Hong Kong braces for protests

(Reuters) - Pro-democracy activists vowed on Sunday (31 August) to bring Hong Kong's financial hub to a standstill after China's parliament rejected their demands for the right to freely choose the former British colony's next leader in 2017.

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) endorsed a framework to let only two or three candidates run in the 2017 leadership vote. All candidates must first obtain majority backing from a nominating committee likely to be stacked with Beijing loyalists.

The relatively tough decision by the NPC - China's final arbiter on the city's democratic affairs - makes it almost impossible for opposition democrats to get on the ballot.

We begin by looking at the chart of the April 29 solar eclipse progressed to August 31, the date of the news. Notice that the progressed IC has reached a conjunction to eclipse Sun triggering the essence of the eclipse.

The eclipse [9ta] was conjunct the stars Schedar of Cassiopeia and Hamal of Aries. Cassiopeia is often shown as an arrogant Queen while Aries is the butting Ram. The Ram and the fixed earth Taurus combine to create an “aggressive fixity” making some people dictatorial and arrogant. The eclipse makes a hard aspect to the Mars leg of the Jupiter-Mars-Uranus-Pluto Grand Cross. This Grand Square  triggers the outward actualization of the Uranus-Pluto Square. More specifically Mars is conjunct the stars of the Virgin and the Hydra. About these stars Diana Rosenberg writes:

Few other skyscapes are so polarized between light and dark, clear air and suffocating darkness, with a tremendous conflict between the Virgin’s honest, upright will-to-do good and the Hydra’s dark lair of greed, sensuality and arrogant self-interest; some are tempted to dishonesty, become involved in scandals and have trouble with the law; there are both oppressions and struggles against them and transits to these stars often bring about major changes in laws, mores, governments and ways of thinking often preceded, accompanied or followed by witch hunts. [1]

IIf the eclipse was the “hour hand” of the clock, the “minute hand” is the Waxing Crescent Phase. The Waxing Crescent Moon of August 29  occurred just two days before the agitation referred to in the news. The Sun to Neptune opposition is square the horizon axis with the Sun [6vi] conjunct the star Thuban [6vi] which was also on the Ascendant of the eclipse chart at Hongkong. About this star Nick Fiorenza writes: 

Thuban of Draco, in the far northern heavens, just north of Alioth of the Great Bear, was Earth’s pole star circa 2800 BCE, near the “tear of the Bear,” a point in Earth’s ~25,000-year “evolutionary cycle of the soul” at which time a turning and fractioning occurred in the hierarchical powers governing Earth. This dramatized the separation between those choosing to fight for a greater evolutionary vision and those wanting to maintain totalitarian control of the Earth.

Pluto [11cp] is not only square Uranus [16ar] but also in a sharp quincunx to the Ascendant [11ge]. As we seen before Uranus-Pluto square is the archetypal clash: courageous/warrior-like actions of individuals on behalf of the people's liberties (Uranus in Aries) vs. an intensification/consolidation of power by institutional structures facing threats to their authority (Pluto in Capricorn).

But perhaps the most interesting element here is the Sabian symbol of the Ascendant [11ge04].

PHASE 72: A NEGRO GIRL FIGHTS FOR HER RIGHTS IN THE CITY.

The symbol needs no commentary since its relevance to the news is easy to see.

[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies, Diana K. Rosenberg [ v.2, p.64-66]