Facebook - or Meta now that it's in the witness protection program - is making record after dismal record this morning after its catastrophic earnings and guidance last night: not only is the company's 22% drop the biggest in its history...but according to Bloomberg, the one-day crash ranks as the worst in stock-market history: the Facebook crash has erased some $195 billion of its market cap. Feb.3 https://bit.ly/3GpJFgo
Facebook was founded on 4th Feb. 2004 with the Sun [15aq] conjunct Neptune [13aq] in the zodiacal sign Aquarius - the sign of social networking and friendships.
So what makes Facebook such a popular and successful social networking site. It has even gotten to a point where people could get addicted to Facebook, an unofficial condition known as Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD). Perhaps looking at that Photoshopped version of ourselves — our favorite flattering photos reinforces the version of ourselves who we want to be and boosts our vanity. Some research has suggested a link between heavy Facebook use and narcissism.
The noon horoscope for Facebook is presented here. The Sun [15aq] is conjunct Neptune [13aq]. Neptune represents our need for transcendence and the desire to escape limitations through surrender to a vision or ideal. When expressed positively, it is associated with the creative expression of imagination, dreams and fantasy but when negative it can show up as a desire to escape from reality.
Currently transit Saturn is conjunct radix Sun-Neptune in Facebook’s horoscope. Metaphorically, interactions between Saturn and Neptune can express on the high end as “sobering up.” Saturn brings the energies of discipline and judgment to balance Neptune’s imaginary and escapist leanings. We may find ourselves in tense moments in which our escapism is brought to our awareness in the harsh light of day. If so, our challenge is to accept this new insight, and take responsibility for the actions that brought us to this place, and start taking steps to change our behavior.
The New Moon of Feb.1 at Cambridge, Ma the birthplace of Facebook, is presented here. Notice that the Sun-Moon-Saturn-Uranus square straddles the horizon axis and is therefore significantly placed.
What is not shown in the chart is the asteroid Cupido-A [18le] opposite the New Moon and completing a Grand Cross with the Ascendant- Sun-Moon-Saturn-Uranus.
CUPIDO-A: Vanity; concern about appearances (inc. the idea of keeping up appearances and doing things for the sake of appearances;) art and beauty interests; relationship concerns; attraction; the face or complexion; the look of something.
Can it be a coincidence that asteroid Cupido-A (about "face" and appearances) and therefore by association about Facebook and the superficial concerns that it promotes is prominently placed in the New Moon chart. Saturn’s transit over Facebook’s Sun-Neptune is pushing the social networking platform to see through the illusion it promotes to reveal what is real. Perhaps the dismal performance of its stocks is Saturn’s push to become real!
Going further, we look at the map for the Solar Eclipse of Dec.4, 2021 drawn for Cambridge, Ma. Notice the significant placement of Venus-Pluto on the IC. This was just before Venus stationed after which it went through the retrograde cycle and turned direct on Jan. 29. Since Venus rules money and the retrograde cycle and Pluto are both about revaluation, might the conjunction on the IC be suggesting a need to correctly judge the money value of stocks for example?
Eclipses are activated when progressions bring the angles to the eclipse degree. On Jan 3, the progressed Ascendant is conjunct the eclipse position within just 3 degrees, thereby triggering it into activation. In a previous post on the eclipse, I wrote:
The Sun and Moon are in a wide square to Neptune at the time of the eclipse, which could force us to face up to areas of our lives where we might be deceiving ourselves, exposing a blind spot or area of our life in which we have been deluded.
The activation of the eclipse is exposing the illusions that Facebook was living with. Keywords for the Sabian symbol of the eclipse are “retribution, karma of past actions” appear to confirm that.
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