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NewsScope for November 20, 2000 by WolfStar Legal Jousting Continues to Postpone Election Outcome Florida, the nation, and the world were transfixed all last week as legal wrangling produced no clear winner in the presidential election. Although Bush held a slim lead by the time overseas ballots were counted, hand-counted votes in predominantly democratic counties may be allowed pending a decision by the Florida Supreme Court. The overwhelming importance of these political developments is reflected in all the outer planets' close links to the national horoscope. Transiting Pluto is now forming a close connection (by the quincunx, or 150 degree aspect) to the U.S. Sun, which in the Scorpio Rising horoscope is located in the ninth house of the justice system. Transiting Neptune is moving into a confusion-generating square to the Scorpio Ascendant over the next few months. Transiting Uranus is one of the major indicators, and the activating agent of this quagmire. At the time of the election the planet of crisis was poised right on the foundation of the chart, the fourth house cusp (or IC)*. The 84-year Uranus cycle has brought two previous transits to this point, and the corresponding events provide some insight into the current situation. Transiting Uranus was in the same zodiacal location during the 1916-1917 entrance of America into World War I when the nation was suddenly mobilized for action. One cycle earlier, the first national convention to select a Presidential nominee was held in 1832, as Andrew Jackson brought the selection process out of Congress and closer to the people. Perhaps equally significant, the Seminoles of Florida ceded their lands to the United States on May 9, 1832. Carnivore Archives All Web Communications USA Today reported last week that Carnivore, the FBI's controversial email snooping program, can retrieve all communications that pass through an ISP (internet service provider). An FBI spokesman was quick to clarify that although a large quantity of web communications can be scooped up, current law and court orders restrict its use. The origins of Carnivore are sketchy. Documents obtained by EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) under the Freedom of Information Act were largely censored, but they show that the first program was conceived in February 1997 during a wave of innovative web technologies sponsored by the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Aquarius. Following an investigative story in the Wall Street Journal, the FBI finally demonstrated the system to reporters on July 21, 2000 as mysterious Neptune transited across that Jupiter-Uranus conjunction. EPIC reported last week that in June the FBI tested Carnivore's ability to store and archive everything, essentially contradicting it's proclaimed task of filtering and pinpointing specific information. This test came under the astrological influence of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Taurus, squaring Uranus in Aquarius. The outer planet configuration establishes a long-term battle of accumulate and control (Taurus) versus personal freedom (Aquarius) through the medium of information (aligned with the U.S. Mercury). This astrological equation was underscored by the timing of the July 21 FBI demonstration when the lunar north node and Mars were both conjunct the U.S. Mercury. Harrison Ford and Melissa Mathison Separate On November 8 veteran actor Harrison Ford and screenwriter Melissa Mathison announced they were separating. Their 17-year marriage was widely touted as a rare bedrock of stability in the otherwise loose relationship patterns around Hollywood. Harrison Ford was born a family-oriented Cancer (July 13, 1942; 11:41 am; Chicago), a position strengthened by the Moon's placement in Cancer along with Mercury and Jupiter as well. The prominence of Cancer planets creates a natural nesting instinct, and the desire for long-term security within a home environment. Uranus transiting through Aquarius over the past few years has triggered many divorces, especially among the Pluto in Leo generation. While Uranus in this challenging location most often creates anxiety, it produces actual divorce when other astrological indicators strike at the same time. In Melissa Mathison's case, transiting Uranus has been opposite her Pluto all year (she was born June 3, 1950, time unknown). Factor in the life-changing transit of Pluto which is exactly aligned with her Sun-Ceres-Saturn T-square, transforming her role as a mother, partner, and professional. Although Ford's Pluto is not now being hit by transiting Uranus, his Mars is. Transiting Uranus opposite Ford's Mars symbolizes separation on several levels of interpretation. The opposition aspect from an outer planet indicates significant changes in relationships. Then, the restless, erratic, impulsiveness of Mars-Uranus combinations often leads to separation. And (often most difficult for beginning astrologers to recognize) Mars gains definition by being the ruler of the seventh house of partnerships. * Activating this placement was the transiting Sun in Scorpio, and the progressed Moon in Taurus, both exactly squaring transiting Uranus and the US IC. Reader feedback is welcome. Click here for feedback.
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