Aquarius, the Internet, and Power to the People

Let me go out on a limb here and say that for anyone who is interested in to any degree politics, that internet is an amazing, powerful, pervading entity. I have had a renewed appreciation for this fact by going to this website www.techpresident.com, which publishes a live graph of the number of myspace friends, eventful demands, youtube subscribers, and other statistics of each candidate.

I'm easily amused sometimes, and it's become a little hypnotic to see the graphs change every couple of hours. Of particular interest is the meteoric rise of previously obscure Barack Obama, and the formidable internet presence of the largely ignored Ron Paul.

Yep, it's the Aquarian age.Now, I've often advocated astrology as an awesome, powerful metaphor, and even for those who don't believe in Astrology per se, need not deprive their hungry right brains of the powerful psychological and societal metaphors present in it. Art students may not realize that astrological symbols are present throughout art ever since ancient times, all the way through the renaissance. And the reason is obvious: Astrology is a system, a lens through which to view the world.

If all of the information of the world, psychology, and people's personalities are pure light white, astrology is a prism through which we can see it's core components: color. We see how colors mix to make different colors, and how all colors can then combine again to form white. Even a relatively crude device like a TV can display a wealth of information by combining a few of these basic colors. Same with the world.
So, without assuming whether or not astrology "works", we can take the sign of Aquarius and come up with a multitude of powerful descriptors for what is happening now in the world. I'm going to seperate Aquarius into it's component aspects: Element, Quality, and sequentiality, and use them to build the sign of aquarius.

Aquarius is an air sign. Air signs are concerned with knowledge, communication, ideas, and objectivity. Aquarius is a fixed sign. Cardinal signs are concerned with incarnation of energies, and patience. It is association with crystalization. Aquarius is a transpersonal sign. The people of it often appear as an enigma, because they are more societal than person.
Connecting these things gives us an crystallizing sign of objectivity and society. It opposes the sign of Leo, who is associated with monarchy, and famous people. Aquarius is associated with democracy and the everyman.

And, if you open your mind, you should realize what is occurring now in the world is well described in this way. The internet is indeed taking power out of the hands of the few and giving it to the many. People are watched constantly, there are fewer secrets anymore. We live in an age of technology, and of the universality of knowledge. The world is interconnected now as well, and quickly injustice in the world is becoming realized and discouraged throughout the world.
The internet, perhaps the paragon of Aquarius, brings all things out. All people are equal in the eyes of the internet. The words of the lowliest blogger are equal to that of the most famous politician, both render as html text just the same, and people increasingly don't care how fancy your site is, there's a rise in minimalism.

The words "All men are created equal" was not a religious statement, it was a social statement, a natural statement. It was always true, but only now is this statement being realized.