Aquarius & Uranus
posted August 2023
Aquarius and its ruler Uranus are
both associated with innovation, forward
thinking, breaking down barriers, and
technology.
For Uranian people, creative
ideas can appear in sudden moments of
inspiration, like lightning flashes.
Aquarius’
symbol, the water bearer, can lead many to
believe that it is a water sign, but Aquarius is
an air sign, and what the water bearer is
disseminating is knowledge.
Innovation and new ideas flourish
when Uranus is highly activated or celestial
bodies fall in Aquarius.
Those born with a prominent
Uranus tend to be entrepreneurs or whistle
blowers—Bill Gates with Uranus Rising; Elon Musk
with Sun square Uranus; Steve Jobs with Jupiter
conjunct Uranus in a Grand Cross
with Neptune, Mars, and Venus;
Marc Cuban with Sun conjunct Uranus; Julian
Assange with Sun square Uranus; and Edward
Snowden with Jupiter and Uranus conjunct the
Descendant opposite Mercury.
Pluto’s
transit through Aquarius will enhance
innovation. It is likely to correspond with
author, futurist, and inventor, Ray Kurzweil’s
Law of Accelerating Returns. Kurzweil (an
Aquarius born February 12, 1948) postulates that
while most things progress linearly,
technological changes do not. Instead, tech
change occurs exponentially—i.e.,
the pace of tech change accelerates over time.
Eventually a point is reached
where changes happen so fast that predicting
future trends becomes impossible. This is a
corollary to Moore's Law which states that
computer power doubles approximately every two
years. The law of accelerating returns suggests
that a process of exponential change now exists,
far beyond what Moore could have imagined.
Kurzweil posits that 20,000 years
of technological change will occur over the next
100 years. Every time an exponential technology
reaches the end of its usefulness, another will
take its place.
The Future is Faster than You
Think
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven
Kotler sites a particular path of how disruption
occurs. First, digitalization. When a technology
can be translated into binary code, it begins
accelerating exponentially. Second, deception.
Initially technologies progress slowly and have
a hard time living up to their hype.
Third, disruption. When
technologies begin to disrupt existing products,
services, and industries—the 3-D printer for
example. Fourth, demonetization. The cost of the
product comes down.
Many of the changes that have
already started will accelerate with Pluto in
Aquarius, and many other changes that we cannot
yet conceive of will follow.
While not all inventions occur
with planets in Aquarius, the list of
game-changing technology that has occurred with
celestial bodies moving through Aquarius is
impressive.
Here’s what we already know:
While crowdfunding history goes
back to the 1700s, modern-day crowdfunding
started in 1997 with Uranus in Aquarius. This
gives budding entrepreneurs the ability to raise
money outside of typical bank channels.
Smart shelf tech’s first known
use was in supermarkets in 2003 with Neptune in
Aquarius.
3D printing came into vogue in
2010 when Neptune, Jupiter, and Chiron were in
Aquarius and Neptune and Uranus were in mutual
reception.
Also in 2010 Softbank designed a
robot capable of understanding human emotions.
In fashion Stich Fix, using
artificial intelligence (AI)
for fashion fitting, was
incorporated in 2011 with Neptune in Aquarius.
5G, now in use, will become more
widely spread with Pluto in Aquarius. 5G speeds
up downloads, so that what would once take 45
minutes in 3G, 21 seconds in 4G, now takes a few
seconds in 5G.
Electric vehicles have already
taken over car manufacturers. Wider use of
autonomous cars is coming. And these cars
already have the ability to gather data with
miles. What’s expected in the future is cars as
a service – no driver needed.
Amazon is now testing
self-driving vehicles in Las Vegas. Tesla has a
self-driving mechanism on its cars (although its
safety is widely disputed).
Elon Musk’s concept of a
hyperloop may come into fruition. The hyperloop
is a high-speed transportation network that uses
magnetic levitation to propel passenger pods
down vacuum tubes at speeds up to 760 miles per
hour.
Can flying cars be far away? Or a
self-driving car that picks you up from your
hyperloop journey and drives you to your
destination.
Does all of this sound like
science fiction? Science fiction has a way of
predicting the future. Jules Verne’s Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea depicted
submarines long before their sophisticated use.
The Jetson television show (1962-63)
featured a housekeeping robot and an aerocar, as
well as their home in a skypad apartment.
How many of us would have ever
believed these things to be possible?
Neurobiology provides the explanation. When the
brain believes that the person benefitting isn’t
the same one as the one making choices, the
medial frontal cortex starts to shut down.
Neurobiology makes us blind to what’s around the
corner. (I’d love to know the difference in
brain chemistry between the innovators and the
rest of us skeptics. Perhaps artificial
intelligence will someday help us figure that
out.)
Artificial Intelligence, already
in use, has the power to find hidden connections
among obscure bits of data.
In
emergency rooms, it
has been found to be
better at predicting sudden death from
respiratory failure or cardiac arrests than
doctors.
New materials, new drugs, and the
remaking of cyber security (as well as threats
to it) are on the horizon.
In gene therapy, AI is likely to
find connections between genes and protein cells
that provide cures for previously incurable
diseases. Of course, the negative side of this
is that it
can
also find ways to produce
designer babies.
As
AI use expands, it will become
more powerful—and
scarier.
Chat GPT is now in popular use.
You simply post a question in the chat box, and
it hunts available sources for the answer. You
get the answer almost immediately. It was widely
introduced on March 13, 2023 with Pluto at the
tail end of Capricorn. Pluto moved into Aquarius
on March 23.
Pluto in a sign always brings out
its dark side. It’s now easier than ever to post
fake voice and video. This will become more
widely used in propaganda, whether in use by one
country against another, a political rival, or
someone you’d just like to smear.
There are also potential problems
regarding copyrights, as AI provides its answers
by searching other people’s intellectual
property.
AI will enhance “surveillance
capitalism”
capabilities, the term coined by Shoshana Zuboff.
Her book Age of Surveillance Capitalism,
published in 2019, exposes how Silicon Valley
surveillance capitalism has moved into every
economic sector.
Evidence of “big brother”
watching is readily seen by advertising
following us around on the web when we’ve looked
at an item on line. What she calls the
“behavioral futures market” predicts our
behavior and is bought and sold to modify our
behavior. Europe is far ahead of the United
States in reigning this in.
The other frightening phenomenon
of AI is that will likely replace workers. Yale
University Richard Foster believes that 40% of
Fortune 500 companies will be gone in 10 years,
replaced by upstarts. Robotics are already being
used on farms, in operating rooms, and
bricklaying.
Yet, fear of the future has
accompanied every technological breakthrough.
The car replaced the horse and buggy, changing
the transportation industry. There was fear that
computers would replace workers, but instead
created whole new fields of work.
Reed Hastings, founder of
LinkedIn and an AI investor, calls AI “the
cognitive intelligence revolution,” which will
be similar to the industrial revolution.
So we’ll just have to wait and
see what the future holds for us. It will be
very likely far from what we expect.
Joyce Levine of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, is professional
astrologer with 40+ years experience. Her
clients include individuals, couples, families,
and businesses. Joyce is the former Chair of
NCGR and former President of its Boston Chapter.
She is the winner of the Regulus Award for
Community Service at UAC2012. For more
information, see
www.joycelevine.com.
Email:
joycel@joycelevine.com
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