Although President Bush is enjoying close to a 90 percent approval rating, a growing cloud of criticism is finding that executive action favoring law enforcement and intelligence communities is doing unprecedented harm to constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties. The most serious perceived offenses are the executive order to establish military tribunals and the FBI's detention and questioning of Middle East immigrants.
The expansion of the executive branch can be seen by transiting Jupiter's conjunction to the U.S. Sun. Jupiter is associated with the principle of expansion, new opportunities, and broader influence. The Sun in a political horoscope represents the nation's leadership, and specifically the president and executive branch.
Attorney General John Ashcroft (May 9, 1942), is the lead proponent for increasing the police power of the federal government. Senator Patrick Leahy (March 31, 1940), as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is holding hearings to investigate the validity of the military tribunals. Ashcroft and Leahy have been butting heads over this issue for the last month, and this week Ashcroft is scheduled to appear before Leahy's committee.
Astrologically, their horoscopes reflect their mutual animosity. The most volatile intra-aspect is Leahy's Mars in Taurus exactly conjunct Ashcroft's Uranus in Taurus. Neither one of them will budge. As transiting Mars, now in late Aquarius, approaches a square to their Mars-Uranus link around December 7-9, we can expect tempers to explode through the diplomatic decorum.
Enron's Kenneth Lay Makes Millions
In the most spectacular corporate flameout in history, Enron's stock plummeted from $85 a year ago to just 30 cents last week. Enron's 21,000 employees, who invested heavily in Enron stock through 401(k) and stock option programs, were blocked from selling their own shares, while Enron executives made millions over the last two years by dumping their Enron holdings.
Kenneth Lay, Enron's founder and CEO was born a pioneering Aries (April 15, 1942; Missouri; time unknown) with the Moon and Mercury also in Aries. This combination bestows a competitive drive that quickly pushed him to the top of the corporate world. His Aries planets are further shaped by Neptune, the natural ruler of oil and gas, and when involved in a hard aspect like this quincunx, can make the individual prone to fraud or deceit.
Mars is the critical planet in Lay's horoscope. It's conjunct Jupiter and favorably sextile his Aries planets. Mars-Jupiter in nimble Gemini is a natural gambler, capable of acting quickly to maximize profits. The downside of so much Aries influence is a me-first attitude; Lay managed to make some $145 million by getting out early as transiting Uranus formed a very favorable trine to his Mars-Jupiter over the last year.
Transiting Uranus continues to trine Lay's Mars through January, which protects him from the worst Saturn can do while squaring his Venus. However, the lawsuits and investigations are just beginning to accumulate, and by March, when transiting Uranus squares his Saturn, his carefully constructed personal empire will be shaking.
George Harrison, All Things Must Pass
George Harrison was the first Beatle to find the screaming crowds irritating. He preferred the earlier days, before they got famous because "we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes." By 1966 the rest of the group came around to his way of thinking, and they confined their work, and their most creative efforts, to the recording studio.
George Harrison was born a self-effacing Pisces (February 24, 1943; 11:52
pm*; Liverpool) with his Sun favorably trine the Scorpio Moon. The Moon
dominates the personality since it's exactly conjunct the Scorpio Ascendant
and has a network of close aspects around the chart. The Scorpio Moon
(amplified by the square to Pluto) is emotionally intense, often brooding,
serious, and a passionate explorer into the hidden mysteries of the soul.
With Pluto, the ruler of his chart, conjunct the Midheaven and well supported by a trine to Venus in his fifth house of creativity and entertainment, fame was destined to be part of his life plan from the beginning. Yet Pluto is opposed to Mercury, and he always had severe mental reservations about the price of fame. Only transcendental meditation allowed him to tame his inner turmoil.
Harrison was also an outer planet person (OPP) since his Sun aspects all the outer planets, including a fateful Yod with Neptune and Pluto. The individual with these transpersonal connections plays a part for an entire generation; his struggle is the generation's struggle, his successes the generation's. Baby-boomers around the world will always remember him, as will the generation of youngsters who just bought the Beatles best-selling "1" CD.
* According to Data News January '95, rectified from a stated birth time of 11:42 pm by George and his astrologer to 11:52 pm.
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