The wheels of justice grind slowly but exceedingly small.
It was hot on June 21, 1964 in Mississippi; it’s always hot in Mississippi in late June. Three young men Mickey Schwermer, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney were in Mississippi to investigate the recent burning of a church during the most violent period of the Civil Rights Movement. The sheriff in Philadelphia, Mississippi picked them up for “speeding,” and then released them at 10:00pm and warned them to get out of town. Carloads of KKK, including the sheriff were waiting for them to make sure they never came back. These young men were tortured, beaten, and then shot and their car set on fire. Their bodies weren’t found until Aug. 4, 1964, but they were murdered on the Summer Solstice in 1964, nearly seven months to the day after the JFK murder in another southern town.
It has taken exactly 41 years to the day for the ringleader of those murders to be brought to justice. In 1964 on June 21st, Venus was retrograde at 27 degrees Gemini, Venus progressed to a direct motion after about 20 years, and today it has finally progressed back to its 1964 position, just a few minutes beyond, and today justice was done, after 41 years the families can have closure on the lives of these three brave young men. It was a good day in Mississippi.
I mention this case as an example of how long it can take for things to be made right, for the scales to balance out, but they do balance eventually and I am thrilled they balanced today.
Summer arrived in Washington, DC at 2:34 AM and the Sun joined a stellium in Cancer consisting of a tight conjunction of Mercury, Venus, and Saturn in the 4th house (Mercury is on the Cusp of the 4th. Capricorn, Saturn’s ruler is at the top of the chart, this isn’t a happy placement for Saturn, he’s down trying to find a way up but no such luck for Saturn (the leader) to make it to the top this summer, but it does indicate leadership will try harder to hang onto what they have and what they know. Expect a lot of stonewalling. Thanks to the bloggers however, information will continue to leak seemingly from nowhere.
US Pluto falls in the 10th house in this chart, while Saturn opposes, power is slipping from this administration’s grasp, and the harder they try to hold on, the more it will slip. The power of democracy comes down on the heads of leadership as people see in stark reality the loss of real earnings drain away and jobs will leak away like a sieve. Big business could call a come to Jesus meeting with our government officials. The GOP is rapidly going to find themselves between a rock and a hard place between standing by their “man” and the money from K Street.
Our long lost allies will stay lost and try to distance themselves further from a disturbed administration. There was an editorial in one of the UK newspapers that suggested Blair leaked the Downing Street Memos himself in an attempt to cover his fanny. That seems improbably to me, but not impossible.
Moon and Pluto in the Solstice Chart is in the 8th house of death and taxes. Fortunately the Moon is 5 degrees away from Pluto and it will not progress to Pluto before the Autumn Solstice, but today’s Moon does conjunct Inaugural Mars and they both sextile Neptune giving the opportunity to cover the US tracks with Neptune’s fog. With Mars in the 12th opposing Jupiter in the 6th the drums of war with “someone” is going to beat louder. Iran or Syria will be the candidates and both of their countries are under astrological pressure, so is this country and this summer we will continue our dour mood.
The Moon/Neptune aspect is also an excellent aspect for the American people to wax eloquently over the Run-Away Bride Book for which she received a $500,000.00 advance. We do need some entertainment with the Michael Jackson trial over, and re-runs on TV. The Hilton reality show hasn’t started, and we don’t even know when Paris is going to marry Paris.
The Solstice chart is all over the place with every single house involved, all except the weakened Sun standing too far away from his relatives in Cancer to impact them just yet, however in about a week, the Sun sets off the Mars Jupiter opposition, giving another opportunity to appoint Bolton to the UN. A Sun/Mars/Jupiter t-square is the “no-it-all bully” aspect. With three planets falling on house cusps, this is going to be an important summer and there will be more talk about women in leadership.
I do not see the exact seeds of a pandemic but I do have some concerns for fall when Chiron lands in the 6th house of heath and Venus squares Neptune, something from overseas might come our way. Stock up on immune boosters and drink an e-mergen-C every day.
