October 30, 2000
Republicans Support Nader with TV Ads
Television ads begin airing Monday featuring Ralph Nader blasting Al Gore's
stand on the environment. The pre-election media campaign blitz was designed
and paid for by Republican strategists seeking to tip the balance in key
swing states where Bush and Gore are in a statistical dead heat. Although
Nader spent an equal amount of his speech criticizing Bush, Republicans and
Democrats alike are seeing that Nader's campaign is draining support from
Gore.
Astrologically, this deceptive twist was devised under the auspices of the
Scorpio New Moon, which occurred last Thursday, the day after Nader delivered
his remarks to the National Press Club. The Scorpio New Moon establishes a
month long trend, and was made extraordinarily misleading by the exact square
to deceptive Neptune.
Since Mercury, the natural ruler of communications, is retrograde in
manipulative Scorpio right through the election on November 7, we can expect
that scheming, calculating ads will form a major part of the political
landscape. Nader has currently budgeted zero dollars for TV ads, but NARAL, a
liberal abortion rights, is spending some $1.5 million urging Nader
supporters to vote for Gore.
As described in last week's NewsScope, Ralph Nader is this election's
wildcard. With transiting Jupiter squaring Nader's Sun, he has tremendous
opportunity now to expand his personal agenda, especially as the torchbearer
for the Green Party. Although his political campaign operates on a shoestring
budget, his five-to-ten percent standing in pivotal states is assuring him
enough national attention to create a viable third party.
Scorpio's Veil Between the Worlds
Next to Christmas, Halloween is the most commercialized holiday in the United
States. Why Halloween should become such an important national event arising
from an obscure Druidic tradition is a curious, unsolvable mystery - unless
one uses the Scorpio Rising U.S. horoscope. Halloween happens to take place
every year exactly as the Sun crosses the U.S. Scorpio Ascendant.
What is the significance of the Ascendant or Rising Sign? In the personal
horoscope, astrologers describe the Ascendant as the mask or persona that the
individual shows to the outside world. The same is true for the national
horoscope, and in Scorpio the United States is known around the world for its
obsession with sex and violence, as well as the more noble qualities
associated with the eagle.
On Halloween children and many adults get to play with their projected image,
trying on costumes portraying inner qualities seeking outer expression. The
Ascendant marks the projected national image as well, and when major transits
activate the U.S. Ascendant, the nation experiences a change of identity. For
example, as irrevocable Pluto was transiting across the Scorpio Ascendant
from 1987 to 1989 the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving the U.S. as the
reigning superpower.
The Sun's passage through Scorpio also corresponds to a change in national
image through the election process. The first Tuesday in November is when the
transiting Sun has just entered the first house, and is usually forming a
square to the Midheaven. Out with the old and in with the new. Elections
represent a political transformation, a cycle of death and rebirth most
closely associated with Scorpio.
Liza Minnelli Suffering from Encephalitis
On October 8 Liza Minnelli was placed in intensive care where she faded in
and out of a coma for eight days following an apparent stroke. The famed
daughter of Judy Garland is also awaiting hip replacement surgery, and last
week one newspaper reported that she is suffering from encephalitis, a
serious brain disease.
Liza Minnelli was born a compassionate Pisces (March 12, 1946; 7:58 am; Los
Angeles) with her Moon is sensitive, expressive Cancer. The Sun-Moon blend in
water signs gives her deep feelings which tend to flow out over everything
she does. The Taurus Ascendant, noted for it's beautiful singing voice, gives
her a safe and professional outlet for the lush emotionalism.
The Moon dominates Minnelli's horoscope by its angular placement on the
fourth house cusp along with its network of aspects. This Cancer Moon is
naturally rooted in family, but being involved in difficult aspects (conjunct
Mars and Saturn, square Chiron), family life was never easy. The Saturn
square to Chiron is a generational aspect reflecting a distant or absent
father figure; toss in the Moon's placement and you have a distant or absent
mother figure as well.
Chiron's loose association with health becomes a confirmed meaning when
afflicted and placed in the 6th house. Over the past few months Minnelli's
progressed Moon passed over her Mars-Saturn-Moon, triggering the inherent
tension of this health dynamic. Now transiting Mars is in her 6th house, and
will bring the most severe health crisis when it enters the same
configuration during the first week of December.
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