Ratatouille and Impossible Dreams

Ratatouille, a new movie from Pixar Studios, is a wonderful story about Remy, a rat who—inspired by a book titled Anyone Can Cook—sets out to become a gourmet French chef. Substitute any other seemingly impossible dream for the word "cook" and you have the general theme of the movie. The inspiring ending more than makes up for some slow pacing earlier in the film.

What makes the movie so special is that Remy’s ordinariness and “rat-ness” give him an appreciation for the simple, common, and ordinary aspects of food. When he chooses to cook ratatouille—dismissed in the movie as a “peasant food”—in the movie’s climactic scene, he has intuitively chosen the perfect dish for the moment.

Many of the scenes in Ratatouille, which I went to see over the weekend, are just amazing. The French gourmet kitchen where Remy, the rat with culinary dreams, ends up working is an elaborate, highly kinetic—even breath-taking—environment. Scenes of Paris at night are rendered more beautiful even than reality. And Peter O'Toole's voice-over for the critic Anton Ego is superb.

A section in my book, Cosmic Trends, is about how cinema today has much in common astrologically with the explosive inventiveness of movies in the 1920’s. When I wrote the book, I had a lot of fun researching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton (about whom I wrote astrological profiles) and watching classic movies like Keaton’s The General (a movie about a train and not an army general, and #18 on AFI’s recently updated list of the 100 best movies of all time). The wizardry in movies today is equivalent in many ways to the early days of American cinema. A lot of this is due, once again, to the influence of Uranus in Pisces, where it was also placed during the 1920’s. Pisces and Neptune have to do with the fantasy and glamour of movies, while Uranus is projection, invention, and technology. I think that movies like Ratatouille demonstrate how the digital revolution has helped lift movie-making into a new era.

This is not to slight the influence on animation of Walt Disney (who had Neptune and Pluto straddling his Midheaven and the Moon in his 1st house)—what child’s heart has not been broken by the shooting of Bambi’s mother? Or soared with Dumbo’s flying?

Robots and Uranus

If you want to see the future, look to robots. Or go see Transformers, a movie about alien shape-shifting automatons, although I don’t think the outlook for robots is nearly that bleak.

The invention, development, and progress of modern technology can be seen through Uranus and that planet’s trip around the cosmic zodiac. With Uranus’ transit through mutable Pisces, a robot revolution has been taking place. Uranus now finds itself back where it was in the 1920’s, in Pisces—when we had the first short-wave radio, the first robot, not to mention the first pop-up toaster and hair dryer.

In some ways, robots are already here. We have Mars explorer robots, surgery robots, battlefield robots, underwater robots, and tiny digital (ro)bots that insinuate themselves into our computers to do little, sometimes nefarious, tasks.

In an article I wrote for Llewellyn’s Starview Almanac a couple of years ago, and in my book Cosmic Trends, I said that we are reprising some of the themes of the 1960’s. In the 1960’s, Uranus was in Virgo, a zodiac sign associated with technology and engineering detail, and we saw new inventions (Uranus) in those areas. Now, with Uranus in Pisces--the sign opposite Virgo--robotics is leading a surge in new development. Robotics is starting to use technology (Uranus) to mimic not just mechanical behavior but human social behavior as well. The mutual reception between Uranus and Neptune is also adding to the development of robotics. In addition, during the 1920’s, the 1960’s--and currently--Uranus was/is in challenging aspect to both Uranus and Neptune in the U.S. horoscope. Robotics is also experiencing rapid development in Japan, which has Mercury and Mars both in Pisces (according to Nick Campion’s Book of World Horoscopes; the chart for the 1889 Meiji Constitution also shows Japan with an Aquarius Sun,).

An article in the NY Times, “The Real Transformers,” looks at the work being done to develop new “sociable robots” at the MIT robotics lab:

…these early incarnations of sociable robots are also much more than meets the eye. Bill Gates has said that personal robotics today is at the stage that personal computers were in the mid-1970s. Thirty years ago, few people guessed that the bulky, slow computers being used by a handful of businesses would by 2007 insinuate themselves into our lives via applications like Google, e-mail, YouTube, Skype and MySpace. In much the same way, the robots being built today, still unwieldy and temperamental even in the most capable hands, probably offer only hints of the way we might be using robots in another 30 years.

