On this date in 1959 (Feb 16) 10 Am LMT 23N08 82W22 Havana,
The land reform movement nationalized the foreign owned sugar plantations
on the tropical isle of Cuba. It was the first official act of the new government following the revolutionary overthrow of the US quisling dictator Batista. This was Cuba's Boston Tea Party analogue.

It is interesting to contrast and compare this chart with the start of the
US Government on March 4, 1789 chart (10 AM) LMT Philadelphia.
170 years puts Neptune separating from a conjunction
and Uranus separating from a conjunction. The Moon's in the two charts
are in conjunction. There is an interesting grand square involving the
fixed and mutable cusps involving the following planets

MOO URA NEP Having an inspiration. Suddenly awakened. The activity in
the brain increases by leaps and bounds. Hours when one is excited for no
reason. Surprises during the night hours. Suggesting and rejecting many
things. Unclear and petty maters cause aggravation. Aggravated in vain.
People with energy who are condemned to inactivity. Aggravation because of
unclear but sensitive people or weakness of thinking. People as mediums.
Persons who do not exactly know what they are doing. Dead receptive
persons. Dead persons among the people. Bewildered or misled people.

Mars in the US chart 29 Aqu 02' 46"
Fortune (US) 29 Leo 15' 52"
True Node (US) 1 Sag 47' 42"

Mercury (Cuba) 29 Aqu 10' 45"
Sun (Cuba) 27 Aqu 13' 12"
Mars (Cuba) 2 Gem 41' 12"
Jupiter (Cuba) 0 Sag 35' 35"
Pluto (Cuba) 3 Vir 7' 10"
Zeus (Cuba) 1 Vir 42' 42" Neptune 3 Vir
Kronos (Cuba) 28 Tau 28' 42"

PLU ZEU KRO Best performance record. Forced to accomplish the maximum.
The boss or the chief or the government demanding the impossible thing.
The unrealizable. The start of increased production and efforts.
Transformation and developments pushing ahead by increased efforts.
The beginning and the development of an expanded work.
On the way to enormous accomplishment. Expansion of a huge war.

Cuba's Uranus at 13 Leo 45' 45" is particularly interesting as Lilith
moves toward an opposition near the end of March (partile on the 29th of
March 2001). This is the day of the monthly Moon Jupiter conjunction again emphasizing
the Mars Jupiter opposition in the Cuba chart.

Today Mars by transit conjuncts Cuba's Jupiter and Jupiter by transit
conjuncts Cuba's Mars. And GW Bush is in Mexico with Vicente Fox

answering questions about today's joint military adventure with Britain in "enforcing the No-fly Zone" north
and south in Iraq, drug extradition's involving south of the border areas, and the approval of
work visas to dilute the US labor market and strike the final blow to the US Labor
movement.

The volatility of the Mars Jupiter opposition over the Mars Jupiter
opposition of Cuba makes one wonder what else is being discussed in Mexico? Mars and Jupiter
in GW's chart are close enough to this opposition to receive stimulation and
give him a renewed sense of potency and virility. Maybe this military adventurism
will keep Clinton out of the news for a while.

Mike J.

astro@lmi.net