NewsScope for September 21, 1998
by WolfStar
Neptune Brings More Sex, Lies and Videotape
One week after Washington politicians promised a
bipartisan inquiry of the Starr Report, a bitterly divided
Judiciary Committee voted to release President Clinton’s
videotaped grand jury testimony. With election season just
around the corner, Republicans and Democrats are trying to
put their personal stamp on an issue that most Americans
wish would just go away.
Astrologically, the sex scandal is doomed to remain front
page news right through the November election. Neptune,
the planet governing scandal, is in a critical degree zone
(the Sun/Midheaven midpoint of the U.S. horoscope*), and
will hover in this area until the end of November. This
activated zodiacal zone pertains to the Fate or Destiny of
America’s leadership, and most specifically to the
Presidency.
Astrologer Reinhold Ebertin describes the activation of the
Sun/Midheaven by Neptune as “the pursuit of wrong
objectives, apathy, indifference, disappointments, and
confusion.” This celestial climate is exactly what is
happening in Washington now as politicians obsessively
pursue this sex scandal, leaving the more practical political
agenda behind. Neptune has blurred and even reversed
traditional party values, as Republicans fought to introduce
sexual explicitness into the public sphere while Democrats
tried to keep it out.
Congress will probably vote to proceed with impeachment
hearings in early October when Neptune turns direct (on
October 10) and Mars triggers the August Solar Eclipse
(October 5). The potential from eclipses can lie dormant
until released by a transit like this Mars. This same
planetary set-up seems likely to ignite global hotspots
where American leadership is needed. Unfortunately, with
Neptune weakening U.S. geopolitical leadership, Bosnia,
Kosovo, Jerusalem, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Russia are left
to their own devices.
Bill and Hillary
How do Bill and Hillary manage such an amiable public
facade? Many observers say theirs is a marriage of
convenience, that Hillary teams up with Bill so that her
own political agenda can advance. While Bill remains
determined to stay in office, astrologically, his partnership
with Hillary is heading into some tumultuous territory.
In the immediate situation, Saturn is testing the strength of
their bond. Every seven years Saturn challenges this
central, fortifying link between their two horoscopes (his
Saturn, her Sun). Seven years ago Saturn was in early
Aquarius, and Bill and Hillary were in the first Presidential
primary coming to public terms with Gennifer Flowers.
With the White House as the prize, Bill and Hillary made a
pact. But now both are under pressure from major
separative progressions, due to kick in over the next six to
twelve months. Plus transiting Saturn won’t go away soon.
Saturn is scheduled to return to this current danger zone in
March 1999, by which time a perceivable crack in their
marriage should appear.
Hillary’s about to experience what astrologers commonly
refer to as the “divorce aspect.” Her progressed Sun will
oppose Uranus, exact in nine months. At the same time,
Bill’s progressed Ascendant will oppose his Taurus Moon,
which is the symbol for his steady, traditional wife.
Bill’s horoscope is further threatened by extremely
dangerous and vengeful alignments (progressed Juno and
Mars square his Pluto) which give him both the
determination to fight, and the powerful enemies who seek
his undoing. Juno, the asteroid representing the marriage
partner, may be the one who troubles him most.
Monica’s Venus Goes into Seclusion
Did Monica Lewinski lure the President into a secret
liaison for her own gratification and professional
advancement? Headlines across our Global Village feature
various takes on this mutually pleasurable obsession. A
majority of British think Clinton should resign, while most
French are amused by the gravity given to this trivial affair.
Monica (b. July 23, 1973 at 12:21 pm, San Francisco CA)
has her love planet Venus (which is also her chart ruler) in
late Leo, the same location as Bill Clinton’s Sun. When
considered in isolation, a Sun-Venus connection between
two horoscopes is a wonderfully amorous tie. Clinton
announced the truth of their inappropriate affair on August
17 just a few days before the Solar Eclipse hit this
Sun-Venus link.
At the moment, Monica’s progressed Venus is deep in her
twelfth house of self-undoing, and under heavy
psychological pressure by squaring the morally judgmental
ninth house Saturn. In anyone’s chart, a Venus-Saturn
combination tends toward self-pity and loneliness, but
factoring in the twelfth house here, depression should be
expected.
While Bill Clinton’s horoscope has both recklessness and
resilience, Monica’s chart is not so blessed. She is
impulsive (Aries Mars opposite Uranus), and potentially
self-destructive (Pluto in twelfth, square Saturn). As
transiting Mars heads toward her Venus over the next few
weeks, those who love her should keep a close eye on her
well-being.
* For a detailed look at the USA Scorpio Rising chart, visit
the Scorpio Rising
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