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December 19, 2005

The National Security Agency Unveiled

Last Thursday the New York Times revealed that President Bush signed a secret order allowing the National Security Agency to spy on U.S. citizens. The story sparked an immediate outcry from civil liberty advocates, and also had the effect of tabling the Patriot Act, which had already been teetering between national security needs and personal privacy rights.

On October 24, 1952 President Harry Truman issued an executive order creating the National Security Agency (time unknown, set for noon; Washington D.C.). This horoscope features the Sun in secretive Scorpio and unaspected to any other planet. It's as if this agency exists in a vacuum, so secret that even the executive order itself was top secret. Naturally, Mercury, the communications planet, has the most aspects.

Mercury is also in Scorpio, and placed in the tenth house, where it defines the agency's business as being secret information. Mercury is given a technological boost by a favorable trine to Uranus, and an insatiable, obsessive appetite for the deepest, darkest secrets by the square to Pluto. Mercury's opposition to Jupiter in Taurus gives the NSA one of the largest budgets in the government, putting it on a par with the wealthiest Top 500 Fortune companies.

Mercury squares the lunar node axis, with Pluto conjunct the South Node in Leo. This configuration describes its imperial mandate to gather secret information (Pluto in Leo), while the Aquarius North Node infers that the path to success is in networking, sharing information, and ensuring civil liberties. Transiting Saturn and Neptune oppose each other in Leo and Aquarius during 2006, and simultaneously, they align with this NSA signature. We can only expect this balancing act to become more difficult and controversial.

Israeli Strike on Iran?

Based on a story from the London Times*, a NewsScope reader wonders if Israel will launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's alleged secret uranium enrichment plants. The article mentions that the IAEA will report on Iran's nuclear program in March. "Your geopolitical astro reports have emphasized rising tensions in Iran and Israel. Is there anything that might suggest imminent conflict by the end of March 2006?"

First, Iran's horoscope does suggest the potential for serious conflict in March 2006 since transiting Pluto will be squaring Iran's Mars (as previewed in NewsScope November 7, 2005). Second, the horoscope for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (October 28, 1956; Garmsar, Iran; time unknown) is also under a great amount of developmental pressure then, especially from transiting Saturn.

Ahmadinejad's Sun-Neptune conjunction indicates a spiritual or idealistic leader, and one whose political power is based on oil revenues. The Sun's square to Uranus puts him in the autocrat category, one who follows his own sense of radical, independent, often reckless sense of authority. He assumed office last August when transiting Saturn first hit this Sun-Neptune-Uranus configuration.

Many of his most inflammatory remarks have been aimed at Israel (May 14, 1948; 4:37 pm; Tel Aviv), so it's natural that his Sun-Neptune-Uranus trio is perfectly aligned with Israel's prominent Leo Moon. The Moon in a national horoscope represents the people and their security needs. When transiting Saturn retrogrades back to early Leo in March 2006, it places a lot of stress on Israel's Moon and Ahmadinejad's planets. Simultaneously, transiting Mars and Pluto oppose each other during the first week of April when the military tension is strongest.

Howard Stern Moves to Sirius

Another well-known individual with the Sun-Uranus connection is the so-called "shock jock" Howard Stern, who has made a career out of saying outrageous things on public radio. Now he's leaving his terrestrial home at WXRK in New York to join Sirius Satellite radio, which is paying him $500 million. Since Stern announced the move, the number of Sirius subscribers has jumped from 600,000 to 2.2 million.

Howard Stern was born with his Sun in the serious sign of Capricorn (January 12, 1954; New York, NY; time unknown), and accompanied by Mercury, Venus, and Chiron. Here is someone who knows what responsibility, duty, obligation, and protocol are all about. Yet with these Capricorn planets opposed to Uranus, he takes this knowledge and flaunts it, to shock, offend, and entertain.

Much of his "humor" is sex-related, as the Venus-Uranus opposition describes. Also, Saturn, the ruler of his Capricorn planets, is in Scorpio, where it strives to understand sexually taboo subjects to the point of mania or compulsion. This Saturn happens to be exactly conjunct the U.S. Scorpio Ascendant, so that his attraction toward the weird and lewd has become a syndicated, national pastime.

Last Friday, after his last terrestrial radio show, he made a victory lap through midtown Manhattan. At the time transiting Mars had just turned direct while opposite his Saturn, at the same time that transiting Jupiter was conjunct his Saturn. He debuts at Sirius on January 9 as transiting Uranus forms a harmonious trine to his Saturn, ensuring that he will take responsibility for putting on an entertaining and fun show.

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