July 30, 2001
Saturn and Pluto Establish Enemy Camps
President Bush's recent European trip clinched his critics' view that he is
driving the U.S. into isolationism. In Geneva 178 nations reached an accord
on global warming, and only the U.S. said no. Likewise the Bush
Administration was the only national government in the world to denounce an
accord banning the production, development, and possession of biological
weapons.
Astrologically, the Saturn-Pluto opposition is beginning to shape global
events into an "us versus them" series of battle lines. In both the Kyoto
Accord and the biological weapons accord President Bush cited economic
reasons for denouncing the international agreements, and the same rationale
was given for denouncing the protestors' agenda outside the G-8 summit in
Genoa.
In the Scorpio Rising U.S. horoscope, the Saturn-Pluto opposition (exact on
August 5) takes place in the 2nd and 8th houses, which together are the two
financial houses. The 2nd house is the nation's assets and values. The 8th
house is the house of capitalism itself, where shared financial resources are
pooled to make giant corporations, including the international conglomerates
that finance political campaigns and promote free trade.
Saturn and Pluto oppose each other three times over the coming year, and this
represents an epochal restructuring process within the global village's
various institutions. A polarization of interests solidifies, and becomes an
intense dichotomy shaping world events. The second Saturn-Pluto opposition
occurs on November 2, only one month after the IMF meeting in Washington DC
when the next wave of anti-globalization protests can be expected.
Carlo Giuliani, The First Activist Killed in Action
Last week's explosive protests against the G-8 economic summit in Genoa,
Italy brought the first casualty in the escalating anti-globalization
movement. Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a policeman after he and others
rushed a military jeep. Since then, Giuliani has become an international
symbol against big business and the globalization process.
Carlo Giuliani was born a self-sacrificing Pisces (March 14, 1978; 8:30 pm;
Rome*) with Libra Rising. The normal peace-loving, diplomatic traits of a
Libra Ascendant are overwhelmed in this case since Venus, the chart ruler, is
in pushy Aries, and impassioned by bold, new ideas with the conjunction to
Mercury. Then the warrior planet Mars dominates the entire personality by
being conjunct the Midheaven and exactly trine his Sun.
Mars resides in emotional Cancer, and on the day he was shot was activated by
transiting Uranus and Chiron. Transiting Uranus in Aquarius calls for equal
rights, and when aspecting Mars does so insistently and with tremendous
passion. Chiron in Sagittarius feels the psychological pain of exclusion, and
when aspecting Mars is willing to fight with tremendous ferocity.
These three planets formed a fateful Yod, and we can imagine how he got
carried away in the excitement of the moment to become a willing martyr for
his cause. Then the transiting lunar node axis, symbolizing the karmic path,
was exactly squaring his fiery Venus. His last breath was taken as he
menacingly lifted a fire extinguisher over his head, as if he personally was
attempting to put out the fires of corporate globalization.
Cruise and Cruz
"He flat out swore to me up and down that there was nothing going on," said
Nicole Kidman about estranged husband Tom Cruise, according to a close friend
of hers. Last week Tom Cruise's spokeswoman admitted that he and Penelope
Cruz had been dating recently, and the two spent a week together in an
exclusive $1500/night resort in the Fiji Islands.
Penelope Cruz was born a pleasure-loving Taurus (April 28, 1974; Madrid,
Spain; time unknown) with her Mars and Saturn in Cancer. This Mars-Saturn
conjunction is under tremendous developmental tension by squaring Pluto, so
that the man in her life, as symbolized by Mars, must be capable of assuming
the pressures and ambitions inherent in this natal configuration.
As a Cancer native, Tom Cruise (July 3, 1962) fits the bill. Cruise and Cruz
were born one Jupiter cycle apart from each other, so they tend to find
opportunities at the same time and in each other. Her Venus sextile his Mars
adds juice to the budding relationship. Transiting Neptune has been squaring
her Sun since the two finished filming Vanilla Sky together last March,
fueling rumors that they had a secret relationship.
Over the coming week transiting Jupiter will arrive on Penelope's Mars,
bringing their relationship into the open. This is corroborated by transiting
Juno, the partnership asteroid, which arrives on her Mars simultaneously,
followed by Venus a few days later. Venus, Juno, and Jupiter all hitting
Penelope's Mars also square her Pluto, and the combination is a volatile mix
of love, jealousy, passion, rage, and tenderness - just the stuff of romantic
triangles.
* Data is rated AA from birth certificate according to NewsScope's Italian
correspondent, Rishi Giovanni Gatti.
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