Deciphering the online Chinese lexicon: how the term Jade came to represent President Xi Jinping

Chinese calligraphy converted from ” fonttaopng.com “. Image by Oiwan Lam. In recent years, the Chinese term “Jade” or “Fei Cui” (翡翠) has been used by overseas Chinese dissidents as a code phrase to criticize Chinese President Xi Jinping. The trend is likely to continue as Chinese political dissidents have just launched an online campaign … Read more

What do the transpersonal planets represent in a birth chart?

The transpersonal planets are the slowest moving planets in the Solar System. There are three: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. These celestial bodies were not discovered until recently, because it was not possible to locate them with the naked eye in the sky. They are of vital importance for the understanding of the karmic energies that … Read more

Germany: in Freiburg, the baptism registers evolve to represent LGBTI families

Should the filiation of the child of a same-sex couple be entered in the baptism registers? What to do when the sex of a baptized person changes in the civil status? To guide priests faced with practical situations on which canon law does not pronounce, the archbishopric of Freiburg, in Baden-Württemberg (southwest Germany), regulated them … Read more