NewsScope for July 27, 1998
by WolfStar
Ceres Withholds Her Blessings
All across the southern United States a record-breaking
heat wave continued into its fourth week. Dallas, Texas
was the worst hit with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees
for three weeks running. President Clinton declared
drought-stricken Texas an agricultural disaster area, and
released $100 million in emergency federal aid to buy fans
and air-conditioners.
The asteroid Ceres governs agriculture, and in the U.S.
horoscope she is given abundance by a favorable
connection to the beneficent Jupiter. Texas (which entered
the union on December 29, 1845) has Ceres in nearly the
identical location as the U.S. Ceres, and is also favorably
aspecting Jupiter, as well as the Texas Sun in Capricorn.
However, at the moment transiting Pluto is severely
challenging the Texas Ceres. Pluto will be nearly standstill
during the entire month of August while it completes an
exact square (the 90-degree angle). This indicates major
agricultural losses, a tragedy which will eventually affect
the country as higher prices in beef, grapefruit and other
food commodities.
Ceres also governs abortion. Pluto’s influence on the U.S.
Ceres manifested last week in Congress as the House
overturned the President’s veto of a ban on late-term
abortions. Pluto’s effect is long term, and the
Republican-controlled House is using this issue to prepare
for November’s campaign when Pluto will be zooming in
on its square to the U.S. Ceres.
Middle East Threatened by Mercury Retrograde
On Thursday July 30 (10:27 pm EDT) Mercury turns
retrograde in late Leo. One of astrology’s most reliable
indicators for snafus, misinformation, and missed
opportunities, Mercury retrograde phases often lead
otherwise level-headed people into a perpetual state of
confusion and doubt. In Leo, arrogance and pride lead to
severe miscalculations.
Mercury, ruler of communications and documents, will be
stopping and reversing near Clinton’s Sun. We have
already seen one major impact of this celestial riptide when
last week Presidential Press Secretary Mike McCurry
announced he was quitting his post. As Mercury makes its
station this coming week, we can expect some major
developments concerning Starr’s subpoena of the
President.
Curiously, Middle East negotiations often flourish when
Mercury goes retrograde. Attitudes and statements that
block peace efforts can be adjusted, so that breakthroughs
become possible. However, Mercury is turning retrograde
right on Israel’s Mars, a prolonged planetary visit that will
likely bring short tempers, and possibly military action.
Certainly terrorism cannot be ignored under this deadly
influence.
A series of important astrological events in August
heightens tensions within Prime Minister Netanyahu’s
cabinet and with any or all of Israel’s perceived enemies.
Transiting Chiron is now squaring Israel’s Pluto, pointing
to extremism and ultimatums. Then a Solar Eclipse on
Israel’s Mars on August 21, plus Mercury turning direct on
Pluto (August 23) when threats are acted out. The U.S. will
most certainly be closely involved with developments in
the Middle East as Mercury, the eclipse and Chiron all
connect strongly to the U.S. horoscope.
Russell Weston Jr. Loses Grip on Reality
Russell Weston, the lone gunman who threw the Capitol
into chaos last week, is a case study in displaced anger.
Born on December 28, 1956, Weston has several difficult
configurations which would have required intense
self-scrutiny and external guidance to achieve
psychological health.
Weston’s Moon-Pluto dynamic indicates that he was the
weak link in a dysfunctional family. While
pop-psychologist John Bradshaw claims that 97 percent of
Americans belong to dysfunctional families, Moon-Pluto
aspects reflect a particularly insidious atmosphere that can
smother individual growth for the sake of family unity. The
eldest female is usually the reigning force, and she controls
through emotional blackmail. Days before the shooting
incident, Russell’s grandmother, who lives next door,
complained of too many cats, and Russell obligingly shot
16 of them that day.
Weston is thwarted from mental clarity by a
Mercury-Neptune square. Mercury governs one’s mental
attitude and processing of information. When modulated by
Neptune, the planet of fantasy and imagination, one’s
internal reality map is superimposed by subconscious
assumptions which are often totally erroneous. Weston
thought that the CIA was planting landmines around his
Montana home, and he suffered from other debilitating
delusions.
With Mars strongly placed in bold Aries, Weston attacked
the American government after his father booted him out
following the cat-shooting incident. Transiting Pluto near
his morally self-righteous Saturn in Sagittarius indicates
ethical disagreements with authority figures, which he
vented away from home. Transiting Mars in the family sign
of Cancer was squaring his own Mars, and opposing his
Capricorn Sun when he made his fateful trip to Washington
D.C.
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