Daily Horoscope for Aries

Horoscope Cast for Saturday, December 11th, 2010

by daniel "bud" dowd

Daily Horoscope for Aries Summary

Technology is pretty incredible. The world changes more and more rapidly with every passing day, driven by technology. I was reading over a Dutch law document the other day, and having possession of a cell phone is essentially now considered a right. Old fogies of 29 like myself remember when there were no cell phones, and now avoiding the deprivation of their usage (for calls, not the other stuff) is factored into legislation.

I bring this up because of the whole WikiLeaks thing and the response to it by hackers (both those who have tried to disrupt its website, and those who have responded by attacking websites that have tried to harm WikiLeaks). I'm thinking to myself, wow, this is kind of pre-cursor to a new type of war – CyberWar. Sure, crap like this has gone on for years on a more minimal scale, but the media is more apt in this day and age to report on such things, and the scale of what's going on takes it to another level.

It makes me think though about the evolution of interaction of people, both cybernetically and in the real world. Way back in the day, wars were fought with troops and soldiers on common ground battlefields, and hell, the further back you go, the commanders actually used to be on the battlefield too, instead of comfy office buildings. Nowadays though, the civilized world increasingly sees war as inappropriate and not worth the loss of life or the expenditure involved. Back in the day, an invading country might try to take your land and subject you to slavery or some other undesirable fate. Nowadays, invasion potential is limited to the countries that don't have nukes. Back in the day, it was easy to point out an enemy and say "They're evil, they're savages!" because most people had no experience with them. Nowadays, you can find youtube video of people in other countries and see that in many ways, they're just like us.

So while people increasingly won't accept killing each other (which is good), that doesn't absolve that instinctive desire to mess with them if they piss you off. Enter Cyber-War. Much of it is done anonymously, so there's no identification with who's doing it (could be your next door neighbor for all you know). Instead of inflicting death, it's more of an infliction of hardship, a way of swinging the scales of balance. It's about ideals rather than our usual ways of labeling ourselves through nationality or whatever. National divides probably aren't going away any time soon, but the technological revolution could allow the manifestation of smaller groups to war amongst themselves as well.

Anyways, keep this all in mind as the chart is all about "shifts in power" and this could prove to be a very important time in how larger-scale disagreements are handled moving into the future. Best of luck.

Bud

The Daily Horoscope for Aries

While your energy will be dedicated to career and social pursuits, your strength is going to come through your ability to conceptualize what's going on around you. You can quickly gain an understanding of a situation immediately upon walking into it, which will give you a big boost in terms of digging deeper into what's there. You can tend to materialize things more than you should though, and if you assume money is the cause behind everything, you might miss the bigger picture. So take that into consideration, but keep other options open during your analysis.

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Today's Astrology Quote of the Day:
The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts...
The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins...
The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever...
Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time...
~ D.H. Lawrence

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Daily Tao

The Tao, eternally nameless
Its simplicity, although imperceptible
Cannot be treated by the world as subservient

If the sovereign can hold on to it
All will follow by themselves
Heaven and Earth, together in harmony
Will rain sweet dew
People will not need to force it; it will adjust by itself

In the beginning, there were names
Names came to exist everywhere
One should know when to stop
Knowing when to stop, thus avoiding danger

The existence of the Tao in the world
Is like streams in the valley into rivers and the ocean

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