The Astrology of Libras in Black Liberation: Fannie Lou Hamer Voting Rights Icon

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.

theastrofiend's BEST Zodiac Sign Pair Couples Synastry Relationship Compatibility Combos

theastrofiend's BEST Zodiac Sign Pair Couples Synastry Relationship Compatibility Combos

Now that's it's Libra season it seems the perfect time to talk about Relationship/Romantic Synastry/Compatibility in astrology. I have been thinking about random ass zodiac sign pairings that can be great together. Here is what I have! Enjoy!

Leo & Capricorn

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Leo & Scorpio 

Why?: Y'all can both speak softly and carry big sticks together. Or rob, cheat, steal, hide bodies, and get others to do the dirty work, and take all the blame while Jedi mind tricking them into believing you do more than you can actually do. This is a Great pair for status, power, and wealth building. Both pairs have the will & staying power, as long as y'all stay in your lanes and don't try to boss each other around or control or kill each other 

Leo & Gemini

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Gemini & Aries

Why?: Whether it be swinging/poly lifestyles, shoplifting, taking back that ex; keying a car or jumping someone y'all can have fun and hype each other up regardless of all the bad decisions and choices that will ensue. Especially with Gemini's multi personalities, that's more love and attention for Leo. Leo can offer some stability, mutual ego stroking in return for Gemini. While Gemini can manipulate/rile up Aries & Aries can physically protect Gemini from the beating they rightfully deserve.

Leo & Libra

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Capricorn & Libra

Why?: Y'all can look fashionable, be flirty, be fake nice, share sugar daddies, backstab, lie about your body count, rake up credit card debt, film each other's onlyfans videos, rob from your jobs, take forcefully your parents and grandparents social security, disability checks, life insurance, and medication while you social climb together.

Sagittarius & Pisces 

Why?: Y'all can be Unreliable, flighty, needy but strangely non-committal, chill, open minded, & use recreational mind expanding drugs, hide from the cops, lawyers, doctors, spouses, and kids together.

Scorpio & Capricorn 

Why?: Y'all Scary Ass Malefics can unite to dominate, control, and conquer the world through fear, intimidation, manipulation, sexual/emotional blackmail, and occasional violence.

Aries & Capricorn

Why?: Y'all can be Boss ass mean ass bully ass bitches together. The anger and tension can motivate and be a turn on/energy booster. As long as y'all are not lazy, broke, insecure, or emotionally/sexually repressed y'all can make the world get on its knees and be your bitch baby.

Taurus & Cancer

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Taurus & Libra

Why?: Y'all can be lazy, greedy, slimy, grimmy couch potatoes together. Y'all can Nurture and create abundance/wealth/beauty or enable each other's vices with your sloth like, scheming, scamming, materialistic freakish sexual rabies zombie natures together.

Aquarius & Capricorn

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Aquarius & Scorpio 

Why?: Y'all can enable each other's emotionally repression, be unavailable sexually,  physically,  emotionally,  mentally, financially, encourage each other's childhood trauma, and emotional stuntness together. Stoic and unimpressed resting bitch faces contests & emotionally manipulative mind games are your foreplay.

Sagittarius & Gemini 

Why?: Y'all are the best zodiac opposition pair hands down. Y'all can handle each other's very mutable very public freak-outs, talk each other out of killing each other and others (like Bonnie & Clyde non serial killing accountability partners) and accept/forgive each other's endless array of apologies over your mutual stints of lying, cheating, abandonment, court ordered rehab, therapy, parenting/anger management classes, and incarcerations/hospitalizations.

Pisces & Capricorn 

Why?: Y'all can bring out each other's hidden natures. Capricorn scary ass is really a scary cat. Pisces scary cat ass is really a scary ass. While both of y'all can role play, be a switch (dom or sub),  a top or a bottom, and can suffer/punish each other successfully.

Pisces & Virgo

Why?: Y'all can harm each other and then heal each other. Y'all can pretend like you're perfect poise sweet angels during the week and in the weekend go on your demon sprees kicking asses sucking the souls & the tasty bone marrows from babies, kids, the elderly, the poor, the rich, the addicted/sick, puppies and kittens.

Aquarius & Taurus 

Why?: Y'all can be elitist, music/food/movie snobs together. With Aquarius devious intellect and cool cunning sociopathic tendencies helping Taurus intellectually inferior mind/thinking skills but masterful skill in making/attracting money & wealth and looking sexy AF y'all can trick people into thinking you are good natured down to earth humanitarians.

