Blog tagged as AI

Editing Humanity with ♄-♆ in Aries, Part Four: Ubuntu, Imago Dei and Differentiation

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...

21 Mar 2026 11:00 AM - Comment(s)
Editing Humanity with ♄-♆ in Aries, Part Three: What it Means to Be 'Homo sapiens'

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...


11 Mar 2026 11:00 AM - Comment(s)
Editing Humanity with ♄-♆ in Aries, Part Two: LLMs—the Gateway Drug to Transhumanism?

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...

05 Mar 2026 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
Editing Humanity with ♄-♆ in Aries, Part One: LLMs and the Delete Button

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...


24 Feb 2026 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
The Age of AI(R), Part Four: Rebuilding the Commons

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...

08 Jan 2026 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
The Age of AI(R), Part Three: Black Markets of Thought

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...

01 Jan 2026 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
The Age of AI(R), Part Two: Thought Leadership and Cycles of Suppression

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 ...

25 Dec 2025 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
The Age of AI(R), Part One: A Penny for Your Thoughts

AI, Paywalls, and the Vanishing Value of Expertise

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...

18 Dec 2025 12:00 PM - Comment(s)
AI and Big Data, Historical Cycles & What to Expect Next: An Astrologer's Take (Part 4)

Knowledge is Power

In Part 3 of this series, we traced how libraries and archives rose and fell across the Ages of Air, often caught between preservation and destruction. In this fourth part, we’ll turn to a different dimension: how knowledge has been treated as something sacred, healing, and even ma...

16 Oct 2025 11:00 AM - Comment(s)
AI and Big Data, Historical Cycles & What to Expect Next: An Astrologer's Take (Part 3)

Innovation Begets Rebuilding

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...

09 Oct 2025 11:00 AM - Comment(s)
AI and Big Data, Historical Cycles & What to Expect Next: An Astrologer's Take (Part 2)

Zealots and Princes: A Question of Alignment

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 ...


02 Oct 2025 11:00 AM - Comment(s)
AI and Big Data, Historical Cycles & What to Expect Next: An Astrologer's Take (Part 1)

Introduction – The Stress of Not Knowing

The sheer volume of content about AI, big data, and the challenge of separating truth from misinformation is unavoidable these days. And I’ll admit—the uncertainty can feel anxiety-provoking. Out of curiosity, I searched “anxiety and artificial intelligen...

25 Sep 2025 11:00 AM - Comment(s)