The Astrology of Libras in Black Liberation: Fannie Lou Hamer
For this edition to my Astrology of Black Liberation Series I will writing about the astrology of Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie Lou Hamer was a voting rights, desegregation, and civil rights activist who fought for and register black people in Mississippi to vote. She was also integral in organizing Mississippi Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1964.
Fannie Lou Hamer Astrology Chart
October 6th 1917 in Winona, MS Note I chose the major city Winona instead of vague Montgomery County, Mississippi where she was born in. She spent some time in Ruleville, MS in Sunflower County, MS which is an hour away from Winona.
Sun in 12 Degrees Libra
Moon in 29 Degrees Gemini
Mercury in 25 Degrees Virgo
Venus in 23 Degrees Scorpio
Mars in 14 Degrees Leo conjunct
Jupiter in 11 Degrees Gemini Retrograde
Saturn in 12 Degrees Leo
Uranus in 20 Degrees Aquarius Retrograde
Neptune in 6 Degrees Leo
Pluto in 5 Degrees Cancer
Lilith in 7 Degrees Virgo
N Node in 5 Degrees Capricorn
NOTE:
I consider a planet conjunct (or square, when they are in the same sign regardless of degrees. I consider this because even if they are out of orb or wide of a degree different they are working towards the same goals, struggles with similar things, and behaves in even if their relationship isn''t that close or tight or as strong. For me out of orb planetary relationships in planets of the same sign are familial but instead of twin or sibling relationships it's more like a cousin or half sibling relationship. I think it's silly and arbitrary that because there is an orb of 11 degrees or a 15 degree difference between 2 planets that are the same planets that is NO relationship between them. There is a relationship, it's just not as strong as it is if is within 8 degrees, 4 degrees or whatever.
This is my own preference if you don't agree it's fine and I am not putting it on anyone. This is how I interpret it when I am working with charts in this personal astrology blog. I call them Bastard Aspects. Example Bastard Conjunction. Bastard Square, Bastard Trine, Bastard (insert aspect here) etc. Bastard (like a bastard child).
Bastard Grand Trine in Air Signs
Sun in 12 Degrees Libra
Moon in 29 Degrees Gemini
Jupiter in 11 Degrees Gemini Retrograde
Uranus in 20 Degrees Aquarius Retrograde
Fannie Lou Hamer has a Bastard Grand Trine in Air Signs with Sun in 12 Degrees Libra, Moon in 29 Degrees Gemini and Uranus in 20 Degrees Aquarius Retrograde widely Bastard trining together. This means her communication and social abilities were superior and easy for her to tap into. Her intellect and ability to provide justice and balance via communicative relationships and leadership abilities was her ego (Sun in Libra). She used her ego (Sun) to promote her emotions/habits (moon) in super mercurial Gemini. Gemini moon is a VERY communicative sign so I suspect she couldn't keep her emotions to herself and had to express them. Grand trines is like best friend soul mate energy so using her ego (Sun) to express her emotions (Moon) to rebel/ find and be independent (Uranus) not just for herself but others to.
It's important that Libra and Aquarius has super social justice Big liberation energy because there is a focus on intrapersonal, of tapping into the collective, and making sure not only your needs are met but also the group.
Mercury in 25 Degrees Virgo in a Bastard conjunction Lilith in 7 Degrees Virgo
Fannie Lou wasn't a dummy and was very sharp, articulate and logical. She thought with logical and practicality. Her intelligence was able to promote herself to different spaces. Such example was she was promoted to timekeeper in the sharecropping business because she was the only one able to read and write. This was seen as a prestigious position. She used her mercury in Virgo to focus on the laborious duty of registering people to vote. It takes skill to convince and galvanize marginalized, disenfranchised, powerless, and oftentimes poor blacks in 1960s Jim Crow era Mississippi to vote. Part of that skill is her style of communication which in Virgo
Venus in 23 Degrees Scorpio
Fannie Lou had Venus in Scorpio. Passionate, willful, stubborn, with an emotionally intelligent nature. She spent most of her life in poverty due to her political activism. So she relied on donations and the kindness of others. She rubbed shoulders with other powerful activists like Angela Davis, and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael). Venus in Scorpio is an extreme placement of many highs and lows in relations with others. Venus in Scorpio has the potential to attract powerful loyal allies (and enemies) and can often leverage their relationships to get what they want and need.
