In the days before digital, some had the experience of hearing a new word or being exposed to a new concept or new object and then seeing that word, concept, or object frequently soon after. The common question that arose was: did the exposure create the awareness of something that had been screened out or ignored or was it spiritual or psychological synchronicity where something new was being brought to our consciousness?

Here’s what AI tells me:

• Synchronicity is a concept in psychology.
• It’s a way of describing events that happen at the same time and appear to be related, but there’s no obvious reason why they happened together.
• Jung believed that synchronicity was a healthy part of the mind, but it could become harmful in psychosis.
• The word synchronicity comes from the Greek words syn, meaning “together”, and khronos, meaning “time”.

Today the devices we carry are portals that allow us to see out into the digital world but also allow the digital world see in. Those looking in do want to see all that we do and mirror something back to us in the hopes of a purchase, a vote, or a behavior change.

If today if one is exposed to a new word, concept, or object, chances are that digital will pick up the signal and magnify it back to us. In this way, if there is synchronicity, it will be drowned within the calculated and targeted information landslide that awaits our clicks.

Synchronicity is interrupted.

Neptune in Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces

Digital “happened” during Neptune’s 15-year transits of Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces. In Capricorn, tech became crystallized as an industry and made money and had stocks. It was a REAL thing.

In Aquarius, the leap was greater with idealization of all technology for its own sake, for the pleasure of creating it and using it. I’m innovative and intelligent if I use it.

In Pisces, Neptune is transiting the sign it rules. In Pisces, digital became a public utility and mass emotional trigger. It also became a mask worn by many players “out there” in the cloud. The “cloud” is a Neptune/Pisces concept. It’s there but it will change form at any moment.

Neptune Hall of Mirrors

Neptune is the planet of mystery, of dissolution, of spirituality, of otherworldliness. Neptune is our connection to all that is. Sounds so nice to some – but really who wants to be a speck of dust in a vast universe? The human ego isn’t designed to seek this type of experience, yet . . .

Neptune is magic, Neptune is music, Neptune is when we forget ourselves. These experiences are “heightened” and when experienced create longing which sometimes leads to substances that create the effect. Meditation can get us there but that takes a long time, a sustained standoff with the ego, waiting for it to get so bored that it finally steps aside.

Here’s what AI tells me:

• A house of mirrors is a metaphor for what’s real and what’s not, or for how our perceptions can be distorted. It can also represent how we react to what we see in life.
• A house of mirrors can represent how our perceptions can be distorted, such as when we see ourselves as a different shape or size in a mirror.
• A house of mirrors can represent how we react to life, such as when we believe scary reflections to be real.

Digital life has taught us (if we want to learn) much about how perception can be manipulated. The negative effects can open our awareness to a wider understanding of how perception is manipulated with or without digital involvement. Digital didn’t create it; digital merely made the process easier to target both masses and individuals.

Take Facebook – it didn’t create worry about what others think of us – it merely gave a platform for enhancing that habit. It’s even called “Face” book indicating appearances and social reputation. It’s not hiding its nature.

How much are we altering our behavior due to Facebook? How often do we appease others? How often do we avoid/lie/dissimulate compared to pre-Facebook times?

There was a time (I lived it) where you could simply not answer the phone.

Those days are long gone.

Neptune in Aries

As Neptune leaves Pisces this year, it will move into Aries, a fire sign and first sign of the zodiac associated with spring, beginnings and self-assertion.

How will digital continue to evolve in the next 15 years?

If Capricorn made it reputable and Aquarius made it fashionable and Pisces made it inscrutable, then Aries may make it assertive. We’re already half-way there to handing our sovereignty over to digital.

If digital appears to do everything we want and meet our every need in the next 15 years, consider whether this is synchronicity or actually digital telling us what to do. Like our house pets, we think we train them but under detailed examination we may find they train us.

And if after reading this blog we see astrology feeds in the panels of our social media sites, it’s not synchronicity. Astrology, though, can help us with the reflections we see in the mirrors that surround us.