safely and heal. Their relationship is also deeply Jungian, representing the inner child (Bassareus) and the accepting Self (Lucia). Which mirrors the tension between the ego and the Self​.
This controlled deconstruction of the ego is a unique feature of this system. In most traditional spiritual practices, ego death is seen as chaotic and destabilizing. However, in this model, it is a systematic, intentional path that leads to liberation without the destructive consequences that typically accompany ego death. As it is thanks to the work of Sylvia Brinton Perera and Carl Jung, next to Orpheus, completely laid out, to ensure the process does not fall into the many ego pitfalls along the way.
The Mythos as an Active, Living Psychological System
Unlike traditional religious systems that demand blind faith and obedience to external structures, this myth operates as a self-sustaining, psychological system. So the myth through the figures of Lucia and Bassareus, functions as an active, living force that restructures consciousness and guides individuals toward transformation. The myth and the surrounding structure are further a fully designed system that requires no external authority, dogma, institutional control or people acting like a saviour. It works purely through engagement with the myth itself, guiding individuals through ego dissolution and rebirth by its own internal logic.
Role of the Nyktelioi and the Path of Nocturnement
While the Dionysian level of liberation represents ecstatic freedom, the much fuller realization of Lucia and Bassareus, can only be understood by the Nyktelioi, those who walk the path of spiritual transformation beyond the constraints of the cosmic order. These people understand the full pattern of ego dissolution and rebirth, and as more people engage with the myth, it becomes a self-perpetuating system of initiation. As those who follow the process within the constraints of the new mythic structure and process for restructuring the psyche, would still fall within the cosmic order, where tension between the collective unconscious and collective consciousness, would remain. The new paradigm itself only lays the foundation for the process of managing this tension between these two parts of the cosmic order.
So as much as the mythic process would allow for the restructuring of the super ego by the figure of Lucia Nyktelios. However it does not completely dissolve it, as it still falls within the cosmic order of Jupiter and the Sovereignty Goddess. As there are not just the familial and modern societal layers of the super ego. There are also the layers that stretch back to the neo-lithic. This process of truly working through all those layers, and then truly seeing through the entire cosmic order, would make one akin to a true Nyktelioi. Where all those, who use the new cosmic order and mythic structure for the process of transformation would still remain within that cosmic order. So as a child of Lucia Nyktelios, one of her foxes. Not as a child of Nyx herself, yet one still dwells with her and the archetypes. Yet still within the confines of the cosmic order.
Really the ultimate realization hidden within this structure is that, the victim-child was never weak. It was the seed of the divine self. The scapegoat was never just forsaken, it was the carrier of truth. Lucia and Bassareus reveal that the suffering was never a punishment, it was the very portal to transcendence itself, in its embodied form.