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May 23, 2005

Saturn Heading for U.S. Mercury

The Senate has become so bogged down in an intense procedural debate over judicial nominees that Americans are starting to pay attention. The prospect of ending the right to filibuster is looming (the so-called "nuclear option"), and Democrats have threatened to slow everything else to a standstill in protest. From an astrological perspective, the planet Mercury is behind the political maneuvering.

Mercury governs debate, and in the U.S. horoscope Mercury opposes Pluto, which tends to create an intensely antagonistic political landscape. Whenever this Mercury-Pluto axis gets activated by outer planet transits, events manifest through highly polarizing forces, as opponents or adversaries attack each other relentlessly.

Transiting Pluto has just completed a quincunx (150º aspect) to the U.S. Mercury at the beginning of this month. At the time, Newsweek magazine reported that U.S. prison guards flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet, which set off violent riots across the Islamic world. Now transiting Saturn is approaching a conjunction with the U.S. Mercury, and will be exact on May 29.

In the Scorpio Rising horoscope (July 4, 1776; 2:21 pm; Philadelphia), Mercury is located in the ninth house of justice, publishing, foreign affairs, and religion. Transiting Saturn here tests everything associated with these affairs. Although Newsweek retracted its story, the incident may yet prove to be true. And as Saturn advances, many people are realizing that the Senate fight is really about imminent Supreme Court vacancies, and the GOP's ability to get religiously conservative judges appointed with a simple majority vote.

Laura Bush Expresses her Inner Goddess

First Lady Laura Bush is stepping onto the world stage to speak up for women's rights and freedom of religion. Over the weekend she spoke at the World Economic Forum conference in the Middle East, and told some of the region's most powerful leaders that women should be included in the educational system, the process of economic and political development, and be guaranteed the right to vote.

Laura Bush's horoscope (November 4, 1946; 6:00 pm; Midland, TX) reveals her own challenge to escape from the domination of a patriarchal system, since her Scorpio Sun squares a Saturn-Pluto conjunction. Saturn represents traditional authority, and Pluto's conjunction adds an overwhelming urge toward power and control. The conjunction is found in her fourth house of home where it created an enforced pattern of proper behavior.

Opposite her Saturn-Pluto is the feminine archetype Ceres, located in her tenth house of career and professional standing. Her Ceres is in Aquarius, where it nurtures self and others through a sense of equality, freedom, and tolerance of others. This is her public role, but expressing it has meant overcoming the psychological standards imprinted from her own family and national history.

Mars, the planet of self-assertion, is now hyper-active in her progressed horoscope (P2 MC trine Mars, P2 Mars sextile Sun). Also at the moment, her progressed Sun is conjunct the asteroid Pallas Athena in the ninth house. Pallas is known as the Goddess of Wisdom, and Laura Bush is now personifying this archetype through the medium of ninth house affairs, which includes education, justice, religion and foreign travel.

George Lucas, and the Force

The Revenge of the Sith, the final installment in George Lucas's Star Wars films, opened over the weekend with great reviews and record-setting audiences. This last film, like all its predecessors, features mythological struggles between good and evil, and the mysterious power known as the Force. As Star Wars fans know, the Force can only be acquired by letting go of one's thoughts and feelings.

George Lucas was born with his Moon in the alliance-oriented sign of Aquarius (May 14, 1944; 5:40 am; Modesto, CA). Like the plot of a good movie, his own horoscope features the threat of the Dark Side since his Moon opposes Pluto. Moon-Pluto aspects harbor deep, powerful emotions, including resentment, anger, and jealousy, but especially fear of domination from others.

As astrologer Glenn Perry described in "The Astrology of Film", the essential dynamic encoded in Lucas's Moon-Pluto aspect describes his troubled relationship with his real-life father, as well as the basic plot structure in the Star Wars saga. Anakin Skywalker's struggle to understand his turbulent emotions reflects George Lucas's same path. As a young man, Lucas (Luke S.) questioned whether he should enter his father's family business, or take up film-making.

The challenge of Moon-Pluto is to trust one's own feelings, even at the risk of great loss. The recurring pattern of rebellion, transformation, and empowerment associated with Moon-Pluto provides cyclical turning points in George Lucas's own life, and his Star Wars stories. As he once said, "Don't listen to everyone else. Discover your own feelings and follow them. Then you can overcome anything."

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