NewsScope for November 30, 1998
by WolfStar
Pluto Launches Merger Mania
Last week a wave of megamergers and corporate buyouts
were announced, leading off with America OnLine’s $4.2
billion purchase of Netscape and Deutsche Bank’s $9
billion offer on Bankers Trust. By week’s end oil giants
Exxon and Mobil were actively discussing a proposed $160
billion deal which would create the world’s largest
multinational corporation.
In political astrology the second house represents the
nation’s wealth. Ever since Pluto entered Sagittarius in
1995 the U.S. stockmarkets have soared, rising some
twenty percent annually and putting an extraordinary
amount of surplus cash in corporate coffers. Pluto’s entry
into Sagittarius corresponds to the U.S. second house in the
Scorpio Rising U.S. horoscope.
As Pluto slowly passes through the second house, it makes
dynamic links to other planets in the chart, especially the
four planets in the U.S. eighth house of capitalism and high
finance. The first of these four is Uranus, the planet
governing technology and free enterprise. This combination
of Uranus and Pluto leads to a revolution in corporate
power.
Pluto in the U.S. second house* is about amassing and
concentrating financial power, but when Pluto connects
with Uranus, that financial clout is suddenly released
(transformed) in the form of buyouts. The big fish eat the
little fish. Watch on Monday or Tuesday for the really big
deals to be announced, as the Sun activates this
configuration by aligning with the U.S. Uranus and
transiting Pluto.
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”
One of astrologers’ favorite and most reliable celestial
warnings is to not sign any contracts or initiate new
projects while Mercury is retrograde. Since the House
Judiciary Committee is forming impeachment articles
under this current cycle of Mercury Retrograde, one might
logically conclude that nothing will come of this political
process.
Last Friday Clinton issued his responses to the 81 questions
posed by committee chairman Henry Hyde, questions
which asked him to confirm or deny Starr’s allegations. All
such legal documents are ruled by Mercury, but since
Mercury is retrograde, the answers told us nothing new.
Clinton responded 22 times with “I don’t remember,” a
common affliction when Mercury is heading backwards.
Al Gore offered a similar lapse of memory when claiming
he couldn’t recall any discussion of “hard money” when he
solicited campaign contributions from the White House.
Consequently, Attorney General Janet Reno declined to OK
an Independent Prosecutor to investigate Gore’s
fundraising practices, a development which now secures
his candidacy for the 2000 Presidential campaign.
At this point, the most likely scandal scenario is that the
Committee will advance a perjury claim against the
President which will die around when Mercury turns direct
(December 10-11) when the impeachment articles are
dropped by the full House in favor of adopting some lesser
offense.
Mercury Retrograde showed its influence in the volatile
Iraqi situation. Saddam denied having a list of weapons
which UN inspectors have seen before, but which
mysteriously disappeared. The Exxon-Mobil deal
announced under Mercury Retrograde indicates that it will
probably be shot down by Anti-Trust regulators.
Pinochet Held for Crimes Against Humanity
Great Britain’s highest court rejected General Augusto
Pinochet’s claim to immunity last Wednesday and now the
former Chilean dictator awaits extradition to Spain where
he faces charges of genocide and torture. Pinochet’s case
represents a breakthrough in international law and human
rights covenants for pursuing people across national
borders for crimes against humanity.
Pinochet was born one Uranus cycle ago on November 25,
1915. His adventurous Sagittarius Sun is given charisma
and a good sense for the spirit of the times by being trine to
Neptune, but then his dictatorial tendencies are shown by
the exact inconjunction (150º) to Pluto. An edgy, nervous
violent streak can be seen in the close square between
Mercury in secretive Scorpio and peacock-proud Mars in
Leo.
Pinochet came to power after the freely-elected socialist
President Salvadore Allende was assassinated on
September 11, 1973 (or committed suicide if you believe
the military’s version). Over the years he built a healthy
economy, but under a brutally repressive regime. The
American involvement of the CIA and multinational
corporations such as ITT and Anaconda mines is shown by
Pinochet’s dictator planet Pluto, which conjoins the U.S.
Venus in the 8th house of multinational corporations.
At the time of the coup, transiting Saturn was conjunct
Pinochet’s Pluto (and the U.S. Venus). Pinochet’s alliance
with the U.S. is further indicated by his Juno, the
partnership asteroid, which is right on the U.S. Scorpio
Ascendant. Again, at the time of the coup, transiting Mars
was exactly opposite his Juno, and crossing the U.S.
Descendant. Pinochet became the personification of
American capitalist interests in Chile.
* For those political astrologers who advocate a Sagittarius
or Gemini Rising U.S. horoscope, notice that a similar
round of huge corporate deals and mergers occurred last
March when Pluto turned retrograde in this same degree,
that is when Pluto opposed the U.S. Uranus. These events
are 2nd/8th house affairs, not 1st/7th. For a detailed look at
the USA Scorpio Rising chart, visit the
Scorpio Rising
home page. Reader feedback is welcome. Email:
wolfstar3@aol.com.
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