In
Japan, hikikomori (lit. "pulling inward, being confined", i.e.,
"acute social withdrawal"; colloquially/adaptive translation:
shutter) are reclusive adolescents or adults who withdraw from social life,
often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement. Hikikomori refers
to both the phenomenon in general and the recluses themselves. Hikikomori have
been described as loners or "modern-day hermits". Estimates suggest
that nearly half a million Japanese youth have become social recluses. According
to Michael Zielenziger's book, Shutting
Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation, the syndrome is
more closely related to posttraumatic stress disorder. The author claimed that
the hikikomori interviewed for the book had discovered independent thinking and
a sense of self that the current Japanese environment could not accommodate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikikomori
The problem termed “hikikomori” can actually be seen in
Japan’s national chart (Jan. 3, 1947;
0:00 hrs, Tokyo). Notice that
Mercury (which rules young people) is conjunct the TNPs Hades-Admetus. Keywords
for the TNPs are:
Hades: emotional depression; deterioration.
Admetus: avoidance
and shunning the company of others; isolation.
Putting the two together, we can see why the younger
generation (Mercury) facing depressions (Hades) is isolating (Admetus) itself.
The stars which form the backdrop to the combination explain
the reason behind this. This is an area where sidereal Pisces ends and Aries
begins. Simply put this is where the battle between the old and the new is
being fought. Nick Fiorenza describes this area in the following words:
Pisces is the
constellation of the two fishes. One fish swims westward, horizontally along
the ecliptic plane. The westward swimming fish articulates our primordial
autonomic (sleeping) nature, and our unconsciously reactive participation in
the cycle of mortal life (in other words going along with mass consensus). It
is of our inherited genealogies that we are born into and the behavioral
patterns they express. The eastern fish leaps upward, vertically from the
ecliptic plane, seeking a greater freedom at the shores of sidereal Aries. The
eastern fish articulates our desire and capacity to ascend from our inherited
past and its ideologies, and our effort to awaken from submersion in the
tumultuous psychic emotional human world articulated by southern Cetus.
More specifically, Admetus [19ar] is conjunct the star Baten
Kaitos [21ar].
Baten Kaitos, a star in the belly of the sea monster Cetus, has been linked with “isolation and depression”.
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