NewsScope for April 6, 1998
Political Winds Shift Suddenly
Last week Judge Susan Webber Wright threw out the Paula
Jones case, a surprising turn of events that left the Clinton
camp relieved and elated, and right wing conservatives
frustrated and angry. Both sides agreed that Clinton will
probably finish his term in office, unless Independent
Prosecutor Kenneth Starr has some dramatic evidence yet
to be leaked.
A confluence of astrological forces coincided with this
sudden shift in the political winds, but most notably the
conjunction of Mars and Saturn which occurred on the
same day as this bold ruling. The political pressure
increased by magnitudes over the previous week as Mars
and Saturn approached their conjunction: Clinton had
retreated to Africa, as several more alleged trysts broke into
the news, and Republicans were seriously considering
impeachment hearings.
The climactic Mars-Saturn influence could be seen in other
political neighborhoods across our global village. In France
a virtually identical national obsession with a legal case
was simultaneously resolved as former Nazi collaborator
Maurice Papon was convicted of crimes against humanity
for deporting Jews during World War II. In Iraq, U.N.
inspectors declared the search of Saddam Hussein’s palaces
complete, and the process itself successful.
This pressure-packed celestial situation also had economic
impacts. Mars-Saturn marked a major threshold for stock
markets across the industrialized world, as the Dow Jones,
the most watched index, reached 9000 for the first time.
The run-up (Mars) and the cautionary note (Saturn) has
everyone on the pause button, as financial investors and
analysts look at Japan’s teetering economy for signs of
contagion.
Hanford and Ceres
While many astrologers have noted last week’s five planet
alignment in Aries (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, and
Saturn), left out of the discussion is what may become one
of the most significant celestial bodies in the astrologer’s
toolbox: Ceres, the Cosmic Mother asteroid. Ceres was also
in Aries, and over the next week will enter the same
zodiacal danger zone that Mars and Saturn were in last
week. This coming week watch for manifestations of this
archetype, which comes in the form of parenting issues,
cleaning up the environment, and in general, caretaking
and nurturing that which makes us all stronger and
healthier.
Ceres was spotlighted and activated a month ago when the
Solar Eclipse took place on America’s Ceres. Benjamin
Spock, the world’s most famous baby doctor, died soon
afterwards. Also in the news was the tobacco industry’s
efforts to protect documents showing the children were
actively targeted in advertising campaigns. And Americans
everywhere questioned how children could be raised with
deadly weapons training following the Jonesboro massacre
by two young students.
Ceres carries a powerful environmental agenda. As
transiting Pluto has recently entered America’s second
house of values, Congress has taken up the issue of what to
do with the historic balanced budget.
One of the leading contenders for federal funds is the
clean-up of Hanford where the Department of Energy has
produced plutonium since 1944, but now must manage the
Western Hemisphere’s worst environmental disaster area.
Hanford’s 55 million gallons of liquids and sludges in
leaking metal tanks contain an estimated 198 million curies
of radiation. The total Hanford cleanup tab may be $50
billion - or more.
Martin Luthor King, Jr.
The 30th anniversary of Martin Luthor King’s assassination
was commemorated last week, even as his family called for
an investigation into exactly who killed the famed civil
rights leader. MLK, according to astrologer Alan Epstein
(who discusses this chart in depth in his book, The Sextile)
was born on January 15, 1929; 11:00 AM CST in Atlanta,
Georgia.
King’s Capricorn Sun is aligned with the U.S. Pluto, which
reflects the powerful transformational role he would play in
American history. Adding to his heroic adventures is his
Mars in vocal, roaming Gemini (exactly conjunct the U.S.
Mars): his inspirational speeches and mass marches
personify this American archetype.
King’s life was destined to be a struggle since his Mars was
opposed by a moralistic, righteous Saturn in Sagittarius.
However, everything he did was tempered by a visionary,
peace-loving Moon in Pisces.
Martin King was killed at 6:08 PM on April 4, 1968 by a
single shot. In the horoscope set for this time, Uranus is in
the twelfth house of secret enemies, exactly opposed by
Mercury. The precise, fully conscious timing that
Mercury-Uranus aspects engender is also present in JFK’s
assassination, as well as the downing of TWA Flight #800.
Uranus in the twelfth house is accompanied by Pluto and
the political asteroid Pallas Athene, indicating at least
astrologically, that James Earl Ray had powerful allies.
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