This really resonates. Social media is a tool - neither good nor bad on its own - but how we wield it makes all the difference. Your story about hearing that inner voice in 1998 is spot on, and I feel like that choice: love or hate, is one we keep facing, again and again, especially now.
And oh yes, spring 2025 is going to be a boom. Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini... everything is shifting, especially how we communicate and connect. Social media already played a massive role in dismantling the Covid narrative, proving that these platforms, despite their flaws, can be used for truth and empowerment.
Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook and Instagram - their fake, polished energy feels unbearable to me, but I also know that energy can be flipped into real power. We’ll see how it all plays out, but one thing is certain: consciousness is shifting, and the way we use technology will be a major part of it.
Thanks for reading and replying! (And I know I already replied via DM but realized I forgot to address the Facebook and Instagram comment).
Yes, I totally hear that, though as an expat in Japan since 2004, from about 2008/9 to 2020, Facebook was a lifesaver for me, as it gave me a place to communicate via writing (and reading) in my native langauge, as well as re-establishing connection with old friends and making TONS of new ones from all over the world.
As someone with my Capricorn stellium (Mercury, Sun, Moon, Jupiter) in the 7th House (Whole House system), I am here to relate to people and the hardest thing about my early years in Japan was, due to my basic illiteracy, having those opportunities limited.
However, around 2017 or so, I could tell not only Facebook but Google/YouTube, Twitter, etc., were starting to interfere with our ability to communicate openly with each other and by the end of 2020, I basically gave up my daily Facebook usage.
These days, I go over there 3-4 times per week, don't post too much and rarely spend too much time there.
As for Instagram, those bastards suspended my account without cause back in the fall and even when I tried to clear it up, they opened it back and then suspended it again---all of this was despite me not even posting or using it!! Thus, I just decided that this was a sign to get rid of it altogether---I have more than enough social media sites to keep me busy!
Ohhh, I feel this. Some spaces just stop resonating, and when they do, they practically push us out. Facebook was a lifeline when you needed it, but you felt when it started shifting into something else. That awareness is everything.
I felt it too - around 2017, something just changed. Up until then, I actually loved Facebook, and to be fair, it brought me so many amazing connections. But then… the energy shifted. It started feeling empty, cold, like something vital had been drained from it. And Instagram? Never liked it. I had it, I used it - out of that Capricorn business responsibility - but never with heart, and you can always feel when something isn’t genuine.
And YouTube? Oh, well, they deleted my channel and blocked me (my private channel, with hidden links for clients) because I was teaching about the liberation of vital (sexual) energy. So yeah… what can I say?
But honestly, maybe all of this is just part of the realignment. You didn’t land in Japan by accident - you came to activate telepathy, the highest form of communication. And isn’t that exactly what’s happening? When the noise of these platforms fades, what’s left? Pure signal. Expansion into new spaces, new frequencies, new ways of connecting. That’s where the real power is.
Wow,I can already tell I’m going to really enjoy learning about your work and getting to know you through it. Such resonance there!
On my end, I also never got into Instagram. Originally—if we ignore MySpace—-it was kind of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube—-I don’t remember when Instagram came around—-but I always liked Facebook because I’m a wordy fellow who likes reading the words of others, as well, and Twitter had that very narrow character count (was it 144? Or is that what it is now?), while Instagram always felt like it was aimed at the more visually-expressive.
I LOVE taking pictures and will share photos, especially of nature or just odd things here in Japan that friends outside of Japan enjoy seeing (I have a whole collection of Japanese toilet pics—-they ARE amazing! LOL). But I can’t draw worth a damn and I don’t think visual (any time I’ve done visualization exercises I find it very challenging, though my dreams are quite vivid … hmm, interesting.)
But yeah, not only political science but my other major—and actual professional background, the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” answer I gave as a teenager—-was in print journalism, so I’ve long been fascinated by the intersection between media and our world and have always been a VERY staunch First Amendment supporter (maybe even a First Amendment Absolutist).
So I can remember in 2016 when things began to change. It was the election that, I believe, mostly motivated the change but also the increasing technological power for oversight, combined with a growing smug elite who REALLY do think they know better than the rest of us and thus don’t have any concern giving themselves the power to control media, all in the name of our own good, of course!
