Today’s world puts social media, technology, entrepreneurship, and identity at the forefront of daily human experience, things all virtually attainable with the help of the Internet. Traditional ways of living across all cultural and industrial fields are being traded in for newer models and methodologies and culture continues to creep away from the past, into an unknown future, one gripped with anxiety and dreams of automation. Consequently, we live in an age of deteriorating relationship to physical space and tactile experience. In these times it is perhaps essential that the astrologer and astrology enthusiast take a closer look at the earthy 2nd house and what it can teach us about our most direct link to existence: the body.

I find it beautiful that technology + culture have come together to disseminate the art of astrology, but we must not ignore the depth + richness that gets lost in translation. Memes are, first and foremost, meant to evoke humor, humanity, and connectedness, but their superficial nature can be misleading for those who are unfamiliar with the technical side of things. For this reason, I’ve written this post to help explain some of the astrological terminology that lies just beyond the meme.