Perhaps the biggest risk for the Chinese economy,
which has so far flown deep under the radar, is social discontent, resulting
from a breakdown in recent "agreeable" labor conditions, wage cuts
and rising unemployment, leading to labor strikes and in some cases, violence.
Nov.12
The
People's Republic of China was formally established on October 1, 1949, 3:01:36
pm CCT, Beijing, China. The chart of modern
China is based on this data [1]. Currently, the solar arc progressed
Ascendant [7ar] is opposite the radix Sun in the 8th house which
receives a square from Uranus in the 6th.
In mundane
astrology the sixth house rules workers, the laboring classes, unions, labor
organizations, wage conditions, employment and unemployment while the
eighth house deals with the nation’s foreign investments and the debt owed to
it. Here the Sun is in the eighth house square Uranus in the sixth. Since
squares represent a crisis we can already the see the essential nature of the
problem. China has the largest foreign exchange reserves (Sun in 8th)
but its working class (6th)
is poorly paid and unhappy enough to go on strikes (Uranus).
The
Chinese economic reform was accompanied by a business boom, when the
possibility to make trading and human association extraordinarily profitable occurred
. The fruits expected by the partners as the outcome of their association can
truly be of many kinds. What establishes the worth of a business relationship
is not only whether it produces profits but also the nature of the results expected by
the participants of this relationship. It must be remembered that the large
foreign exchange reserve was the result of ordinary Chinese labour working hard
for the profits of their companies which were then invested abroad instead of being ploughed
back into welfare schemes for the working Chinese.
The
September 28, total lunar eclipse [5li] fell on the Sun-Uranus square in China’s
chart thereby triggering its potential meaning. The Sun and the North Node in
the eclipse were conjunct the dwarf planet Makemake.
Makemake appears to bring attention to
leadership issues regarding the administration of resources; and in areas
involving economics and human survival. It impels strategic planning and enterprising action to
create environmental conditions that ensure a healthy, prosperous and abundant
life for the people in general. Makemake may also act to sort out those who are
truly worthy of being in a leadership role from those who are not [2].
The news
item above appeared on Nov.12. If we progress the eclipse chart to that date,
notice how beautifully the Grand Cross containing the eclipse axis is triggered
by the progressed Ascendant. If Uranus-Pluto is about rebellion and revolt, the
TNPs Kronos and Hades refer to a polarization between labour (Hades) and
management (Kronos).
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