Aquariusmoon's Bistro

Perhaps the best thing about the entire Internet revolution is the fact that we can hear/read from so many different voices. Some bad, some very good, some so-so. It’s like an all you can eat buffet: something for everyone, but not necessarily all of it quality. Eat the roast beef: skip the shrimp, the jello is nothing to write home about.

This is especially true for astrology. For years, the subject has been on the edges of the media world: books, while not rare, not necessarily best sellers, practically banished from the world of television and radio due to obscure rules and concern that the subject would just rile up everyone from skeptics to religious fundamentalists. When it wasn’t banned- it was trivialized practically to death-Sun in Leo today meant you would meet a tall, dark stranger in a golden Rolls.  (I consider Linda Goldman a mixed blessing in that regard)

Now we have the internet, with its limitless potential for self-expression. Say what you please without any need to placate anyone or the gods of commerce. Editors (unless you blog for a publication) and censors (unless you’re in China) are practically gone.  I can post articles without any regard to the length, audio without worrying about size. Technology and my ability to pay for bandwidth are the only real restrictions, and if what I have to say is larger and longer than that, then there are e-books,  podcasts, and links to files on remote storage sites that could store the entire digitized version of the Library of Congress if they were only given the contract.

But so far, I’ve been fairly disappointed. We have yet to have our equivalent to Daily Kos-a site where astrologers could post diaries, et al and meet for daily news and networking and technical stuff. Admittedly, it’s an expensive proposition with bandwidth, but not impossible, and hopefully I could create a similar account here. Many of the sites just don’t seem to cut it even visually, and audio has yet to make a dent as well.

With an Uranus-ruled medium, we should be one of the largest categories on it, taking full advantage of the new tools provided by the information age.

Till next post,
Aquariusmoon.