Robotics is going to revolutionize our lives, much like computers, and Uranus is pointing the way.

Pluto in Capricorn: Goats vs. Nerve Gas

Maybe it’s a good thing that goats are being genetically modified to produce a battlefield antidote for nerve gas. However, as Pluto is set to enter Capricorn—the sign of the mountain goat—early next year, the conflation of goats and nerve gas is a bit unnerving. This article appeared in the BBC online: “Nerve Gas Antidote Made by Goats.”

According to the article,

Scientists have genetically modified goats to make a drug in their milk that protects against deadly nerve agents such as sarin and VX....The US Department of Defense is funding the development effort by biotech firm PharmAthene to the tune of $213m (£105m). It regards the drug as a promising way to protect its troops against exposure to nerve agents on the battlefield. [The antidote] could also be stockpiled for use in the event of a terrorist attack on a city with chemical weapons.

Astrology and the Overvew Effect

The Overview Effect is the experience of seeing the Earth from a distance, especially from orbit or the Moon, and realizing the inherent unity and oneness of everything on the planet. The Effect represents a shift in perception wherein the viewer moves from identification with parts of the Earth to identification with the whole system. – Frank White, author of The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution.

The Overview Effect is the subject of a blog by Dave Brody at LiveScience.com, and it is very interesting in the context of astrology. The Overview Effect comes from an understanding of the profound, transformative changes that take place in the psyches of astronauts—experiences of bliss, unity, and oneness.

Brody writes about the experience of astronaut Ed Mitchell on Apollo 14 in 1971,

…watching the Earth, Moon, Sun and starfield pan by.

And then, without warning: an overwhelming feeing of bliss, timelessness, connected-ness… He suddenly and deeply felt the understanding of his constituent atoms as having been born in the fires of ancient supernovas. He saw Earth and it’s people and all it’s other species and systems as a unified integrated synergistic whole. He felt good; ecstatic actually…

He was not the first – nor the last – to have this specific epiphany.

Rusty Schweikart had felt it back on March 6th 1969 during a spacewalk outside his Apollo 9 vehicle: “When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole thing. That makes a change…it comes through to you so powerfully that you’re the sensing element for Man.”

20 years ago, author Frank White collected, sifted, polished and curated the observations of 30 astronauts and cosmonauts. But these weren’t science observations or notes about the spacecraft hardware. They were reports of this specific, marked psychological shift – common to all these space travelers – immediately and profoundly broadening these hard-boiled guys’ perspectives.

Brody discusses a movement to try to replicate the Overview Effect without having to go into outer space. I highly recommend reading the whole blog and then, as Brody suggests, Googling “Overvew Effect.”

Doesn’t the study of astrology produce an Overview Effect? In astrology, we come to understand the cosmic connections of our own lives. I mean, if we are each connected to Pluto, Uranus, Chiron, not to mention our own Moon, what a stunning and mind-boggling overview that is! Perhaps a part of astrology’s power lies in the fact that once we see the overview—the whole solar system is manifesting in each one of our individual lives—it forever transforms our awareness of what it means to be a human on Earth.

Harry Potter

I went to see the new movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, with my daughter, a 19 year-old HP megafan. She’d already seen the movie once, at a midnight show on the day it was released to theaters. She’s been reading the series since she was in 7th grade and requested that I pre-order the new book on Amazon. It is being specially shipped so it will arrive on the same day it is released in bookstores. My daughter has arranged to be off from her summer job on the day of June 21 so she can stay home and read the book immediately when the mailman arrives.

It’s not just my daughter, but a whole generation raised with Harry Potter and all his Hogwarts Pluto in Scorpio classmates. Harry Potter’s 18 years old in the about-to-be-released book (14 in the new movie). Same with Ron and Hermione. They are part of the generation that has grown up with Pluto in the sign of the scorpion. What makes this resonate is the way young readers have watched Harry Potter and his classmates grow from the first book to the seventh and last. For readers who have grown up with Harry Potter, it's like he's one of their generation--much more than a one-book protagonist.

In the new movie, Harry Potter has become a tormented adolescent, carrying the fate of the world and fighting off Voldemort’s attempts to invade his mind. The tone is streaked with the dark underworld of Pluto and the emotional blues of Saturn.

