Today is Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. The Moon makes its final square from Capricorn to the Libra planets in the wee hours. It then moves to Aquarius today at 11:18 am EDT. But Libra still has the spotlight, asking us to consider what is ‘fair’ and what is ‘justice’.
This week has seen at least three important court decisions. One is the acquittal of Amanda Knox in a high-profile murder case in Italy. In another in Texas, new DNA evidence shows a man named Michael Morton, who had been convicted with circumstantial evidence in 1987 of murdering his wife, to be innocent. And three Democracy Now! Journalists arrested while covering the 2008 RNC have just received a federal settlement in the suit they brought against several police departments and the Secret Service for their wrongful arrest.
Now, court cases large and small are decided every week. So what feels special now? For one thing, anyone tuned in to the alt-media has heard about a movement called Occupy Wall Street, a very loose but determined gathering of people who have decided it’s finally time to get vocal and visible in a call for equity between modern-day corporate robber barons and the rest of us. It has already spawned offshoots across the country. While nobody knows for sure how things will progress – after all, it is easy for the U.S. to support uprisings over there – there is this little thing called the Uranus-Pluto square lending some heft and long-term energy to any kind of upheaval.