‘Cloud Computing’ and Uranus opposite Saturn
My daughter (and reluctant webmaster!) introduced me to the idea of ‘cloud computing’ the other day. In simple form, this is doing on the web what you now do on the computer. It is a wonderful Uranus idea – bold, futuristic – and, like the computer and internet itself, ruled by Uranus.
But then there is Saturn.
Saturn has been in Virgo since the fall of 2007 and has spent a lot of time opposing Uranus in Pisces. Uranus is the new and Saturn is the old. To go forward, first you must go back.
Everyone is dealing with this old vs. new opposition at some time. I’m dealing with it from July 23 to September 5 as it rules both the eighth and ninth houses of my solar return.
While under the influence of the Uranus/Saturn opposition, it dawned on me that the floppy disk is going the way of the 8 track tape and that is a huge problem for me.
I’m a Four personality and I tend to do things the hard, slow, measured and structured way. Until recently, I was content to make astrology and numerology calculations on the software on my 13 year computer that runs Windows 95. I would then move to my 6 year old computer that runs Windows 98 and compile the text for the written charts that I offer for sale on the website. When all the pieces were in place, I would send it to a floppy and move to a computer that could communicate with the web and happily e-mail it off. Now however, I could see that I would soon be obsolete along with floppy disks unless I shifted to another system.
A little history:
I started composing the text for my written charts in the late ’70s and included a 20 to 30 page type-written chart with each consultation. (It was a ridiculous amout of work for the return but I now look at it as a period of internship that lasted several years.) After the consultation, I would take my copy of the written material, copy it and ‘cut and paste’ it — with scissors and glue — into one of several large looseleaf notebooks. As I accumulated the material, it became a little faster to compile each written chart.
The files:
I offer five different types of charts for sale on this site: basic natal chart, solar return chart, relationship chart numerology chart and baby (or youth) chart that is both astrology and numerology. All the files are on the computer but I still have to compile them and, since each chart is very individualized, almost every paragraph is a separate file. There are a lot of files.
For example: a basic astrology chart has three sections:
- the Ascendant and the Planets – 11 elements and each element has 12 possibilities (i.e. Sun in Taurus or Gemini or Aquarius etc.)and each is a separate file.
- the Houses – 12 houses and each house can be ruled by any of 12 signs and each is a separate file.
- the Aspects – each of the 10 planets and Ascendant can be sextile, trine, square or opposition to each of the other planets and each of those possibilities is a separate file.
My 6 year old computer was supposed to be able to write CDs but that drive doesn’t work. It has a USB port but you can no longer get flash drives that are compatible with Windows 98 and it has a zip drive but who-the-heck uses a zip drive anymore? I was faced with the possibility of having to copy all of my hundreds of files onto a floppy disk and then finding a computer that could not only speak to the floppy but could also speak to the ‘net.
That is Uranus opposite Saturn – you have to go back before you go forward. Fortunately, this influence is great for discipline and focus so I am trying to get everything done before September 5 when this influence leaves and is replaced by an unaspected Neptune/Pisces influence — which will be a great time for naps.
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“To go forward you must first go back” or “you have to go back before you go forward”
Excellent short explanation of the Saturn Uranus opposition! I have it in my natal chart + can soooo relate to this. Feels like I had to go back for 20 years so that I can now move forward the next 20 years. Thanks!
though I have to say that going back for 20 years was really a going forward, on the surface it just did not look that way