{"id":13610,"date":"2009-04-09T18:09:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T23:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=13610"},"modified":"2009-04-09T18:09:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T23:09:11","slug":"the-astrology-of-privacy-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-astrology-of-privacy-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and the Astrology of Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just finished the Friday lead article for Planet Waves Astrology News, called “Steal Your Face: The Astrology of Privacy.” The article explores the way that people have been growing more psychic at the same time that the Internet has been dissolving boundaries. I cover the legal concept of privacy (which dates\u0412\u00a0 back to 1890), and then look at the astrology of the Internet. Finally, I explore the astrology of Facebook, using the chart for the day the social networking site was launched. The article will be distributed, along with the horoscopes and another excellent edition of Planet Waves Astrology News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, to subscribers on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Here is a short excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n

Some very powerful astrology led to this, particularly the series of Uranus-Neptune conjunctions in 1993, which were in Capricorn. This represented a breakdown of the traditions, boundaries and compartments represented by Capricorn, which would make room for something else. That something else started to emerge when planets began arriving in Aquarius, beginning with Uranus in 1995. The Internet seemed to descend upon us like an entity taking root on the planet and in consciousness. To me this represents a technological revolution and a social shift. Both Uranus and Aquarius represent groups, and the Net became the biggest group revolution in the history of the world.<\/p>\n

Then in 1998 Neptune arrived in Aquarius and the real fun started: the Net began expanding wildly, and social boundaries and structures began melting away. Neptune (among other important themes) is about creating illusions, and suddenly many people had one or more alter egos, leading to today’s standard of having an identity for every occasion. Part of this illusion involves maintaining the notion of privacy in the midst of a total meltdown of privacy.<\/p>\n

Nowhere is this contradiction so beautifully displayed as in the Facebook experience. The other day someone sent me an activist video warning about the evils of Facebook, including the fact that they keep all their information. I’ve never liked Facebook, but this had nothing to do with how they keep data. I figure everyone does, and just about everyone online makes and archives numerous backups of their systems. Yet many people seem to be in a tizzy about this: you know, how they type in all their personal details into a public database, complete with photographs and videos, then worry about how other people might find out about it. This, without ever bothering to set the privacy settings that Facebook provides (and which it says that 80% of users ignore).<\/p>\n

In light of this, I think we need a new concept of privacy. We need to understand that in a world where most of what we say and do ends up in a database, that privacy is merely a scrim; a thin veil. I would also propose that we question why exactly we’re worried that someone might know a certain fact, or why we find it acceptable that some people know certain things about us and unacceptable that others know the same information. There seem to be two opposing forces in the psyche, one of which wants to lie or give a specific version of events to nearly everyone, and one of which wants to publicize the details of our lives and be totally transparent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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