NewsScope for February 15, 1999
by WolfStar
Jupiter and Saturn Bring New Political Season
The nation breathed a collective sigh of relief last Friday
when the Senate concluded its Impeachment Trial by
acquitting President Clinton on both charges. While
virtually every Senator voiced his or her disgust at the
President’s immoral, wretched conduct, less than a simple
majority thought his actions rose to the level of high crimes
and misdemeanors.
Astrologically, many planetary indicators paralleled this
scandal’s developments, with perhaps the clearest being
Jupiter’s. The Senate’s final vote came on the very last day
that righteous Jupiter was in the sorry sign of Pisces. Now
that Jupiter is in exuberant Aries, the political climate
reflects the birth of Spring.
Jupiter began it’s journey through Pisces only days after the
scandal began in January 1998. As morally perfect Jupiter
trudged through the sign of remorse and suffering,
politicians, pundits and voters contemplated the President’s
guilt and debated a fitting rebuke. Now the long, torturous
season of judgment and punishment is ended and a new
political season is being born, precisely as Jupiter enters
militant Aries.
A simultaneous planetary passage, one that brought
Jupiter’s Pisces journey into the history books, was
Saturn’s prolonged link to the nation’s ruling planet, Pluto.
The combination of transiting Saturn to the U.S. Pluto
tested the nation’s checks and balances system to its
constitutional roots. While many observers and participants
remain embittered, the democratic functions withstood the
institutional challenges, and the U.S. remains the most
enduring constitutional government in the global village.
American Troops to Kosovo
This year militant Mars spends an extra long time in
Scorpio, America’s Rising Sign*. Scorpio, the most intense
of the twelve signs, is perpetually in a warrior mode,
especially when it comes to questions of right or wrong.
America’s political crisis over the Clinton-Lewinski affair
burst onto the front pages exactly as transiting Uranus
squared the U.S. Scorpio Ascendant in late January 1998.
In 1999 Uranus has moved on and the scandal is more or
less behind us, but Mars has arrived and military
adventures are just beginning.
Mars is on the U.S. Ascendant by February 20, but already
the buzz is out about sending 4,000 American ground
troops to Kosovo. Ever since Mars entered Scorpio the Air
Force has been waging a Low Intensity Conflict in Iraq, and
worrying about how to save the world from Russia’s
hyper-weakened state, and its selling of biological, nuclear,
and chemical weapons technology to rogue states and
terrorists.
The U.S. tends toward war when Saturn goes through the
U.S. seventh house of open enemies. Saturn will soon enter
Taurus, and then speeds into the U.S. seventh house by
May. The negotiated settlement between Kosovo and
Serbia will likely lead to several years of American
commitment in the Balkans. The entire Balkans episode is
reminiscent of Mission Creep into Vietnam, which was the
last time Saturn was in the U.S. seventh house.
The Wounded President
Bill Clinton (b. August 19, 1946; 8:51 am; Hope, AK) is
blessed with a lucky Leo Sun-Jupiter-Uranus combination
that periodically rescues him from his own indiscretions.
However, at the moment he is undergoing two very
important progressed aspects that will define the rest of his
term in office, and the evolution of Pax Americana on the
world stage.
First, his progressed Sun is nearly conjunct the
comet/asteroid Chiron, frequently referred to as the
Wounded Healer. The Sun, representing his identity, is
absorbing the qualities of Chiron, and has already bestowed
upon him the title of The Wounded President. Over the
next two years as this progression completes, he will be
seeking to become the Healer, as he works with his
personal family, Congress, and the American people to
overcome his moral lapse.
What makes the Wounded President a Cornered Tiger is
his progressed Mars, now less than one degree from
squaring his Pluto. The progressed Mars is accompanied by
progressed Juno, a combination which is vexed in the
extreme over being shafted by perceived enemies (the
Right Wing Conspiracy).
Clinton is currently devising payback plans, which center
on defeating Republicans in the 2000 elections. However,
the deadly combination of Juno-Mars-Pluto has a ripple
effect in all Presidential actions, including the desire to
absolutely destroy something, whatever hapless target that
might be (such as the pharmaceutical plant in Sudan).
Conversely, this combo may produce the power and
influence to rectify his past actions by creating innovative
domestic programs and peace deals across the planet. It all
depends on the President’s state of mind, how well he can
balance the competing desire to make good with
opportunities to vent his rage.
* For a detailed look at the USA Scorpio Rising chart, visit
the Scorpio Rising home page. Reader feedback is
welcome. Email: wolfstar3@aol.com.
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