NewsScope for June 1, 1998
by WolfStar
Chaos vs. One World
Flouting impassioned pleas from U.N. Security Council
and world leaders everywhere, Pakistan’s government
tested a sixth nuclear bomb last Saturday, escalating an
already dangerous arms race. In Russia, Yeltsin’s advisers
attempted to control wildly gyrating market forces, as U.S.
security forces went on red alert over the safeguarding of
Russia’s 10,000 nuclear-armed missiles.
Astrologically, the outer planets Saturn and Neptune are
forming an exact square, marking the first worldwide
celestial threat in several years. The electromagnetic
crossfire between these two planets becomes exact on June
25, but they will remain in a dangerously tight link-up
through 1999.
The economic, social, political, and ecological structures of
our global village are represented by solid, traditional
Saturn. Neptune on the other hand tends to dissolve,
subvert, and scandalize, although it holds the prospect for a
better future with some unifying vision, either political or
spiritual. When Neptune assaults Saturn, the center doesn’t
hold; the institutional frameworks that protect become
severely stressed.
Hollywood, ruled by Neptune, has capitalized on this
underlying, collective fear. Blockbuster catastrophe movies
have hit it big, beginning with Titanic, and most recently
with Deep Impact, Godzilla, and soon to come,
Y2K.
The many dooms-day scenarios energized by the pervasive
Saturn-Neptune vibration leaves out global village teetering
on the brink of chaos. However, the ray of hope is that
through international cooperation and organization, world
leaders will be able to resolve the serious problems by
encouraging a broader perspective than self interest.
Neptune is, afterall, in “One World” Aquarius.
Mt. Popcatepetl and Global Warming
Renown volcanoes in Japan, Italy, Indonesia, Washington,
and Mexico may erupt at any moment. Mexico’s Mount
Popcatepetl currently seems most destabilized, and is now
spewing sulfur at the rate of 8,000 tons/day. A virtual news
blackout on Mexico’s volcano is in effect in the United
States, but if this volcano blows, a global warming cloud
will encircle our ecologically wobbly Spaceship Earth.
Mexico’s current government, like Russia’s, was formed
the last time Uranus was in Aquarius. Both Mexico and
Russia experienced cataclysmic political upheaval before
their simultaneous socialist revolutions restored order in
1917. Now that Uranus is returning to the middle degrees
of Aquarius, both Mexico and Russia are once again
verging on collapse.
While Russia’s state of affairs has been widely reported,
Mexico’s horoscope looks more dangerous. Mexico’s
current incarnation is set for January 31, 1917 (4:42 PM in
Quetaro), and features a socially ambitious triple
conjunction of the Sun, Mars, and Uranus all in Aquarius.
Pluto in the twelfth house of secrets (animated now by the
progressed Midheaven) shows that Mexico is a narco-state,
that is, essentially ruled by the drug czars.
Mexico’s situation is extremely volatile. Transiting Uranus
is now passing directly over the Sun, and ethereal Neptune
is opposing natal Neptune. UFOs have been videotaped
flying around Mt. Popcatepetl, and the Mayan prophecies
add yet another surreal aura to Mexico’s very real dilemma.
The latest report is that this volcano’s vents have just
closed, indicating that pressure is building for an explosion.
Global warming watchdogs report that the 1990s is the
warmest decade in over 600 years. Antarctica’s glaciers are
melting much faster than first anticipated, and
oceanographers are now saying that the sea level is actually
rising. The first international conferences on global
warming resulted in vague promises, but with these
ecological disasters pending, and Uranus and Neptune in
Aquarius, can One World policies be far behind?
Hartman and Goldwater
Both Phil Hartman and Barry Goldwater died last week.
While the comedian and the conservative politician may
seem like very different personalities, their astrological
profiles reflect how they shared a dominant psychological
trait, and one that resonated in the heavens when they both
exited this plane of consciousness.
Hartman was born on September 24, 1948, and Goldwater
was born on January 1, 1909. In a man’s chart, Mars is the
planet most directly concerned with his virility, drive, and
ego-assertion. Both these men had Mars strongly placed in
Scorpio, endowing them with stamina and single-minded
purpose, but with the tendency toward compulsive
obsessions and self-destructive behaviors.
Both Hartman and Goldwater had Mars radically
empowered by a close aspect to Pluto, which also has the
effect of enlarging self-destructive habits. For Goldwater,
his arch-conservative stance of nuking Vietnam risked
all-out war with Russia. Hartman’s destructive side was
evident in his caustic humor masked by a dead-pan
smiley-face, but ultimately manifesting when his wife shot
him in a jealous rage.
Last week when these Mars-Pluto gentlemen died, the
astrological heavens featured a Mars-Pluto opposition. As
they came in, so they departed....
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