In episode 333 Kent Bye of the Voices of VR Podcast joins me in the studio to talk about virtual reality and its relevance to astrology, as well as the ways in which astrologers will use and incorporate virtual worlds in the future.

During the course of the episode we talk about the history of technology, and how important turning points have historically lined up with major outer planet alignments in the past.

We also spend a bit of time talking about the future, and about some upcoming outer planet trends, and expectations about astrology and virtual reality that are coming up.

Kent wrote an article on astrology and virtual reality in 2017 for the Archai journal titled The Archetypal Cycles of Virtual Reality.

This episode was partially motivated by some of the recent discussion about the Metaverse over the past year, as well as Facebook's announcement that it was changing its name to Meta in October when Jupiter and Saturn stationed direct in Aquarius.

Kent flew out to Denver for a couple of days to record this conversation, as well as another on artificial intelligence that will be released as an episode of The Astrology Podcast next month, and this episode ended up being a sweeping 5-hour discussion where we covered a lot of areas related to astrology and technology.

There are timestamps below so you can see all the different topics we covered.

Kent's virtual reality podcast:

VoicesOfVR.com

This episode is available in both audio and video versions below.

Timestamps

Timestamps for when we talked about different topics in this episode:

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:10 Kent's background in astrology

00:11:25 Uranus-Pluto conjunction of 1960's and technology

00:16:30 First Virtual Reality prototype in 1968

00:18:12 Three waves of Virtual Reality

00:28:20 A century of technology diffusion

00:30:35 Outer planet transits 1880-2073

00:40:20 Embodied experience of Virtual Reality

00:44:30 The classical four elements and VR

00:47:48 Chris' VR experience

00:51:40 Philosophical implications of VR

00:56:40 Importance of firsthand experience in astrology and VR

01:03:36 The difference between in-person and Zoom conversations

01:07:08 Philosophy of time: kairos vs. chronos

01:10:32 VR and serendipitous interactions

01:13:00 How divination works

01:16:06 AR: Augmented Reality

01:22:00 Turning point in 2012

01:27:24 History of Oculus

01:36:55 Voices of VR Podcast

01:42:52 Kent's natal chart

01:55:10 Kent's zodiacal releasing website

02:00:00 Oculus headset experience and Meta/Facebook

02:14:35 Outer planet transits 1951-2051

02:34:10 Jupiter-Neptune and AR

02:41:30 How astrologers can use VR in the future

03:12:50 Social aspect of VR

03:20:04 VR through the houses - 1st house

03:26:14 Second house

03:30:12 Third house

03:33:24 Fourth house

03:34:55 Fifth house

03:41:05 Sixth house

03:45:48 Seventh house

03:50:10 Eighth house

03:52:33 Ninth house

04:06:04 Tenth house

04:10:42 Eleventh house

04:13:00 Twelfth house

04:17:44 Headset Kent recommends

04:19:50 Convergence of astrology and VR

04:20:50 Wonder Bright

04:25:43 Future outer planet transits

04:44:16 How to choose VR experiences

04:46:30 Psychedelics, astrology, and VR

04:47:40 Kent's work, Patreon, and podcast

04:52:00 Closing remarks and sponsors

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUMo1WFxS64

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Transcript

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