Mercury and Uranus…
This weblog thought got here out of the blue – how uranian!
In latest weeks, particularly since returning to Vilamoura within the Algarve full-time, I've seen how polarizing social media and immediately's numerous types of technology-based communication have change into.
I’ve seen a distressing quantity of non-consensual advertising and marketing…images taken and posted on a social media account to advertise such and such a enterprise or occasion with out consent. After I raised the problem with a number of advertising and marketing specialists, the suggestions I acquired was that “They don't even comprehend it's mistaken to do that. And even while you attempt to clarify it to them, they really don’t know what are you speaking about! And even higher, individuals say, “Ah, certain the Portuguese don't trouble a lot with this GDPR or information safety stuff!” it was all of the expats who had been doing this, not the portuguese!
After which my not too long ago painted unique artwork was shared on social media with out my consent! So I nearly obtained to the stage the place I wished to cease going to any type of occasion as a result of it was so intrusive and likewise personally distressing.
Additionally, there was the infinite chat about nothing in some enterprise WhatsApp teams. And within the Fb teams (of which there are a lot of within the Algarve) there was numerous cross-posting, posting on behalf of others who weren’t members of the group, extreme posting (which may be very annoying however not likely it's unethical!) numerous “Wow, I didn't notice I shouldn't have posted a promotion on this group” (yeah, proper). So I took a giant step again and stopped chatting about nothing in WhatsApp teams and began consciously turning off my telephone for 2 full days on the weekend.
The distinction in my temper and focus degree was immediate. It was additionally no coincidence that the individuals with whom it resonated most, felt precisely the identical. I discovered myself portray a storm, experimenting with various kinds of paints, experimenting with combined media, brainstorming concepts for brand spanking new astrology and likewise artwork workshops. And sure, I can do these workshops right here at dwelling. Loads of balcony house for everybody! I additionally quietly discovered myself writing increasingly, together with poems.
And most significantly, lastly discovering the time to take these walks on the seashore that my soul had longed for therefore a few years.
I reside on the finish of Quartiera, a drag of seashore and promenade that spans about two kilometers however feels for much longer, so the following seashore down, Praia do Almargen, has a really totally different really feel. Oh, in addition to having an ideal, albeit noisy, seashore bar! So once I met a beautiful new buddy, I discovered myself extra direct than regular about how the assembly would work for me. And the identical with different new buddies. It's taking me lots longer to choose what I wished, however that's simply my impatient eleventh home Mars in Aries at play! It seems that many youngsters are out of college for 3 full months in the summertime, and lots of others, as anticipated, will depart Vilamoura in August as a result of warmth and crowds.
So the scrumptious beachside coffees, lunches and drinks I've had with new buddies have actually been so nourishing.
Just a few weeks in the past, once I pinged seven Instagram tales in a row, all of them had the “All eyes on Rafah” picture, which I discovered very distressing. I am going to Brian O'Driscoll's or Peter O'Mahony's profile to learn rugby stuff, identical with different rugby gamers. I have a tendency to go to different artists' Instagram accounts to see their lovely work. I not too long ago discovered that this “All eyes on Rafah” picture, which really had over 46 million views, was generated by AI. That's why it apparently bypassed key phrase detection. After which there have been individuals who appeared to touch upon the digital erasure of “actual life” photos of the warfare.
Then I unfollowed lots of people on Instagram, however not Peter O'Mahony, he's too horny and Brian O'Driscoll is simply too humorous. He stays too! And for these of you who don't know who Peter O'Mahony is, he was the Eire rugby captain till not too long ago, and is now the Munster rugby captain for one more 12 months. Subsequently, I took the concept from fellow astrologers to additional take away my very own social media, to provide myself as a lot management as attainable over what I see, which is nearly a full-time job in itself lately.
What about Mercury and Uranus in all this? Effectively, AI and ChapGPT are as Uranian because it will get. AI is producing increasingly content material for increasingly platforms, and gross sales and advertising and marketing content material platforms are clearly a part of it. Astrology too, sadly. And now Google additionally has a platform known as Gemini – that matches! Now there’s a noticeable enhance in astrologers with no apparent coaching or formal background writing a bunch of very genuine sleep astrology – the place and the way did they get this content material?
I'm not likely certain I need to know… what I do know for certain is that the real astrologers, those who work from their coronary heart, soul and spirit, will nonetheless be round in three years.
The web world is now additionally flooded with supposed knowledgeable astrocartographers. Individuals write nonsense like, “Transferring in your Venus line means you'll discover love” or that you simply'll be depressed on a Saturn line. These half-baked posts do astrology an enormous disservice. There are additionally now, as I not too long ago discovered, more and more spectacular astrology software program packages that declare to incorporate astrocartography. Besides lots of them don't even embody skins on the maps.
Which is what native astrology is de facto all about!
Oh, and the significance of understanding your beginning chart and present transits earlier than deciding to maneuver can by no means be confused sufficient.
It took a protracted chat with my religious mentor in Australia to comprehend that numerous the fluffy “Take a look at me and what an ideal life my purchasers and I reside” that may sound like non-consent advertising and marketing , there’s certainly. all, pushed by ego. Do I need to see these sorts of images? They're actually entertaining, however no, they don't essentially persuade or affect me to go to that place or join that occasion. They’re additionally very distracting, and so they do soak up you.
That's what a web site is for. To take part transparently.
That's what a e-newsletter is for. To interact and ship content material transparently.
There's a motive individuals like Denise Duffield Thomas and Tash Corbin are doing so effectively lately. Denise is a money-minded Aussie mentor I've adopted for years and Tash (one other Aussie) runs a consent-based advertising and marketing mentoring program for girls entrepreneurs around the globe. I not too long ago discovered myself rejoining their Fb group and it was like a breath of recent air again right into a consent-based world.
The Web was based by a Gemini – Tim Berners Lee, born June 8, 1955 within the UK (TOB unknown), and naturally astrocartography was additionally developed by one other Gemini ueber – Jim Lewis, who took what was a primary idea on the time and ran with it. Astrocartography is at its core, all in regards to the angularity of angles. Relocated charts, which contain regenerating your chart “as if” you had been born within the new location, are one thing else. Tim Berners Lee gave his invention to the world without cost and later made cash in different methods.
It’s so usually the case. Do what your soul yearns for essentially the most, what makes your coronary heart sing and the paths open. I've seen it occur so many instances.
Is it any marvel that the three most moral enterprise mentors I do know – Sarah Leather-based, Denise Duffield Thomas and Tash Corbin – are all Virgos?! So there! And they’re all born in Australia.
My very own natal Pluto in Virgo resonates with this, as does my Saturn in Capricorn within the a lot maligned eighth home. Do all the things you do with integrity and let no matter comes alongside the way in which with AI be what will probably be.
Do all the things you do with love, ardour, integrity and all the things will work out. Suppose U2, suppose Bruce Springsteen, suppose Sinead O'Connor, suppose Taylor Swift.
And disable that WhatsApp ping in your telephone as usually as you may! My subsequent weblog put up shall be a observe up on this matter as know-how continues to vary our lives on the velocity of sunshine.
This, after all, was precisely what was predicted when Pluto moved into Aquarius in January 2024. Pluto makes its last sweep of the decks because it makes its last and last journey again to Capricorn from September 1 to November 19 this 12 months. It is available in time for the US presidential election.
Are you prepared?
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And thanks all for persevering with to help my work. And no, no synthetic intelligence was used within the writing of this weblog!
Thanks pricey readers for studying my weblog about Mercury and Uranus and the polarity of language and know-how.
