28 Horoscope Guide
connected with Saturn, Pluto, and the
nodes: an opposition of Sun to Uranus on
the 28th. However, since this opposition
happens just 4 hours and 37 minutes
after the October 27 New Moon, it is
if anything stronger than some of the
things I’ve mentioned up to this point,
especially when we consider that Mars
sticks its nose into the scene by squaring
Saturn on the day of the New Moon, and
forming a quincunx to Neptune on the
day after. To bring this down to details
that have to do with headlines, the month
can be divided into four scenarios that
can be related to each other, somewhat
like a play in three acts:
1st to 12th: the development of an
impasse.
13th to 20th: the threat of action to
break the impasse.
21st to 31st: precipitate action taken
to defuse, obstruct, or abort the impasse.These are not meant to be exact
boundary lines, of course. If we put this
in terms of a political struggle, I hesitate
to point out (though I really have to), that
the New Moon chart has elements very
much like an event called the “Saturday
Night Massacre,” information about
which can be found in Wikipedia for
those who haven’t heard of it. Briefly, it
involved President Nixon instigating the
firing of a special prosecutor who was
investigating an election-year breakin to
Democratic headquarters housed in the
Watergate Hotel. After the firing was