NewsScope for April 12, 1999
by WolfStar
Mars and Saturn Foment International Conflict
This week takes place under the troubling cosmological
cloud of a Mars-Saturn vibration. Any hard aspect between
Mars and Saturn creates a climate of confrontation,
frustration, and battle for control. These two planets will be
exactly opposite each other on April 19 at 9:45 pm EDT.
The tension becomes unbearably tangible between now and
then.
Because Mars is going through a retrograde phase, it
actually forms three oppositions to Saturn before speeding
ahead. The last Mars-Saturn opposition took place during
the height of the Senate Impeachment Trial, and just as
Clinton was giving his State of the Union speech. That
event proved to be a turning point in Clinton’s political
survival.
We can expect that the pending Mars-Saturn opposition
will likewise be a turning point in the Kosovo crisis. At the
moment, the Pentagon is waiting for public opinion to
swing in favor of putting in ground troops before
announcing that’s precisely what it’s doing. NATO has
officially accepted the Pentagon’s offer of 24 Apache
helicopters, the Army’s weapon of choice to give air cover
to ground troops. Meanwhile, 2,000 American soldiers
have already arrived in Albania.
The Republican hopefuls will also be under pressure to
make a much bolder statement on the Kosovo crisis.
Senator John McCain last week crossed the
Commander-in-Chief threshold by saying that now we’re
in, we need to win. Front-runners Governor Bush and
Elizabeth Dole, feeling the pressure of Mars-Saturn, will be
forced to come out with some statement that invokes a
more shrewd military awareness.
The Age of Aquarius and the WWW
Last week high-tech stocks led the Dow to another record
high as the U.S. economy continues to flourish in robust
health. At the center of this consistent growth is the
internet, and all the American companies that support its
aggressive expansion into the global community.
Astrologically, all new technologies are governed by
Uranus. The telecommunications revolution began a few
years ago when Uranus aligned with the U.S. Pluto in the
third house of communications. Now transiting Uranus is
just entering the U.S. fourth house, and the corporate battle
for control over the domestic market is in full swing.
In her book “Astro-Mythology” astrologer Valerie Vaughan
demonstrates how the asteroid Pallas Athene is the ruler of
computers and computer technology. This becomes
important in the U.S. horoscope because Pallas is located
in the U.S. fourth house right next to the Aquarius Moon.
In Political Astrology the Moon represents the nation’s
women, as well as the security-needs of the people as a
whole.
The U.S. progressed Sun will be conjunct the Aquarius
Moon in June 2000, which points to the rising power of
women in socio-political terms. Since the U.S. Moon is
near Pallas, we can also see how the American people are
now, and will be embracing the computer revolution. Is this
the beginning of the Age of Aquarius? This Moon-Pallas is
in Aquarius, the sign whose glyph looks remarkably like
the letters for the World Wide Web, WWW.
Serbian Nationalism
Of the many horoscopes used to monitor the crisis in
Kosovo, perhaps the most relevant is the chart for Serbia.
The Treaty of Berlin, signed on July 13, 1878 (2:30 pm
LMT) by the European powers, gave Serbia its first taste of
internationally recognized independence. The chart is
relocated to Serbia’s capital Belgrade and set for 2:58 pm
LMT.
Uranus, the planet of freedom and independence, is located
in royal Leo near the Midheaven, and happens to be
precisely aligned with Slobodan Milosevic’s Sun. This
connection shows how Milosevic is the embodiment of
Serbian nationalism. Uranus squares Pluto in the seventh
house, reflecting how Serbian independence was a strategic
play by the European nations to maintain the balance of
power.
The Warrior planet Mars is in proud Leo and conjunct the
karmic South Node. Mars also squares Chiron, the planet
describing where we are wounded and most likely to
over-compensate. This configuration, recently activated by
transiting Uranus, shows how Serbian nationalism is an
outgrowth of Wounded Pride which asserts itself boldly
and defiantly whenever this natal Mars-Chiron is activated.
The massive refugee problem can be seen in the natal
placement of Ceres, which represents humanitarian aid, or
when under stress, humanitarian crisis. Last week’s
Saturn-Neptune square perfectly aligned with Serbia’s
Ceres. Then later this week the Mars-Saturn opposition
connects with Serbia’s Ceres, indicating that the
International Community will have its hands full with the
refugee situation.
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