This is very interesting. I love astrology and I tried to learn it for years now, as a hobby but also I am a single mum and can’t afford an astrologer to guide me. I try to feed my curiosity with astrology books, articles, podcasts. I found your writing as a breath of fresh air, a gift from the astrology Gods and I can’t simply have enough.
I have been single for over 7 years and I had a couple of reads that according to whom I was meeting my soul mate very soon - 7 years later and I am starting to think that there is no one out there for me . Would I want a free AI software to put me out of my misery and tell me if I am doomed to be forever alone or if I will meet a soulmate? Yes! Would it be fair on all Astrologers world wide? I am not sure and I understand your dilemma.
I am all for rewarding the hard work - even if I will not be able to afford it. And I currently helping astrology in any way? No... because no matter how much an astrologer masters he will never be able to compete with an AI - even if you dedicate your every awake time to astrology only our knowledge as humans will always be limited. The more you learns the more you realise how little you know. Have I meet an astrologer that offered me exact predictions? No... do I think they exist? Yes... will I ever afford them? No...
While I will never become an astrologer your words have always touched a part of me in a way that no other astrologers words have. Maybe it’s my sensitive mercury in a cancer to blame! But I am following you in all the platforms I can as your words and teachings are food for my soul and mind. I don’t want you to ever stop and no AI will ever replace you.
At the same time I am thinking of my job that like any other job could potentially be taken by an AI. We are humans we are irreplaceable but as workers we were always shown that we are just a number.
I won’t be able to afford £100 per month but if you are willing to do a question for £150 then I am sure nothing would stop me.
While we may delay we cannot stop AI and if you won’t do it ( for whatever reason) someone else might and they may not care about anyone else except their own pockets! But what you write it sounds as if you care, I would much rather have you behind this AI and your friends at least I know good intentions and considerate thoughts have gone into it.
Thank you for all your content, some days you are a lit match in my dark world . You help me see hope in the future and fill my heart with warmth ( literally) .
I know it’s not an easy task and I wish you all the wisdom you need to make the decision you consider right for you as I am sure this will be also good for us.
I sense the timing of this post as well as something probably not intentional but cool nonetheless, that AI looks like April 1st, so maybe the joke is on us!
Wow. The first thought that came up was that it would only feel as useful to me as that big red astrology book on Relationships. I consult that book whenever I meet someone new, but it's only sun signs and feels only half true, almost as if it's a book of red and yellow flags, not any green. I consult it but it doesn't feel wholly true. And what about the importance of fucking up in the process of learning?
I do still believe that Free Will matters most. We can choose even NOT to learn the lessons of this lifetime and sign up for another go at it. As if our soul can "drop an anchor" in the material world for many lifetimes before moving up in consciousness. The point of all of incarnating seems to be GROWTH THROUGH FEELING. AI can simulate that, but not be it.
Just as Iain McGilchrist points out, the function of one side of our brain is to INHIBIT, block out information that allows the other side to focus and complete things. Knowing too much might not be in our best interest, it might be boring or might just become part of the sea of information that we get lost in. It could make astrology predictive instead of poetic because we would follow THAT plan. My favorite thing about astrology is that it's not only practical and allows me to understand how energies combine to influence my life, but it's poetic, mythic and liminal too.
Part of me may have a bias against AI, in favor of lived experience, which includes all the mistakes and missed opportunities that could come from using our Free Will. But perhaps I'm being judgemental. Not the first time.
Either way, if you could go back in time, what would you want from Steve Jobs? You are the creators of this thing, you didn't invent anything, but combined it in a new form. I'm not sure it could / would replace you. It seems fun and fascinating, but I think I still would prefer to have human guides who can draw on their own lived experience, different trainings and modalities and actual lived experience.
But it is surely exciting and interesting! Congrats, no matter what you do with it!
AI will never be able to replicate your beautiful, nuanced way of speaking and writing about astrological weather-- the way you weave in mythology, music, poetry, literature and Jungian constructs in explicating the synchronicity of cosmos and psyche. AI is yet to comprehend or create the numinous turn of phrase --which was the primary reason why I subscribed to just about everything you write or speak.
Joke aside, please Don’t scare me by saying you’re stepping out and letting technology step in. That would be the screaming alarm reporting out the end of soul...in my opinion.
This is very interesting. I love astrology and I tried to learn it for years now, as a hobby but also I am a single mum and can’t afford an astrologer to guide me. I try to feed my curiosity with astrology books, articles, podcasts. I found your writing as a breath of fresh air, a gift from the astrology Gods and I can’t simply have enough.
