NewsScope for May 18, 1998
by WolfStar
India Uncorks Nuclear Genie
India’s new government unexpectedly detonated five
underground nuclear tests last week. The American
intelligence community was caught off guard for not
predicting this unsettling development, in spite of the
nationalist BJP’s campaign promise to go nuclear as soon
as elected.
The nuclear tests were conducted under the astrologically
bold and aggressive combination of a Sun-Mars
conjunction. This aspect was the celestial trigger for the
more historic planetary combinations discussed last week
in this column. The rapidly evolving global marketplace,
driven by titanic transnational corporations and an epochal
technological revolution, has hit a nuclear iceberg.
Equally disturbing on the international front has been the
collapse of the Indonesian economy, and the subsequent
rioting over fuel prices. The rioting of Indonesia’s
dispossessed represents a second wave of social upheaval,
following the first wave of middle class and student
protests over Suharto’s rule. The democratic-capitalist
social model, or “trickle-down economics,” has been
declared null and void by the rioting, looting masses.
Uranus turning retrograde in Aquarius is ushering in a class
consciousness that is challenging the status quo. Whether
it’s India’s gate-crashing into the exclusive nuclear club, or
Indonesia’s have-nots demanding a fair share, the reign of
the global village’s plutocrats is under siege.
Neptune is also in Aquarius, and this planetary vibration
will eventually manifest a political or religious vision for
class equality. Marxism and Mormonism were two
variations of social engineering that arose during the 1840s,
which was the last time Neptune was in Aquarius.
MicroSoft vs. Saturn
Among the significant turning points reached this week (as
Uranus makes its retrograde station) is the release of
Windows 98, which will lead to antitrust lawsuits filed by
the Justice Department and at least 20 states. Then, the
recent flurry of $mega-billion corporate mergers has
transcended national laws and borders, but under the
pressure of Saturn squaring the U.S. Pluto, limits are
beginning to be enforced on corporate excesses.
This week’s combined influence of Saturn and Uranus
represents a likely turning point for the stock market’s
bullish trend. In three weeks Saturn will enter Taurus when
the captains of industry will come under increasing
pressure to play fair.
Saturn in Taurus represents the prudent management of
resources, which includes natural as well as financial. The
global environmental movement began with the first Earth
Day in 1970, the last time Saturn was in Taurus. One of the
major concerns expressed by climatologists is that a single,
above-ground nuclear explosion could trigger an
earth-warming cloud, which would raise Antarctica’s
fragile
Larsen ice shelf the one degree necessary to melt the
glacier and flood the earth’s coastal cities.
The important August 11, 1999 Solar Eclipse features
Saturn in Taurus square Uranus in Aquarius. The extremely
antagonistic planetary forces encoded in this eclipse
activate both India’s and Pakistan’s national horoscopes. In
addition, the path of total eclipse goes right over the
India-Pakistan border.
Sinatra’s Star Power
Ol’ Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra was so popular in the 1940s
that his live appearances caused civil disturbances. He
continued to rivet America’s attention through several
rocky marriages, a movie career, and late-night carousing
with his gangster buddies in Las Vegas. As well known for
his charity as his volatility, Sinatra succumbed to a heart
attack last Thursday at the age of 82.
Sinatra was born a trendy Sagittarius (December 12, 1915;
3:00 AM; Hoboken, NJ), with his Moon in musical Pisces.
Nearly every planet in his horoscope is closely alined with
a planet in the U.S. horoscope, a match which reflects how
his life path would make him an American original, an
archetypal icon.
For courage, Sinatra had a Leo Mars (opposite the U.S.
Moon) and a close Sun-Jupiter aspect, which lines up with
the U.S. Mars. One of Sinatra’s most extraordinary gifts
was his ability to hold his breath much longer than other
crooners, and in the process merge his song with the
audience’s mood and consciousness. This transpersonal
bonding is what captivated and fascinated people, and can
be seen in his ethereal Pisces Moon which is given power
and resonance by the harmonious trine to Pluto.
Neptune conjunct his Leo Midheaven represents the
glamorous image that he cultivated and became. Sinatra
became a superstar when transiting Pluto arrived at his
Midheaven and Neptune in the early 1940s, and he died
when transiting Neptune opposed this same degree zone
last week. Sinatra’s Saturn on the U.S. Sun shows how he
has indelibly shaped American culture and become the
voice of the country.
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