It’s time to assess your relationship to the technology that surrounds you. There are days when you love it and days when you want to throw it all in the nearest swimming pool. I believe that the “technology issue” currently represents the most critical turning point of the human race, and you may be feeling this in spades right now. You are more susceptible to its influences than many other people. I suggest you investigate how your use of devices has influenced your existence. Has interconnectivity connected you or isolated you? How much more time do you spend inside versus outside as contrasted to earlier in your life? When you think back 10 or 20 years, how was your social life different, in particular your group involvements? What about your one-on-one intimacies? Do you trust people more or less? One last thought: Where do you think the infiltration of humanity by technology is headed, on the largest scale you can imagine? These questions are more complex than they may seem; they are the stuff that sociologists will be looking at for many decades to come. Yet within the emotional and spiritual levels of your life, the answers are accessible to you, and they will be meaningful. If there is something you’re concerned about on your behalf or that of your children, I suggest you make adjustments now.
This article appears in May 2014.
If I hadn’t already studied astrology for thirty years — at the nuts and bolts level, as well as in the periodical pages — I imagine I would find Eric’s interpretation of planetary transits in relation sun signs, as evidenced in these short essays, downright scary. Or perhaps I wouldn’t get them at all. But instead they are a breath of fresh air — uncanny every single time, and obvious, like a page torn from _Man and His Symbols_ or whatnot. Thanks!