Meta Threads A New Social Web, but the Question Isn’t Who Wins, Rather Who Loses…
Earlier this summer, Meta unleashed its latest social gambit, Threads, into a crowded app marketplace still reeling from the company’s past stumbles. Even now, details are still limited on how Threads intends to nurture human interaction. It remains shrouded in Scorpio-rising secrecy, yet ambition burns brightly in the app’s celestial alignment. With Mars and Venus propelling its 10th house of legacy, Threads emerges fueled by potent creative and transformative forces. It seeks to craft a new social fabric from the familiar threads of our digital existence. Meta describes Threads as ‘envisioned to be compatible with an open social networking protocol,’ holding the potential to usher in a ‘new era of diverse and interconnected networks.’”
Mars and Pluto, rulers of war and secrets in astrology, and also the rulers of both platforms, typically don’t align with concepts of peace and ‘connectivity.’ Threads, like a delicate thread itself, presents a fascinating paradox. Will it inspire innovation, or will unchecked power prevail? The celestial skies offer few clues at the moment. This platform could either foster further division or serve as a space for profound, reasoned discussions that drive change. With all the chatter about X (formally known as Twitter) and Meta, it’s time for a classic face-off between the two apps to answer the question on everyone’s mind: ‘Is Threads truly the Twitter Assassin?’ In the following discussion, I’ll share my perspective on the astrological credence of it all.
This is Threads, astrologically violated:
A Pre-Covid Era App Determined to Fulfill Its Mission
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Threads first surfaced within Meta’s secretive halls in August 2019, birthed as a companion to Instagram where users could share intimate details automatically with their closest friends. Shrouded in mystery, details dripped out slowly from Meta’s — excuse me — Facebook’s wizards. Yes. Interestingly, this all was brewing before the pandemic. Yet when Threads unexpectedly launched on July 5th, 2023, one day earlier than planned, it immediately met suspicion rather than fanfare. Critics entered the fray, railing against yet another app stitching humanity into a data web. Threads was met with skepticism as users recoiled from its collection of sensitive information including, *ahem*
Health information, Financial information, GPS location, Cameras and photos, IP address, Purchase history, Browsing history, Metadata about content, Hashtags used, Time, frequency, and duration of activities on Threads. Sensitive information such as pregnancy status, religion, and more.
Right now, it’s being given the moniker “a hacker’s dream,” but, like LovelyTi always says these same critics ‘cry tattoo tears’ because millions of people downloaded it anyway. Why? Because true privacy does not actually exist on the internet, silly rabbit. Threads is here to claim its digital birthright as the warrior princess of social media.
Round 1: UI Slugfest
With Twitter’s Scorpio rising and Aries Sun favouring boldness and brevity, its minimalist UI packs a punch. When the Sun is in Aries, it harnesses so much authority and power, hence, people just love the power of obnoxious anonymity on Twitter. Threads’ design on the other hand is flowing off the design of Twitter. At first glance, The new Meta app appears a doppelganger of not just Twitter but its rivals already ensconced in the social sphere. The app takes on the qualities of water, reflecting what’s already out there with Cancer, Scorpio and even its Aquarius Moon, the sign known as the water bearer. Cancer rules the family, and most commonly the mother. Threads’ Ascendant or Rising in Scorpio is trining its Sun in Cancer, (a sign that is co-ruled by the Sun) promising a personal, invasive, addictive, and even obsessive nature to its interface, learned courtesy of its mama bird of course. It’s design will most likely change with the cycles of the moon.
Round 2: UX Battle Royale!
Threads’ Aquarius Moon and Twitter’s Sagittarius Moon both foster unconventional thinking and public discourse. We have a plethora of examples of how the user experience is on Twitter. People shoot out tweets like arrows of truth or Zeus’s lightning bolts, and they go long and far. While Threads would be akin to the contents in the jug and not the actual water bearer, at least for now while Pluto is still retrograde. According to Perplexity and a CNN Tech report, “Threads received 100 million sign-ups within five days of launch dethroning ChatGPT as the fastest-growing consumer application in history.” But in another report, user engagement on Threads has slowed significantly. The report states: “Threads daily active users fell from 49 million on July 7, two days after its launch, to 23.6 million users…”
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My initial thoughts are that the South Node is present in the 1st house, indicating a decrease. Additionally, it’s worth noting that the ruler of the South Node, the 1st house, and the rising is Pluto, which was retrograde at the time of the app’s launch. Mars, its other ruler, is found with Venus in Leo, making for an ambitious project with lots of promise. However, in the 10th house, this might only be attributed to a bit of clout, especially since your sibling is Instagram, your Mom is Meta, and your Dad is Mark Zuckerberg. Who’s to say whether Thread’s legacy is assured… Saturn, the planet of longevity, resides in Leo in the 10th house in Twitter’s chart, and Leo governs kingship.
The plot twist is that Twitter is no longer Twitter; it’s X. With this change comes a whole new chart with similar indications to the chart of the first-ever tweet. X’s chart doesn’t invalidate Twitter's original chart but, Elon’s influence can be seen in the chart for X and can change things quite a bit. Making it fundamentally still the same, but ultimately — especially where predictions are concerned, — different energy. That’s a conversation for another time.
Round 3: Truth vs. Trust, An Intricate Sudden Death Round
In an intense moment of all or nothing, both have Scorpio rising, but they are two completely different types of assassins. Twitter’s Sagittarius Moon is ruled by Jupiter at 18 degrees Scorpio blabs facts immaturely with extreme passion. It’s often loud and wrong, but it is tested, approved and trusted in my Burna Boy voice. One of my astrology teachers states the 18th degree is a malefic or evil degree. He goes on record and says that unfortunately “nothing good comes from the 18th degree.” As far as astrology is concerned, it’s that serious, and this has been observed to be the case.
Threads’ Aquarius Moon spreads ideas widely yet insightfully. Though messy and excessive with it’s data collecting means is supposed intellect unites rather than divides. In the end, Aquarius’ thoughtful theories defeat Sag’s tactless truth bombs. Thread’s primary ruler (The Moon) is at 18 degrees as well but in Aquarius. Threads, at best, gives people an unsettling suspicion. It can also play out sort of like the black sheep or Cinderella since it’s in the 4th house of home and family. Netizens can also feel like there is a negative agenda behind Meta’s true intention for the world through this app since it is after all in Aquarius, the sign of humanity. And that’s at best, I’m being nice here. To my earlier point, Threads’ privacy policy doesn’t even specify what information is considered sensitive and it’s really a mirror of how we don’t value privacy. How do people build trust in an app like this when everyone can not, and will not, MIND THIER OWN BUSINESS?
Will we hold them accountable? Probably not. At the end of the day, excuses and subjectivity are two by-products of Cancerian energy. When technology is released in combination with water or Plutonian energy, it’s smart and strategic (Scorpio) if you want to get people, obsessed, co-dependant, and in a cyclical habit.
Threads, a princess from the Metaverse posing as a female assassin. Luring X (f.k.a Twitter) into their “Welcome to the Net” BBQ and offering a venomous lemonade. The other… we’ve seen what they’re capable of. Even before the rebrand, X is a warzone for ego battles. Aries however is very much samurai energy rather than the ninja. You know… The way I see things, social media has been overwhelmingly detrimental to our personal lives and society at large. It’s not farfetched to think maybe they’re both on the same team, trying to assassinate us. On one hand, an attack on the individual — Aries, and on the other, an attack on the family — Cancer.
Maybe not…but maybe…just maybe.
Godspeed.