The
Chinese government is investing tens of billions of dollars as part of an
ambitious economic plan to rebuild ports, roads and rail networks. China's
President Xi Jinping has pledged $124bn (£96bn) for the scheme, known as the
Belt and Road initiative. "Trade is the important engine of economic
development," Mr Xi said at a summit of world leaders in Beijing. "In
advancing the Belt and Road, we will not re-tread the old path of games between
foes. Instead we will create a new model of co-operation and mutual
benefit," Mr Xi said at the opening of the two-day summit. "We should
build an open platform of co-operation and uphold and grow an open world
economy," he added. But neighbours Japan and India have stayed away
from the summit, suspicious that China's development agenda masks a bid for
strategic assets and geopolitical ambitions. And some economists are
cautious about the viability of projects in areas of political instability and
poor governance. May 14 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39912671
Solar eclipses offer opportunity to redefine concepts of
self and the roles we play in the world, or how we articulate ourselves in
life. They are about shifting octaves in the nature of our self-perception and
self-expression, and addressing issues that keep us from doing so. They can
invite a new beginning, way of life, or new way of participating in life. The
solar eclipse of September 1 fell in the 8th house at Beijing. The 8th
house in mundane astrology is associated with “commerce and business” between
countries. In his essay on the eclipse entitled “New Directions” Nick Fiorenza explains that the stars that form
the backdrop to the eclipse challenge us to move away from the older model of dominating
or controlling others towards co-operation and caring for others.
If we progress the eclipse chart to May 13, the date of the
Beijing summit, the eclipse along with
its T-square aligns with the horizon axis and this thereby triggered.
We also note that on the progressed MC [3li] is the newly
discovered dwarf planet Makemake about which Nick Fiorenza writes:
I am tending to think of Makemake as supporting the discovery of or
uncovering that which is nourishing in the material / physical realm of life,
of that which provides our fundamental physical sustenance, of economics; and
involving the politics governing the "fundamental provisions for the
people."
The motivating
(aphelion) force behind Makemake's perihelion influence (Revati, etc) is that
of a protector and provider, with clear intent to create the environmental
conditions supportive of a healthy, prosperous and abundant life.
Makemake's aphelion to
perihelion axis suggest Makemake reveals our need to get clear on the use and
application of resources. Clearly finding the golden egg is not about greed and
lust, trapped in the fear-based technobureaucratic monster of collective human
consciousness, but is about the proper use of the land and its resources in
providing for our nourishment and wellbeing, the use of resources to free those
entrapped (Andromeda) from the Jaws of ole Cetus.
The Chinese Belt and Road initiative is clearly about moving
in a new direction compared to the older model of exploitation.
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