There was a strong Capricorn element in the new movie, with rules and decrees everywhere. It was like Ann Coulter landed a job as headmistress at Hogwarts. As a result, the Hogwarts students end up taking responsibility for their own education. They know exactly what they need.

Movies reflect so much about our world and how we see it. The WW II movie Casablanca was about not being an isolationist, helping allies. Shane was about Communism and the Cold War, defending the homestead. The Godfather surveyed the corrupt post-Vietnam world of Watergate.

The Harry Potter series is about training for a world menaced by a dark force—Lord Voldemort--although one could say that the basic theme of good versus evil has always been common in literature and movies. Whether one believes that dark forces are menacing the world today or that leaders are manipulating the public through fear, or some combination of the two, the fact is that the young Pluto in Scorpio generation is coming of age in a post-9/11 world vastly unlike any other in my own lifetime. They are going to be presented with some enormous challenges, just in terms of global ecology.

I am biased because of my own daughter, but I feel the Pluto in Scorpio generation--stereotypically maligned because of the hoodies, the scowling faces, darkly tinted car windows, and skateboard attitudes--possesses a regenerative, transformational side that will become a key to its own survival. And, as in the world of Harry Potter, they know they need to share that with each other.

From a Seagull to a Secret: A Saturn-Neptune Look-Back

The Saturn-Neptune opposition, which was with us for the better part of a year (it became exact for the last time about three weeks ago), is now waning. Many astrologers have looked back to the last opposition in 1971-1972 and noticed some dramatic parallels, especially in the uncovering of government secrets (i.e., then: the Pentagon Papers, now: where do I even begin?). But other interesting parallels can be found on the best seller lists and at the movie theaters.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is listed as the #28 best-selling book of all time, having sold 40 million copies—even more than Gone with the Wind. Richard Bach’s new age fable, released in late 1970 just as the opposition line-up of Saturn and Neptune was forming, went on to become an international best seller.

I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull in about 1973 and really enjoyed it. At the young age of 24 or 25, it made quite a big impression on me. It’s about a bird, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, who teaches readers to follow their dreams, no matter what anyone else might think. Jonathan wants to master the art of flying, even though his flock has told him many times that seagulls should just concentrate on prosaic survival stuff like getting food. Jonathan has tried to be a "good gull," but he cannot quell his urge to soar, to fly unfettered and free. It’s about seeking a higher purpose in life, even if it means going against society’s norms. In many ways, Jonathan Livingston Seagull was a thematic embodiment of the Saturn-Neptune opposition.

The parallel book in the recent Saturn-Neptune opposition has been The Secret, which I also read and for the most part enjoyed (although I had difficulty with some elements, especially when it came perilously close to “blaming the victim”). Released last fall, it has been a publishing phenomenon, with over 3.5 million copies in print. One of the main concepts in The Secret is that you can imagine (Neptune) things (Saturn) into existence through the law of attraction. It advocates making your dreams (Neptune) a reality (Saturn).

One of the biggest movies of the 1971-1972 Saturn-Neptune opposition was The Godfather. Neptune in many ways represents the oceanic Numinous, the Sea God, while Saturn is the father. Put together, they become the god-father. In mythology, Saturn was usurped by his son Jupiter. If Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is Saturn, then Michael (Al Pacino)—the good son that the father tries to keep out of the “family business”—is Jupiter who eventually takes over. Neptune is the corrupted dream that drives them.

And today? My personal vote for Saturn-Neptune movie of the year goes to Knocked Up, about which I’ve previously written in a blog. Released near the end of the Saturn-Neptune opposition--and with nowhere near the franchise cachet of Shrek, Spider-Man, or Pirates--it is already one of the top-grossing movies of 2007. It struck some kind of a juiced-up Neptune vs. face-the-music Saturn cultural nerve.

Cancer, the 4th House, and Flower Children

I’ve been reading a very good novel called Flower Children, by Maxine Swann. It’s about four children being raised by back-to-nature hippie parents in the early 1970’s in Pennsylvania. What makes the book so interesting are the complex thematic textures and conflicts. Does Utopian idealism prepare children for survival in the real world? What is the nature of the family—and is there ever such a thing as a “perfect family”?

