Tech-based convenience and exploitation of the 6th house in astrology

How a cultural obsession with Silicon Valley-produced convenience is alienating us from our 6th houses, our agency, and our lives.

Many of us live in a reality where, with the tap of a screen, we can outsource any number of daily tasks, from shopping to cooking, to thinking, all in the name of convenience. As we prioritize excising these seemingly erroneous tasks from our lives—because they’re boring, because we’re busy, because on some level society or tech companies have convinced us that these tasks are getting in the way of our lives—we are also alienating ourselves from the astrological house of ritual. Our chores, our walks with our dogs, our errands, our commutes, our morning and evening routines, our movement routines, and our chats with our coworkers, these things are our lives. The prevalence of this consumer-based techno-convenience culture (in its broadest, deepest, and most simplistic definitions) is threatening the sanctity of the 6th house and the agency we have to arrange the pieces of our lives into the big picture. And it’s doing all of this in a parasitic, body-snatcher type of way.