Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)A river of stinking garbage
bags snakes its way through the suburbs of Beirut, a surreal and unhygienic
blight on Lebanon's cosmopolitan capital.This overflowing landfill, stretching
for hundreds of meters through Jdeideh in the city's suburbs, is the
consequence of the city's months-long garbage crisis -- both a symbol and a
byproduct of the country's dysfunctional politics.
"This used to be such a beautiful place, but
look at it now. We can't even walk by it," Jawanah, a local resident who
didn't want to give the rest of her name, told CNN. Feb. 25
The first of
the Saturn-Neptune squares took place on November 26. One of the lessons of the
square is the need to take responsibility
(Saturn) for the environment (Neptune). The imbalance in Nature and our lifestyle is
clearly creating a serious problem. If
ecological matters are not adequately addressed, the health of the entire
planet is at risk under this transit. Up to now, the Earth has been able to
absorb and deal with our ogreish consumption relatively well, but we must
consider that this may not always be so.
A chart for
the mundane event at Beirut is shown here. Notice that it carries the Uranus-Pluto square
on the meridian axis. When Uranus squares Pluto, problems are pushed to the
surface. Uranus' clarity shines down on the caverns that Pluto has opened, and
what's revealed is not pretty. In Beirut people are discovering just that .
They need to deal with the garbage Pluto
has unearthed. That this is so is confirmed
if we progress the chart to Feb. 25, the date of news, when the square realigns
with the angles.
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