Dear Friend and Reader:
Nov. 4, 2008.В В The tears streamingВ down the face of the Rev. Jesse JacksonВ told the story.В That night 250,000 people atВ Grant Park in Chicago watched BarackВ Obama give his victory speech as the newly-elected President of the United States. In Jackson’s eyes you could seeВ the mirror ofВ history.
JacksonВ wasВ witness to theВ nation’s struggle for civil rightsВ that included being on the same balcony of theВ Memphis hotel 40 years earlier, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.В was murdered. That November night in Grant ParkВ he watchedВ as an African-American ascended to theВ Presidency of the United States. JacksonВ witnessedВ yet anotherВ wave in the powerful flow of time.
When we hear the words, “I Have a Dream,” as spoken by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.,В we’re not only recollecting the life of one of the most revered civil rights leaders of the 20th century. We’re hearing the world-deep echoes of the cry for justice, a cry that has arisenВ throughout the course of recorded history.В It is the call of Uranus-Pluto.
In “Epochs of Revolution,” chapter four of Richard Tarnas’ landmark 2006 book, Cosmos and Psyche, he notes throughout the history of civilization, the few years leading up to and through Uranus-Pluto alignmentsВ there wereВ great leaders and movements born for social reform and revolt against injustice: Spartacus’ slave rebellion in the Roman republic 73-71 BC, Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad 1810-1850, Thoreau’sВ essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Gandhi’s non-violent resistance to British imperialism, and the non-violent civil rights movement in America in the 1960s, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman and the Reverend King shared a common theme in their birth — they were all born during Uranus-Pluto squareВ close to exact or within a 10 degree orb.В All of them met their life’s work and destiny by the time Uranus andВ Pluto were in alignment.В For Tubman and Douglass it was the rise of the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad from 1845-56. For King, born in 1929, it was the the 1960s.
All of the efforts towards social justice, particularly those led by Tubman and Gandhi, as well as the writings of Thoreau and Tolstoy,В played a part in King’s earlyВ studies seeking to find an answer to social and economic injusticeВ for African-Americans inВ theВ 20th century. These individuals were a focal point for social reform in their day. It’s no wonderВ King found in themВ an inspiration while studying as a divinity student at Morehouse College.В King, Tubman and GandhiВ were kindred spirits. I can imagine these books and writings in King’s study. It was Uranus and Pluto giving the lecture.