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Expanded Panama Canal opens to giant ships




PANAMA CITY — A mammoth ship bearing 9,472 containers and the unwieldy name Cosco Shipping Panama completed on Sunday the first official voyage through the new expanded Panama Canal, a $5.25 billion project designed to modernize a 102-year-old landmark of human ambition, determination and engineering prowess. The Chinese vessel, which set sail from the Greek port of Piraeus on June 11, began its crossing of the isthmus from the northern Atlantic Ocean end of the 48-mile canal. On Sunday morning, it entered one of the new locks, on its way to the man-made Gatun Lake, the widened Culebra Cut through a verdant mountain ridge, and then the Pacific Ocean. Like the channel that opened in 1914, the enlarged Panama Canal is a feat of engineering, albeit one that ran over budget and two years behind schedule.  https://goo.gl/p4S460





The monthly lunar cycle and its phases is a natural and dependable time piece for understanding the nature of world events in the light of ancient myths linked to the stars. The widened Panama Canal was opened to traffic on June 26, just a day before the last quarter Moon phase. A chart for the Moon phase at Panama is shown here.




On the MC is the star alpha (α) Gemini Castor [20cn] 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. 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.[1]

On the descendant is Uranus conjunct Acamar.

Theta (θ) Eridanus, Acamar, is a star in the River often symbolized as a dam or restriction in the flow of the River [2]. Uranus which is conjunct Acamar on the descendant, is all about technological breakthroughs so that the removal of this obstacle comes very appropriately under the domain of Uranus.

Putting the pieces together, the widening of the Panama Canal or in other words the removal of what was perceived as an obstacles has led to the ease of commerce between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (Castor and Pollux hugging each other!).

[1] Cooperation & Co-participation For Solution  http://lunarplanner.com/LunarMonths2010/lunarmonth.10.07.11.html

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