But that sorting period also reshapes us, so whatever the issue is, we can now move forward renewed and re-empowered. But not quite yet, because Mercury is currently retrograde, and will be so for another 10 days.
Mercury retrograde is notorious for causing practical difficulties if we begin anything new. But it is very good for sorting, for getting the conditions right to take practical steps forward. Because Mercury is an inner planet, and therefore part of our individual consciousness, it is us who must do the sorting, rather than stepping back and letting Pluto etc do its bit.
So the re-empowerment is in place, you just need to wait 10 days before taking any new practical steps. By which time Pluto will be moving a bit faster, which helps.
I noticed that Facebook is starting to make a profit. I never know quite what to do with Facebook. I joined it because people kept asking me to be their friend, but I never visit it, and when I do I'm expected to join in conversations about the chocolate cake someone has just eaten. And people I hardly know still keep asking me to be their Facebook friend. What do I do? It’s a bit impolite to ignore their request, which I often do by default. It’s rude to say No. And it’s a bit false to say Yes. So I dither.
Does anyone out there say No to people they know only vaguely? Maybe I should start a network of Facebook friends who are willing to say No? It might be more real.Facebook, like other networking sites, is a product of Neptune in Aquarius. Illusory (Neptune) networks of friends (Aquarius). Maybe we will have to wait 14 years until Pluto enters Aquarius for this one to get more real. The Ingress Chart has Pluto in square to Nodal Venus, which is perfect for bringing reality (Pluto) to relationships (Venus).
OK, I’m being a bit one-sided here, and Neptune of course doesn’t mean just illusory. In Aquarius, it can also mean electronic soul connections. Swoon!
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I'm with you DR! I was pursuaded to join, went along with it, then had the same experience as you with "friends" I mostly ignore my page, (AQ sun like you) and keep getting big surprises when I find it all choked up again. However it can be a very useful communication tool if you need to keep in touch with a lot of people all at once such as a lecturer and their students.Or, come to that, politicians!!
I am trying to push the envelope with my facebook. Being an artist I like the visual aspect of it. One woman frankly uses it for a marketing tool, but has become friends ( shared interests) with a friend of mine ON THE GROUND.
Artists, Photographers, Writers, & Political activists, are interacting, to a degree, and I may get a job because it was posted on my facebook,
my first cold call re: that job was 2 automatic brownie points, for name dropping the poster, and being technically proficient enough to have facebook.( important to the job.)
I am getting to know relatives married into family, ( wedding, was too far away for me to attend) and they are carrying on an inter family political disagreement, civily, in the crowd of outspokenm progressives who are my friends.......AND I am wondering if this could be h juiced up, would it create a better more vcivil, dialogue than teabaggers in the square.
AND, I DO SAY NO! to friends of friends, that I don't know.
I even removed one person who posted in the middle of the night, That she didn't love Jesus enough.......wait a minute! that was one of those silly facebook games. Maybe I removed her unjustly!
The other REAL caution is that all that infor you give on those games, is being data mined....Notso hotso!
I'm an Aq sun too - but going on along with my libra asc - there's another side to this.
I've been a member of online networks since 96 and this 'oh friends made over the internet are all just illusory' has been a constant refrain in my head since then.
I have friendships that have lasted over ten years (in some cases), these have been friendships that have supported me through thin and thick, in a lot of the cases I have actually made contact in rl ... Why are people so dammning of friendships made on the ineternet when in my childhood, it was considered a thing of quality to have several penpals? Why is it that just because its on a computer that somehow its more ephemeral/ illusory / chav like - is it because its more available to the masses and not just the middle classes / educated classes?
Okay, another Aquarius Sun, Aquarius stellium in fact, and another proponent of Facebook. It is a great way to connect with far-flung friends.
I've lived in seven US states, Puerto Rico, and three states in Germany. Have family all over the US (from New England to Alaska), with some overseas.
I do get the occasional request for a new friend. If I don't know them on the ground, I ask them "how" I know them.
I also feel free to remove friends who are only doing marketing of things for which I have no interest.
My biggest dilemna is people I like who have loud political or religious views with which I disagress strongly. Anyone got a solution other than ignoring them or cutting them off?
I guess I should have checked my spelling! Interesting Freudian slip of the typing fingers...
"Disagree" was meant. But "distress" certainly would describe my dilemna.
My daughter's high school yearbook this year was titled -- you guessed it -- Facebook. One of thousands, no doubt.
Are all your readers Aquarius sun people? (I am...) Just to say I'm really grateful to facebook because via it I got in touch with a long-lost friend I am thrilled to be back in touch with. But I am "fussy" about who I talk to - and frequently cull my "friends"...
i say no to people on fb and my moon is at 27 AQ... can you believe that cowboy boot man actually asked me why i refused his friend request... was a sienfeld moment...def had to neptune out of that one... oh and pluto sq venus, tool for stalking
Well, I have my Sun in Aries and I have turned said no to people in Facebook too. I consider Facebook as a sort of phonebook to keep in contact with the people I know. Have you considered having a Fan Page? This way your "fans" can all be in one place and they can receive notifications of your latest blogs and they can even have a "discussion board." You can create a fan page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
I recently dumped Facebook entirely. I found it a superficial waste of time... And most of the people it reconnected me too I found I was better of not reconnecting to. After a while, a sort of self-censorship becomes necessary because the circle of friends include so many disparate biases.
Aquarius Sun here, with Mercury and Venus in Aquarius too and I'm not a member of Facebook.
Facebook works ONLY if you say no to people. Your "friends" need to be only people who have interesting thoughts to share. Their thoughts might be interesting because they are smart thinkers or because you love them. I have one Facebook friend I maintain simply because she is so completely different from me and runs in such different circles than I do that her thoughts are interesting just out of curiosity.
If you say yes to people you don't really care about, you will have many boring notes to read about chocolate cake. Also, you won't want to share anything interesting from your own life. The key is to keep your friend list sharply culled to a particular group of people you wish you were seeing more often.
There is no obligation to befriend people on Facebook, even if they really ARE your friends in real life. When you have a party, do you feel obligated to invite everyone in the world toward whom you feel kindly disposed? No. Facebook is the same.
There are some people I hold quite dear whom I've refused as friends on Facebook. Sometimes, I accept a friendship only because I want to see someone's photos, to see what they've become. After I look at the photos, I un-friend them. People can still send you messages on Facebook if they're not your friend, so it's not like you've cut them off from communicating with you.
When my brother complained that I had un-friended him, I told him that I keep my Facebook friends list down to just a small group of people and thus frequently un-friend people. He accepted this. Who wouldn't, if they loved you?
Aquarius asc & mercury, lots of pisces, no facebook.
I have lots of ways of communicating with friends.
Amiable dispatch and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you on your information.
I have come to realize, with my Sun in Virgo in the 12th house, I don't accept friend requests from people I don't know in REAL life. I may have a Libra rising, Moon in Aries and Venus in Leo. I find with my Mars in Scorpio, I put people off a little bit. Oh, and my Neptune and Uranus in Sagittarius are both in my 3rd house so I say things that even my family members can't handle. Facebook is quite a waste of time unless I am in a discussion group sharing my thoughts or concerns about something that is quite important to me.
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