The Facebook parent platform is changing its name to Meta from 1 December, reflecting the company’s push to build an avatar-filled virtual world known as the metaverse – the “successor to the mobile internet” – where users can shop, game and socialise in a shared virtual space. Zuckerburg hopes to attract 1bn more users and “hundreds of billions of dollars of digital commerce a day” in the next decade. The existing individual brands — Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram and Oculus — will not change.
The timing is unfortunate given the bad publicity from recent whistleblower testimony but it can be a successful business strategy, as with google and Alphabet.
The 1 December launch date has an ultra-ruthlessly determined Mars in Scorpio in a publicity-attracting trine to Neptune and sextile an influential/controlling and seductive Venus Pluto in Capricorn. Plus a risk-taking, opportunistic Jupiter square Mars. It’s a strong chart for a go-getting enterprise.
Below is a rerun of an earlier October 5 2021 post on Facebook and Zuckerburg.
The fates have conspired to give Facebook the week from hell with a prolonged outage yesterday, wiping billions off share prices and a whistleblower accusing the company of placing “profit over safety” on primetime TV in advance of a hearing before US senators today. The six hour break in service was deemed to be an internal configuration fault which shut down not just the internet feed but also entry into the building for engineers trying to fix it.
Francis Haugen, a former product manager, hired to help protect against election interference, leaked a trove of internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal which have created its deepest crisis since the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and has now stepped into the open. She said FB had lied to the public, exaggerating the progress it had made tackling hate, violence, and misinformation on its platform.
“There were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook. Over and over again, [it] chose to optimise for its own interests, like making more money.” FB’s shares have dipped 13 per cent since the WSJ began publishing its series in mid-September.
Mark Zuckerburg, 14 May 1984 2.39pm White Plains New York, whose Taurus Sun is conjunct Algol, with Venus close by, opposing Mars Moon Saturn in Scorpio isn’t one to panic or over-react to pressure. But he’s in a long run of tr Uranus hard aspects to his Scorpio/Taurus planets, jangling him this year, more so in 2022/23/24. Even he will have to budge. The Eclipses from this November’s Taurus Lunar Eclipse and on through 2022 into 2023 will rattle up a good going series of crises, so he’ll have to change whether he likes it or not. His Progressed Mars will conjunct his 2nd house Saturn in 2022 which could see a major financial setback.
What is odd about the FB IPO chart, 18 May 2012 11.31am is the Jupiter in Taurus which tr Pluto is trine at the moment and should be instilling confidence not the reverse. Though admittedly tr Saturn square the Midheaven won’t help and there will be disappointments with tr Neptune hitting the financial Venus and Mars/Uranus midpoint earlier this year and throughout 2022.
There’s also a further calamity from 2nd to 10th December this year which shows up on Zuckerburg and the IPO chart.
The original FB chart, 4 February 2004, is jolted, jangled and nerve-stretched this year and next with the disruptive and uncertain tr Saturn square tr Uranus hitting on the Neptune Sun in Aquarius; with financial woes in 2022/23 from tr Neptune conjunct the Venus; and worse problems in 2023/24 as the dead-halt tr Pluto squares the Mars in Taurus.
Fascinating, if dystopian! I see that Meta’s Sun is aligned with Antares, fixed star in the constellation Scorpius. It is known as the Heart of the Scorpion, and was one of the Royal Stars of Persia. Bernadette Brady (Fixed Stars) says “to the Persians this star was the god of the dead, Yima”. The star is also known as the Watcher of the West. The West was the direction of the land of the dead for the Egyptians, and the Celts. More Scorpio-style energy anyway – money, manipulation, and secrets, unsurprisingly……
Antares is considered to be a star of great creativity and intensity, heralding success, but also life-and-death experiences, and great risk of self-undoing (12th house resonance?) and loss through stubborness and obsessive behaviour (fixed grand cross?). Here’s another interpretation of Antares with the Sun:
“Pretended religion, insincere, honor and riches ending in disgrace and ruin, military preferment, danger of treachery, violence committed or suffered, fevers and sickness, injuries to the right eye, violent death. If rising or culminating, great honor through violence attended by difficulties and casualties. If with Mars also, pestilential disease.” [Robson, p.137.]
Wonderful article! Thank you, Ms. Orr.
Yeah… if I was starting a business… this is one heck of a chart.
Made me wonder if he has an astrologer on board!!
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ah well… the Dao just keeps playing out, doesn’t it?
thanks Marjorie!
I too wondered whether he has an astrologer onboard – all those Scorpio planets could be interested. The rebrand was announced on a grand cross as the moon moved into Leo squaring the Scorpio Sun and on their way to meet Aqua Saturn / Uranus Taurus. Makes it lasting but also stubborn beyond the point of knowing when to cut your losses.
The flipside to whether he has an astrologer is simply that Zuck’s chart is under its own stress and he’s just reacting to the pressure of the recent weeks. Rather than front up to the reasons behind the bad publicity; he’s taking the easy way out by starting an exciting new project to lift his spirits and ignore the stress.
Thanks for looking at this Marjorie so soon after the previous post.
Rather depressing to see the Dec 1st chart and its potential for success.
At least when all Zuckerburg controlled is social media, the sane among us could avoid being part of his empire. But it sounds like he wants to build something that will rival Amazon and that could make it much harder to avoid.
Meta is hebrew for death. Jessica Adams has flagged up the correlations between the Meta chart, Zuckerberg’s chart and the 6 Russian charts. My friend has a t shirt with ” You’ve been Zucked” on it!