NewsScope for August 17, 1998
by WolfStar
Clinton Top Political Advisor Eclipsed
Last week many prominent newspapers led with the
strategically leaked story that Clinton was considering a
mild confession. Only a handful of the President’s closest
advisers knew what he was seriously considering. From all
appearances, Clinton had compartmentalized his personal
problems, and had adeptly guided Yeltsin through the
Russian economic crisis, and solemnly eulogized American
victims from the Nairobi bombing.
The celestial tide is turning... Over the weekend the outer
planets Saturn and Pluto changed their apparent direction,
and a Solar Eclipse is scheduled for this coming Friday
(August 21; 8:04 pm EDT). Following these cosmic
currents, across our global village financial fortunes
(Saturn in Taurus) and religious battle lines (Pluto in
Sagittarius) are shifting dramatically.
When considering compatibility between two people,
astrologers consider the conjunction to be the strongest tie;
it’s the glue that holds the relationship together. The Solar
Eclipse in the last few degrees of Leo strikes at Bill
Clinton’s Sun, and Hillary’s Pallas Athene (and very near
the bright Royal Star, Regulus).
Pallas Athene is the political strategist asteroid. In recent
years Hillary has retreated from her personal ambitions and
found a popular and influential role as Bill’s top political
consultant. Yet, how does the President’s closest confidant,
who also happens to be his wife, give advice about political
and legal options concerning adultery? Insider reports
indicate that Bill and Hillary talk through their lawyers
whenever Monica’s name comes up.
Stock Markets Plummet
Last week money managers withdrew $billions from the
faltering Russian and Japanese economies, and stock
markets across our electronically connected world plunged.
The world’s most watched stock market index, the Dow
Jones Industrial Averages, continued on its downward
trend, reaching nearly ten percent below its high mark set
on July 17.
Financial astrologers have a number of planetary patterns
to analyze and track the market’s cyclical twists and turns.
Some of the best indicators are outer planet stations and
eclipses: Jupiter’s retrograde station on July 17 precisely
timed the Dow’s top. Jupiter, like all the outer planets,
makes two stations every year, but this one was especially
significant because of an exact link-up to the U.S. Pluto.
An underlying vibration for the entire year of 1998 is the
tense square between Saturn and Neptune, a potentially
disastrous link-up for any economy. In the United States,
since Pluto has entered the second house,* America’s
super-rich (the plutocrats) have thrived, and led their
mega-corporations and the rest of the American economy
upward. But when the Lunar Eclipse hit the U.S.
Midheaven axis on August 7, the Dow fell precipitously.
As described in NewsScope’s July 13 column, Russia’s
long term situation looks extremely severe. On August 21
the Solar Eclipse hits Russia’s Moon, the symbol of a
nation’s basic security needs. All the outer planets are
making difficult challenges now, especially Pluto which is
crossing the Russian nadir. Yeltsin is spending $one billion
every week trying to keep the Russian currency stabilized,
but within two weeks (as the progressed Moon conjoins
Saturn) he may be forced to devalue the ruble.
Babe Ruth Returns
Three baseball sluggers are jockeying for the home run
record this year, and stimulating renewed interest in what
was once America’s favorite past-time. Babe Ruth, the
penultimate home-run king and baseball legend, died fifty
years ago this past week. Riding the surging wave of
baseball’s popularity, his story is now being re-told in
popular media across the nation.
Like Boris Yeltsin and Franklin Roosevelt, Ruth was born
(February 6, 1895) with the Sun in Aquarius and Moon in
Cancer. His Sun is closely connected to the power-hitting
Mars in Taurus, and given to sudden and abrupt releases of
energy by another close aspect to erratic Uranus. This
Sun-Mars-Uranus configuration led the New York Yankees
to glory, and Ruth to a lifetime of foul-mouthed,
girl-chasing, and beer-guzzling habits.
With his Saturn right on the U.S. Scorpio Ascendant,* Ruth
became the measure of all sluggers, and the archetype for
today's swaggering, big-money athletes. And then with
Mars in money-making Taurus, Ruth was collecting
$80,000 a year in the middle of the Great Depression, more
than President Hoover. “Why not?” Ruth said. “I had a
better year than he did.”
But Ruth’s Mercury-Venus conjunction in sympathetic
Pisces gave him a heart of gold. One of the great legends
concerning Ruth was when he promised a sick boy in the
hospital that he’d slug a homer if the kid got better. The
boy promised, and Ruth obliged by hitting the home run.
* For a detailed look at the USA Scorpio Rising chart, visit
the Scorpio Rising
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