NewsScope for June 15, 1998
by WolfStar
NATO On the Move
Last week’s Full Moon on the U.S. Mars triggered a
number of headline events. The U.S. Mars is in the
transportation sign of Gemini, and on the day of the Full
Moon President Clinton signed into law a massive $203
billion transportation bill. Sharing the transportation
spotlight, workers at GM walked out on Thursday,
threatening to shutter the largest automaker in the world.
The U.S. Mars also represents American military muscle,
now on display in and around Albania. Serbian President
Milosevic is attempting to convince the Kosovo Liberation
Army that Kosovo is traditional Serbian territory. NATO,
under the dynamic influence of British leadership, is
attempting to convince Milosevic to back off.
Celestial forces are gathering to make this regional conflict
a testing ground for our global village’s power structures.
NATO, the United Nations, the Pentagon, Russia, and
Kosovo itself all have horoscopes under severe stress right
now. Meanwhile, transiting Pluto is squaring Milosevic’s
Virgo Sun, so astrologically he is in no mood to give in.
Over the next ten days several important planetary
alignments will be shaping up. Mars is now in Gemini
about to return to its natal position in the U.S. horoscope.*
This event occurs on June 23 (two days after the Summer
Solstice) when we can expect the generals to be fully in
charge of international events.
Saturn and Neptune Meet Again
The two international scenarios now getting top billing in
the news media had their roots in 1989. Slobodan
Milosevic annexed Kosovo on March 23, 1989 as the
Soviet Empire was crumbling. The other lead story is
President Clinton’s visit to China, scheduled for June 24.
He will begin his tour in Tianamen Square where mass
student protests were brutally repressed on June 6, 1989.
One of the most important planetary rhythms in political
astrology is the Saturn-Neptune cycle, which unfolds over a
period of about 36 years. Because of retrograde phases,
Saturn and Neptune formed three conjunctions in 1989
before Saturn’s faster orbital speed moved it ahead of
Neptune. Now these two planets are about to form a 90
degree angle (a square), setting all the events formulated
under the 1989 conjunction into a phase of dynamic
developmental tension.
Neptune’s vision for social equality meets Saturn’s demand
for pragmatism and structure. Neptune’s vision can arrive
as a political ideology or a religious revelation. Russia’s
communist incarnation was born under the 1917
Saturn-Neptune conjunction, and then experienced a
rebirth when Josef Stalin died during the Saturn-Neptune
conjunction of 1953. Russia as a communist state died in
1989 during the most recent Saturn-Neptune conjunction.
Saturn and Neptune form their square on June 25, and then
twice more over the next ten months. This phase is the
beginning of a year-long transition which tests the reforms
of 1989, including both Russia’s and China’s conversion to
a market economy, and Milosevic’s control over ethnic
Albanians in the Kosovo region.
Charlton Heston and the NRA
Charlton Heston was unanimously elected President of the
National Rifle Association last week. The NRA hopes that
the man who played Moses on the screen may help the
organization achieve a more mainstream public image.
"Frankly, if the NRA is mainstream, then we live on the
`Planet of the Apes,' " said Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.),
author of the Brady Bill.
Heston was born a Plutonian personality (October 4, 1923;
7:55 AM CST; Evanston, IL), a mixed blessing that offers
both charisma and obsession for power. Heston’s Sun-Pluto
square is a near perfect overlay of the Sun-Saturn square in
the USA horoscope,* emphasizing the archetypal roles he
would play both on and off screen.
Like many other successful actors, Heston’s tenth house of
career is dominated by Neptune, the planet that is adept at
creating striking images. This Neptune is closely square
Jupiter in Scorpio, the aspect of the True Believer. Whether
as an NRA spokesman or Biblical hero, Heston’s inner
faith is a recognizable and marketable commodity.
Heston’s Mars, the action planet associated with guns and
violence, is in Virgo where it always remains under
disciplined control. His Mars is alined with the U.S.
Neptune, further mythologizing his Hollywood image as an
action hero. However, Heston’s Mars is square the U.S.
Gemini Mars, and thereby represents a severe challenge to
American credulity over the ability to control weapons.
Heston was elected NRA President as his progressed Mars
reached the U.S. Scorpio Ascendant.
* For a detailed look at the USA Scorpio Rising chart, visit
the Scorpio Rising
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