I have been single for over 7 years and I had a couple of reads that according to whom I was meeting my soul mate very soon - 7 years later and I am starting to think that there is no one out there for me . Would I want a free AI software to put me out of my misery and tell me if I am doomed to be forever alone or if I will meet a soulmate? Yes! Would it be fair on all Astrologers world wide? I am not sure and I understand your dilemma.
I am all for rewarding the hard work - even if I will not be able to afford it. And I currently helping astrology in any way? No... because no matter how much an astrologer masters he will never be able to compete with an AI - even if you dedicate your every awake time to astrology only our knowledge as humans will always be limited. The more you learns the more you realise how little you know. Have I meet an astrologer that offered me exact predictions? No... do I think they exist? Yes... will I ever afford them? No...
While I will never become an astrologer your words have always touched a part of me in a way that no other astrologers words have. Maybe it’s my sensitive mercury in a cancer to blame! But I am following you in all the platforms I can as your words and teachings are food for my soul and mind. I don’t want you to ever stop and no AI will ever replace you.
At the same time I am thinking of my job that like any other job could potentially be taken by an AI. We are humans we are irreplaceable but as workers we were always shown that we are just a number.
I won’t be able to afford £100 per month but if you are willing to do a question for £150 then I am sure nothing would stop me.
While we may delay we cannot stop AI and if you won’t do it ( for whatever reason) someone else might and they may not care about anyone else except their own pockets! But what you write it sounds as if you care, I would much rather have you behind this AI and your friends at least I know good intentions and considerate thoughts have gone into it.
Thank you for all your content, some days you are a lit match in my dark world . You help me see hope in the future and fill my heart with warmth ( literally) .
I know it’s not an easy task and I wish you all the wisdom you need to make the decision you consider right for you as I am sure this will be also good for us.
Eudaimonia
Your commitment to April fool’s deserves a 🏆 ! Loved this.
I almost emailed you yesterday to ask what you had up your sleeve for today! I fell so hard for it a couple years ago - I’ll never forget!
I sense the timing of this post as well as something probably not intentional but cool nonetheless, that AI looks like April 1st, so maybe the joke is on us!
It was cool to ponder how I really felt about AI astrology there for a minute. I realised I couldn’t care less. Thanks!
Happy April Fool’s..?!? I hope..! 😅🤣🤞🏼✨
Wow. The first thought that came up was that it would only feel as useful to me as that big red astrology book on Relationships. I consult that book whenever I meet someone new, but it's only sun signs and feels only half true, almost as if it's a book of red and yellow flags, not any green. I consult it but it doesn't feel wholly true. And what about the importance of fucking up in the process of learning?
I do still believe that Free Will matters most. We can choose even NOT to learn the lessons of this lifetime and sign up for another go at it. As if our soul can "drop an anchor" in the material world for many lifetimes before moving up in consciousness. The point of all of incarnating seems to be GROWTH THROUGH FEELING. AI can simulate that, but not be it.
Just as Iain McGilchrist points out, the function of one side of our brain is to INHIBIT, block out information that allows the other side to focus and complete things. Knowing too much might not be in our best interest, it might be boring or might just become part of the sea of information that we get lost in. It could make astrology predictive instead of poetic because we would follow THAT plan. My favorite thing about astrology is that it's not only practical and allows me to understand how energies combine to influence my life, but it's poetic, mythic and liminal too.
Part of me may have a bias against AI, in favor of lived experience, which includes all the mistakes and missed opportunities that could come from using our Free Will. But perhaps I'm being judgemental. Not the first time.
Either way, if you could go back in time, what would you want from Steve Jobs? You are the creators of this thing, you didn't invent anything, but combined it in a new form. I'm not sure it could / would replace you. It seems fun and fascinating, but I think I still would prefer to have human guides who can draw on their own lived experience, different trainings and modalities and actual lived experience.
But it is surely exciting and interesting! Congrats, no matter what you do with it!
AI will never be able to replicate your beautiful, nuanced way of speaking and writing about astrological weather-- the way you weave in mythology, music, poetry, literature and Jungian constructs in explicating the synchronicity of cosmos and psyche. AI is yet to comprehend or create the numinous turn of phrase --which was the primary reason why I subscribed to just about everything you write or speak.
Joke aside, please Don’t scare me by saying you’re stepping out and letting technology step in. That would be the screaming alarm reporting out the end of soul...in my opinion.
Ha! Excellent 😉
Happy April fools day to you too.