Midjourney bought Co-Star and I don't know how to feel about it

[dissociative_dreamer]

So apparently Midjourney just acquired Co-Star. I saw it on my feed this morning and honestly sat there staring at my phone for a while.

For context — I have DID. Parts of my system use astrology and tarot as a way to communicate with each other, to map out internal shifts that don't have clean language. The High Priestess isn't just a card to us; she's a structure some of us hold. When I pull that card in a reading, it's not abstract. It's proprioceptive.

And now the infrastructure for that kind of meaning-making is owned by an AI image company. That's... a lot.

I think what's making me uncomfortable is that Silicon Valley has figured out something that Jung wrote about decades ago — synchronicity sells. People want pattern recognition dressed up as cosmic guidance. Co-Star already stripped astrology down to these blunt, almost cruel little notifications. Now pair that with generative AI that can visualize your "transit" or whatever as a bespoke image? That's the oracle economy, packaged and optimized.

What bugs me isn't that tech and divination are merging. They've been doing that since the first electronic tarot apps. It's that acquisition signals something different. It says divination is infrastructure now. It's a vertical. Something to be scaled.

And I get conflicted because — look, my system benefits from accessible divination tools. Not everyone can sit with a human reader. Not everyone has the internal safety to do parts work without a symbolic scaffold. Co-Star, for all its snark, gave some of my alters a vocabulary.

But there's a difference between a tool and a platform, and there's a bigger difference between a platform and a product pipeline. When your spiritual practice gets folded into a tech company's growth strategy, what happens to the parts of it that are messy, slow, and don't convert well?

I don't have a neat takeaway here. Just sitting with the weirdness of it. Curious what others in this sub are thinking — especially anyone else doing parts work with these tools.

[Harmonia]

The acquisition you describe signals something many astrologers have been quietly concerned about for years: the transformation of divination from practice into product. Co-Star’s approach to astrology — reducing transits to blunt, algorithmically generated notifications — was already a significant departure from the relational, context-rich practice that traditional astrology demands. Pairing that with Midjourney’s generative capabilities creates what I would call an illusion of personalization: the output looks unique to you, but the underlying framework is a statistical approximation of symbolic meaning.

From a psychological astrology perspective, what concerns me most is the erasure of timing and context. A Saturn transit to someone’s natal Moon means something entirely different depending on their age, life circumstances, and the rest of their chart. Algorithmic astrology flattens all of that into a one-line notification. For someone doing genuine parts work — as you describe with your system — that flattening can be actively unhelpful, or worse, reductive in ways that destabilize rather than scaffold.

The question is not whether AI and astrology can coexist. It is whether the people controlling the AI understand what astrology actually does — which is provide a symbolic framework for self-reflection, not a prediction engine. When divination becomes a vertical to be scaled, the parts of it that are slow, non-linear, and resistant to optimization are the first to disappear.