NewsScope for November 23, 1998
by WolfStar
Impeachment Hearings Proceed Under Retrograde Mercury
Last Friday Kenneth Starr’s ethics advisor Sam Dash
resigned in protest over Starr’s strong advocacy of
impeaching President Clinton. Dash, widely respected for
his role in the Nixon impeachment hearings, said that Starr
illegally went beyond his role of impartial investigator.
Dash’s change of heart occurred just as Mercury turned
retrograde in the ethics sign of Sagittarius. Mercury turning
retrograde happens three times a year, but is most
significant when closely aspecting another planet. This
retrograde phase begins as Mercury was forming a close
square to Jupiter. This Jupiter in Pisces is highly judicial
and moralistic, and as previously noted in NewsScope
(September 14 column) is closely associated with the
impeachment process.
Meanwhile Republican Congressional strategists are
wrestling with strong negatives from the public. The new
House Majority Leader Bob Livingston begins his tenure in
January and would prefer to start with a clean slate, but the
investigation could drag on indefinitely. The Judiciary
Committee will likely vote for impeachment and then the
vote goes to the House floor where its future is uncertain.
Over the next three weeks political leaders begin an intense
effort to count votes for and against impeachment.
Proceeding under Mercury retrograde means that none of
the counts can be relied on until Mercury turns direct on
December 10. Watch for intense pressure on the wavering
and undecided Congressman during the week beginning
November 30 when a confluence of celestial markers
promise some intense lobbying efforts.
Remember the Alamo
On November 27 Neptune enters Aquarius where it will
remain for the next 13 years. This extended phase, like the
previous Neptune in Aquarius cycle 165 years ago, should
be characterized a zealous belief in creating the perfect
religion, economy, or homeland. The current
Saturn-Neptune square is resonating with a Saturn-Neptune
square of that long gone era, and is revealing that our
sacred icons aren’t all they seem.
Saturn last formed a square to Neptune in Aquarius in 1836
during the infamous battle of the Alamo. Mexico’s 4,000
man army led by General Santa Anna defeated the Alamo’s
188-man force on March 6, 1836. On that day the
legendary Davy Crocket went down swinging his rifle “Ol’
Betsy” like a baseball bat at the approaching Mexican
soldiers. At least, that’s the Walt Disney version of the
event.
A diary written during the Texas Revolution by a Mexican
military officer indicates that Davy Crocket posed as an
innocent bystander on March 6, a naturalist by profession
who deserved to be released. But he was executed,
according to the diary, and did not die in any heroic
fashion.
Davy Crocket at the Alamo is in essence an icon wrapped
inside an icon, and a significant part of the myth of how
America became a nation. The diary of Jose Enrique de la
Pena is up for auction now, and may fetch near $1 million.
One prominent Texas historian suspects that “some
right-wing nut case” will buy the diary and then “throw it
in the fireplace” to preserve the sanctified version of
history.
Sir Edmund Hillary Combines Vision and Endurance
Sir Edmund Hillary was in Washington D.C. last week to
receive yet another award for leading the first successful
ascent of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak at
29,000 feet. While Washington is awash in political
scandal, attributable to the ongoing Saturn-Neptune square,
Hillary demonstrated how Saturn and Neptune can bring a
positive achievement by combining vision (Neptune) and
endurance (Saturn).
Sir Edmund Hillary was cosmically engineered with the
Right Stuff from the beginning (born on July 20, 1919;
12:30 pm NZT; Papakura, NZ 37S04 174E57). His Cancer
Sun is conjunct Jupiter, giving him a natural enthusiasm for
life, and the grandiose feeling or security of divine
protection. Then, his Mars-Pluto conjunction bestows
immense resourcefulness, physical strength, and invincible
willpower.
Sir Hillary’s chart is capped by an imaginative, dreamy
Neptune in his career house. While this placement often
leads to drifting and professional confusion, his assault
attempt was preceded by a progressed Sun conjunct Saturn,
a once-in-a-lifetime focus on some practical, grounding
achievement.
Hillary’s Moon in pioneering Aries above all wants to be
first, and this wish was fulfilled on May 29, 1953 when he
reached the Everest Summit with his Sherpa guide Tenzig
Norgay. At the time Saturn and Neptune were perfectly
conjunct in the partnership sign of Libra. The astrological
sign of success was also present with his progressed Jupiter
conjunct the Midheaven.
Since then, Hillary has devoted his time and fame to
building schools and other humanitarian projects in Nepal,
thus fulfilling the more philanthropic side of his
Sun-Jupiter conjunction in Cancer.
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