Archaeologists Uncover Another Branch of the Silk Road

Famous for facilitating an incredible exchange of culture and goods between the East and the West, the ancient Silk Road is thought to have meandered across long horizontal distances in mountain foothills and the lowlands of the Gobi Desert. But new archaeological evidence hidden in a lofty tomb reveals that it also ventured into the high altitudes of Tibet—a previously unknown arm of the trade route.

“The findings are astonishing,” says Houyuan Lu, an archaeobotanist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Geology and Geophysics in Beijing. Among other artifacts, archaeologists unearthed exquisite pieces of silk with woven Chinese characters wang hou (meaning “king” and “princes”), a mask made of pure gold, and ceramic and bronze vessels. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/archaeologists-uncover-another-branch-of-the-silk-road/

News of this remarkable discovery of a branch of the ancient Silk Road comes just as the Sun is about to enter Aries. A chart for the event at Beijing has a T-square  straddling the horizon axis. Among other things Uranus-Pluto represents a suddenillumination/ revelation – a bringing to light (Uranus) that which was buried or hidden (Pluto).

The Ascendant [20Cn] is the “reaction point” of the T-square (its empty leg). Here it is conjunct the star alpha (α) Gemini, Castor, in the constellation of the Twins.

"The Twins" are marked by the two principal stars: Pollux, the immortal extraterrestrial one, and Castor the mortal terrestrial one, the extraterrestrial incarnate. These two stars, which mark the Twins' heads, lie in the last few degrees of sidereal Gemini. Sidereal Gemini is of high intensity intellectual communication, information, commerce, goods and services, and of their exchange. Castor is the liaison in the world of daily human affairs, and is of partnerships and cooperation. Castor brings resources and people together that serve to get logistics accomplished in the world of business and commerce. ttp://lunarplanner.com/LunarMonths2010/lunarmonth.10.07.11.html

The ruler of Gemini is  Mercury or Hermes – the god of roads.

Always "on the go" carrying messages for Zeus and the other gods and goddesses, Hermes was worshipped as the god of the roads, the god who protected travelers. Citizens of Greece erected posts or pillars of stone on the roads and at gates to honor him -- those were called "herms". The name "Hermes" actually means "pillars". http://www.men-myths-minds.com/Hermes-greek-god.html