Skip to main content

The Chinese tycoon with a love of animals



Dragon with treasure


Knowing how to make an impression can be a useful skill in business. Chinese entrepreneur Huang Nubo certainly knows how to do that - before you have even met him. Billionaire Mr Huang is the chair and founder of property and leisure giant Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group, a firm he aims to make one of the world's biggest players in the leisure industry in the next few years. The first thing you notice when you enter his spacious office in Beijing is a vast tank, in which a shark is swimming up and down. Not only that, there are also several cats as well as monkeys and a variety of birds, including parrots and parakeets. BBC; Oct. 15 http://www.bbc.com/news/business-29612162






To understand this news we will look at the Full Moon lunar eclipse chart of October 19, 2013 drawn for Beijing. On the MC[16le] are stars of Ursa Major, the Great Bear and Draco, the dragon.

The astrological influences of the constellation of Ursa Major  given by Manilius [1]:

"To those born at such a time wild creatures will show no hostile face, and in their dealings with animals these men will find them submissive to their rule. Such a one will be able to control huge lions with a gesture, to fondle wolves, and to play with captive panthers; so far from shunning the powerful bears that are the kin of the constellation, he will train them to human accomplishments and feats foreign to their nature; he will seat himself on the elephant's back and with a goad will direct the movements of a beast which disgraces its massive weight by yielding to tiny jabs; he will dispel the fury of the tiger, training it to become a peaceful animal, whilst all the other beasts which molest the earth with their savageness he will join in friendship to himself; keen-scented whelps he will train..." [here the translator notes that eight pages have been lost] [Astronomica, Manilius, 1st century AD, book 5, p.357, 359]


In mythology dragons are greedy and covetous, and obsessed with increasing their treasure hoards [2]. Symbolically, this could represent very rich people sitting on a pile of wealth.


Deborah Houlding in her excellent book “The Houses: Temples of the Sky” gives us the following associations:

Tenth House
Honour, prestige, reputation, power, control, dignity, glory, acclaim, advancement - the worldly position. Those in dignified positions.

Twelfth House
Large animals.

Sixth House
Pets and small animals.

The ruler of the 10th house is the Sun and it is placed in the 12th – the house linked to large animals. It is also opposite the Moon in the 6th house of pets. The Sun is conjunct the TNP Apollon which is associated with ‘business’ so that the Sun-Apollon conjunction is referring to someone who has found “recognition in business” [3]. The tenth lord (Sun) is placed in the twelfth house - a successful man longs for a rich inner life. He has a fondness for animals.

Aspecting  the Ascendant [8sc] are asteroids Artemis [5sc], Diana [8aq] and Poseidon [2aq]. Both Diana and Artemis refer to animals with Poseidon these can also be marine animals [4] like the shark mentioned in the news.

Notice that retrograde Mercury [25li] has just triggered the eclipse Sun [25li]. Also progressing the eclipse chart to October 15, the date of the news, aligns the horizon and meridian axis with Moon-Poseidon-Artemis-Diana!





[3] Orders of Light; Martha-Lang Wescott, p.43
[4] Tools of the Trade; Martha-Lang Wescott (July 2013)


Comments