Voting now is not how it was in past. Well actually it's not all that different with now being that in 2020 there is a practice called political redlining which is one of many systematic racist methods of creatively and technically "legal" ways of discouraging and making it HARD for black people to via voter suppression. That run on aside, voting in 1960s' meant violence, potential death, and was STRONGLY opposed and denied for blacks.
Fannie Lou Hamer risked her life (she was thrown in jail and seriously beaten by the police for her activities). I suspect Fannie Lou Hamer was afraid but with Venus in Scorpio energy are drawn to "darker" (not always bad or evil btw) activities because they want to live life to fullest. Fannie's fear didn't stop her desire (Scorpio) and her sense of love for herself and her people.
Stellium in Leo
Fannie Lou Hamer is confident, proud, and bold in herself and her beliefs and is willing to fight for it. She has a Leo stellium with Mars in 14 Degrees Leo conjunct Saturn in 12 Degrees Leo and wide conjunction with Neptune in 6 Degrees Leo. This shows she has the drive and energy (Mars) and self discipline (Saturn) to fight for her beliefs. She also not only has ability to fight (Mars) but also break boundaries and transcend her physical boundaries and thresholds using idealism and strength of belief (Neptune) to get to her goals.
Using the same example of when she was thrown in jail, beaten up by cops, and threaten for encouraging blacks to exercise their voting rights and her campaigning for blacks to be register to vote. Her passion (Mars), focus/determined nature (Saturn) and ability to relate encourage others via her own idealism and purpose (Neptune) allowed her to withstand and transcend the physical bar. when you are pissed off enough violence or consequences are not as scary. Note her Venus in Scorpio squared her Saturn in Leo so she was very disciplined, passionate, and fearless.
Pluto in 5 Degrees Cancer exactly opposite her North Node in 5 Degrees Capricorn
Fannie had a forced sterilization via getting her tubes tied performed on her without her permission. This was known as a Mississippi appendectomy in which was a common injustice practice by the local Mississippi government . Pluto in cancer greatest generation. It was this injustice that prompted her to participate in the Mississippi Civil Rights movement . She couldn't birthe children (she did adopt), but so she transformed (Pluto) her nurturing familial oriented energy to birth a generation of new voters in her native state of Mississippi.
She has Pluto in Cancer so she's part of the Greatest Generation (the generation before the Baby Boomers loosely born between 1901- 1927). The Greatest Generation seemed to take on greater social, global, political, and moral responsibility for the world and more importantly humanity.
This is opposite her North Node in Capricorn. Her North Node in Capricorn points towards her building a career, becoming independent and establishing a legacy. I think she leaned more in her Pluto in Cancer/South Node in Cancer energy more than her North Node energy but she used Capricorn methods to achieve her aims. Her soul benefited more of the fruits of her labor than her North Node did in the sense that she didn't achieved worldly riches and status. She was in poverty the majority of her life and wasn't financially stable/independent. She didn't monetarily benefit from her activism. She isn't like these modern new aged weirdo social justice pandering capitalist public figures.
Random it's important to note that the soul in Vedic/Sidereal astrology is called Rahu (which is the North Node of the Moon). In Tropical astrology North Node is known as your life's purpose/destiny The Tropical Astrology equivalent to Rahu is the North Node in tropical astrology. FYI I am not that well versed in Vedic / Astrology.
My point is Fannie used her North Node via the Rahu soul Vedic/Sidereal definition as opposed to her Tropical North Node definition to fulfill her destiny by leaning into her south node Cancer tendencies and not actively working towards her North Node. She did all this using her North Node energy. Pretty much what I am saying she used her North Node energy to fulfill her South Node desires. I hoped this is not confusing.
FYI this is not to say that her North Node in Capricorn was ignored, forgotten but Fannie Lou's value system wasn't attached to the typical North Node in Capricorn goals (career and financial success).
Overall Fannie Lou Hamer's used her Libra Cardinal enterprising energy to create a sense of community via equality, fairness, justice, and allowing others to exercise their voice in an unfair racist political system. Her Libra energy is the glue for the rest of her chart because her ego was attached to leading, fighting, partnering and supporting others rights. As I said before Libra is that bridge that brings things to scale. FYI me using scale is not the actual scale (as in skin/fish skin). No I mean scale in a business sense (increase the size/growth of a business) but also is a double entendre because of Libra's scales. This is Libra's energy in Black Liberation, to make things up to scale.