In addition, I’ve got some pretty close online friends who have worked in, or even run, some pretty large alternative media institutions, and over the years, they’ve talked to me about how their platforms began to really feel the crunch in 2016-7.
On my end, the only YouTubing I ever really did was take home videos of my kids when they were small. I remember enjoying learning how to make videos and could see myself doing that again, but really, my main artistic loves are writing/speaking and reading/listening, so I ended up writing blogs in 2012 and, after years of being a self-described “podcast addict,” I eventually started my first one in 2020 and haven’t really stopped since. Thus, while I may eventually do videos once I get my astrology/Tarot practice going more fully, for now, I’m writing and podcasting!
And last, on a more esoteric note, indeed—-I was guided over to Japan by what I call my Higher Power but goes by other names as well (though never Vern! LOL—-what a goofball!). And it was really during COVID-19 when I realized FULLY that I was meant to be here. That was when the Japanese government surprised the heck out of me by being one of the least authoritarian of the major countries and, in addition, in 2021, being the only major one I know of that specifically forbade, via the Health Ministry and by law, corporations or government businesses from discriminating based on vaccine status.
I am a live-and-let-live type (always been a liberal with a focus on libertarian, mostly because I don’t see that governments have given us great cause to trust them more than I trust individuals to run our lives). I was fine with whatever decision people made regarding the CV19 treatments. I trusted each person to come to those conclusions. So I was VERY outspoken against things like vaccine passports, mandates and, basically, segregation, based on whether one followed the government-sponsored treatment (despite the mRNA “vaccines” being a brand-new technology that was, by their nature, the riskiest of the treatment options!).
Thus, I’m VERY grateful for the fact that not only the Japanese government but the people were very live-and-let live and I never had to deal with all of those crazy confrontations people were having in the States for “having the gall” to not wear a mask outside or such.
All in all, besides the ridiculously hot, humid and long summers here, I love Japan and am glad I ended up here!
(All right that was a long-ass reply; I’ll leave it up to you how much time you have for a response—-I get carried away sometimes!)
This really resonates. Social media is a tool - neither good nor bad on its own - but how we wield it makes all the difference. Your story about hearing that inner voice in 1998 is spot on, and I feel like that choice: love or hate, is one we keep facing, again and again, especially now.
And oh yes, spring 2025 is going to be a boom. Pluto in Aquarius, Uranus in Gemini... everything is shifting, especially how we communicate and connect. Social media already played a massive role in dismantling the Covid narrative, proving that these platforms, despite their flaws, can be used for truth and empowerment.
Personally, I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook and Instagram - their fake, polished energy feels unbearable to me, but I also know that energy can be flipped into real power. We’ll see how it all plays out, but one thing is certain: consciousness is shifting, and the way we use technology will be a major part of it.
Thanks for this post, really got me thinking!
Thanks for reading and replying! (And I know I already replied via DM but realized I forgot to address the Facebook and Instagram comment).
Yes, I totally hear that, though as an expat in Japan since 2004, from about 2008/9 to 2020, Facebook was a lifesaver for me, as it gave me a place to communicate via writing (and reading) in my native langauge, as well as re-establishing connection with old friends and making TONS of new ones from all over the world.
As someone with my Capricorn stellium (Mercury, Sun, Moon, Jupiter) in the 7th House (Whole House system), I am here to relate to people and the hardest thing about my early years in Japan was, due to my basic illiteracy, having those opportunities limited.
However, around 2017 or so, I could tell not only Facebook but Google/YouTube, Twitter, etc., were starting to interfere with our ability to communicate openly with each other and by the end of 2020, I basically gave up my daily Facebook usage.
These days, I go over there 3-4 times per week, don't post too much and rarely spend too much time there.
As for Instagram, those bastards suspended my account without cause back in the fall and even when I tried to clear it up, they opened it back and then suspended it again---all of this was despite me not even posting or using it!! Thus, I just decided that this was a sign to get rid of it altogether---I have more than enough social media sites to keep me busy!
Ohhh, I feel this. Some spaces just stop resonating, and when they do, they practically push us out. Facebook was a lifeline when you needed it, but you felt when it started shifting into something else. That awareness is everything.
