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For March 2002

Newsmakers Archive:

January & early February, 2002 Marjan, King of Kabul and Yassar Arafat
January & early February, 2002 Ken Lay & Enron
Late February, 2002, 2-27-02 Full Moon & GAO Sues Cheney
March 1, 2002, Danielle Van Dam
March 2-3, 2002, Escalating Violence in Israel/Palestine
March 3, 2002, Monica Lewinsky's HBO Special
March 5, 2002, Operation Anaconda Updated March 21, 2002
March 21, 2002 Warlords Undermine Afghanistan!

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March 9, 2002

Bush Wants Nukes!

"A secret policy review of the nation's nuclear policy puts forth chilling new contingencies for nuclear war. By WILLIAM M. ARKIN."

March 10 2002

"WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, in a secret policy review completed early this year, has ordered the Pentagon to draft contingency plans for the use of nuclear weapons against at least seven countries, naming not only Russia and the "axis of evil"--Iraq, Iran, and North Korea--but also China, Libya and Syria." L.A. Times



Los Angeles Times Story Breaks

Commentary

(See also, Starcats' May 2001 article, Dr. Strangelove, Bush, Rumsfeld & the ABM Treaty)

Mercury Conjunct Uranus/Sun Square Pluto

A startling (Uranus) announcement (Mercury) in the March 9, 2002 online edition of the Los Angeles Times:

"In addition, the U.S. Defense Department has been told to prepare for the possibility that nuclear weapons may be required in some future Arab-Israeli crisis. And, it is to develop plans for using nuclear weapons to retaliate against chemical or biological attacks, as well as "surprising military developments" of an unspecified nature."

"These and a host of other directives, including calls for developing bunker-busting mini-nukes and nuclear weapons that reduce collateral damage, are contained in a still-classified document called the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), which was delivered to Congress on Jan. 8."

Congress knew about this?"¹

Mars In Action

Note: The transiting Lunar Nodes (23 Gemini/23 Sagittarius) will conjoin the USA's natal Mars (21 Gemini) on March 24, 2002. This sextiles Bush's natal Venus (21 Leo) made "sensitive" by virtue of its coming link to the fated lunar nodes.

  1. Mars, currently transiting the sign Taurus is moving through the Inauguration Chart's 12th house of secrets. More is bound to come to light.

  2. By March 20th (the Aries Ingress), Mars will reach the degree of the Inauguration chart's Ascendant (14 Taurus). This will set off the Inauguration chart's contention T-Square, the harbinger of "war to come" as seen on January 20, 2001. [T-Mars opposite Inauguration Mars at 16 Scorpio in square to Mercury and Uranus].

  3. Mars and Uranus in aspect is the classic "explosion" aspect, particularly when in hard aspect: conjunction, square and opposition. The coming Mars "hits" to the USA's chart (and Bush's natal chart) signify dire consequences for the coming escalation in world war zones.

  4. April 24, 2002, transiting Mars meets 8 Gemini. It will be conjoined to the natal Uranus. This is a most explosive time frame. Not only is it the classic "terrorist explosion aspect," but it does not bode well for Airline workers, military personnel, nor employees located at foreign U.S Embassies. Mars conjoined to Uranus can also indicate an increase in accidental munitions explosions impacting our boys and girls overseas, but also possible explosions on railways, highways, and within the truck industry as they ship products to the marketplace.

  5. At the time Mars conjoins the USA's Uranus, transiting Saturn will have passed the same conjunction and will be in orb of a trine with the USA's Saturn at 14 Libra. It seems likely we'll see more contentious 5-4 rulings out of the U.S. Supreme Court. Note: if Judge Pickering and his ilk are confirmed to the Federal Bench by the Senate, you can kiss Roe v. Wade goodbye.

  6. Mars will make it to 21 degrees Gemini, the USA's "Mars Return," on May 14, 2002. This 7th house conjunction is the harbinger of shocking world violence and internal dissention within the Bush Administration. This conjunction occurs just two days or so after Mars conjoins Bush's natal Uranus at 19 Gemini. Bush's patience and temper will be strung on thin tethers. We must hope that cooler heads prevail.

  7. George Bush's progressed Mars is in square to his birth Sun, 13 Cancer, conjoined to the USA's birth sun. Whatever hits Bush hits the people of the United States, as we are inextricably bound to this "president" - when the Goddess Nemesis rises to bite him, we will also be bruised. Such is the collective fate of the United States.

