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photo: Lizanne E. Webb In through the Out Door: The Cosmic Signature of Monsanto & GMOs N early every day, we see some news about genetically - The Mountain Astrologer by Eric Francis Coppolino Aug./Sept. 2013 * The Mountain Astrologer 21 Monsanto & GMOs - start out as what seem to be great ideas, Monsanto was a large supplier of the insecticide DDT, the banning of which began the modern environmental movement. - concerns about brain cancer, and sterilized some women who trusted it santo was involved in the Manhattan An Idea, a Plan, and $5,000 - laboratories concerned with the develSilent Spring mental awareness and, in turn, investi- - versatile chemical, used by every indus- 1 - based chemicals, beginning by acquir- were well established, so Monsanto lined in that same document, contin- - - documents, obtained through various Agent Orange scandal during the Viet- - - 22 One memo that came out in a law- tured the active ingredient in Lysol that - - photo: Lizanne E. Webb - Demonstrators at the March Against Monsanto in Venice, California - Meanwhile, insects that survived By one account, Monsanto was evolved into being immune to the the GMO endeavor is a conscious The Monsanto Chart - - - maceutical industry, he named the - Faith, Hope and $5,000. Aug./Sept. 2013 * The Mountain Astrologer 23 Monsanto & GMOs The 1901 Jupiter—Saturn conjunction in Capricorn was exact one time only – the day before Monsanto was founded. two classically trained astrologers with - sincere conviction that combination and 3 - synchronous with this moment was the - Chart 1, - The Powerful 11th House Monsanto chart is its 11th house, which - - Chart 1: Monsanto Chemical Works Chart 2: John Francis Queeny All charts use Koch houses and the True Node. 24 - - Monsanto’s 11th house provides a description of why the company seems so intractable, including its stranglehold on the public. - Chart 2, sion that Monsanto is using a tool that made with old-style hybridization, but - - - an institution that can never get blown this chart describes something with a The Perfect Chart, Except for … The 11th is also the house assoare stitched together in a seven-arc- bines solidity with innovation, a blend - so intractable, including its stranglehold can. is innovative, idealistic, and even - the natal chart alone does not reveal the - - - a healer, it will almost always do so as Aug./Sept. 2013 * The Mountain Astrologer 25 Monsanto & GMOs - - associated with healers and healing, - - - consequences, or there can be many The Chiron Signature of the GMO Story - Chart 3: Bi-wheel. agrobacterium Inner wheel and house cusps: Monsanto Outer wheel: New Leaf Potato patent - There are vivid memories that will stay - - - inventive and illuminating chart, driven 26 Monsanto survived the onslaughts against genetically modified food by its usual tactics – the use of government influence. The New Leaf Potato Another salient date in the GMO - - Agribusiness was embracing biotechnol- Chiron Conjunct Pluto in Sagittarius - - The New York Times Magazine, called - - Chart 3, - - - - - - - On that very day, there was a total led by William Hague, a conservative The Daily Telegraph. believe that we have now reached a moral and ethical watershed beyond which we venture into realms that belong King, Frito-Lay, and Procter & Gamble and then all bite simultaneously, the The Wall Street Journal’s ever, Monsanto eventually succeeded to the British throne, someone who is - the Daily Mirror ran the headline, “The - You can subscribe to The Mountain Astrologer (print or digital), browse 12 years of Back Issues, and read our weekly blog at www.mountainastrologer.com Aug./Sept. 2013 * The Mountain Astrologer 27 Monsanto & GMOs - Though Monsanto often seems to enjoy existence as an immortal corporation, its chart is clearly sensitive to transits. - - Pluto Conjunct Monsanto’s Mars—Chiron This was also the year that GMO Monsanto survived the onslaughts uct to be traced, as well as to determine Monsanto also brought legal action detectable, down to the laboratory event - Nature, - Monsanto had weathered many - Monsanto’s Chiron Return The court awarded Monsanto Chart 4: Monsanto Protection Act Silent Spring - - was not a notable time in Mon- - unanimously that Monsanto still owned intellectual rights to seeds - - 28 - Monsanto’s Jupiter— Saturn conjunction will experience a simultaneous conjunction from Pluto and square from Uranus, which happens in 2015. - - - designed as an inoculation against the inevitable demonstration that GMO law was signed by President Obama on - discovered, through genetic testing, Chart 4, - ceeded in getting legislation through a vulnerable moment, which is an has been resistant to genetically altered too much turbulence, so it actually with- - Chart Data and Sources According to the International Business Times (in order of appearance) Monsanto Chemical Works, - - Faith, Hope and $5,000. John Francis Queeny, - Lunar Eclipse: Monsanto’s Worst Week Ever - harmed by any and all Monsanto GE New Leaf Potato Patent - 5 - Prince Charles Op-Ed, tion, its chart is clearly sensitive to continued on page 73 Aug./Sept. 2013 * The Mountain Astrologer 29 © 2013 Frank C. Clifford – all rights reserved The Mountain Astrologer’s Frank Clifford is an astrologer and palmist and the author of (2012) and (2011). Frank runs the London School of Astrology, lectures internationally, and has an astrological practice. In 2013, he is teaching astrology in China, the Netherlands, Norway, and Australia, and palmistry in Bali (Heaven and Earth, December 2013); he will be at the NCGR Conference in Philadelphia in August. For more Subscription Sale! All print subscriptions (and renewals) are $3 off regular prices until June 30. 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