Daily Horoscope for Cancer

Horoscope Cast for Saturday, December 11th, 2010

by daniel "bud" dowd

Daily Horoscope for Cancer Summary

Technology is pretty incredible. The world changes more and more rapidly with every passing day, driven by technology. I was reading over a Dutch law document the other day, and having possession of a cell phone is essentially now considered a right. Old fogies of 29 like myself remember when there were no cell phones, and now avoiding the deprivation of their usage (for calls, not the other stuff) is factored into legislation.

I bring this up because of the whole WikiLeaks thing and the response to it by hackers (both those who have tried to disrupt its website, and those who have responded by attacking websites that have tried to harm WikiLeaks). I'm thinking to myself, wow, this is kind of pre-cursor to a new type of war – CyberWar. Sure, crap like this has gone on for years on a more minimal scale, but the media is more apt in this day and age to report on such things, and the scale of what's going on takes it to another level.

It makes me think though about the evolution of interaction of people, both cybernetically and in the real world. Way back in the day, wars were fought with troops and soldiers on common ground battlefields, and hell, the further back you go, the commanders actually used to be on the battlefield too, instead of comfy office buildings. Nowadays though, the civilized world increasingly sees war as inappropriate and not worth the loss of life or the expenditure involved. Back in the day, an invading country might try to take your land and subject you to slavery or some other undesirable fate. Nowadays, invasion potential is limited to the countries that don't have nukes. Back in the day, it was easy to point out an enemy and say "They're evil, they're savages!" because most people had no experience with them. Nowadays, you can find youtube video of people in other countries and see that in many ways, they're just like us.

So while people increasingly won't accept killing each other (which is good), that doesn't absolve that instinctive desire to mess with them if they piss you off. Enter Cyber-War. Much of it is done anonymously, so there's no identification with who's doing it (could be your next door neighbor for all you know). Instead of inflicting death, it's more of an infliction of hardship, a way of swinging the scales of balance. It's about ideals rather than our usual ways of labeling ourselves through nationality or whatever. National divides probably aren't going away any time soon, but the technological revolution could allow the manifestation of smaller groups to war amongst themselves as well.

Anyways, keep this all in mind as the chart is all about "shifts in power" and this could prove to be a very important time in how larger-scale disagreements are handled moving into the future. Best of luck.

Bud

The Daily Horoscope for Cancer

If you stay at something long enough, eventually you'll end up making progress at it. The solutions you come up with will probably require more physical effort than mental processing, so if you're struggling at all, see if you can't apply a hands-on approach to the problem. The reason for this is that your ability to visualize things mentally is going to be a lot more limited than you are used to. If you can tangibly see how things work together though, you'll find the brain synapses will start firing again.

...Show some Love...

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Today's Astrology Quote of the Day:
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars...
But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle...
~ E.M. Forster

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Daily Tao

The Tao is the wonder of all things
The treasure of the kind person
The protection of the unkind person

Admirable words can win the public's respect
Admirable actions can improve people
Those who are unkind
How can they be abandoned?

Therefore, when crowning the Emperor
And installing the three ministers
Although there is the offering of jade before four horses
None of it can compare to being seated in this Tao

Why did the ancients value this Tao so much?
Is it not said that those who seek will find,
And those with guilt will not be faulted?
Therefore, it is the greatest value in the world

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