Job Loss & Industry Decline: The Fastball That Forces Change

The spiritual community has been anticipating and discussing the Age of Aquarius for years. I know many of you who aren’t well-versed in spiritual philosophy might associate it with “woo,” “hocus pocus,” or something similarly dismissive. But if you’re still reading, and that’s your perspective—I invite you to vet this information through your logical lens. You may just walk away with a new one.

For roughly the last 2,000 years, we’ve been in the Age of Pisces—a time associated with external power, institutional hierarchy, top-down control, hidden knowledge, and self-sacrifice. Now, we’ve moved—or are currently moving into, depending on who you ask—the Age of Aquarius. This new age is marked by truth, direct knowing, technology, collective progress, decentralization of power, transparency, equality, and conscious evolution.

Just for quick framing, ChatGPT defines the Age of Aquarius in business terms as follows:

“The Age of Aquarius represents a societal shift toward collaboration, innovation, and emotional intelligence. In business terms, it’s a move away from rigid hierarchies, individualism, and control-based leadership, toward agile teams, purpose-driven missions, and technology-enabled connection.”

So, why should you care?

Because it drastically affects you as an individual—and the industries in which you operate. For the purposes of this article, I’ll focus through the lens of the job market and evolving roles. I’ll explore the deeper intersection between business and spirituality in a follow-up article, but today, we’re sticking to the relevant and imperative shifts you need to understand now.

AI, blockchain, and other technological advances are rapidly transforming the world of work. Many people have missed the signs that it’s time to adapt. In the Age of Pisces, many roles and entire organizations were built around selling systems, enforcing processes, and maintaining hierarchical control of power. The skill sets that defined success revolved around those structures. But the Age of Aquarius is the opposite of that framework.

To help make this shift more tangible, let’s introduce some additional definitions rooted in the spiritual lens. In this context, every person is seen as having both masculine and feminine traits (not referring to gender). In a healthy, integrated individual, both sides are balanced.

As ChatGPT defines it:

“Masculine traits in business traditionally include logic, structure, competition, assertiveness, and results-driven decision-making. Feminine traits include empathy, intuition, collaboration, adaptability, emotional intelligence, and creative thinking.”

So what does this mean for professionals? It means that in the Age of Aquarius, thriving requires you to develop and lean into your feminine traits—many of which may have gone underutilized in the past.

Let’s look at a few real-world examples to illustrate how this shows up in the workforce:

Media

AI has dramatically changed how people consume news. You no longer have to visit specific media sites to see headlines—they’re at your fingertips via google search AI. As a result, the old model of monetizing through traffic and ads is breaking down. What will drive visitors now?

Media outlets that thrive in the Age of Aquarius will be those that offer authenticity, transparency, and participatory experiences. Sites that provide something personally compelling- transparent, authentic, raw and honest truth that allows the individual to “co-discover” their truth.  A site that cites their sources and biases, enabling upfront discernment and scrutiny.  It is one that encourages collective collaboration and participation, values-driven alignment, movement over influencers, and cutting edge tech that makes one feel part of the experience.

Marketing Leadership

Take a VP of Marketing at a tech company. In the Age of Pisces, success came through traditional “masculine” traits: process efficiently segmented and converting funnel systems with “push” tactics, crafting the narrative around the brand (top-down), protect proprietary knowledge, measure success by growth metrics, and centralize the authority on decision-making.  And being skilled in those tactics (among many others) got you the job.

But now, in the Age of Aquarius, the same role demands the feminine “muscles” to showcase collaboration, purpose-driven, and growth-as-a-collective.  How that actually will show up is utilizing your expertise and talents to invite the audience into the brand to share the narrative and journey, facilitate community-driven growth (ambassadors, co-creation, peer-driven value exchange), open source wisdom, success metrics that are driven by impact and engagement by emotional resonance, cultural relevance, and long-term community retention, and decentralized creative power that fosters diverse input and trust in the community to shape the brand’s evolution organically.

Accounting

If you’re an accountant, AI has made it possible to complete reconciliations in seconds and identify discrepancies that once took hours—or even days—to uncover. That opens up new time and capacity—not just for cost-cutting, but for strategic innovation. Now, your expertise can be applied to developing methodologies that reduce accounts receivable within one group, and then translating those best practices across the organization’s global footprint. New areas of expertise are needed, and new ways of spending time during the workday are emerging.

Commercial Risk Management

Similarly, traditionally, commercial risk managers at banks focused on protecting the institution—using manual frameworks and rigid criteria to assess applicants, often defaulting to caution due to time and data limitations. But now, with AI, their role has evolved—and their expertise needs to as well. Advanced tools can process complex financial, market, and behavioral data instantly, giving managers deeper insight into applicants, especially small or unconventional businesses that once fell through the cracks. This shift has freed up commercial risk managers to use their time and expertise not just to assess risk, but to identify opportunity—applying judgment, empathy, and strategic thinking to support community growth. Their value now lies not in how well they enforce the rules, but in how wisely they help reimagine them.

So What Does This Mean For You & Your Career?

As industries shift and technology accelerates, we’re all being asked to evolve. This is the moment to pause, examine these new frameworks, and reflect honestly: Is how I work aligned with where the world is going? The Age of Aquarius invites you not only to adapt—but to grow into something more powerful, creative, and aligned than ever before. This is your call to start building your underdeveloped feminine “muscles”—collaboration, intuition, empathy, and innovation—and to see them as your greatest assets moving forward.

The truth is, society has been standing at a crossroads for a while. Some people haven’t answered the invitation to change. And many of you have experienced the proverbial fastball at your face with layoffs or organizational market decline. It hurts. But it wakes you up. And that, too, is a gift.

The discomfort you may be feeling in your career or industry isn’t a threat—it’s an opening. A call. A personal invitation to reimagine what success looks like and how you want to show up in the world. Because in this new age, those who dare to integrate, to evolve, and to lead with both logic and heart? They won’t just survive. They’ll create the future.

Extra special shoutout to ChatGPT for the creative brainstorming that helped this message take shape. The research capabilities really make my world more magical.

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