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NewsScope for May 22, 2000 by WolfStar Neptune in Aquarius brings Corporate Socialism The #1 political contest in the country took a sudden turn last Friday when Mayor Giuliani dropped out of the race, citing health reasons. First lady Hillary Clinton is now the odds-on favorite to become New York's next senator. The #2 political contest, the Presidential campaign, began focusing on competing resolutions to fix the Social Security System. The Social Security Act (SSA) was signed into law on August 14, 1936 to provide a financial safety net for retirement and unemployment. Because of demographic changes, the trust fund for these promised benefits is expected to run out of money by around 2025. The Republican plan allows individuals to invest 2 percent of their social security tax in the stock market, while the Democrat plan has the government investing the capital. The sudden interest in saving Social Security can be clearly seen from the current conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in Taurus exactly squaring the SSA Sun, while transiting Uranus is in opposition. Uranus offers radically new ideas, Saturn wants it to work, and Jupiter sees opportunities in the healthy stock market. The fulfillment of this plan probably rests on Neptune's cycle. Neptune is in Aquarius, which previously (in the 1840s) coincided with the birth of Karl Marx and major socialist movements. Although socialism as envisioned by Marx is dishonorable in the U.S., a new form of socialism is being born when the nation's workers invest in corporate America. Perhaps Corporate Socialism will come of age by the time Neptune opposes the SSA Sun. Los Alamos Fire Reveals Nuclear Waste The recent wildfire in New Mexico is the culmination of a series of sensational events surrounding the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Before the National Park Service let a controlled burn get out of hand, Los Alamos was the hot- button issue on Chinese-American relations when nuclear scientist Weng Ho Lee was accused of selling secrets to the Chinese government. Los Alamos came into existence on November 16, 1942 ("late afternoon") when Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves selected the isolated mesa to build the world's first atomic bomb. With four planets in secretive Scorpio, including Mars, the ruler of weaponry, Los Alamos became the Pentagon's ultimate research arm, eventually producing not only the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, but also the Trident, the Minuteman, the Pershing and cruise missiles. According to Nation* magazine, Los Alamos also produced an estimated 2400 sites suspected of being contaminated with plutonium, uranium, strontium 90, tritium, nitrates, cyanides, and other lethal leftovers. In spite of elevated levels of brain, breast, and throat cancer, the people of Los Alamos are in denial about the pollution problem, perhaps because these government jobs pay so well. Los Alamos was created during 1942's Saturn-Uranus conjunction in intellectual Gemini, a combination that reflects the brain trust residing in that community. Mars had just entered Gemini and was forming a conjunction with uncontrollable Uranus when the fire escaped the containment perimeter on May 7. Watch in August when Pluto turns direct opposite the Los Alamos Saturn for more severe revelations. Charlton Heston and the NRA Ever since NRA President Charlton Heston began a TV ad campaign, membership and cash donations to the top gun lobby has soared, adding 200,000 members and $10 million in just the last six weeks. Heston, who won a third term at this week-end's annual convention, expects to play a leading role in this year's political debate over guns. Charlton Heston was born a public-relations expert with his Sun in diplomatic Libra (October 4, 1923; 7:55 am; Evanston, IL). Since the Sun squares passionate Pluto and intense Scorpio is his Rising Sign, Heston tends to see the world as a warrior, as a life and death struggle between right and wrong. This compelling forcefulness comes across in all his movie roles where he plays mythological heroes caught in extraordinary situations. Neptune, the planet associated with Hollywood's dream factory, is in his tenth house of career and placed in the heroic sign of Leo. Neptune is strongly modified by an exact square to Jupiter in Scorpio. Perhaps no other astrological indicator shows greater intensity of belief than Jupiter in Scorpio, unless it's Jupiter aspecting Pluto. Heston has both, a double influence which makes him the perfect actor to play Moses or to lead the NRA. At the moment, and for the rest of the year, several outer planets are aligning with Heston's Jupiter-Neptune configuration. Transiting Saturn and Jupiter form their conjunction in his seventh house of enemies, challenging his strong beliefs. This fight is expected to go all the way through the November election. * January 4, 1993, p 9(4). Reader feedback is welcome. Click here for feedback.
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