A 'Modern' History Lesson

“Mordor…is it left or right?”

In previous installments of this series, I examined the Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries from multiple perspectives across time, each exploring an element of dissolving (Ne...

A Pre-History Lesson

“To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them.”

– William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Hamlet’s Dilemma

Hamlet asked his famous question as...

A Future History Lesson

LLMs and “AA” (AI Anonymous)

In Part One, I explored how Saturn and Neptune’s journey through Pisces coincided with the mass release of LLMs and how these systems are quietly reshaping the knowledge economy through a “free, fast, frictionless” model. This shift doesn’t jus...

A Present History Lesson

The State of the Ether-net: a Review

In previous articles on Pluto on the Leo-Aquarius axis within Ages of Air, I explored a 3-tiered problem emerging from our collective use of LLMs that is disrupting the knowledge economy(1):

Problem 1

There is a collective...

A Mad Scientist's Advice

For the last several days, I’ve had Emmet “Doc” Brown from Back to the Future in my head saying his famous eureka phrase, “Great Scott!” over and over again. It was completely random and seemingly nonsensical—unt...

Toward Ethical Parallel Knowledge Systems

Let’s Review…

In Part One, we examined how the true threat of AI in the knowledge economy lies not simply in automation, but in shifting collective behaviors around how people seek out, use, and value knowledge—displacing academics, journalists, and origi...

What Smuggling Teaches Us About AI and Knowledge Creators

Centralized Power and the Fragility of Intellectual Freedom

We saw in Part Two the themes of intellectual gate-keeping and the tactic of silencing voices or groups outside of established centralized power. Returning now to our present...

Power, Persecution, and Preservation of Knowledge

Top-Down and Bottom-Up

In an earlier series, I explored how knowledge was preserved and destroyed during previous Ages of Air. If you’re unfamiliar with astrological Ages, I explained that in "AI and Big Data, Historical Cycles & What to ...

Who Pays for Knowledge in the Age of AI?(1)

I was talking the other day with a friend who works in the open-access space.(2) I was venting because, in a single week, I ran into the same problem from two sides of my trade—first as a consumer, then...

Libraries, Books and Their Phoenix-Like Life-cycles

In Part 1, we explored how astrological cycles signal repeating themes across history, and in Part 2 we saw how the alignment of knowledge with power often made libraries and archives vulnerable to destruction. Yet histor...

Where We're Headed...

As discussed in Part 1 of this series, astrological cycles provide historical data that help us glimpse what may unfold in a current cycle and weigh the choices before us. Today's buzz around AI offers a timely lens to revisit earlier ...