{"id":68624,"date":"2013-07-14T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=68624"},"modified":"2013-07-15T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:30:10","slug":"the-zimmerman-verdict-astrology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/astro-daily\/the-zimmerman-verdict-astrology\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zimmerman Verdict and Mars in Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people are wondering what astrology could have been behind Zimmerman being exonerated in the death of Trayvon Martin. I have to say it took me by surprise that he was cleared, even though I was tipped off weeks ago that he would be. I watched much of the trial, and while I thought that attorneys for both sides were amateurish, the prosecutors at least got as far as establishing the burden of proof for a manslaughter conviction.<\/p>\n

For me, it was murder from the time I heard the words “those assholes.” <\/p>\n

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Chart for the announcement of the verdict in the Zimmerman case. The verdict was reached 10 to 15 minutes earlier depending on your source. I prefer to have the chart of something’s actual outer manifestation in the world, when possible. That said, the chart for a few minutes earlier (the time of the decision) emphasizes Juno in Aquarius just a bit more than the chart for the announcement, which calls into focus a perceived theme of social justice. I know it’s a twisted kind of social justice to acquit Zimmerman, but that’s what the chart says the jurors were IMO thinking about. His acquittal makes the Second Amendment more meaningful in the eyes of gun rights advocates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That said, I was contemplating the fact that Juno is rising in the chart for the verdict, and Juno has a prominent theme of social justice. It may be difficult for those who are in some shock that Zimmerman has walked — at least for now — to consider that there are many people who consider this a social justice issue.<\/p>\n

Advocates for self-defense that is rooted in the Second Amendment (Article II of the Bill of Rights) understand that “the right to bear arms” is meaningless if one can be convicted of murder or manslaughter for defending oneself, one’s family or one’s ‘castle’. The fact that Zimmerman was cleared is for them reassurance that their right to a gun actually has legal meaning.<\/p>\n

I say for them. I don’t think that the personal self defense premise of the Second Amendment is a valid argument; I don’t think that the ‘stand up against the government’ argument holds any water either. However, I do recognize that there are many, many people in the United States and elsewhere, perhaps some of your neighbors, who think of Zimmerman getting cleared as a good thing for them.<\/p>\n

And to their credit, there are also many people who can see right through this, who are appalled by the verdict, and who are not swayed by the racial issues.<\/p>\n

To me, one of the most stunning things was what a bad liar Zimmerman is, and the fact that the jury chose to believe those lies. <\/p>\n

As for the astrology: the main thing that changed in the last few hours of deliberation before the verdict is that Mars ingressed Cancer. This is meaningful for about five different pretty big reasons: for one thing, Mars was (and is) square the Aries Point that it rules, indicating a public event with broad emotional impact. <\/p>\n

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I think that Mars in Cancer describes the anger and frustration issue. Many people feel unsafe and powerless to do anything about it. There is an incredible well of rage in the United States, for many reasons, many of which have an economic dimension. There is far more racial animosity than the media typically admits. Many people of color feel more bullied than we realize and many white people feel more threatened or pissed off at minorities than you will hear whispered about on CNN. <\/p>\n

Yet the sense of rage and frustration has many more facets and influences, among them the political impotence of our society, and all its economic impact (such as hunger and disease), dissatisfaction and a sense of society’s promise to us being broken. It does not take much to become convinced that the bad guys have all the power and that they’re not afraid to use it.<\/p>\n

Some or all or even bits of this can provoke serious anger, anger that rarely has a place to vent safely. With Mars approaching Jupiter in Cancer, we might be hearing more of this soon. Mars\/Jupiter are both conjunct a point I discussed on last week’s Planet Waves FM<\/a>, the Black Moon Lilith. <\/p>\n

Mars has also joined the Uranus-Pluto square experience; it will soon oppose Pluto and square Uranus, though aspecting the Aries Point and this all involving cardinal signs, it’s well within psychic range of this thing I call the 2012-era aspect, Uranus in Aries square Pluto in Capricorn. <\/p>\n

Mars aspecting the Uranus-Pluto square is real news. This will be building to a peak that starts July 27 and lasts into the first week of August (Mars opposite Pluto is July 27 and square Uranus is July 31). Note, Mars mixed up in Ur\/Pl is the opening salvo of Mars retrograde of 2014, which will be in Libra and also intimately linked to the Uranus-Pluto square.<\/p>\n

As well, Mercury was (and is) retrograde in Cancer. This factor suggests that what happened Saturday night in Sanford, FL was not Game Over. Yes, Zimmerman got his gun back and walked out of court and his lawyers had a good laugh at the press conference, read a gushing letter to the sheriff and never acknowledged the grief of the Martin family. I cannot see around every corner, but the Mercury retrograde factor looks like it will be a cascade effect of consequences, many of them currently invisible.<\/p>\n

The Moon was late in Virgo, though was not technically void of course (which means done making aspects in its current sign) because the Part of Fortune was applying in an aspect to the Moon. So the Moon had one last aspect before going void, which was very much in effect. The Moon was also exactly square the Galactic Core, a hint that something too big to easily perceive was going on. <\/p>\n

In the verdict chart the Part of Fortune is conjunct the Great Attractor. To me this is the image of a situation where the different points of view around guns, gun violence and how we approach the question of attack\/defense (among other issues) will become clear. The Great Attractor has a polarizing effect and the Part of Fortune conjunct that point describes the benefits of that clarity.<\/p>\n

There are other astonishing aspects in this chart, most notably Venus on the western horizon, exactly setting, in a grand trine with Uranus, Eris, the Part of Fortune and Pholus. Vesta and Ceres are also in the fire signs. There is a lot and I do mean a LOT of goddess power in the fire signs at the moment.<\/p>\n

One thing we need to get clear about is violence directed at children. That’s an image of Mars in Cancer, especially with Mercury retrograde there. In response to the Newtown incident, we saw not an improvement in mass-shooting control or the background check situation but a push back — the Senate affirmed no background checks are necessary even to screen out known terrorists.<\/p>\n

A jury has now affirmed that it’s OK for the Neighborhood Watch guy to stalk and kill a teenager that he’s suspicious of, for no good reason. Is this the new model of Neighborhood Watch? This is yet another intelligence test for our society, not even of common sense but of the most elemental instinct to protect the young. We have a lot of questions to ask ourselves and ask together about the nature of militarism and violence, the nature of defense and why it is we know we live in a capitalist society but haven’t exactly figured out that guns are made for profit, and without the profit on guns, the whole gun rights thing would be moot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A jury has now affirmed that it’s OK for the Neighborhood Watch guy to stalk and kill a teenager that he’s suspicious of, for no good reason. This is yet another test for our society, not even of common sense but of the most elemental instinct to protect the young. We have a lot of questions to ask ourselves and ask together about the nature of militarism and violence, the nature of defense and why it is we know we live in a capitalist society but haven’t exactly figured out that guns are made for profit, and without the profit on guns, the whole gun rights thing would be moot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1734],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}