Shifting into Web 2.0 technologies is indicative of our entrance into the Age of Aquarius.  With Web 2.0 technologies

(e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Blogs), we have shifted from a simple push of information, that being a static webpage, to an interactive environment.

The major distinctions of the Age of Aquarius are these: the breakdown of structures, personal liberty in combination with respect for all mankind, the balance of the will to change and the will to preserve, the urge toward civilization and consciousness.  One of the planetary rulers of Aquarius is Uranus (the other is Saturn), and as I discussed last week, Uranus is almost always going to cause change in the sudden breakdowns of structures, much like a lightning bolt.

We are already seeing many breakdowns in societal structures with the Age of Aquarius, and social media further enables this.  Here’s one example – it used to be that the elite celebrities were not accessible to ordinary folks except through the lens of media cameras.  However, when Britney Spears revealed that she was not sending her own Tweets via Twitter, her followers voiced their disappointment.  Why?

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It’s Time for A Change

7 October 2009

I know this has been said too many times, and in fact was a call to action in the recent elections, which of course we experience the result of this week with President Obama’s inauguration. However, I’d like to add thoughts to a perspective that may not receive as much attention as our current economic crisis, international embarrassments, or our dependence on foreign oil, and that is this- astrologically, it is time for a change as well.

Astrology is an important lens with which to view the world from the perspective of depth psychology because like all cultural traditions there is something to be learned from it. A foundational principle of depth psychology is “as above, so below.” Basically, this means that things reflect each other. Thus we have discussed symbols being reflective of inner dynamics, and so too can the planets be reflective of what is going on inside an individual, as well as a culture. Astrology has survived for over two thousand years, and that fact alone makes it important to understand its language, in my perspective.

Astrologically speaking, the years of 2007-2012 are extremely important years. Interestingly, the acknowledgment of these dates as a critical time period coincides with many other traditions, such as the Mayan calendar.

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