Sagittarius & Aquarius

Why?: Y'all can combine your massive self righteous know it all mortally corrupt energies' to cross boundaries. Y'all like activities like creating homemade diy hydrogen bombs, cursing and hexing the moon, the sun and those pesky faes/fairies, creating machines that control the weather and create biological weapons of mass destruction. All while your restless non-loyal busy body asses stay cheating, passing stds back and forth till they mutate to a new super resistant STD, running away from commitment & pretending to commit to & love your Libra/Cancer/Scorpio mating victims

Gemini x Pisces

Why?: Y'all can lie, cheat, and steal together. Pisces can fall in love with one of Gemini's twin, and the other Gemini twin can get jealous and steal Pisces away from it's twin. Pisces can fall in love with both twins, pit them against each other only to cheat and fall in love with the Hat Man it met while astro-projecting in another dimension.

Libra x Pisces 

Why?: Libra can flirt with Pisces mom, brothers and sisters and have a sugar baby relationship with Pisces father that leads to Pisces parents divorce. Pisces can cry and end up drunk hooking up with Libra's boss who falls in love with Pisces. Libra ends up being the mistress to the boss while Pisces falls in love with the ex wife of the boss who's seeing Pisces as a patient and Pisces being the therapist 

Virgo x Capricorn 

Why?: Y'all can wake up after 30 years (really 2 years in real time) and realize you actually hate each other but decide to stay together because the lease in your apartment will be up in 7 months and how are you guys going to decide who gets to keep the dog? Ultimately deciding to drop the dog blind folded at a park 10 miles away from your apartment in the middle of the night because you rather the dog roam the streets instead of witness you fight, shout, eat

Scorpio x Cancer

Why?: Cancer can stalk Scorpio, ugly cry, and bake cookies and cook full meals until Scorpio falls in love. All while the Scorpio knows Cancer has been stalking it because it has been stalking the Cancer FIRST. Y'all can cry, manipulate, abuse, file and break restraining orders together, while having break babies separately and constantly cheating on their current partners with each other

The Astrology of Black Liberation: Libra Season with 2016 Libra Nat Turner Blog in retrospect

The Astrology of Black Liberation: Libra Season with 2016 Libra Nat Turner Blog in retrospect 

It’s Libra season and I am continuing my series, The Astrology of Black Liberation. This time it’s with Sun sign in Libra and the Libra/Venus/Cardinal Earth archetypes of Libra Season. 

In this series I am writing about Black Liberation energy in regards to artists/activists/political figures, religion/spirituality/sexuality/creativity, music/art movements via all the sun signs/archetypes.

The Astrology of Black Liberation in Libra season is enterprising, one that on one hand focuses on beauty, fashion, culture, and using charm. The other side is the intellectual brainy communicative air energy that focuses on academia, work, socializing, and ideals of justice, equality (gender, class, race, etc.), and relationships/partnerships

Libra being a Cardinal sign, it's domain is Autumn/Fall season. No hot weather, no more rest or relaxation, it's time for work (and play). Working and socializing and balancing between the two.

Libra's task is bringing people together and creating relationships (partnership). Who wants to spend the colder weather being around someone you hate or don't even know well. Libra is that bridge that brings things to scale.

Libra's energy in the Astrology Black Liberation fits perfectly. It's one part charming, one part compromising, one part social justice warrior, and another cool intellect. 

Black Liberation is a process as I keep saying. There isn't an end in sight, and every generation contributes to it

4 years ago in 2016 I wrote about Libra Nat Turner. To see my astrology blog post on Libra Sun Nat Turner in link here: https://theastrofiend.blogspot.com/2016/10/american-revolutionary-freedom-fighter.html. 

I didn't know it at the time but I think that was my intro to my 2020 Astrology of Black Liberation series.

Nat Turner was a preacher and devotedly religious and moral.

Nat Turner was educated by his master

Nat Turner led a rebellion that murdered his oppressors and slavers.

Libra Nat Turner is a contradiction. Devotedly religious, educated but also rebellious and "violent" (eye rolls). He worked and operated in the system (Christianity taught/brainwashed to oppress him) and did the socially acceptable thing. However he knew, his God knew that slavery is wrong. He fought against it violently.

When you think of Libra zodiac sign, you don't see violence or rebellion. To quote myself from 4 years ago

"Nat was a Triple Libra (Sun, Mercury and Venus all in Libra). This is the icing because a lot of people think Libra's are  just these charming, entertaining, spineless people pleasing bitch babies. But quite the contrary; remember that Libra is a MASCULINE CARDINAL  Air sign. Libra is all about fairness which means that sometimes they gotta step out a balance to take a stand. Aka morphing into a Dancing Prancing Social Justice Warrior Philanthropist (that will go THUG-LIFE on you). ALL in the name of justice and harmony of course."

