Chinese star wisdom and ‘Operation Empty Plate’

Ordering lunch at a restaurant is a challenge for Xu Zhijun. As the creator of "Operation Empty Plate", an online anti-food-waste campaign, Mr Xu avoids ordering too much. As a child, he toiled in the rice paddies near his tiny village in China's eastern Jiangsu province. "My parents and my grandparents educated me to cherish food," Mr Xu explains. After moving to Beijing to work at an agricultural newspaper, Mr Xu was shocked to see piles of half-finished dishes left on restaurant tables. After learning that the food wasted by Chinese university students could feed 10 million people a year, Mr Xu reached his boiling point.In April 2012, he posted a photo on weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, showing his empty plate at the end of a meal. He urged others to do the same.

Shown above is the Capricorn Ingress chart for Beijing progressed to Mar. 9, the date of the news item. Notice that the T-square on the angles with the solstice Sun conjunct Pluto opposite Ceres and square Uranus. Ceres, the asteroid connected with food,  is conjunct Kronos-Hades.  The Cap Ingress was discussed in the last  post  and Ceres-Hades-Kronos was seen as ‘spoilt food in an upmarket restaurant’. The same combination can also give ‘waste (Hades) of food (Ceres) by the upper class (Kronos)’ or even ‘disgust (Hades) with the upper class (Kronos) over food (Ceres)’.

The Capricorn Ingress chart has Mars prominently placed on the descendant.  Mars (26cp36; -21d59) is quincunx Ceres (26ge03) and contraparallel the star Wasat (+21d57) in declination. Quincunx is an aspect that implies a need for change and improvement through discipline. Wasat, delta Geminorium, was part of the Chinese asterism Ta Tsun, the Great Wine Jar, which marked the preparations for the Great Summer Celebrations which the sovereign threw for his subjects. Music, eating and dancing prevailed but this was not allowed to get out of hand. Friendly relations between people and the sovereign and between family members was the theme of these feasts and the proper care of orphans, especially  those of people who had died in the service of the state. This asterism governed the filling of vessels with rice and wine and the distribution of food to the poor and hungry. [1]

Through one man, Xu Zhijun,  ancient Chinese wisdom appears to reach out to the new generation!

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg; v1; p. 704-05