July 3, 2000
Book of Life Decoded
Two rival groups of microbiologists jointly announced last Monday that they
had successfully sequenced the 3 billion chemical units that make up the
human genetic code. The mapping of the humane genome is expected to
revolutionize the practice of medicine by developing gene-based drugs to
treat most diseases.
The importance of this technological breakthrough is clear from using
secondary progressions to the U.S. horoscope. This interpretive tool is based
on the esoteric formula that one day after birth is symbolically equivalent
to one year. Using this method, June 19, 2000 was when the progressed Sun was
exactly aligned with the U.S. Moon.
Since the Moon in political astrology represents the common people and their
basic needs, astrologers who use the Scorpio Rising horoscope were expecting
some huge event that would impact the American people. The influence of the
progressed Sun spans several years, but is strongest around the exact
connection. Transits can trigger the actual event, and several* were in play
on June 26 when the announcement came. Most significantly, the Sun by transit
was conjunct the U.S. Jupiter, a combination which promotes success.
This singularly important progression reflects the singularly historic impact
that the Human Genome project will have on society. Life expectancy should be
around 100 years by 2040 or 2050. We will be able to redesign our own bodies
to accommodate the rigors of colonizing Mars. Just as the Moon in the US
horoscope is in the fourth house of endings and beginnings, we collectively
are beginning the new millennium with immense potential for transcending
everything that has restrained the human spirit.
Plutonium in the Air
For the second time in less than two months, the nation's radioactive nuclear
waste was threatened by wildfire. Last Tuesday a fatal car accident initiated
a brush fire that entered the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, causing the
Department of Energy to declare an emergency. Exactly as occurred in Los
Alamos, towns were evacuated, and experts were sent in to monitor airborne
plutonium levels.
While the uninitiated pause momentarily to marvel at the coincidence,
astrologers know that something other than plutonium is in the air. Though
unrelated by direct cause, the synchronized incidents at Los Alamos and
Hanford reveal an underlying astrological cycle at work. Los Alamos was the
research center for the Manhattan Project, and Hanford secretly produced the
plutonium to make the first atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project was established** on September 17, 1942 at 10:30 am
(Washington DC) when General Leslie Groves was assigned to organize, oversee,
and develop the atomic bomb. At the time a powerful conjunction between
Saturn and Uranus was taking place in the brain-trust sign of Gemini. The two
fires took place under the general influence of transiting Chiron and Pluto
opposite the Manhattan Project Saturn.
Mars, the natural ruler of fire, is conjunct the Manhattan Project Ascendant
by secondary progression, and this aspect also shows that nuclear-related
projects are now being actively promoted. One example: last week IBM
introduced the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of making 12.3 trillion
actions per second. Since actual nuclear tests have been banned by treaty,
nuclear scientists have resorted to computer simulations. The IBM computer is
being sent to the Lawrence Livermore laboratory to simulate nuclear
explosions.
Ralph Nader Nominated by Greens
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader was selected as the Green Party's presidential
nominee last week, and he is already polling seven percent of the popular
vote. His wide-ranging progressive agenda includes campaign finance reform
(with teeth), ending child poverty (now at 20 percent, the highest in the
western world), taxing polluters, and eliminating corporate welfare.
Ralph Nader was born a visionary Pisces (February 27, 1934; 4:52 am; Winsted,
CT) with cause-oriented Aquarius on the Ascendant. The closest planetary
aspect in his chart is the square between Jupiter and Pluto, a combination
that translates into intense beliefs, and strong convictions of morality.
Charlton Heston, on the opposite end of the political spectrum, has this same
aspect.
Nader's aggressive intellectual focus can be seen in the close triple
conjunction between Mercury, Pallas, and Mars. The Mercury-Mars link alone
bestows a sharp, analytical mind capable of skillful argumentation. Factor in
the political asteroid Pallas, and you get a perceptive, strategically
brilliant candidate. This triple conjunction is empowered by a trine to
Pluto, and given stature by another trine to the Midheaven.
Nader's Sun is weakened by an opposition to Neptune, which is also the only
planet he has in the sensible earth signs. Nader's vision is his most
practical appeal. When asked about workable measures, he is short on
specifics but long on fascinating ideas. He would shift money away from
armaments and into preventive diplomacy. He adds that mass poverty and global
infectious diseases are just as much implements of destruction as nuclear
weapons.
* Neptune rules pharmaceuticals. See NewsScope last week for more on
Neptune's current activities.
** According to the Federation of American Scientists, a group formed in 1945
by members of the Manhattan Project. Saturn is sensitized to outer planet
transits now because of the conjunction of tertiary progressed Uranus to
natal Saturn, exact June 29, 2000. Reader feedback is welcome. Email:
[email protected].
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