{"id":681,"date":"2007-03-29T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2007\/03\/thanks-astrococktail.html"},"modified":"2007-03-29T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T06:57:00","slug":"thanks-astrococktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2007\/03\/thanks-astrococktail.html","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Astrococktail!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been meaning to post this for some time, but the Townleys’ wonderful website Astrococktail has a great article about the Astroblogosphere<\/a> featuring yours truly and friends:<\/p>\n

Because this is the blogosphere, there\u2019s lots of overlapping or conflicting opinion, but it\u2019s the more informative because the stance is generally one of seeking and sharing rather than pontificating, so even if you don\u2019t agree with what\u2019s being said, either astrologically or politically, that\u2019s OK, it\u2019s part of the trip. And, of course, most have their own set of favorite links if you want to go someplace else for further elucidation or a second opinion. What really sets them apart from the more traditional astrological sites is that they\u2019re intellectually in motion, and excited about it, concerned with how it all fits in with history, science, global politics.<\/p>\n

Thanks to ever-evolving varieties of connectivity on the Web, these sites are also getting more play and more central places to be found. The large, general \u201cTop Ten Sources\u201d aggregator has two astrology top tens, one general edited by New England astrologer Susan Custer and an overlapping one for news, edited by Elsa herself! Elsa has found a technological way to tag onto seemingly all the latest astrological material in the blogosphere (and, to an extent, elsewhere \u2013 the occasional AstroCocktail article links are labeled \u201cMainstream Media\u201d!). That’s producing a veritible flood of opinion piece links, though the bugs aren\u2019t all out of it yet — it sometimes spews out too much off a single site, not all of it current. But all in all, it\u2019s an admirable attempt to get everybody out there into view, for all to see \u2013 \u201ca rising tide floats all boats,\u201d as she generously puts it, and there\u2019s a flotilla on parade out there now, so go take a look!<\/p>\n

All of this is first-hand evidence that astrology has lately left the sphere of the far-out and \u201centertainment-only\u201d fringe and become a part of mainstream discussion and, particularly, vocabulary. Only two years ago when we at AstroCocktail began our \u201creal-news\u201d page (meaning, links to real on-earth news stories on the subject, not general sky events), it was sometimes hard to find a good story. Now you just open the pages of the New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes magazine, or go to any of the major newswires, and astrology stories abound, some of them hilarious, some fascinatingly informative, some really quite scary. We never lack for news to point you to. Here are some of the major astro-blogs we\u2019ve had our eye on of late, but expect this partial list to be changing daily as more people from the world at large bring their thoughts and their commentary to this particular corner of the Web.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

John Townley is an internationally-respected astrologer and widely published author, and the Astrococktail site<\/a> is loaded with astrology articles and of course the wonderful news page<\/a> which is a great source of fascinating tidbits of information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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