First Nuclear Chain Reaction

What Goes Around Comes Around

This is the second Saturn Return of the First Nuclear Chain Reaction (1942), and the first Saturn return of the ABM Treaty (1972). Transiting ("return") Saturn is currently conjoined to the USA's birth chart Uranus (Saturn-Uranus = the "marvels" of science) and has been paving the way for the Los Angeles Times' March 9, 2002 startling announcement. In late November-December 2001, I stated that "nuclear" threats would escalate and reach critical mass in early 2002. (Starcats' Anima Mundi astrology list). The closer transiting Uranus moves to 27-28 Aquarius and transiting Mars gets to 8 Gemini, the more at-risk the USA and the world will be.

The chart for the First Nuclear Chain Reaction (the birth of atomic power) has its lunar nodes at 28 Leo (North-conjunct Regulus and Chiron - wounds that cannot be healed), and 28 Aquarius (South - conjunct the USA's natal Moon). Transiting Mars has already crossed over the Ascendant for this chart (March 6, 2002), thus re-igniting its Venus ruler (14 Sagittarius) in its 8th house of death and loss. [The chart's progressed Venus (not shown) is already at 28 Aquarius. ] Pluto, at 7 Leo is conjoined to Bush's natal Ascendant and by progression (6 degrees Leo) is in the degree of the USA's natal Nodes (6 Leo/6 Aquarius).

Mars at 21 Scorpio in the 7th house of adversaries is close enough to jump start Bush's Inauguration Mars at 16 Scorpio. Here again we find the Inauguration T-Square (Saturn/Mars/Uranus) pushed to the brink. Mars in the Nuclear Chain Reaction Chart is also at the same degree (but not the same sign) as the USA's natal Mars (21 Gemini), which will take the transiting Mars "hit" on May 14, 2002. This is just a week or so shy of the last of the Saturn-opposite-Pluto line-up of May 25, 2002. The Saturn-Pluto opposition of August, 2001, was one of the critical factors leading up to September 11, 2001. [This line-up also corresponds with the week and the date of the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 22 Taurus (May, 2000). That seminal moment, along with the three Saturn-Uranus squares of 2000 and 2001 bring us to this critical juncture.]

The thing we must do now is get on the stick and let our Senators and Representatives know we are deeply opposed to nuclear proliferation. Pass the word to all your friends. E-mail the Los Angeles Times to everyone you know.

Link to L.A. Times, "U.S. Works Up Plan for Using Nuclear Arms"

Link to All U.S. Senators and Representatives

Astrology shows that what "returns" does so by cosmic design, not by accident. The great planetary cycles, "returns" and sensitive linkages to the lunar nodes are some of our most important forecasting tools. To ignore them is to do so at our peril.

Links of Interest

50 Facts About U.S. Nuclear Weapons

How a Nuclear Bomb Works. If I can get this, you know Osama Bin Laden can.

From the January, 1962 Department of Defense booklet Family Shelter Designs. A real hoot!

Where Bombs Were Hidden Worldwide

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization

Doomsday Clock. Their site indicates that in 1998 the clock was set for 9 minutes to midnight. The clock was set ahead to 7 minutes to midnight on February 27, 2002. See, BBC News

"The directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - a magazine that has campaigned for nuclear disarmament since 1947 - pushed the hands forward by two minutes, to seven minutes to midnight. The clock was last moved after Indian and Pakistani missile tests in 1998. They said the move reflected a higher perceived risk of global nuclear Armageddon because of threats including international terrorism and tension between India and Pakistan, both nuclear armed."

March 9, 2002, Starcats.

Footnotes

¹ January 8, 2002. Assuming Congress went into session at 9:30 a.m., the 25 Aquarius Ascendant for Washington, DC was 25 Aquarius (Uranus at 22 conjunct the Ascendant). March 9's 12:01 AM (speculative time) for the Los Angeles Times breaking news story has Mercury conjunct Uranus at 26 Aquarius.

The Lunar Nodes on January 8, 2002 were N-Gemini 27 degrees and S-27 Sagittarius 27 degrees.

" Notable cross-links between Bush's natal chart and the ABM Treaty chart bear watching. The South node of the chart, 27 Cancer, conjoins Bush's natal Saturn. The North Node, 27 Capricorn, conjoins the USA's natal Pluto. More chilling is that the ABM's North Node conjoins the arabic part of Death. Since the same nodal axis falls across the USA's 2nd and 8th houses, we can assume, via early-on projections, that breaking the ABM Treaty in favor of MDS will have economic (2nd house) and perilous (8th house) consequences. [Starcats, May 2001].

Transiting Uranus reaches 27 degrees ("27" is "sensitive") on March 25, 2002, 4:31:06 am, Washington, DC. It will conjoin the USA's progressed Sun and natal Moon. On April 17, 2002, Uranus reaches 28 Aquarius at 6:31:06 pm, Washington, DC. The degree of the Gemini Moon for the 9-11-01 attacks. This corresponds with George W. Bush's Tertiary progressed Uranus.

March 9, 2002, Starcats.


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