{"id":52049,"date":"2012-01-19T01:26:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=52049"},"modified":"2013-01-31T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:31:49","slug":"sun-ingresses-aquarius-sopa-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/sun-ingresses-aquarius-sopa-stopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun ingresses Aquarius; SOPA stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today is Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 and just in case you haven\u2019t heard, yesterday\u2019s 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 \u2013 including co-authors of the bills. <\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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) \u2013 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\u2019 revolt against traditional Capricorn structures with a spontaneous, innovative action. This is what it feels like to have a multi-outer-planet \u2018thing\u2019 happen.<\/p>\n

You can see how the astrology plugs right into this summary by The New York Times last night:<\/p>\n

\u201cYet 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\u2019t mess with the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So, now what? Well, astrologically, the sky is still full of \u2018fun\u2019 as we head toward and through the weekend. Tomorrow the Sun enters Aquarius at about 11:10 am EST. We can usually feel a palpable shift in energy when the Sun changes signs, and tomorrow it plugs into a couple of those planets just mentioned — the Sun sextiles Uranus in Aries and squares Jupiter in Taurus. What do we feel when the \u2018self\u2019 archetype plugs into those conversations — but does so from a cool, detached, individualist-in-a-collective, techno-sign like Aquarius? It sounds like a lot of energy \u2013 bright, expansive, spontaneous self-expression, with drive and determination but without a lot of emotional attachment \u2013 or concern about what others might think.<\/p>\n

Back in 1997, an Apple Computers ad campaign urged us to \u201cThink different,\u201d lauding \u201cThe crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.\u201d The ads noted that \u201cthe people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.\u201d<\/p>\n

We just saw a little of that kind of crazy yesterday, with the Sun about to enter the same sign Neptune was in the process of entering when that ad came out \u2013 and is now about to leave. For the next few weeks, we may find it noticeably easier to push at the edges of our lives, to try something new, to think outside the box. This is a valuable time for us because Aquarius holds the secret of how to live within our society without being bound up in those things that would stifle our creativity. Aquarius makes it possible for us to be so \u2018out there\u2019, that it becomes a part of \u2018normal\u2019 culture. <\/p>\n

This is how paradigms are changed, and that change has to start somewhere. Tomorrow\u2019s ingress of the Sun into Aquarius is one starting point; the Aquarius New Moon on Monday is another, a time to plant the seeds of intention. We\u2019re on the verge of a couple others, as Mars stations retrograde and the Chinese Year of the Dragon both start Monday, too. Daily Astrology will take a deeper look at those events tomorrow. <\/p>\n

Today, feel around for the Venus-Pluto sextile (Pisces to Capricorn), exact now, if you\u2019re feeling at all unsure about making use of these starting points \u2013 or changing a paradigm. Perhaps the most important paradigm to challenge is the one that suggests you must be anything other than who you really are to succeed. Venus-Pluto wants you to know that if you can let yourself feel your true beauty, strength and love down to your bones, it can\u2019t help but be expressed creatively in a world that needs you to live in it fully.<\/p>\n

Looking for insights on how this week’s astrology affects your<\/strong> personal Sun and rising signs? Try out Planet Waves Light<\/strong><\/a>, our streamlined horoscope service. For deeper cultural context and astrological investigation, the premium Planet Waves subscription<\/strong><\/a> includes the same horoscopes, plus extensively-researched articles on Fridays.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012 \u2013 and just in case you haven\u2019t heard, yesterday\u2019s 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 \u2013 including co-authors of the bills. Now there … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52049"}],"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\/7221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}