Environmentalists
in China are celebrating after controversial plans to build a series of giant
hydroelectric dams on the country’s last free-flowing river were shelved. Activists
have spent more than a decade campaigning to protect the Nujiang, or “angry
river”, from a cascade of dams, fearing they would displace tens of thousands
of people and irreparably damage one of China’s most spectacular and
bio-diverse regions. On Friday, campaigners said that appears to have happened
after China’s State Energy Administration published a policy roadmap for the
next five years that contained no mention of building any hydroelectric dams on
the Nu. Dec. 1 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/02/joy-as-china-shelves-plans-to-dam-angry-river
In his post on the September 1, 2016 solar eclipse entitled New
Directions, Nick Fiorenza writes:
This New Moon eclipse
and lunar cycle is about personal and global leadership, transcendent
evolutionary currents, and the use of personal will to direct our evolutionary
course with impetus to reassess changing conditions and to change our tack in
life accordingly to reach our desired destinations, or it can propel us in new
directions.
In the chart for the eclipse drawn for Beijing we find
Uranus [24ar] in hard aspect to the eclipse as well as to the MC. Planets that
aspect the angles are always the ones which contain a clue to how a mundane chart is specific for a
place. Here Uranus [24ar] is conjunct the star Acamar [23ar30]. Theta (θ)
Eridanus, Acamar, is a star in the Celestial River Eridanus. Acamar is often likened to a dam on the river
[1]holding back the forces of life and through which a breakthrough is required
[2]. Also here are stars in the constellation
of the Fishes , King Cepheus and his
chained daughter Andromeda. Diana Rosenberg writes: “Here the brilliance of
King Cepheus and sensitivity of the Fishes work their magic to alleviate the
frustrations imposed by Andromeda’s chains….there are questions of acceptance
of new ideas vs rigid adherence to traditions”. With Uranus conjoining the star Acamar, the
possibility of the acceptance of the modern view of how harmful dams can be to
the environment has won. This is certainly a breakthrough that will allow life
to flow!
Going back to the eclipse chart, we notice that Uranus is in
hard aspect to Saturn-Mars, at the apex of a T
with Neptune and the nodes. Neptune
and the south node in Pisces is a reference to how we have treated our virgin
environments (Neptune) in the past (south node). Uranus in hard aspect to both
Saturn and Neptune is coming up with new realizations that go counter to
traditional ways (Saturn) of dealing with the environment (Neptune). Progressing
the eclipse chart ,which carries Fiorenza’s tag of New Directions, to November 29, when Beijing decided to shelve the
project brings apex Saturn of the T to
the descendant thereby triggering it.
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