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In through the Out Door:
The Cosmic Signature of Monsanto & GMOs
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early every day, we see some news about genetically
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The Mountain
Astrologer
by Eric Francis Coppolino
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Monsanto & GMOs
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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.
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concerns about brain cancer, and
sterilized some women who trusted it
santo was involved in the Manhattan
An Idea, a Plan, and $5,000
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laboratories concerned with the develSilent Spring
mental awareness and, in turn, investi-
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versatile chemical, used by every indus-
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based chemicals, beginning by acquir-
were well established, so Monsanto
lined in that same document, contin-
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documents, obtained through various
Agent Orange scandal during the Viet-
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One memo that came out in a law-
tured the active ingredient in Lysol that
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photo: Lizanne E. Webb
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Demonstrators at the March Against Monsanto in Venice, California
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Meanwhile, insects that survived
By one account, Monsanto was
evolved into being immune to the
the GMO endeavor is a conscious
The Monsanto Chart
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maceutical industry, he named the
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Faith, Hope and
$5,000.
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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
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sincere conviction that combination and
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synchronous with this moment was the
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Chart 1,
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The Powerful 11th House
Monsanto chart is its 11th house, which
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Chart 1:
Monsanto
Chemical
Works
Chart 2:
John Francis
Queeny
All charts use
Koch houses
and the True Node.
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Monsanto’s 11th
house provides a
description of why
the company seems
so intractable,
including its
stranglehold on
the public.
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Chart 2,
sion that Monsanto is using a tool that
made with old-style hybridization, but
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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
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so intractable, including its stranglehold
can.
is innovative, idealistic, and even
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the natal chart alone does not reveal the
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a healer, it will almost always do so as
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Monsanto & GMOs
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associated with healers and healing,
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consequences, or there can be many
The Chiron Signature of the
GMO Story
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Chart 3: Bi-wheel.
agrobacterium
Inner wheel and house cusps:
Monsanto
Outer wheel:
New Leaf Potato patent
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There are vivid memories that will stay
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inventive and illuminating chart, driven
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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
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Agribusiness was embracing biotechnol-
Chiron Conjunct Pluto in
Sagittarius
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The New York Times Magazine, called
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Chart 3,
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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
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the Daily Mirror ran the headline, “The
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Though Monsanto
often seems to
enjoy existence
as an immortal
corporation, its
chart is clearly
sensitive to
transits.
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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
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Nature,
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Monsanto had weathered many
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Monsanto’s Chiron Return
The court awarded Monsanto
Chart 4:
Monsanto
Protection Act
Silent
Spring
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was not a notable time in Mon-
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unanimously that Monsanto still
owned intellectual rights to seeds
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Monsanto’s Jupiter—
Saturn conjunction
will experience a
simultaneous conjunction
from Pluto and square
from Uranus, which
happens in 2015.
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designed as an inoculation against the
inevitable demonstration that GMO
law was signed by President Obama on
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discovered, through genetic testing,
Chart 4,
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ceeded in getting legislation through
a vulnerable moment, which is an
has been resistant to genetically altered
too much turbulence, so it actually with-
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Chart Data and Sources
According to the International Business Times
(in order of appearance)
Monsanto Chemical Works,
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Faith, Hope and $5,000.
John Francis Queeny,
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Lunar Eclipse: Monsanto’s
Worst Week Ever
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harmed by any and all Monsanto GE
New Leaf Potato Patent
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Prince Charles Op-Ed,
tion, its chart is clearly sensitive to
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