The children in the novel, who are individuals and yet linked by the common bond of their family environment, learn certain ideas and values about life from their parents. They have never watched television, for example, and think nothing of nudity. When they enter school and encounter other children who have been raised more conventionally, they discover how exceptional they truly are and this further binds them to each other. Running through all this, as I read the book, is the inter-twining of family roots, the zodiac sign of Cancer, and the 4th house.
Cancer is ruled by the Moon, and it’s as though the children of Flower Children collectively have Uranus on the cusp of the 4th house or Uranus conjunct their composite Moon.

Cancer can signify more than just our family and home. It is associated with the 4th house, and Dane Rudhyar, in his book on the twelve houses (The Astrological Houses: The Spectrum of Individual Experience), relates the 4th house to the center of the globe of the Earth: “In the fourth house the person can and should reach the experience of center—the center of his own global, total personality as well as the center of global humanity, of a firmly established and concretely real brotherhood of man.”

It takes a great deal of courage and effort to expand our experience beyond just the family of origin to encompass the greater human family. The Dalai Lama is a Cancer Sun, as were Princess Diana and Henry Thoreau.

Cancer is a crab in a protective shell. It tends to move sideways, or at least diagonally, getting at things and people indirectly. This seems to be a fitting description of many adults who have learned to self-protect in a threatening world. You don’t have to have any planets in Cancer to do that, and we all have Cancer somewhere in our horoscope, as well as a 4th house. Perhaps that slight sideways movement, a cautionary emotional sidestep as we meet strangers, is Cancer—our family, our childhood, like a vestigial first step into kindergarten where we feel a parent’s hand press ours and then let go, leaving us to step…sideways, gingerly, feeling awkwardly for an uncertain safety and security.

The United States is a Cancer Sun (as well as a Cancer Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter)—and I can’t imagine another country that espouses more (mostly hypocritical) verbiage about “family values,” as witnessed by the recently aired business involving a “family values” Republican senator and a call girl service. I live not far from Los Angeles, where the mayor—who portrayed himself during a recent election as a devoted family man—has been caught having an extra-marital affair with a local news anchor. I don’t want to get too judgmental about all this, but family values are indeed relative.

Jessica Murray, in her excellent book Soul-Sick Nation—which I’ve also been reading—discusses the U.S. Cancer Sun: “…as an unconscious water sign, its central impulses are also darkly primitive, fed by the Mother/Child archetype. This suggests that the world’s great superpower is actually driven by the fears and yearnings of an ingenuous child, one who is all bound up in its own safety and comfort.”

Sideways was the title of a movie of a couple of years ago. It was about two adolescent 30-something men who go on a Central California wine tasting tour. After seeing the movie, I puzzled over the significance of the title. The ad for the movie showed a wine glass tipped sideways. However, the movie was very Cancerian. At least that's my sideways interpretation, although I doubt it was the film mker's. Paul Giamatti played the part of a walking mid-life crisis named Miles. His movements were crablike, hunched down slightly and walking with sideways steps—sometimes the result of drinking, but it was also just the character’s nature. He grasped the world around him with emotional pinot pincers and would not let go.

In "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," a poem about the shadow side of watery Cancer--which ends with the words "and we drown"--T.S. Eliot wrote the memorable lines,

I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

Jupiter in the 8th House: Shared Luck

Law of unintended consequences: After reading my previous blog about Saturn and life’s turning points, a reader wrote in to say that, although he knows I was trying to communicate something profound about Saturn’s lessons, what it really motivated him to do was move to Kealakekua Bay! Which I thought was wonderful. And, really, not such a bad idea, either.

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I’m not a very good gambler (Saturn in the 5th house). On the other hand, I’ve always been pretty lucky (Sun trine Jupiter). With Jupiter in the 8th house, a lot of my luck or good fortune has been in the forms of inheritance, insurance payouts, and shared resources with my wife. But when it comes to actual gambling, I don’t do very well.

Yet hope springs eternal. Yesterday, my wife and I drove to the Chumash Indian Casino north of Santa Barbara, a couple of hours from our home. We’d never been there and just wanted to go somewhere different for the day. Before we left, I printed out a few horoscopes—my progressed, my wife’s progressed, our composite, afternoon transits at the casino, etc., to play around with and figure out a winning astrological strategy.

