Azure Dragon brings prosperity to Mongolia

The Azure Dragon

The Oyu Tolgoi mine (Turquoise Hill) is a combined open pit and underground mining project in Khanbogd sum within the south Gobi Desert, approximately 235 kilometres (146 mi) east of the Ömnögovi Province capital Dalanzadgad. The site was discovered in 2001 and is being developed as a joint venture between Turquoise Hill Resources, Rio Tinto and the Government of Mongolia. The mine scheduled to begin production in 2013. Oyu Tolgoi deposits contain (as of 2010) an estimated 79 billion pounds (35,833,000 tonnes) of copper, and 45 million ounces (1,275,000,000 grams) of gold.  When fully operational copper production is expected to reach 450,000 tonnes (500,000 short tons) annually. The company is predicting that the Oyu Tolgoi mine will generate more than $8bn every year for the next 40 or 50 years. It is an astonishing windfall for a country with fewer than three million people.

Canada-based miner Turquoise Hill Resources on Thursday ( Jan 31, 2013) announced that its 65%-owned Oyu Tolgoi copper/gold project, in Mongolia, had produced its first copper/gold concentrate after it processed first ore through the concentrator in early January. The start of concentrate production signalled that production ramp-up was expected to achieve commercial production rates within the next three to five months.

The phenomena with which Mundane Astrology deals may be roughly divided into two categories, those that take place in some form every year, and those that only happen at longer intervals of time. As illustrations of the first class there are Solar Ingresses, the New Moons and the Eclipses of the year; while in the second class occur irregular phenomena as the conjunction of the major planets. Here we will look at the last Great Conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn.

Shown above is the chart for the  Great Conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn [22ta43] in May 2000 just about a year before the deposits were discovered. Notice that the conjunction is the fourth house associated with mines and riches hidden under the earth.[1] The conjunction took place in tropical Taurus – a sign associated with  minerals, precious metals and gemstones. Venus and Sun are also placed in the fourth house. These rule the metals copper and gold [2] respectively.

The star Zubenelakrab [25sc08] on the MC [26sc10] of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction chart was in China part of the Great Azure Dragon. It was also called T’ien-Kan, the Celestial Root because the asterism rose close to the Spring Equinox when everything bloomed [3] The color "azure" is really a blue-green color (Turquoise). Sometimes Azure Dragon  is called a blue dragon and other times a green dragon [4].

The IC of the chart is conjunct  the star psi  of Cassiopeia at 24ta58 which forms a part of the Queen’s throne or gown (p.193 Set span 22ta50 to 25ta14)

What products would a grand lady like Cassiope prefer her sons to handle rather than those she could turn to her own employments? And that material for such employment should not be lacking, she bids men look for gold beneath the ground, uproot all which nature stealthily conceals, and turn earth upside down in search of gain; she bids them detect the treasure in lumps of ore and finally, for all its reluctance, expose it to a sky it has never seen. The son of Cassiope will also count greedily the yellow sands, and drench a dripping beach with a new flood; he will make small weights to measure the tiny grains, or else will collect the wealth of gold-foaming Pactolus [Pactolus]; or he will smelt lumps of silver, separating the hidden metal and causing the mineral to flow forth in a running stream. Such are the inclinations which Cassiope will fashion in those born under her" [Manilius, Astronomica, book 5, 1st century AD, p.343.]

When the company, Turquoise Hill Resources announced on Jan 31 that it had  produced its first copper/gold concentrate , Mercury, [20-22aq] the planet of news and announcements, was conjunct  Uranus [20aq] and square Jupiter-Saturn [22ta] in the fourth of the Great Conjunction chart.

On 24 March 2013, the turquoise hill was once again in the news [5] strangely just three days before a Full Moon at 6li52 conjunct  xi Hydrae [7li43] which with five other stars  formed Tsing Kiou, The Green Hills!

[1] http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h4.html

This house also rules hidden treasure and the treasures of the earth, such as mines and minerals, gems, oil, wells and water supplies; Lilly notes: "profit out of the bowels of the Earth" ([CA], p.558).

[2] http://chemistry.about.com/od/alchemy/ig/Alchemy-Pictures-and-Images/The-Planetary-Metals.htm

[3] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana Rosenberg (v.1, p.725)

[4] http://www.elderthink.com/spirituality/astrology/chinese_astrology/azure-dragon/azure-dragon.php

[5] The riches under Mongolia's Turquoise Hill

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21784717

Notes:

Mongolia has suspended the licences for a key portion of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine, amid a mounting dispute between Rio Tinto and the Mongolian government over costs, revenues and taxes. Feb 27, 2013

http://on.ft.com/X4eVeb

All mundane charts can be progressed by any of the methods used for natal charts. The secondary progressed IC of  the Great Conjunction chart is 8ge conjunct radix Sun (7ge37). When taken together the Sabian symbols (6ge and 8ge) present a challenge that needs to be understood.

66: Drilling for Oil can refer to man’s greed for the wealth hidden under the earth

68: Aroused strikers surrounding a factory is a symbol of the unrest and violence that follows when the treasures brought out of the earth are not distributed equitably.