Today is Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 – and just in case you haven’t heard, yesterday’s Internet blackout action worked (yay!). As emails and phone calls poured into Congressional offices, prominent supporters of the SOPA and PIPA bills (Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect I.P. Act) backed off – including co-authors of the bills.
Now there needs to be deeper discussion of the issues raised: copyright infringement, intellectual property, piracy, freedom of speech, and so on. Planet Waves knew that any short-term risk in blacking out this site was grossly outweighed by the long-term implications of this legislation. So THANK YOU for supporting our decision to participate.
Talk about an interesting way for the Sun to spend its next-to-last degree of tradition-loving Capricorn, right? Hanging out with its neighbors Neptune in the last degree of Aquarius (technology) and Saturn in the penultimate degree of Libra (justice) – while just across the street, the intensifying Jupiter-Chiron sextile focuses the social justice angle with immediacy. And it all adds up to a Uranus square Pluto moment: a citizens’ revolt against traditional Capricorn structures with a spontaneous, innovative action. This is what it feels like to have a multi-outer-planet ‘thing’ happen.
You can see how the astrology plugs right into this summary by The New York Times last night:
“Yet on Wednesday this formidable old [media] guard was forced to make way for the new as Web powerhouses backed by Internet activists rallied opposition to the legislation through Internet blackouts and cascading criticism, sending an unmistakable message to lawmakers grappling with new media issues: Don’t mess with the Internet.”