NewsScope for May 17, 1999
by WolfStar
NATO Pummels Serbia
Over the past week NATO launched their greatest number
of sorties over Yugoslavia since the bombing raids began on
March 24. NATO generals and American diplomats
promised to press on with the relentless assault in spite of
tremendous civilian casualties.
Astrologically, the transit of Mars squaring the U.S. Pluto
marks the punishing willpower of the U.S.-led NATO
mission. This aspect was exact when NATO brushed off
reports that 100 refugees were accidentally targeted by
NATO warplanes. Mars-Pluto aspects are determined to win
no matter what the costs.
Now that this second of three aspects is completed, the
diplomatic track will likely take precedence. Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright (b. May 15, 1937) steps forward.
As Time magazine described last week, Madeleine Albright
has been the moral force behind NATO’s entrance into
Kosovo, and the lead promoter of a renewed NATO mission
in the next Millennium. Her Warrior asteroid Pallas Athene
is located in the alliance-building, networking Aquarius,
which visionary Neptune is now activating.
Mars-Chiron links tend to lash out in reaction to personally
experienced injustices stemming from weakness or
vulnerability. Albright’s relentless efforts to police Serbian
transgressions can be seen in her Chiron, which is exactly
aligned with the U.S. Mars. At the same time transiting
Chiron is now on her own Mars, a double whammy sure to
make an impression. The Wounded becomes the Warrior.
Pluto Initiates the Post-PC Era
Over the last few weeks the telecommunications industry has
begun another wave of consolidation. The most competitive
players in the global market have been forced to make
alliances that increase their competitive advantage. By
partnering, a corporation hopes to improve its technological
edge, market share, and financial clout.
AT&T’s $62 billion buyout of cable giant MediaOne was
the result of an intense bidding war happening at same time
that Russia and the G-8 countries were negotiating over the
fate of Kosovo. Astrologically, aggressive Mars had just
retrograded back into diplomatic Libra. AT&T announced
the following week a $5 billion deal with Microsoft, as their
combined technological assets promise to re-shape the entire
telecommunications industry over the next few years.
The outer planet backdrop for these events is the alignment
of transiting Pluto with the U.S. Uranus. Uranus, as the
natural ruler of new technology, is positioned in the eighth*
house of capitalism where it sustains and propels America
into the future. Pluto is now making its third and extended
final opposition to this Uranus, a phase which lasts from
May through October.
Meanwhile, in the short term Mars will be reaching some
key points which should bring important developments in the
telecommunications business world (as well as on the
diplomatic front in Kosovo). Watch for huge deals to
surface when Mars and Jupiter oppose each other during the
last few days of May, and continuing through when Mars
turns direct on June 4.
George Lucas and the Phantom Menace
The long-awaited prequel to the Star Wars trilogy arrives
this Wednesday in a galaxy near you. In the greatest
anticipated movie since Gone with the Wind, The Phantom
Menace has exalted film-maker George Lucas and initiated
an unparalleled media hype and promotion of product
tie-ins.
George Lucas was born a traditional, hard-working Taurus
(May 14, 1944; 5:40 am; Modesto, CA), with his
Ascendant, Mercury, and Venus also in Taurus. The closest
aspect in his horoscope is a Mercury-Pluto square which
resonates with the U.S. Mercury-Pluto opposition, and is
aligned with the fateful U.S. North Node.
Mercury-Pluto aspects are renowned for their mental power,
their ability to focus and control every facet of a project.
This mental focus became the warrior’s mystical advantage
known as the Force, first explained when the original Star
Wars movie debuted on May 25, 1977. At the time
transiting Uranus was crossing the U.S. Ascendant,
reflecting astrologically how the Star Wars spectacular
became an epic Hollywood success story.
Now The Phantom Menace opens only two days before
Uranus reaches its maximum potential (it’s retrograde station
on May 19), and is powerfully positioned on the U.S. fourth
house cusp. Uranus crossing the angles of the U.S.
horoscope has brought Star Wars, and now the prequel.
The downside of The Phantom Menace, critics complain, is
that the actors are cardboard figures. In Lucas mythology,
boys grow up to be soldiers and girls become princesses. Try
telling a Taurus with Mars in Cancer that the world should
be anything different! Saturn, the ultimate critic, is in Taurus
now, questioning this reality map.
* According to the Scorpio Rising horoscope. Read more on
the U.S.
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