NewsScope for October 12, 1998
by WolfStar
Celestial Climate Calls for Hardball Politics
While Congress has been pre-occupied with the
impeachment proceedings, the normal business of
budget-making drifted last week. Now the unfinished
political agenda is threatening to shut down the
government, as party leaders naturally blame each other for
the obstructions.
Over the coming week Mars and Pluto are creating a
tempestuous political climate that promises to shape events
across the global village. Mars is in Virgo now, and about
to form a dynamic square with Pluto, which becomes exact
on October 17. This planetary combination permeates the
political environment with ultimatums and the struggle for
supremacy. It favors radical ideology, and the promotion of
fanatics or extremists to positions of power.
Religious ideologues gain strength under this influence. In
Pakistan politicians are about to impose Islamic law on the
citizenry. Elsewhere, Pope John Paul II has just elevated
converted Catholic Edith Stein to sainthood, a controversial
move since Stein was killed in the Nazi gas chambers as a
Jew. And in the United States the International Religious
Freedom Act was just passed that would require the
government to rebuke those countries that persecute
individuals for their religious beliefs.
Wherever geopolitical faultlines exist between antagonistic
groups, this next week will test those borders. Nowhere is
this more obvious and deadly than in Kosovo where the
Orthodox Christians (Serbs) interface with Albanian
Muslims. NATO will either bomb the Serbs into
submission, or Milosevic will agree to an international
occupation force. Hardball politics is in the air.
Neptune’s Station and Economic Chaos
Last week as Neptune made its direct station, global
markets reeled, as the price of oil, the dollar, and most
stock markets fell precipitously. Neptune in the last degree
of governmental Capricorn sponsored high-level meetings
between the world’s economic planners, but they haven’t
yet come up with a solution to managing the global
economy.
Saturn in Taurus seeks economic security, often at the
expense of others when push comes to shove. Neptune
(when it soon returns to Aquarius) seeks nothing less than
an economic utopia, or the perfect system where
everyone’s economic and social needs are met. The last
time Saturn aligned with Neptune in Aquarius was in 1846
when Karl Marx (a Taurus) wrote The Communist
Manifesto.
In today’s global village, markets are so linked by instant
communications that they all move up and down in
tandem. “In an ironic twist of fate,” one analyst said, “the
global financial contagion which began with the New York
hedge funds' attack on the Thai baht has gone full circle
back to a near collapse of the New York markets
themselves.”
With interconnected markets, a global solution to economic
chaos is needed. Neptune breaks down the national borders
through the free flow of capital, while Saturn restricts free
trade to protect against contagion. In the not too distant
future, for the mutual protection of nations and peoples,
some kind of global economic order should soon become
manifest by finding the proper balance between Saturn and
Neptune.
Ariel Sharon, The Sword of Israel
Last week Netanyahu appointed Ariel Sharon as Foreign
Minister, and assigned him the task of negotiating Israel’s
final borders with the Palestinians. Sharon moves up from
Infrastructure Minister, where he presided over the
confrontational settlement drive in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. Sharon’s new diplomatic portfolio is considered a
setback for peace efforts since the renown hawk has vowed
to never shake the hand of Yasser Arafat.
Sharon was born with the fighting sign of Aries on his
Ascendant (February 27, 1928; 7:30 am EET; Yehud,
Israel*). A powerful Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Aries
was rising at the time of his birth, giving him boldness,
adventurism, and an openly and sometimes foolishly
aggressive nature. His Taurus Moon is in the same location
as Israel’s Sun so that his instinctive defense of territory
resonates with the security needs of the country.
As a Pisces, Sharon’s Neptune becomes extra important in
his horoscope. Neptune in the sixth house of jobs is aligned
with Israel’s Mars in late Leo (activated recently by the
Solar Eclipse). He naturally fulfilled the role of Israel’s
Defense Minister under Menachim Begin, and before that
led many heroic war efforts as an inspired General.
However, in June 1982 Sharon initiated an ill-advised
invasion into Lebanon, which led to the scandalous
massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civilians. Sharon was
forced out then (as his progressed Midheaven opposed
Neptune), and until recently he has held only second-rank
posts. Last week transiting Neptune turned direct on his
Mars, and now he is back in the limelight.
* Birth data is from Matrix Celebrity Search database.
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