Full Moon launches China’s bullet train

Auriga – The Charioteer

China launched services Wednesday [26 December] on the world’s longest high-speed rail route, linking the nation’s capital in Beijing all the way to the country’s southeastern hub of Guangzhou. Averaging speeds of up to 186 m.p.h. (300 km/h), the 1,425-mile (2,293 km) route now takes eight hours to complete; previously, the journey would take about 22 hours by train. (It will also be making stops in other cities en route, including Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan and Changsha.)

This is indeed a major breakthrough in technology for China. So are there any indication in the stars of this technology leap? We start here with the eclipse of 21^st May 2012 in Gemini – the sign that governs travel. Notice that the eclipse along with Mercury-Jupiter is in  hard aspect to Pluto on the descendant of the chart. Pluto in turn is square  Uranus– a combination that is a defining aspect of our times.

Richard Tarnas notes, “With Pluto acting on Uranus, we can see what could be called the intensification on a massive scale (Pluto) of technology (Uranus) or the empowerment (Pluto) of revolutionary breakthroughs (Uranus) and awakenings”.  He gives as an example the  tremendous scientific discovery and revolutions in science at  turn of the Twentieth Century when a Pluto-Uranus opposition [1896-1905]  took place. “Epochal breakthroughs” in technology occurred, such as the discovery of radioactivity and the electron, the invention of the automobile, Zeppelin, and the airplane. The number of automobiles in America rose a thousand-fold from 25 in 1896 to 25,000 in 1905.

With this background we can expect a technological  breakthrough at Beijing but in what area? Perhaps if we look at the star Capella [22ge02] which squares the MC [21ge30] we will get some answers. Alpha (α) Auriga, Capella is a star associated with the Charioteer. From Manilius’ explanation we can see that this star is associated with fast moving vehicles!

“Again, when the bolts have been drawn and the horses have escaped from the starting-pens, he will urge on the spirited steeds and, leaning forward, he will seem to precede them in their swift career; hardly touching the surface of the track with his light wheels, he will outstrip the winds with his coursers' feet… By examples such as these are you to mark the rising figure of the Charioteer". [Manilius, Astronomica, book 5,  1st century A.D., p. 305-309].

If we are right about our analysis then the progression of the chart to 26^th December, the date of launch of services should show significant planets on the angles. And sure enough we see  Pluto on the progressed Ascendant square Uranus – the signature for a technical breakthrough! And as is usual for major events like these there is  more than one indicator. The Full Moon of 28^th December which forms a T-square to Uranus-Pluto squares the meridian axis at Beijing.

P.S.  We must never forget that Full Moons are culmination of  seed ideas contained in the New Moon. The  current New Moon was in Sagittarius which is associated with "long distance" travel.