Libra understands that sometimes you got to "play dirty" do bad wrong things for the right reasons/ideals, and step out of balance to get balance.

Libra in the Astrology of Black Liberation is the balancing, contradictory nature of black Liberation, the intellectualism, the building of social connections, inter/intra personal relationships, knowing when to compromise and work within the system, and the sometimes unavoidable violence (yes unfortunately Liberation can be VIOLENT) and rebellious spirit. 

All this aside I hope y’all check out my upcoming blog posts for The Astrology of  Virgos in Black Liberation and the Spiritual Astrology of Black Liberation post. Happy birthday to all the Virgos. This is your season enjoy and bask in it's energy!

The Astrology of Virgos in Black Liberation: Trans & HIV Activist Marsha P Johnson: Liberation of Body/Mind

 

The Astrology of Virgos in Black Liberation: Trans & HIV Activist Marsha P Johnson: Liberation of Body/Mind

Marsha P. Johnson was a black “trans” activist who played a major role in LGBTQ+ liberation of the 1970s’. This was during a time where “trans” and “cross-dressers/drag queens” were arrested, institutionalized, and treated as mentally sick and depraved. Marsha P. Johnson was said to have "thrown the first brick" in the Stonewall riots. The riots were between cops & the LGBTQ+ Greenwich Village community at a LGBTQ+ friendly bar, the Stonewall Inn in NYC in 1969 that sparked the Gay Rights Movement. FYI no one is sure who threw the first "brick" "glass".

Marsha P Johnson was a drag queen and and local popular icon fixture in the NYC gay scene and art scene since 1966 having relocated to NYC in 1963 at the age of 18 from her native New Jersey. Marsha P. Johnson was part of the Hot Peaches comedy drag queen troupe. Marsha P. Johnson was very politically and socially active. A founding member of the Gay Liberation Front in 1969 after the riots. In 1970 Marsha P. Johnson co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera.

Marsha P Johnson Astrology Breakdown

12 pm/unknown August 24^th 1945 in Elizabeth, NJ

Sun in 1 Degree Virgo

Moon in 16 Degrees Pisces

Mercury in 24 Degrees Leo retrograde

Venus in 23 Degrees Cancer

Mars in 21 Degrees Gemini

Jupiter in 29 Degrees Virgo

Saturn in 20 Degrees Cancer

Uranus in 17 Degrees Gemini

Neptune in 4 Degrees Libra

Pluto in 10 Degrees Leo

North Node in 6 Degrees Cancer

Chiron in 3 Degrees Libra retrograde

Sun widely conjunct Jupiter in Virgo

Marsha had Sun widely conjunct Jupiter in Virgo. 

Growing up in the 1950s’ and 1960s’ Marsha existence was a threat, a source of pain and shame. Growing up in a religious household; Marsha was sexually abused at a young age and made to feel like a freak for being gay. She wanted to live in her true/authentic self for her well-being and mental health.

It’s important to note that Virgo energy has to do with health (physical and mental) being that it’s the traditional ruler of the 6^th House. The mind body connection is real and things effecting you internally can manifest externally. Virgo energy knows this and constantly strives to better their mental/physical state.

Though Jupiter is in “detriment” (rolls eyes) in Virgo. It shows Marsha had a larger than life persona. She moved from her small New Jersey town with little money and big dreams to the even bigger Big Apple (NYC). She invested and believed in herself (Jupiter), taking a gamble and creating her own “luck” and fortune.

Marsha however being different and being the time period that she’s in (honestly not that much has changed); she had to struggle. This includes participating in survival sex aka bartering sex for shelter and constantly getting harassed/attacked by men/people/cops.

Mercury widely conjunct Pluto in Leo

Marsha had Mercury widely conjunct Pluto in Leo this meant that her thinking/learning/communicating processes (mercury) were intensified to an obsessive powerful level (Pluto). In Leo Marsha thought of herself as more than she could be and it’s clear she took pride in herself.

Marsha’s voice/persona was powerful, dramatic, and theatrical. Known was the Mayor of Christopher Street (a street in the gay friendly NYC neighborhood of Greenwich Village) It’s important to note that the “P” in her name meant pay it no mind (her trans-ness/different-ness/other-ness. She spoke herself into existence, and loved herself enough to allow herself proudly and shamelessly to exist.

