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If a safe space no longer feels sacred, how do we create that feeling in our daily lives? How do we transfer digital relationships into real-life, resonant interactions? Some sleepy & half-baked musings about Saturn in Aquarius.
We know to expect further tightening restrictions on the internet, hopefully resulting in stronger communities outside of screens. As companies reveal and have been exposed for the ways they manipulate data, opinions on social media widen with new perspective.
The digital realm has always been a tool, but it can be utilized more fully to achieve connections. The companies who own the platforms already have the ability to distribute users’ information. How do we maintain or regain autonomy over our sphere of ideas?
Take a more intentional approach to social media, marketing, and all internet use as digital companies create stricter conditions to increase their profit. They realize that the people have more power than the internet, as we are the machine running it, and that’s a threat.
The world wide web has been a primary place that people have met to conceptualize & debate since its invention, and I don’t doubt it will continue to have that round table like power, but the shift is towards creating that same sense of camaraderie in our physical communities.
When we foster relationships and communities that lead with empathy, more people are both taken care of and truly heard. Giving a fuck about your neighbor should be the norm. The cozy place we’ve idealized online can and should exist in our day-to-day lives, too.
This thread/these feelings are strange to type/feel during a global pandemic that prevents us from experiencing intimacy in groups, but that feels like even more fuel on the burning desire to be close to people once we’re finally able.
And not just any people, but people who value you for more than your digital engagement, who distinguish your worth as a human more than a statistic, who are willing to stand with their toes in the earth and thank the skies that their wildness can’t be contained by a device.
Collective care is coming back in style. Rugged individualism will not benefit you when the hand you failed to extend to others is desperately seeking support in your darkest days.
I’ll end these thoughts with this quote from H. L. Cornell:
“Saturn, in himself, —
I’ll end these thoughts with this quote from H. L. Cornell:
“Saturn, in himself, —
— is not evil, but is chastening, corrective, and untiring in his efforts to arouse Humanity to better and right living, and by bringing sorrow, suffering, sickness, trials, and tribulations upon people that they may learn by their experiences, and reap what they sow.”
