Table of Contents

1. The Love Forecasts for the Month
2. Love Quotes of the month
3. What's new on our web site?

Our occasional features

1. Midpoints In Love Part 2

Love Forecasts for October 2011

Love Quotes of the Month

What's New on Our Web Site?

• we replaced all our horoscope wheels in a new style and format (on all our celebrity and online dating services pages). On some other pages, you may notice that there still are wheels in the old style (with a white background) but that will change soon too as we plan to rewrite and rebuild these pages completely.
  
  
• we changed the look and feel of the right navigation bar and matched the colors in a more pleasing way. We will also change our left navigation bar in the near future.
  
  
• we finished rewriting all pages that we redirected to from other pages that used html anchors. Visitors using Apple computers and devices (like the iPad) may hopefully benefit from this as the Apple browser (Safari), computers (Mac) and devices are the most incompatible with html anchors.
  
  We cannot however, change all pages on which we use anchors as this would mean rewriting and rebuilding our whole site from scratch. Also, using html anchors is still the most convenient way to jump to paragraphs, text blocks or tables on a page.
  
  
• we overhauled the footer on every page which is now CSS driven. In the near future we will likely experiment with further settings to find the best look & feel after we changed the look & feel of the left navigation bar.
  
  
• we also updated our Lunar Cycle Fertility page and added clear instructions on how to order your free Moon phase Fertility Calendar through the Web site of Astrodienst in Switzerland.
  
  
• Cosmic Technologies is now on Diaspora*, often called the "Anti-Facebook" social network, because of the buzz it currently creates in the internet world AND, more importantly, because they are onto something big that may revolutionize the way social media currently work.
  
  Diaspora emerged in 2010 as a response to the privacy concerns and commercial profits raised by mainstream social networking services like Facebook (and Google+). We, at Cosmic Technologies, have been silently following them already a full year.
  
  Unlike Facebook and Google+, Diaspora is the social network that puts YOU in control of your information. You decide what you’d like to share, and with whom. Unlike Facebook and Google+, you retain full ownership of ALL your information, including friend lists, messages, photos, and profile details.
  
  Unlike Facebook and Google+, the Diaspora Team also claim to never ever use advertising. They are funded by donations and have initially raised more than 200,000 USD for their project (they only needed 10,000 USD to start!).
  
  The founders/programmers of Diaspora (some computer science students from New York, USA) do an altruistic effort to make communication over the Internet better and less commercial. The intent of Diaspora is to decentralize your online social network, remove commercialism and help you regain control over your data. They also want to revolutionize social media...
  
  Diaspora is not a single site — it’s a collection of different sites worldwide, with different URLs, run by different people. But they all run the same (open source!) software, and they all talk to each other. Each server is called a "pod." As the service grows, lots of these pods will join the Diaspora network.
  
  Diaspora hopes to reinvent social media and is proud in claiming that Google+ imitated their "Aspects", which Google named "Circles." Actually, Diaspora looks like an imitation of Google+, or is it the other way round ;-) ??
  
  Quoting the Diaspora guys:
  "Diaspora aims to be a distributed network, where totally separate computers connect to each other directly, and will let you connect without surrendering your privacy. We call these computers 'seeds'. A seed is owned by you, hosted by you, or on a rented server. Once it has been set up, the seed will aggregate all of your information: your facebook profile, tweets, anything. We are designing an easily extendable plugin framework for Diaspora, so that whenever newfangled content gets invented, it will be automagically integrated into every seed.
  
  Now that you have your information in your seed, it will connect to every service you used to have for you. For example, your seed will keep pulling tweets and you will still be able to see your Facebook newsfeed. In fact, Diaspora will make those services better! Upload an image to Flickr and your seed can automatically generate a tweet from the caption and link. Social networking will just get better when you have control over your data.
  
  A seed will not just be all your existing networks put together, though. Decentralizing lets us reconstruct our "social graphs" so that they belong to us. Our real social lives do not have central managers, and our virtual lives do not need them. Friend another seed and the two of you can synchronize over a direct and secure connection instead of through a superfluous hub. Encryption (privacy nerds: we’re using GPG) will ensure that no matter what kind of content is being transferred, you can share privately. Eventually, today’s hubs could be almost entirely replaced by a decentralized network of truly personal websites."
  
  In other words, they don't want to compete against Facebook or Google+ or Twitter... They will blend them together in a private environment that you can use to send data to social media like Facebook, etc.
  
  If you want to join Diaspora*, know that they are still in Alpha and should be in Beta around November 2011 (a year after their initial launch).
  