Mercury is supposedly said to be in detriment in Leo because some people believe Mercury is exalted in Aquarius (detriment is the sign opposite the domicile sign). I don’t know but I do see problems with fixed nature of mercury in Leo. A sense of stubbornness (fixedness), arrogance (Leo) in her speech/communication. Especially with intense, shameless, blunt, say it like you mean it Pluto energy. I could definitely see her sense of self-expression being offensive or crass to others.

Sun widely opposite Moon

Marsha's ego was in a tug of war with her emotions. Larger than life, discerning but humble Virgo energy was in struggle with impressionable, emotional sponge Pisces. Pisces moons are often sensitive and empathetic with unpredictable emotions that soak in others’ energy and emotions. The way she reconciles the contradictions in her personality and emotions is to help others, to be a voice for others, and to be out in the front-lines.

Venus, Saturn and North Node in Cancer

Marsha also has a pseudo stellium in Cancer (Venus, Saturn, and North Node in Cancer). I say pseudo stellium because technically North Node is not a planet so its not an official stellium. Remember a stellium is 3 or more PLANETS in one sign or in one house.

Anyways Marsha has an abundance in uber sensitive Cardinal Water energy Cancer. Marsha was constantly searching for a home perhaps in themselves and in their physical bodies

Liberation of body – Marsha had Venus widely conjunct Saturn in Cancer which continues the themes of her finding black liberation through her body. However what she encountered was limitations to her sense of beauty (Venus conjunct Saturn). Marsha lived in a time (again not much has changed) where her being, her beauty and the way she presented herself was targeted violently and belittled. 

This probably played with her sense of perception of her beauty and social/physical value. Marsha wanted to be loved and to be accepted for who she was (gender nonconforming) and was met with literal violence and abuse.

Her sense of liberation was finding a home for her being which is very Venus in Cancer.

Not that only but she was also poor which isn’t talked about with Venus. Beauty in the western requires effort and capital. Beauty in western society isn’t just being. It’s effort, hard work, expensive, time consuming, and a constant dance between trends and archetypes.

She had to wear cheap wigs, outfits, and makeup. As a woman nothing brings down and cheapens your beauty with cheap bad wigs and cheap makeup. FYI of course there is more to beauty than the physical and mass consumerism but also appearances are everything as woman. It’s often a performance and an act that we are forced to participate in. The politics of pretty, of beauty are real and there is a power/benefit to looking beautiful/pretty and at the very least “presentable”

Especially as a black women you must look “presentable” so you are not perceived and treated as “ghetto”, “low class aka poor, uneducated” which will give others the courage (more like audacity) to disrespect and discriminate against you.

Marsha as gender conforming/trans she also had to rely on the politics of pretty and not being able to properly fit into it. Regardless Marsha with resourceful Cancer energy made do with what she had.

Marsha with fellow trans activist and close friend Cancer sun Sylvia Rivera

Marsha also had north node in Cancer so her destiny was for her to search and find a family and a spiritual, physical, & emotional home. She was found a sense of family as best as she could with her drag/lesbian/gay/trans Stonewall Inn, comedy group, and Gay liberation Front friends. However the home part wasn’t there, being poor. It’s important to note that home and having roots is an important part of your psyche and growth. How can you feel safe and secure in this world if you don’t have 1 place (even just physical) to be safe in.

Marsha’s trans/dragness, homosexuality, her being poor, and the instability of mental illness kept this from her unfortunately.

Mars conjunct Uranus in Gemini

Marsha had Mars conjunct Uranus in Gemini which can show the unpredictable votive behavior, split and gender duality/fluidity in Marsha.

Note there is no particular placement in astrology that is coded to show gender duality or mental illness. It’s more of a mixture of life/free will/choice and how energy is directed in individual.

Like Uranus can show neutral, androgynous “gender neutral” energy but it more due to it the nature of Uranus being unpredictable, rebellious, and freedom loving.

That said in Marsha looking at her life story, free will and choice, in my interpretation I am choosing to look at her Mars conjunct Uranus energy.

Mars conjunct Uranus in Gemini can denote a chaotic sort of Prince and the prankster, Peter pan, split personality (in a non-vulgar astrology terminology) energy.

I have read that Marsha when she was in her masculine form was sad, violent, chaotic, and aggressive but Marsha in her feminine form was more at peace, loving, and generous. Marsha suffered from drastic mood swings described by friends as “schizophrenic.” These episodes landed her in psych wards, mental institutions, jail, and hospitals several times throughout her life.

