I feel like such a great disservice has been done to a lot of younger people these days, and it's really wreaking havoc on them without their knowing. A lot of them are being trained to use social media and the internet as a replacement for actual interaction with others. It's true that you can have many interesting and fulfilling connections with people from all over the world, but taking a look at this from an astrological perspective you can see some of the nuances of why it may be unhealthy. The internet is a staunchly, devoutly, unarguably Aquarian thing. What you lack in depth is supposed to be made up with in quantity. Surely you won't feel empty inside if you have thousands or even millions of people that you're connected with and that admire you right? But as any astrologer can tell you Aquarius is a sign that struggles more than most with the gnawing emptiness inside.
Air connection (communication through logic, ideas, and words) is not meant to replace Water connection (communication through psychic sublayers, emotional depth, and resonance), rather it is meant to supplement it and enhance it. You need a healthy balance of the two in order to feel happiest and most fulfilled in life. Just as you may be lacking in a certain element in your chart, your own life can be severely lacking in elements as well. To live your best life you need a healthy dose of practicality and physicality (earth), passion and inspiration (fire), compassion and emotional connection (water), as well as communication and mental connection (air). For a very long time I purposefully shut watery things out of my life. I didn't have the tools to properly "handle" emotions, and I was afraid of being hurt by others so I simply didn't allow that sort of thing for myself. Some of you know that I have suffered from very severe depression for what has now been a substantially large portion of my life. The only way that I've been able to “overcome” that and live a modicum of what I'd consider to be a "normal" life was a) through medication (which I no longer wish to rely on) or b) through rebalancing my relationship with "water" in my life. (I of course realize there’s very real brain chemistry involved) The fact that there is even a term "internet depression" speaks so loudly to the fact that it is not a viable resource for sustaining emotional health and well-being. You can have amazing relationships as a result of the internet, but please always remember that you need real relationships in your life as well: the most important of which is the relationship that you have with yourself.
