Week of March 3rd, 2025

But let's back up just a bit. If you are feeling like the odd one out lately, the reason is actually quite simple. It’s not you, and you aren’t imagining it. You are feeling like a sad alien walking amongst the rest of us because we human beings are more easily connected to one another than at any time in history.

There are some obvious culprits that are causing this era of pathological connection. But by far the largest of them is obvious: social media.

The disconnect on those platforms is largely motivated by the fact that everyone shows their best face online. You can easily hide behind a mask of vacations, girls nights out; graduation, marriage, kids going to college, birthdays, Saturn returns (ok, maybe not that one!).

What you don’t always see in those same happy faces is all the sleepless nights. The midnight cookie addiction. The impostor syndrome. The car debt. The fear. The struggles that make us all human.

You might be feeling those things yourself, but if you doom-scroll through post after post showing everyone else seemingly living a dream life, how can that not cause you to feel very alone in your suffering?

Sure, there is a lot of negative stuff on these platforms right now, mainly political. But if you pay close attention, in almost 100% of the photos, clips and personal stories people share they seem overwhelmingly blessed. It’s the re-shared memes that are more negative in tone, and these are not personal at all. To be honest they are pretty worthless and cluttering up our online experience, but that's another conversation.

I used the term “pathological connection” earlier and I meant it. It isn’t a real connection that we have with the vast majority of the people in your contacts. Look at your total number of Instagram/TikTok/Facebook followers. How many of them would you actually consider calling and grabbing a bite to eat with this weekend? How many of them are you far more likely to never speak with again? Probably well over 90%.

The vast majority of your online "connections" and "experiences" are the equivalent of a random person you met at a bowling league in 2018 one night who is standing in front of you shouting about the award they won at Toastmasters in March of 2025. But yet this shouting, when magnified many times from the mouths of many people you have known over the years, undoubtedly adds to this feeling of disconnection. The pathology lies in the fact that you still know so many of the positive details that are going on in everyone's lives. It wasn’t like this in 1965. Or even 2005.

Never has there been a time in history with such a huge discrepancy between the face we show the world and the face we look at in the privacy of our own homes in the mirror. Never.

If you read this article to this point and said to yourself “this is absolutely true” or at the very least, some part of what I wrote hit home for you, here is something that might help: If you look hard enough, you can almost certainly find something to share on these social media platforms that others would also envy.

It's easy, I promise! Here is an idea:

Put some bread in the toaster, take it out when it’s a pretty, golden brown and slather some peanut butter on there. Pour a glass of OJ and put it in the sunlight. Take a picture with your mobile device and give it a nice shadow. Throw it on Instagram with the hash #worldclasssbreakfast or something similar.

Before you know it, 400 people whom you will never talk with again will envy your breakfast and doubt their own cooking skills.

Now you too can join the rest of the world.

This Week’s Transits

For the second straight week, the energy in the skies is favorable for overall optimistic energy, new beginnings and a more purposeful emotional expression. The Moon runs through its natural sign, Cancer during part of this period late in the week and makes many favorable aspects including sextiles and trines to other celestial bodies throughout the week. We love sextilesa nd trines, don't we? It also runs into a Jupiter conjunction early Thursday and eventually a now direct Mars by the weekend.

What does this mean for us? Simple. We will have a much easier time expressing our feelings to those we care about. It is an opening up of blocked energy and an allowance to feel both the uplifting emotions and more challenging ones.

Both Wednesday, March 5th and Sunday, March 10th bring us very positive energies, the former more about authentic emotional expression and the latter about self-direction and taking charge of once difficult situations. You will likely feel an emotional lightening this week from those around you, even if you don’t always feel it yourself. You may also find it a little easier to connect with others.

It is not uncommon to feel this sense of being “unstuck” when Mars starts going direct for the first time in months. This effect can last for almost a month, so you can look forward to a sustained period of extra productivity now that you’ve worked through some of the difficult feelings.

This is a very good week to do therapy, counseling or coaching work for self-improvement as any insights you have now will be enlightening. You can make great headway with the energy of the Moon during this cycle.

Even though I listed Monday as the most difficult day of the week, even its energies are forward-moving, if not a little abrasive, due to Mercury entering the fiery Aries.

If you are in a working mood for some weird reason, you may not need to take any days off this week from productivity. The energy is great for getting things done all week long. If you do feel like taking some personal time, getting outside and moving will be helpful to you. If you aren’t able to do this, then exploring new avenues mentally, like reading a new book or watching some movies you haven’t seen before will be healthy too. Don't watch The Avengers or Into the Spider-Verse or Oppenheimer for the 35th time. Watch something new. Actually don't watch Marvel moveis at all. They are contrived and getting stale.

Celebrate! It’s another good week. I think.

Words of wisdom: I often talk about how our three or four closest friends at any given time are very good reflections of our true personality at this point in life. Does that mean that our many acquaintances are a sum of discarded elements of our personality? I don't know, but it's worth an honest look.