I felt it too - around 2017, something just changed. Up until then, I actually loved Facebook, and to be fair, it brought me so many amazing connections. But then… the energy shifted. It started feeling empty, cold, like something vital had been drained from it. And Instagram? Never liked it. I had it, I used it - out of that Capricorn business responsibility - but never with heart, and you can always feel when something isn’t genuine.
And YouTube? Oh, well, they deleted my channel and blocked me (my private channel, with hidden links for clients) because I was teaching about the liberation of vital (sexual) energy. So yeah… what can I say?
But honestly, maybe all of this is just part of the realignment. You didn’t land in Japan by accident - you came to activate telepathy, the highest form of communication. And isn’t that exactly what’s happening? When the noise of these platforms fades, what’s left? Pure signal. Expansion into new spaces, new frequencies, new ways of connecting. That’s where the real power is.
Wow,I can already tell I’m going to really enjoy learning about your work and getting to know you through it. Such resonance there!
On my end, I also never got into Instagram. Originally—if we ignore MySpace—-it was kind of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube—-I don’t remember when Instagram came around—-but I always liked Facebook because I’m a wordy fellow who likes reading the words of others, as well, and Twitter had that very narrow character count (was it 144? Or is that what it is now?), while Instagram always felt like it was aimed at the more visually-expressive.
I LOVE taking pictures and will share photos, especially of nature or just odd things here in Japan that friends outside of Japan enjoy seeing (I have a whole collection of Japanese toilet pics—-they ARE amazing! LOL). But I can’t draw worth a damn and I don’t think visual (any time I’ve done visualization exercises I find it very challenging, though my dreams are quite vivid … hmm, interesting.)
But yeah, not only political science but my other major—and actual professional background, the “What do you want to be when you grow up?” answer I gave as a teenager—-was in print journalism, so I’ve long been fascinated by the intersection between media and our world and have always been a VERY staunch First Amendment supporter (maybe even a First Amendment Absolutist).
So I can remember in 2016 when things began to change. It was the election that, I believe, mostly motivated the change but also the increasing technological power for oversight, combined with a growing smug elite who REALLY do think they know better than the rest of us and thus don’t have any concern giving themselves the power to control media, all in the name of our own good, of course!
In addition, I’ve got some pretty close online friends who have worked in, or even run, some pretty large alternative media institutions, and over the years, they’ve talked to me about how their platforms began to really feel the crunch in 2016-7.
On my end, the only YouTubing I ever really did was take home videos of my kids when they were small. I remember enjoying learning how to make videos and could see myself doing that again, but really, my main artistic loves are writing/speaking and reading/listening, so I ended up writing blogs in 2012 and, after years of being a self-described “podcast addict,” I eventually started my first one in 2020 and haven’t really stopped since. Thus, while I may eventually do videos once I get my astrology/Tarot practice going more fully, for now, I’m writing and podcasting!
And last, on a more esoteric note, indeed—-I was guided over to Japan by what I call my Higher Power but goes by other names as well (though never Vern! LOL—-what a goofball!). And it was really during COVID-19 when I realized FULLY that I was meant to be here. That was when the Japanese government surprised the heck out of me by being one of the least authoritarian of the major countries and, in addition, in 2021, being the only major one I know of that specifically forbade, via the Health Ministry and by law, corporations or government businesses from discriminating based on vaccine status.
I am a live-and-let-live type (always been a liberal with a focus on libertarian, mostly because I don’t see that governments have given us great cause to trust them more than I trust individuals to run our lives). I was fine with whatever decision people made regarding the CV19 treatments. I trusted each person to come to those conclusions. So I was VERY outspoken against things like vaccine passports, mandates and, basically, segregation, based on whether one followed the government-sponsored treatment (despite the mRNA “vaccines” being a brand-new technology that was, by their nature, the riskiest of the treatment options!).
Thus, I’m VERY grateful for the fact that not only the Japanese government but the people were very live-and-let live and I never had to deal with all of those crazy confrontations people were having in the States for “having the gall” to not wear a mask outside or such.
All in all, besides the ridiculously hot, humid and long summers here, I love Japan and am glad I ended up here!
(All right that was a long-ass reply; I’ll leave it up to you how much time you have for a response—-I get carried away sometimes!)