  While you read this, it might still be possible that you can join on invitation only on their main web site , for traffic purposes, as long as they are in Alpha. Anyway, you will be able to enter your e-mail there to receive an invitation asap (as soon as they are in Beta).
  
  When you join through this main web site or through any of the other pods (see below), you will find us by searching for Cosmic Technologies in the Search box (similar to Facebook and Google+).
  
  Almost all the actual pods worldwide are already connected and updated within 1 hour so that every new user of Diaspora is findable within an hour on every other pod.
  
  This means that you can join any pod worldwide and search for a name and communicate with each other regardless of the pod you use.
  
  You will not even notice that a user is on another pod!
  
  This decentralised way of building a network currently works flawlessly.
  
  Some other "pods" to join Diaspora (unlike the main web site joindiaspora.com, you can already join any of the other pods WITHOUT any invitation) can be found in the 1st column of the list after the following link: http://podupti.me/.
  
  Make sure you opt for a pod with a very high uptime over the longest possible time frame and an 'up' live status.
  
  The current Alpha version has basic functionality and is working flawlessly. You already can:
  • share status messages and photos privately and in near real time with your friends through aspects (sharing a link of web site does not yet give a preview of the web site though);
  • friend people across the Internet no matter where the Diaspora seed is located;
  • manage friends using aspects; and
  • upload photos and albums.
    
  The Diaspora Roadmap has some interesting features for the future which include, among others:
  • data portability: This allows users to Oauth to a new seed, move their entire account to the new seed and then notify all of their contacts of the change. This way, users can move around seamlessly.
  • photo tagging.
  • refining aspects (adding people to multiple groups, having people only in the public group, etc.)
  • private messaging
  • events
  
  Google 'Diaspora social network' to learn more about the project and read testimonials and user feedback.
  
  Also, because of the buzz, we expect Facebook AND Google+ to adapt to where Diaspora is heading. We expect Google+ to become more open source too (which would be a really good thing).
  
  Anyway, Facebook and Google+ do need some competition to let them know social media is NOT about money and profits but about connecting people, freely and unconditionally (no strings attached)!
  
  
• following this, we already added a Diaspora share button on our home page for testing purposes (remember that they are still in Alpha, so it's all a little premature). Because Diaspora is an open source system, we expect other codes to be available in the near future with other buttons and features and we will choose a more appealing button when available.

Midpoints In Love Part 2

• we can delineate your natal chart and find out what the midpoints have to tell about your love life
• we can use midpoints in the chart comparison (synastry) between two partners

• your heart (SO) and soul (MO)
• how your physical body (SO) feels (MO)
• how you blend the male (SO) and female (MO) principle

• who you are, your self-consciousness, the principle of "I AM" (MC) related to your direct environment and the place where you are (AS)
  
  Please note that the Ascendant, when using midpoints, is not related to your physical body and/or personality! The Sun rules your physical body when using midpoints.
  
  Unlike the meaning of the Ascendant when using the houses, the Ascendant in a midpoint or planetary picture describes your immediate environment (i.e. the family, co-workers, everything you can encounter and that is around you, the place where you are and everything that is related to that place/environment). The Ascendant represents the living environment and also "the others" you can meet there (other people, a partner -- in a large sense --,...).
  
  This is VERY important to know. Lots of astrologers have it wrong when using midpoints because they mix up different methods and systems which often results in the wrong delineations.
  
  To be perfectly clear, the Sun in a midpoint is about the physical body, among others, and the AS (Ascendant) is about your immediate living environment and place.
  
  An Example from our own practice will make it very clear, though it's not always that stunning in all cases, but the example shows you loud and clear what we mean.
  
  A client, named Nathalie, once asked us a natal analysis (personality profile). In her natal chart we found the following midpoint (45° dial, orb 1°): AS/MC = the # 448 Asteroid Natalie. In other words, the Asteroid Natalie hit her Ascendant/Midheaven midpoint. This translates as follows: "I am towards my environment and towards 'the other(s)' (AS/MC) Nathalie (the # 448 Asteroid Natalie)."
  
  This stunning example clearly shows how the AS/MC midpoint works out, what it represents and how it has to be interpreted!

• the Sun/Moon midpoint (SO/MO)
• the midpoint between the Ascendant/Midheaven (AS/MC)
• the Venus/Mars midpoint (VE/MA)
• the Mars/Jupiter midpoint (MA/JU)
• all midpoints that involve Venus (for example: Sun/Venus (SO/VE); Venus/MC (VE/MC); etc...)