Hudson Valley Astrologer

Life before the internet was analog, perhaps just as complicated, but it had a different pace. People had to wait for a “record to drop,” to have it in their hands so they could “play it” on their record player. If you didn’t own the record, or a player, you had to wait for the songs to be aired on the radio. Life was curated by editorial boards and publishing houses. People had to wait for the nightly news, and get up early to read the newspaper, information that was thrown from the bike of a school boy onto the front porch and not streamed in a steady continuous cascade of noise and opinion.

My four kids were born on either side of 1993, a time that was marked by a significant expansion in how binary data was managed, using advances in data compression for example, sped up internet performance and email capabilities. As the 1980’s unfolded into the 1990’s awareness of our “connected” world grew, the pace of information quickened, social media was born. Prior to the digital revolution information flow was much less of a democratized commodity and more centralized, controlled, slower to spread, and largely reserved for those with privilege, expertise, or access to established media channels.

Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet made the observation in the 1980s that it was the end of the binary world. At the time, I was part of a small cadre of students studying with her on a Yahoo Groups discussion board. There were probably twenty active participants but possibly a hundred or more lurkers. I am and was an outspoken individual (Moon in Aries in the 5th house), and was something of an extrovert in my youth. In retrospect I am not sure what I was doing on that thread, because I was simply swimming out of my depth there with extraordinarily gifted writers and students. But I flailed and flopped around trying to not drown, to stay afloat as it were in a wave of perspectives that were both mind bending and that twisted my brain into pretzels. I see matters more clearly now, so almost drowning in the material was worth it.

The irony of PNB’s statement was that the physicality of the digital and binary revolution was taking an expansive turn at the same time as her description of consciousnious was making an inalterable shift from a static duality to a multi variant multiplicity (spherical consciousness replacing linear thinking), but the first step in the movement, as we have been witnessing since, is in taking down old structures to make way for New forms, a new framework which will embody Unity. How fascinating that the binary codes underpinning digital technology have empowered and made way for diversity, new perspectives, a multiplicity of voices, and the literal transformation in the ways we SEE (and hear) the world.

HVA

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