We were only going to look around, find a nice restaurant, and drop a few coins (although with today’s computerized slots they are just digital credits) in some slot machines—the limit of my gambling expertise.

I’ve got transiting Uranus squaring my natal Jupiter pretty exactly. I read somewhere that’s good for sudden luck, windfalls, etc. I’m trying to test that. And I’m getting real close to a Jupiter return. I was hopeful.

In gaming astrology, my wife and I are the Ascendant and the casino is the Descendant. Electional astrology, picking a good time for something, can be tricky because when you try to find the best time in a little calendar window—a day or a week—there is often no such thing as a “perfect time.” Saturn or Mars just aren’t right, the Ascendant ruler’s not right, the Moon’s not right, etc. You just pick the best possible time within the given time frame. As my wife drove, I sat there trying to advance the Ascendant, getting it so Jupiter’s on the Ascendant, ruler of the Ascendant is in the 5th, etc. I could not get it just right. There was always something favoring the casino.

But I figured we needed to be gambling later in the evening, sometime between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m., to have a good chance of winning anything. As it turned out, by that time, we’d already lost $57.00 and were prepared to leave.

My wife’s a Pisces Sun/Scorpio Moon—very intuitive. She said, as we were driving to the casino, “For some reason, I just keep thinking of 250…250…250.” Great, I thought, we could use $250! When we’d lost $57.00, I thought to myself, “Where’s the 250? Did we drop 250 ‘coins’? Are we driving 250 miles? What?” I don't know a lot about numerology, but I suppose you could say that 250 contains 57 (50, then 2 plus 5).

Creedence Clearwater Revisited (the surviving incarnation of the original band) was playing that evening at the casino. We checked while we were there and found out that the show, scheduled for 8:00, was sold out. No tickets available. None.

As we were about to leave the casino, feeling a bit down because we’d just thrown away a hard-earned $57.00, my wife looked down the corridor where the show room was located. She wondered if Creedence Clearwater had started playing yet. I looked at my cell phone. It was 8:02. We saw a few people—the end of the line—at the showroom entry doors.

“Maybe they have some extra tickets now,” my wife said.

“Forget it,” I said. “It’s sold out.”

“Let’s just ask. It doesn’t hurt to ask.”

We walked up to the will-call ticket table and asked if there were any extra tickets. Just one, we were told. But there are two of us. “Sorry. We’ve just got one extra that someone returned.”

We heard an usher say that they were about to close the doors and no one was going to be admitted after the show started. We turned and began to walk away, headed for the parking lot.

Just then, a woman at the will-call table got up, intercepted us, and handed us two tickets. “Here,” she said. “Enjoy the show.”

Stunned, we turned around and walked into the show room. We were the last people in before they closed the doors.

Our seats were in the front section.

The tickets we had been given said “Price: $0.00.” Actual price: $85.00

For two tickets: $170.00.

Not quite 250, but it was fine with us.

Saturn and Life's Turning Points

Once, almost four decades ago, while Jupiter went over my Neptune and Saturn over my Taurus Ascendant, I moved into an abandoned coffee shack next to a banana grove high above the Kona Coast of Hawaii. The view was spectacular. Ah, Neptune!

Bil Tierney wrote, in Twelve Faces of Saturn: Your Guardian Angel Planet:

Many of us observe Saturn’s symbolism in our natal chart with some measure of inner uneasiness and anxiety even while we intellectually proclaim Saturn’s higher purpose is that of our “wise teacher.” Viewing Saturn in its traditional role as a limiting agent is not actually all that “negative.” Saturn does indeed operate in this manner within the human experience, but to only see Saturn from this perspective creates an incomplete, unbalanced image of its prime contribution to our soul development...Saturn’s limits serve a constructive purpose, presenting challenges intended to develop our souls.

These are some words worth remembering, especially when we feel Saturn's stress in our lives.

I must confess to having sometimes experienced Saturn's transits as negative--yet their ultimate effects in my life are positive. It can take the passage of time (a quality of Saturn) for me to be able to see this. The low points of my life are often marked by Saturn's transits, but those also end up becoming the turning points of my life.

