NewsScope for March 22, 1999
by WolfStar
Mars Triggers Disaster Season
Last Monday a deadly train-truck accident killed 11 people
and wounded dozens near Bourbonnais, Illinois. An
eyewitness reported that a truck loaded with steel entered
the railroad crossing despite flashing warning lights just
before it was struck by the oncoming Amtrak passenger
train. The truck driver has a long history of speeding tickets
and has been involved in 11 previous accidents.
A confluence of celestial events created a disastrous week
across the global village last week, with Mars as the
leading indicator. Every two years Mars reverses its course
and begins moving retrograde. It’s stationary point is its
most potent, and this time Mars is extra ruthless and
relentless by being in the warrior sign of Scorpio. Mars was
rising at 9:47 pm when the train wreck occurred.
A terrorist bomb in southern Russia marketplace killed at
least 62 people, and in the state of Bihar, India a caste
massacre left 36 villagers beheaded. Meanwhile, peace
monitors left Kosovo in preparation for imminent NATO
air strikes against Serbian forces massing on the border.
At the same time that violent Mars turned retrograde,
life-giving Ceres was opposed by life-taking Pluto. Pluto is
now aligned with the first magnitude star Antares (known
for its paramilitary exploits), creating some kind of cosmic
magnetic beam focused from the outer galaxy (Antares),
through the outer edge of our solar system (Pluto), through
the asteroid belt (Ceres), and manifesting on spaceship
earth.
Planetary Cycles and Market Momentum
Last week the Dow danced back and forth across the
magical 10,000 threshold, continuing to grow at the
unprecedented rate of 20 percent annually. Federal tax
revenues from prosperous investors is giving Congress the
exceptional task of managing a budget surplus, while
virtually the entire global economy rests on the continued
growth of the U.S. stock market.
Two years ago, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan warned of
Irrational Exuberance in the market, an exquisite term for
Neptunian bliss. However, not until realistic Saturn squared
Neptune last June did the market make a major correction
from its high at 9300. Over the next few months the market
plunged to 7400, a drastic over-reaction. Then within a
month of when Saturn made its second square to Neptune,
the panic subsided and the market was off and running
again.
On April 6 Saturn and Neptune make their third of three
squares, promising a third reality check in the market. If the
market ventures too high, toward a state of Irrational
Exuberance, within a month of this link-up we can expect a
significant correction.
While the Saturn-Neptune cycle is a key analytical tool in
financial astrology, the Saturn-Uranus cycle is even more
telling. The first of three Saturn-Uranus squares takes place
in July 1999 while the third and final Saturn-Uranus square
happens in May 2000.
According to financial astrologer Raymond Merriman,
sometime within this interval (July 1999-May 2000) the
market has a 100 percent chance of hitting a four-year low
(meaning below 6500). Heightened concern over the Y2K
bug could be the driving force for such a market panic, and
in this regard its worth noting that the second
Saturn-Uranus square takes place in November 1999.
Calista Flockhart’s Struggle
Calista Flockhart, the short-skirted actress who plays the
man-hungry lawyer in TV’s Ally McBeal, has been
showing off her new muscles lately. Last year she appeared
so thin at the Oscars that many fans wondered if she was
anorexic.
Calista Flockhart was born a sexy Scorpio on November
11, 1964; 9:06 am; Freeport, IL), with her Moon in
egalitarian Aquarius. This Sun-Moon blend carries a
built-in conflict between the emotional need for absolute
control over self and others (Scorpio), with the
humanitarian urges of the intellectual Aquarian Moon.
Scorpio is passionate, driven, and mysterious, while
Aquarius is cool, rational, inventive, and mentally abstract.
Ms. Flockhart as Ally McBeal can often be seen
dramatizing her active imagination. The Sun-Neptune
conjunction portrays this tendency, as does mental Mercury
in the secretive twelfth house. Astrologer Donna
Cunningham would call Flockhart an Outer-Planet Person
(OPP) because her Sun is directly linked to all the outer
planets. In this astrological signature the individual is
compelled to play a mythic role in life, something that
conveys the lessons and gifts of an entire generation.
With the marriage asteroid Juno on her Ascendant, and in a
tense configuration with Uranus, Pluto, and Chiron,
Flockhart’s entire image and presentation centers on her
weekly, epic struggles with relationships. The love goddess
Venus is beautiful in Libra, and situated in her tenth house
of career. But this Venus is squaring Ceres (the asteroid
governing food and eating habits) in restrictive Capricorn.
Beauty and food mix uncomfortably in this horoscope.
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