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‘Early spring’ 1885 By Ivan Endogurov / Иван Ендогуров {{PD}}
It’s a day to stay in our lanes, and yet to make those lanes as wide as possible, to claim all our territory, to embrace our roles and the authority those carry. It’s not a day for ego or to shout ‘Look at me!’; instead, we do best to keep thinking and plans closely aligned with highest values and priorities, and to accept that the kind of power we should pursue is consistently smart and practical–and nothing else. Disruptors include the unexpected or unreliable in relationships and income streams, and a potential lack of grace displayed when confronted with new or revolutionary ideas.
(Pallas parallel Ceres, Venus contra-parallel Uranus, Merc nov Vesta, Sun opp Juno)
‘Ucho Van Gogha’ Andrzej Karpiński 1994 Fotoart2014 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
Today’s word image is an electronic device (phone, computer, Alexa, Siri, television) engaged in unauthorized listening within your home. Does that concept freak you out, creep you out, or do you think it might be a good thing, helpful in a case of break-in or injury where you could shout for help? Today we might pay attention to how much privacy we actually have, and how we feel about that.
Julie Demboski's ASTROLOGY 
Great post, Julie! Loved the word image especially…
My partner bought an Alexa for his B’Day. Took me several weeks before I would ‘talk to her’. For the first week I was freaked to say anything in the room she is in because I’d read a couple of articles about Alexa going very wrong and recording private conversations then emailing them to random contacts.
But then I thought things through = good luck to anyone who tries to make sense of the stuff I say in private which isn’t that dissimilar to the stuff I say in my posts and in public, except in posts and public I don’t tend to share the conversations I have with my cat with my cat answering back (in my voice slightly modified to reflect my cat’s cattitude).
And eventually I forgot about being freaked. Every now and then though Alexa just says stuff… without being prompted or the prompt is so obscure even someone fluent in obscure like me can’t figure it out 😉
I really like the energies of the moment, and of the past few weeks, there’s something zingy about it all.
Thank you so much, upturned!
I think I’m generally uneasy at the current state of tech and our relationship to it. I have this odd sense that we need to be respectful of everything, sentient or not or even just mimicking sentience–so once our robot overlords prevail, I think I’ll be spared, but until then, I just hope we humans will be careful . . .
And I agree–I like your word for it, “zingy”–that perfectly describes the current atmosphere, and I enjoy it, too (though I know quite a few people who are feeling roughed up from it). I intend to let go–I hope that will keep the zingy feeling from becoming a zappy one!
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I don’t have a shred of goodwill towards Alexa and the like, and I have never (and will never) used Facebook, but I do have a smart phone at the moment, to at least maintain some semblance of social connection. I am continually trying to limit it’s presence in my life, but I don’t really have the energy to resist the tide of “progress” completely, and for me there’s a constantly shifting happy medium of resistance and acceptance because in the end I’d rather just not think about it too much. Honestly mostly resistance, but there’s nothing I personally am going to do to change the path we are on (I am trying to build an EMF-free sleep sanctuary pod because I’ve barely slept for about fifteen years though!!). I just do my best to somewhat sidestep what seems to me to be an overcomplication of life.
I like to think of the movie The Lives of Others (which I may not be remembering that clearly), and if They really are listening to you, get up and dance with someone and let them know how nice it is in the land of being a little more spiritually free.
I hear you–have the same resistance and acceptance issues, myself. A sleep area free of all external input would be nice (I guess that’s a sensory deprivation tank, rather than just EMF free) sounds heavenly to me–but I would love to experiment with a no EMF environment. Good luck with that! If you manage it, would love to know how it works for you.
Haven’t seen that movie but want to. I lived in West Germany as the wall came down and it all became one. An interesting time. And behaving as if you’re being surveilled is a good idea, I think–isn’t that how you behave if you believe in God? Or at least if you want to live as an open book. Makes you honest and things easier, in my view.
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