NewsScope for September 14, 1998
by WolfStar
Starr Report: America’s First Shared Internet Experience
Is sinning an impeachable offense? Bill Clinton gave a
moving public confession as the keynote speaker during
last Friday’s White House Prayer Breakfast. At the same
time, he initiated an all-out legal defense against perjury
charges, the most serious allegations in the lurid Starr
Report.
As was forecast in last week’s column, the Starr Report
was made public just as Mars was nearing the U.S.
Midheaven (already primed by the Lunar Eclipse of August
7). Baseball fever also climaxed under this dynamic Mars
transit, as sluggers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa joined
the exclusive 60 homers club.
While these faster moving planets such as Mars shape the
moment-to-moment newsbreaks, the tenor of our time is
most clearly described by an intense Pluto in moralistic
Sagittarius. Political matters are being decided through a
religious filtering process which makes many Americans
uneasy. No matter which legal codes were or were not
broken, the underlying issue is whether adultry is an
impeachable offense.
As Gerald Ford said during the Watergate hearings, an
impeachable offense is “whatever a majority of the House
of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in
history.” Congress is watching closely how Americans
react to the Starr Report as Pluto inches forward to form a
direct link to America’s religious and judicial planet,
Jupiter (located in the family-values sign of Cancer).
At the same time, Pluto is making the same strong angle to
Clinton’s own Midheaven, indicating his fate hangs in the
balance. This puritannical vibration is likely to increase
dramatically between now and the first week of October
when this aspect completes. Under this self-righteous
celestial weather, expect impeachment hearings to move
forward.
Jupiter Brings High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Only one President has been impeached in American
history, and that was Andrew Johnson on February 24,
1868. The House voted on impeachment charges against
Richard Nixon in late July 1974, but Nixon resigned before
the process moved to the Senate. Synchronistically, in both
situations Jupiter was at 16 degrees Pisces.
Jupiter is now in Pisces and heading backwards, and will
be closest to this fateful impeachment degree around
election time. Another surprising correlation connecting
Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton is having a major outer planet
at 5-6 degrees Sagittarius. In Johnson’s case, Saturn was at
5 degrees Sagittarius, and Nixon’s debacle was
characterized by Neptune at 6 degrees Sagittarius.
Clinton’s situation now shows Pluto at 5 degrees
Sagittarius, and moving ahead to 6 degrees next month.
Having an outer planet in this degree zone activates the
U.S. Jupiter from the second house of values*. In each of
these cases the House had to consider exactly what
constitutes High Crimes and Misdemeanors, which is the
official language used to define impeachable offenses.
One other astrological connection can be used to time the
judicial process. In both Johnson’s and Nixon’s cases, the
U.S. Mercury was hit hard, reflecting the historical
impeachment documents. For Clinton, the closest planetary
activation of Mercury arrives in late November when the
Sun conjoins Pluto and the two form a 135 degree aspect to
Mercury.
Primakov Heads Resurgent Communist Government
Boris Yeltsin’s first choice to be Prime Minister bowed out
of the running last week to make room for Yevgeny
Primakov. A former Soviet spymaster, Primakov was
quickly approved by the Duma when he named two
Communists to key economic posts.
Primakov was born on October 29, 1929 (at 4:00 pm in
Kiev, Ukraine according to astrologer Boris Izraitel), giving
him both his Sun and Mars in the warrior sign of Scorpio.
With his Mars aligned with Russia’s Scorpio Sun,
Primakov becomes a forceful agent for a strong, central
government. Having his Mercury and Venus in diplomatic
Libra helps reconcile and mediate between the various
political camps within Russia, as he insisted that he would
not return to Soviet strategy.
Primakov is close friends with Al Gore and speaks
excellent English. With Pisces Rising, Primakov can
combine seemingly contradictory interests with adaptability
and flexibility. The greatest danger now facing Russia is
that the economic crisis has weakened the central
government’s control over distant provinces. Primakov’s
authoritarian Saturn in the tenth house, and a strengthened
Mars (by being sextiled by his progressed Sun) will move
quickly to reassert Moscow’s dominance.
Yeltsin’s approach has been to woo western support
through economic reforms, but the appointment of
Primakov signals a reaching out to a different faction.
Curiously, Primakov in Russian means “son-in-law adopted
to family from afar.” Meanwhile, Pluto crossing the
Russian nadir could mean a Communist resurgence is at
hand.
* For a detailed look at the USA Scorpio Rising chart, visit
the Scorpio Rising
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