{"id":28002,"date":"2010-08-20T08:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=28002"},"modified":"2010-08-20T21:27:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T02:27:55","slug":"planet-waves-astrology-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/planet-waves-astrology-news\/","title":{"rendered":"New Edition: Mercury Retrograde; Astrology & Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New edition of Planet Waves Astrology News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today’s edition of Astrology News, which has been sent to subscribers, also includes an interview with me about the relationship between astrology and technology. The interview was originally intended for one of the big gaming websites — they didn’t publish it, so we’re running it here. This is a sample of the interview. -efc<\/p>\n

A lot of people don’t believe in astrology. What do you say to them?
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\nAstrology is a tool like any other. It works, but I think it needs to be mixed with plenty of real-world knowledge and experience in order to have ethical grounding and actual use. Here’s an example: You can be a database programmer and be very good at programming, but unless you know how people tend to think and work, your databases aren’t going to be convenient to use. You need to know almost as much about people as you do about computers. If you follow the basic lines of human thought habit, you can create intuitive programs that ease our lives mentally, and help people unfold their potential.<\/p>\n

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Stan faces down his Facebook profile, after getting "sucked in," from South Park Episode 1404: "You have 0 Friends."<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Astrologers need to work in the same spirit. We need to remember that people are quirky, that we’re all unique, and most of all, that symbols stand for something else<\/em>. The thing that distinguishes astrological symbols from many of the symbols that we typically encounter (say, for example, in commerce) is that they’re so well used by so many people that they are archetypes. <\/p>\n

Carl Jung gave us this term. Archetypes are a special kind of living symbol which moves down the ages and which exists in some form in every culture. Many or even all of them are already in your mind when you’re born. Imagine if the characters on South Park<\/em> had been around for 3,000 years, and revered by many of your ancestors and billions of people down the ages, collecting momentum in the genetic memory — that’s what astrological symbols are like. They have residence as living psychic entities in our minds and bodies; they have gravity and cycles. That’s why the concepts associated with them have such validity on the human level. They’re not external to us; they’re part of us.<\/p>\n

The virtual world to some extent demonstrates that there is existence beyond the body, as does astrology — we’re overcoming this belief that everything is strictly limited by physical reality. To get into virtuality we need these interconnective devices. So far there are no psychics I know of who can get onto the Net with their minds, but the time may be coming. Without the need to use any equipment at all, astrology can demonstrate that we’re all part of the same reality, and that communication extends beyond the body and the known senses. We try to emulate this with all of our technology. That emulation, much like astrology, can point us toward the reality, or it can keep us trapped in a little model of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s edition of Astrology News, which has been sent to subscribers, also includes an interview with me about the relationship between astrology and technology. The interview was originally intended for one of the big gaming websites — they didn’t publish it, so we’re running it here. This is a sample of the interview. -efc A … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}