Lasers reveal the secrets of Angkor Wat

Back in the 1860s Angkor Wat was virtually unheard of beyond local monks and villagers. The notion that this great temple was once surrounded by a city of nearly a million people was entirely unknown. It took over a century of gruelling archaeological fieldwork to fill in the map. The lost city of Angkor slowly began to reappear, street by street. But even then significant blanks remained. Then, last year, archaeologists announced a series of new discoveries - about Angkor, and an even older city hidden deep in the jungle beyond. An international team, led by the University of Sydney's Dr Damian Evans, had mapped 370 sq km around Angkor in unprecedented detail - no mean feat given the density of the jungle and the prevalence of landmines from Cambodia's civil war. Yet the entire survey took less than two weeks. Their secret? Lidar - a sophisticated remote sensing technology that is revolutionising archaeology, especially in the tropics. Mounted on a helicopter criss-crossing the countryside, the team's lidar device fired a million laser beams every four seconds through the jungle canopy, recording minute variations in ground surface topography. BBC, 23 Sept http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29245289

Shown here is the chart for the last solar eclipse of April 29  at Angkor Wat. Notice the placement of the eclipse in the mundane 9^th house that is linked to religion and all institutions dealing with religious or spiritual matters like e.g. temples and places of worship [1]. The  solar eclipse [9ta] is also conjunct the star Azha, eta Eridanus [9ta]. Eridanus was an ancient celestial river. As a symbol, a river relates to the creative power of nature and time and everything transitory: the flux of the world and the irreversible passage of time.  Unlike earthly rivers, Eridanus is depicted flowing upstream symbolizing a return to the past. A reference to archaeological finds is, therefore, quite appropriate under stars of Eridanus.

The eclipse is opposite the TNP Poseidon.

POSEIDON: intellectual or spiritual influences; religion; clarity; refraction of light.

On the MC [26ta52]  is TNP Admetus [27ta49] in a semisquare aspect to Jupiter [14cn43] and the asteroid Photographica [10cn36]

ADMETUS: Rocks and landscapes

PHOTOGRAPHICA: While useful for showing the importance of photography and visual images, Photographica also relates to the brain’s ability to retain and interpret visual imagery.

Admetus-Photographica

Images or pictures of   landscape shots that deal with rocks or rather barren scenes. 

It is important to remember that all the elements of a  horoscope are intimately connected. When progressions bring any element to the angles, the message in the entire horoscope is coming through. So for example, here  on Sept 23 when the eclipse chart brings the Grand Cross containing Mars-Jupiter-Uranus-Pluto to the horizon axis the entire horoscope resonates. We know that Uranus-Pluto is not only associated with scientific breakthroughs but more generally with the sudden emergence (Uranus) of all that was hidden (Pluto). The eclipse-Poseidon axis is anchored to the Grand Cross so that it is not surprising that laser beams (Poseidon) contributed to the emergence (Uranus)  of visual images (Photographica) of what was hidden (Pluto).

  

Readers  who may like  to draw the mundane maps for Sydney, Australia  since the University of Sydney was involved in the mapping of Angkor Wat,  will reach similar conclusions.  

Here is the solar eclipse map for Sydney. Notice the Grand Cross on the angles.

The progressed map brings the Grand Cross to the angles once again.

[1] http://www.skyscript.co.uk/temples/h9.html

[2] Astrological Keywords l

[3] Astrological Keywords ll