Thousands of pig carcasses have been washed up on
farmland in southern China after days of continuous and torrential rain sparked
devastating flash floods. Health and
safety authorities in south China's Guangxi region are removing and sterilizing
an estimated 16,000 pig carcasses after filthy, algae-filled floodwater swamped
the large farm, drowning most of its animal inhabitants, according to People's
Daily Online. The pig farm is situated
in a valley in the autonomous county of Dahua Yao walled by steep mountains on
either side which caused the water levels to rise rapidly following the
relentless downpour. June 17; http://www.sott.net/article/297893-16000-pigs-drowned-after-monster-rainstorms-in-China
A chart
for the last Full Moon of June 3 at Hechi city, Dahua Yao county is shown here.
Notice that the lunation is part of a
T-square aligned with the meridian and with
apex Neptune in Pisces.
Neptune [9pi] is conjunct Fomalhaut
and stars of the Water Pourer . Alpha (α) Piscis Austrinus, Fomalhaut, is a
reddish star in the mouth of the Southern Fish. The Southern Fish is a separate
constellation to Pisces, lying much further to the South, though in ancient
legend it is often referred to as the parent of the zodiacal pair. The area in which it lies has an heavy emphasis
upon constellations with watery imagery, the goat-fish (Capricorn), the whale
(Cetus), the water-pourer (Aquarius), the fishes (Pisces), and the dolphin
(Delphinus) all located nearby, obviously earmarking this region as one that
related to the rainy season of the ancient year, by which many of its stars are
associated with floods or troubles at sea. The Southern Fish is usually
depicted on star maps at the feet of Aquarius, where it swallows up the water
poured from his urn [1].
Mercury on
the IC is conjunct stars of the
constellation Hyades. The word “hyades”
means “rainers” and the constellation is linked to torrential rain and stormy
weather.
So it
appears that the Full Moon had set the stage for a torrential downpour in Dahua Yao county. On June 13, the progressed
Ascendant touched Neptune which triggered the heavy rains that led to disaster
reported in the news on June 17.
Finally,
we look at Uranus [19ar] which forms a sesquisquare aspect to the MC of the Full Moon chart. This was part of the Chinese asterism Wai-Píng, The Outer Enclosure of a Pig Farm.
This was a bamboo hedge fence around pig farms and marshes. This asterism was related to another Chinese
asterism Tíen-Houan, The Celestial Marshes. According to Schlegel,
the Chinese character Houan was
composed of a pig in an enclosure where there is water. This asterism
represented marshes into which pigs were released at the beginning of autumn to
start rooting and digging preparing for
the sowing of next year’s seeds. These
marshes were fenced off with a bamboo hedge so that the pigs could not stray
nor the farmer fall into it. It was also seen as a pig-rearing farm or “The
Place of Celestial Filth” [2].
[2] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.689)
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