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STELLA, WRITING FROM THE UK THIS TIME, GIVES US AN ASTROLOGICAL PEEK AT WHAT’S BEHIND THE CLOSING OF NEWS OF THE WORLD, AND THEN WE MOVE TO HER EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS AT SACRED SITES, AND FINISH WITH A SUMMATION OF THE KING OF THE BEASTS IN HUMAN FORM.
BY STELLA WOODS
NEWS OF THE WORLD Rupert Murdoch’s ‘News of the World’, a best-selling Sunday tabloid paper that has dominated Britain’s cultural life for over 150 years, has always been famous for its diet of sex, salaciousness, celebrity and scandal. Back in the 1840s it quickly established itself as an organ of naming and shaming, titillation and crime, with much of its material sourced from coverage of police prosecutions, including transcripts of descriptions of brothels and ‘immoral’ women. Then, as now, the police were probably receiving handouts from the newspaper. The News of the World has been shut
down this week by its owners, following public outrage over phone-hacking allegations. Reporters are said to have accessed the mobile phones of murdered teenagers; relatives of victims of the London underground bombings and families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The issue first blew up about five years ago, when
it emerged that royal phones had been hacked. Several journalists were sacked or jailed back then and there were hasty cover-up jobs. The first issue of the News of the World
was published on October 1st, 1843, making it a Libran publication with Sun conjunct Venus. Libra thrives on relationships, people and gossip – the perfect combination for a tabloid newspaper. The paper’s communication planet Mercury is in Scorpio (uncovering hidden matters and a love of underground and taboo subjects) and Moon, Mars and Saturn all in Capricorn, a business-like sign with a focus on money, hierarchy and status. Make no mistake; the News of the World has always been out to serve itself more than to serve the public interest. Over the past couple of years Saturn has
been transiting Libra, forcing the paper to deal with the consequences of past actions. The paper also had a Neptune return in 2006-07 (which happens every 165 years)
and this year the News of the World is having a Uranus return (which happens every 84 years). Change was inevitable. Whenever Neptune rears his head, we are
dealing with the fine line between fantasy and reality – remember that Australian tabloid, ‘The Truth’? The Neptune return in 2006 brought the first series of phone hacking incidents to light when a list containing several thousand mobile phone numbers of potential hacking victims was found including Prince William’s and Prince Harry’s. Heads rolled. Uranus is the planet of sudden surprise,
disruption and shock and the News of the World has Uranus at 0 degrees Aries, the very first degree of the zodiac. The paper’s Uranus return seems to have killed it off overnight, though the more cynical believe Rupert Murdoch closed down the paper to get rid of evidence and prevent embarrassing investigations and will simply launch a new Sunday paper once all the fuss has died down!
Murdoch’s company News Corporation, which owns the News of the World, has an annual turnover of US$33 billion US$ and a reputation for hard-nosed business practices. British Prime Ministers (like their Australian counterparts) have been forced to court the Murdoch press if they want to win elections or hold onto power. The company was incorporated in New York on 12th November, 2004, at the Scorpio new moon, with Mars conjunct the karmic South Node also in Scorpio. Scorpio at its worst symbolises secretive dealings and power for its own sake. Murdoch has both Sun and Mercury in Pisces, a sign that can use the power of the collective for better or for worse. Rebekah Brooks, CEO of News
International (a subsidiary of News Corporation) and former editor of News of the World, was born on 27th May, 1968, with all five personal planets in
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