Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00329)

>TO ANN B.:
>I usually don't talk about astrology because a lot of people aren't
interested.
>But many theosophists take it not literally but as another symbolic key like
>the tarot or the kabala et. Thanks for pointing out that Uranus will be
moving
>into Uranus in Jan. 1996. This will modify the influence of Capricorn on
large
>social issues as is the want of the outer planets I'm told. Uranus will be
>moving into his own sign wow! I think this will be the dawning of major cycle
>of Aquarius in our present cycle but not the age of Aquarius according to the
>precession of equinoxes of course.

Alan Oken an esoteric astrologer had said that Uranus moving into Aquarius
would be Love/Wisdom linking with technology and that there would new insights
in research. Science and technology would cause humanity to know God. He also
predicted astrology would move into the mainstream but then he might be a tad
prejudiced about that.

>I think the internet will continue to be a world-wide social influence on the
>scale that rock music was in the sixties. . .

The departed Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead said ten years ago that
"Computers are the drugs of the eighties." There are now articles in the
newspaper about people that are spending 07 hours chatting on the Internet and
want to stop their addiction.

>But seriously something tells me that the computer multi-media really could be
>used in some ways to have a positive spiritual impact the way TV rap rock and
>violent computer games have a negative spiritual impact increasing violence
>rape and a variety of negative thoughtforms.

I don't feel the media causes negative behavior but simply reflects. All those
negatives energies that erupt into violent acts are within people. If everyone
ran around in a meditative state the media would reflect that state. The
negative reflection in the media then magnifies the negative potential already
there. Media could be used for educating people on how to modify their negative
impulses but alas the people that own the networks are blinded by ignorance or
the buck.

>Generation X seems to be as interactive as the baby boomers are passive
>remember staring blankly at all those episodes of "I Love Lucy"? well the
>computer games demand attention and movement

I was blankly watching "Wagon Train" in those days. Computer games also can be
addictive and pull a kid away from his homework and healthy outdoor play.

Feel free to post whatever you like in terms of astrological issues. I love it!

- Ann E. Bermingham