When Saturn hits a particularly sensitive planet or point in the horoscope, Saturn can bring that into sharp focus, making it very real.

Saturn conjoined my Virgo Moon at a low point in my life about 27 years ago, before I got into astrology. That transit marked a turning point in my life, and when I look back on it, I realize it was the moment in time when I began to really take personal responsibility (Saturn) for my own happiness. Today, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

Years later, Saturn opposed my Moon. I was into astrology by that time and saw it coming, dreading it because I remembered how much pain I was in at the time of the conjunction. That's one of the mistakes I think we sometimes make with astrology and especially with Saturn. We tense up when we see it approaching some sensitive point in our horoscopes, when we ought to relax and surrender, becoming open to a lesson just like we would if we walked into a classroom where we really wanted to learn. Saturn's motto should be, "Take out a pen, open your notebook, and sit up straight."

Instead of the inner reality of the Saturn-Moon conjunction, the opposition brought reality to me from outside. I could not escape it and had to deal with it. A friend—a man much older and wiser (Saturn) than I—guided me through that experience. It was like the cosmos extended a beautiful, weathered, Saturnine hand and walked beside me. When the opposition passed, I had once again dealt with the reality of my Virgo Moon, and it too became a turning point.

I was a yoga monk for a few years when I was in my early twenties. That experience was such a big influence on my life. My Taurus North Node loves the peace and luxurious serenity of meditation in the midst of lotuses and incense, but something was missing. When I left the ashram, Saturn was exactly conjunct my Venus, which is my chart ruler (the chart ruler is the planet which rules the Ascendant—in my case Taurus). My whole life suddenly got real, another turning point. Everything about Venus was magnified and right there. I had to deal with non-monastic things like money, relationships, and my personal values in the real world of phone bills and a job. Saturn was basically saying, learn this. It took awhile. Up until that time, I had led a very Neptune existence and hadn't paid much attention to the reality of money, relationships, or car payments.

As it turned out, I was right where I needed to be. If I had stayed a monk, I never would have learned the lessons my soul really needed to learn. I never would have learned who I am, what the real personal issues are that confront me in this life, and how to deal realistically with those deep-seated issues. I never would have discovered astrology. For me, on my own path, I had to be connected with Saturn to learn those things.

I like to dream, write, sit quietly, and ponder the state of the universe. I can daydream through a day or a week or a month. My Neptune can get stimulated just like that. But without Saturn, I’m still a 20 year-old Neptune hippie living alone in a little shack above Kealakekua Bay.

iPhone

Sharita’s Star Secrets blog looked at the release of the new iPhone (thanks to Elsa for this link) and saw some problems, especially with Mercury retrograde. That was a good call. Mercury retrograde can indeed cause communication glitches and snafus. Just off the AP wire:

Some iPhone customers face delays

While many who snapped up Apple Inc.'s iPhone were using the latest must-have gadget even before leaving the store, some buyers were put on hold as they experienced frustrating delays in activating their cell phone service.

Tim Johnson of Collegeville, Penn., found himself still staring at a crippled — albeit sleek and sexy — gadget on Saturday afternoon, more than 18 hours after he had waited in line to buy the device.

"A vast majority" of customers were up and running within minutes, said Michael Coe, a spokesman for AT&T Inc., the phone's exclusive carrier. But he acknowledged Saturday that some were facing delays because the high volume of activation requests were taxing the company's computer servers.

"It looks cool, but I can't do anything with it," he said. "I'm angry and frustrated and feel like I wasted my time standing in line."

Coe wouldn't say how many customers were affected, or how long some of them would have to wait. The company was working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible, he said.

Nevertheless, the long-term trend bodes well for this device and others like it. Pluto’s entry into Capricorn in 2008 will coincide with an increasing demand for personal organizers. Capricorn is the sign of management and organization. Personal digital organizers are in tune with Pluto in Capricorn and people will need them more and more to keep on top of their lives. Our lives are going to become personal organizers.

The PDA, Blackberry, cell phone, the iPod, and now the iPhone are all devices which allow individuals to organize and use the overwhelming flow of information, digital entertainment, and data in our lives. The Uranus-Neptune mutual reception, in effect until 2011, also favors this trend. Uranus is technology and Pisces spreads technology far and wide in the collective.