Midlife Transits

It’s become kind of routine for celebrities and even regular folks to fall victim to the prevalence of cell phone cameras and YouTube videos. Just about anything embarrassing can end up on the Internet somehow or another these days.

And it’s become more than routine for surveillance cameras to be installed all over the place: convenience stores, workplaces, Las Vegas hotels, traffic intersections, etc. In the UK, I’m told, they have a camera just about everywhere.

But we probably ain’t seen nothing yet. Cameras and photography  in general have undergone quite the change during Uranus in Pisces (the sign associated with photography). Polaroids and Kodachrome have basically bitten the dust. Photos have gone digital and they’re all over popular applications like Facebook.

But just wait til Neptune gets into Pisces. Neptune in the sign of photography will be in sextile with Pluto in the sign of government. That essentially means they’ll be in league with each other. Neptune has a tendency to universalize, and Pluto has a tendency to get excessive.

One way or another these two planets will probably work their way around to having the government (and big corporations, another thing Capricorn symbolizes) taking pictures of everyone all the time, just in case. Just in case you do something wrong, just in case they want to market to you, just in case. This will probably seem fine at first until it isn’t anymore. That’s how Pluto tends to work.

It takes Neptune a good 14 years to go through a  sign and Pluto even longer. So it isn’t like this will all happen overnight. It’ll creep up bit by bit, until it seems inevitable. That’s how Pluto likes to work.

In other words, so far, surveillance cameras have been all well and good. They’ve been darn helpful in solving crimes. They’ll undoubtedly continue to be so for a long time. Until mission creep gradually forces the disadvantages into the open. Because that’s what Pluto eventually does. He forces things into the open, reveals the disadvantages of long-term trends.

Of course, maybe there won’t be any disadvantages to Neptune in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn (scheduled to start in a couple of years)–as long as you’re smiling for the camera.

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