This morning, I deleted my Twitter account and temporarily deactivated my Facebook account. Perhaps, it’s related to the mid-January eclipse that fell in my 11th house and made hard aspects all over my chart.
Of course, the Facebook deactivation is temporary. FB is such a wonderful resource and I’ve met so many astrologers because of it. One of them is Dr. John P. O’Grady. You might want to check out some of his astrological writing here.
It was from Dr. O’Grady that I learnt about the Timaeus software. This is what the website says about it, “This program monitors the sky for changing astrological conditions and reports your ‘daily horoscope’ based upon aspects to natal positions. It is also capable of sounding audible alerts when a planet/degree crosses an angle. It displays the current planetary hour glyph in the system tray. Timaeus is a ‘real time’ monitor of astrological events, but can be used to research future or past dates.” What I like best about it is the real time chart I have access to at the click of a button. I’ve downloaded the 30 day trial version and it’s pretty cool. I will eventually want to buy it, but I just bought Solar Fire, three e-books from Donna Cunningham and donated to one of my favorite astrology blogs, so I’m calling it a halt for this month.
Saturn's apprentice
Among other things, the eclipse opposed my Saturn and activated a natal T-Sqaure. Saturn is a demanding taskmaster, you know. He’s been on my case about my flitting about on Facebook and Twitter and not doing any real work. Can’t argue with him when he’s right: so for the next few weeks, I’ll be getting my act together, hitting the books and hopefully, doing some more writing. I want to do a review of Michael Lutin’s excellent book, SunShines, a post on Alice in Wonderland to please a Gemini friend and, of course, write about the Venus ingress into Pisces for NeptuneCafe.
And then, perhaps, as a reward for my good behavior, I’ll be allowed my Facebook privileges again!
P.S. ::Writtern many days later:: I caved in and reactivated my FB account. The event chart showed 3 degrees of Leo on the ASC…
Thank heavens for that – was worried about you this morning and noticed you ‘vamouched’. Good for you Neeti, taking ownership and control of the situation – you’ve reached up, grasped saturn in your hand and can now play him like a flute which hopefully we’ll see through your lovely work! Take care x
Good response to Saturn, Neeti – but I’m glad to hear you will eventually return to Facebook.
I may have to take a similar hiatus if I’m ever to get anywhere with my Mars project.
Delighted to hear you purchased Solar Fire; you will not regret the investment!
Love from San Diego, A.
I’ll miss you on FB, but I might join you in deleting my Twit account.
aha!! when I saw you had vanished I was worried but I know facebook is a big distraction.
Great you have all those writing projects. Can´t wait to read the Alice in Wonderland..
motto for this days: enjoy. create. share. discover.
I´already miss your posts at facebook . come back soon. mwah!
xoxoxo
I was pretty pleased the day I deleted my FB account…I have 11th House Uranus opposed Mercury.
One day I’m chatting, the next —bye bye!
I really enjoy blogging, much much more than I did chatting/writing on FB.
I just realized, Sun will soon be cruising through my natal twelfth. Reaffirms your faith, eh?
The empty leg of my humungous Saturn T-Square falls in the eleventh. My tribe of astrologers is so very dear to me. Facebook is the only place I hear astrology “spoken” every day. It’s like coming home after being in foreign climes. It’s irresistible! But perhaps when the sun moves out of my twelfth? And for once, because I’m impatient, I’ll use equal houses
Good, we missed you! Tony Vowles was going to organize a search party.
How do you know if your Facebook withdrawals are bad?
When you want to reactivate your Facebook account and update your status as, “I’ve got bad Facebook withdrawals.”
Ha! I was worried. Hadn’t seen you in Facebook!I am glad it is only temporary. Must have a welcome back party then!
What would you like?
Fabienne
My brother was just ribbing me about it
But I’ll catch you there soon, the rest of this month is going to be brutal busy.
I was wondering what happened as well. Glad I found this post. I was getting ready to email you.
I was spending way too much on it, Chris. I used to read my mini-feed like a big investor reads a company’s financial statement
I was just getting concerned too. I thought you had been “disappeared”. Looking forward to when you will be back.
Hi Mo, good to see you here!
I think I’ll reactivate my FB Friday evening. My major “to do” list will be done by then. My minor “to do” list is all sixth house, that’s constant and never ending…