We so focus on the negative and what will happen to who and when and let something terrible happen to them (but not to me or us) that I forget or ignore the good that is coming up. Women’s groups are getting stronger, younger women are stepping into the political arena (and they are sick and tired of both parties) I attended a two day leadership training workshop with women of all ages in politics, with the “White House Project”. Topics were “how to be a candidate, how to support a candidate, how to raise money, how to talk in 10 second sound bites and make your point. This isn’t like “Emily’s List,” it’s more in depth on how to make a difference without being a candidate. No matter how dire Moon/Pluto aspects are in a chart, or seem to be and they are, particularly in the 8th house, there is also another side to those aspects. The Moon represents the people in a national chart and the feminine in a personal chart.
Moon/Pluto in the 8th house of the Solstice chart, with the Moon ruling the 4th and Pluto the 7th house also means power to the feminine.
Step over to the Full Moon chart of today. The Moon is past the Pluto conjunction but they are both in the 10th house. While this disaster of “agenda’s” is playing out, there is something new world wide.
Both the Solstice and Full Moon charts are rich, filthy rich in messages that will need to be unwound as the months play out.
One example, the Full Moon of today has a strong relationship to the Tsunami of Dec. 26th, except with the Mars/Jupiter opposition in Aries/Libra; there is a bit more balance for the earth. This Full Moon does however strongly relate to the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811. The worst earthquake ever recorded in North America. Beginning on Dec. 16, 1811 three quakes rocked the New Madrid area, with each one being stronger that the one before. Dec. 16, 1811, Jan. 23, 1812, and Feb. 7, 1812, it was felt in 23 states across the country and changed the course of the Mississippi River. Because there had never been an earthquake there before and Tecumseh had, in 1811, predicted the earthquake and used it as a call for the Native Americans to stand up and take back their land from the violent and encroaching white man. That didn’t happen but the earthquake did.
The last quake on Feb. 7, 1812 that rolled better than half the US had the Moon at 10 degrees Sagittarius, nearly conjunct the point of Neptune at the first, Uranus is squaring that point now and Neptune has retrograded back to 10 Sagittarius and this Full Moon comes very close to the position of Saturn and Jupiter, if there was an eclipse accompanying this Full Moon, I would be looking to some earth changes around the Mississippi River or one of its tributaries. Just as we are looking for political changes and opportunities to “clean house” the earth is looking for the same thing.
There are the usual asteroids, fixed stars and Arabic Parts accompanying the signs and planets for this Solstice and Full Moon but the aspects alone are enough to keep a person busy. The next two weeks will alternate between a frenzy of information and dead quiet. I can tell you this much, do not be surprised if fisticuffs break out on the floor of Congress. It’s a good thing they are leaving for a recess because tensions are running very high in the 6th grade class of the boyz in Washington. Hopefully there is enough feminine energy around to quiet their frustrations. Keep up the pressure on the media and Congress regarding the Downing Street Memo’s. Do not let the excitement of finding out the story of the “Run Away Bride” shift your attention and focus. There’s more to come on that story, there is a bulldog in England, perhaps several, and they are not going to take the fall for George W. Bush. The weather will be terrible in Europe this summer and Global Warming, plus America’s refusal to even acknowledge the problem will send Europe into spasms of fury toward Tony Blair’s attachment to Bush. If Bush does attack Iran or Syria he had better be prepared to go it alone and he isn’t, nor is the some 37 percent who love his wars.
Lately, the whine in W’s voice as he “talks” to the people is palpable, that’s common when Saturn aspects our planets, we whine, we all whine, but in his case it makes him seem weak and petulant to his adversaries and they will jump on it. Even Karl Rove is coming out to defend his leader, can Karen Hughes and Laura be far behind? No one wants to hear his “I think of Iraq every single day” speech, because we do too Mr. President.
Pay off your bills if you can, and if you can’t buy water and food, be prepared this summer. And then go on a picnic and think “summertime, summertime, sum, sum, summertime.”