Introducing Skylogs
Skylogs is an astrology platform that treats all astrologers as responsible co-creators of shared astrological knowledge. It allows you to keep a personal astrological diary where you make note of significant transits and progressions; it lets you search celebrity or clients charts for astrological placements or aspects; and it lets anyone write public posts where you share experiences or anticipations regarding the latest Full Moon in Scorpio, your first Saturn Return, or your natal Saturn-Neptune square.
Below is my first introduction video for Skylogs. Gotta work on on that in the future, in this case I somehow forgot that my frantic gesturing ended up outside of the screen…
Video summary: I have been building a public-private astrology platform that I call Skylogs. Send an email to skylogsastrology@gmail.com to participate in the beta test (end user test) in late June.
Image 1: In the public feed, users can share posts as experiences, observations or anticipations. You can add up to three tags to a post to allow other users to search for it. Adding a more complex tag is not a problem: The first post in this example could be found even if you search for “Mercury in Sagittarius” or “Mercury square Neptune”. In this way, we can create a global astrological database made up not merely of experts’ interpretations of various placements and aspects, but the experiences of amateur or everyday astrologers as well.
Image 2: To ensure that people searching the system for posts will get high-quality content first, people are encouraged to upvote posts that are of high quality. You can also choose a flavor of your upvote: “instructive”, “fascinating” or “moving”. Finally, you can comment on posts as you would normally on any social media platform.
Image 3: When applying tags to your own posts (or diary entries) or searching for posts, you will use a component that we call the Tag creator to combine keywords into astrological tags. The same component can also be used to search for particular placements or aspects in your chart collection or (eventually) among public chart profiles.
Image 4: All users will have a profile page much like on Facebook and their latest posts will be shown on their wall, but here you can also decide to share your birth chart, a relocated chart or important event chart in your life, or even just your own Sun, Moon and Ascendant. On this page (the Public chart profiles tab), we also want to store thousands of searchable public charts of celebrities, countries and organisations.
You can switch between public and private mode depending on whether you are writing a post (public), adding a new chart to your collection (private) or writing a new diary entry (private). When you switch to private mode, the entire application becomes dark, the navigation bar changes and certain components in the sidebars change. Here is an image of the Chart of the moment component in the right sidebar which is only visible in private mode.