A Chinese court has ordered a woman to visit her mother once every two months, state media say, in the first case since a new law on parental visits came into effect on Monday. The judgement was issued by a court in
Filial piety - the concept of
respecting your parents and elders- has
been a core element of Confucianism in China China
A simple
technique to understand the message of an eclipse is to reduce all planets and
midpoints to a 22.5 degree modulus. (This is the smallest hard aspect of the
180, 90, 45, 22.5 series sometimes called the 16th harmonic). Using
the tiniest of orbs for the May
25, 2013 lunar eclipse we have the following planetary pictures [1]:
Sun = Tisiphone = Hephaistos/Tisiphone = Cupido/Psyche =
Ceres/Neptune
TISIPHONE:
Seek justice for "crimes against kinship, family;" dose of one's own
medicine; fairness; just desserts; how and where and if one gets what they
deserve.
CERES: The
need for nurturing; food; the relationship between mother & child; issues
of "taking care of" people, plants and animals; growths/cysts; herbs
and grains.
HEPHAISTOS
: Unfaithfulness; parental abandonment
CUPIDO: Family
; group unity or dynamics; home, residence
PSYCHE: raw
wounds psychologically; vulnerability; the state of your mental health; head
wounds; brain states.
Hephaistos/Tisiphone
"Violations of the bonds of family and
kinship"--and among those are
infidelity, parental abandonment ..I
think there'll be a concern for "justice"--for knowing/seeing
that people don't get away with
mistreating those closest to them.
Ceres/Neptune
Mothers,
mothering or children as victims or objects of pity. Then, you may hear of
people who are confused...about how to
take care of themselves...... and about what "being taken care of"
should have meant.
Tisiphone=Cupido/Psyche
"Paybacks"
and trying to "get justice"
for wrongs one feels have been done them... you'll see that some of that ire is directed at families,
people who share a residence or members
of a group. People may be especially
aware of "the wrongs they suffered
THROUGH their family" too, and may seek to redress, may want to "pay them back in kind"--do
to them, in some way, what they feel the
family (or group) did (that was wrong, painful or caused problems.)
Regular
readers are by now aware that eclipses manifest in events when progressed
angles trigger important planets and
configurations in the eclipse chart. Progressing the eclipse chart to Monday,
July 1, when the court order was delivered, we can see the four angles
occupied by Kronos-Hades-Pluto-Uranus-Zeus along with
asteroids Vesta [11cn47] and Ceres [18cn04] on the MC.
Hades-Ceres: ill treatment of
parents
Ceres-Vesta : duty towards mother/
parents
Pluto-Uranus-Kronos : change of
rules or laws
If we
consider Jupiter [22ge41] to be conjunct the TNP Hades [1cn35] on the MC of the
progressed chart and therefore a part of
the picture we see something very interesting.
In ancient China, Alpha
(Phact, 22ge22 and Epsilon Columba (28ge53) were Tchang-Jin, the Very Old
People – the retired servants of the state, orphans. Lambda and Mu Columbae
(27ge33 and 24ge55) were the sons. This
asterism presided over filial piety – devotion to aged parents – a virtue very
highly valued in China
[1]
Delineate V2; Martha-Lang Wescott
[2] Secrets
of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1; p.700)
Beautiful
aspects of filial piety
Law is ill-equipped to form a virtuous people. It is one thing to outlaw vice in its outward manifestation of conduct; how can legislation mandate virtuous conduct, or even instill virtue within a human soul? Mandating virtuous conduct, such as in Massachusetts’ “Good Samaritan” law, may be possible where the conduct is in public and thus readily enforceable. Virtue within the home is far more difficult for the law to reach and thus foster. Even vice behind closed doors, such as incest as well as physical and emotional abuse more generally, is difficult for police to catch. To an extent, property rights enable such vice and allow people the option of not being virtuous in a family context. Yet in countries in which an authoritarian state trumps even property rights, as in China, the question becomes whether legislation is the sort of thing that can foster or mandate virtuous conduct and even a virtuous character. See “China: Mandating the Virtue of Filial Piety by Law,” at http://thewordenreport.blogspot.com/2013/07/china-mandating-virtue-of-filial-piety.html
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