Marsha's was Mars conjunct Uranus in Gemini squared both her Sun/Jupiter in Virgo & Moon in Pisces which can show her actions (Mars), her sense of personal freedom (Uranus), her sense of abundance/luck/expansion (Jupiter) emotions (Moon), and ego (Sun) were in constant conflict which can further shows her instability.

I also noticed an abundance of mutable energy in her natal placements with 3 out of 4 mutable signs (Virgo, Pisces, and Gemini). This is both good and bad. The good is highly adaptable, always moving/always a need to move, and the ability to bounce back/let go. The bad is mutable energy is very vulnerable sensitive energy and not a solid sense of self/core because of all the changing/adaptability.

Mutable energy dominates need to MOVE in all directions physically/emotionally/financially/spiritually otherwise they remain stuck which is un-natural. I said it before and I will say it again but “stopping in a mutable energy is akin to death like a fish out of water, a heart that stops beating, or the brain without oxygen.

Marsha not just being black and poor kept her stuck, but also being different/trans/gender non-conforming and mentally ill disabled her. If she was given a chance to be who she was, and wasn’t discriminated/targeted, for being black/poor/vulnerable/gender nonconforming and mentally ill she could’ve been more at peace.

Chiron in Libra

Marsha’s wounded healer is her struggle to fit in and to see one’s own beauty reflected in society. Marsha’s sense of liberation and why I chose her as one of the Virgo archetypes of Black Liberation Astrology is because she fought against this. She healed her world by fighting for others like her. Her healing was seeking justice and fighting for a place in this world.

Marsha partnered with other like-minded people and fought to change the perception and social/legal value of black, gay, trans-people. It’s important to note that even during this time (not much as change) Marsha wasn’t even allowed to participate in early gay pride celebrations. To put it bluntly she was seen as an embarrassing freak show and the gay/lesbian organizers want to distance themselves from her/trans/non-conforming people.

It’s important to note that Marsha P Johnson sadly died on mysterious and tragic circumstances in 1992. She was HIV+ positive at the time. Her body was found in the Hudson River. Her close friends believed she was tragically murdered and that the police didn’t investigate because she was seen was worthless. Supposedly witnesses heard her killer bragging in a bar about killing her. The police and some of her other friends at the time believed it was a suicide. Now her death is undetermined.

Regardless of “how” she died justice allude her which is also a case in Black Liberation. It’s ever changing process without a clear end-date. Violence against homosexual (sexual orientation) trans (gender) non-conforming people still happens. Triple if they are black (race) and poor (class). My message is not meant to be political but social.

If you can’t personally fight for others whose “lifestyle” and “being” you morally disagree with, just get out the way. I think it’s important to not stand in the way of others choosing to fight themselves. All we can ask as human beings is to allow others to live not just survive or get by, and to accept others’ different than you to fight for themselves and not get in the way. I think we should be all able to fight for ourselves, our values, and being.

Marsha P. Johnson in Virgo Black Liberation energy symbolizes body autonomy, fighting for and liberating your physical body, the mind/body/black/gender/class poor connection, and fighting for a place in a world that thinks you don’t belong.

The Astrology of Virgos in Black Liberation: Claudette Colvin: Teenage Civil Rights Pioneer

The Astrology of Virgos in Black Liberation: Claudette Colvin: Teenage Civil Rights Pioneer

Claudette Colvin was a young accidental activist who helped challenged Alabama’s bus segregation. Her actions (along with five others) and her testimony helped determine that bus segregation was illegal therefore unconstitutional in Alabama.

She refused to give up her seat and was arrested on March 2^nd 1955, on a Birmingham, Alabama bus 9 months before Aquarius sun Rosa Parks famously did it. Claudette was 15 years old at the time. She was a model for early 1950s’ Civil Rights Movement era but her contributions were silenced and forgotten because she was deemed not respectable enough to be the face of the movement.

During this time period she was a poor dark skinned young unwed pregnant teen (who’s baby daddy was suspected to be a married white man) during a time where this was seen as a scandalous, a sin and degenerate character flaws. Note: times haven’t changed much since, except some teen moms are given reality shows to be exploited for fame.

Rosa Parks’s actions were strategic and her image and likeness being a light-skinned, mixed, older (42 years old) respectable timid colored woman was chosen and used by the NAACP to galvanize white and black populations into support of the black 1950s’ Civil Rights’ movement. Rosa Parks took Claudette’s (and others') role, glory, and became the defiant face as the struggle for Civil Rights.

FYI I understand and agree as to why the decision was made to choose Rosa Parks over Claudette. Claudette would have been scrutinized over the 1950s’ social politics of racism, colorism, ageism, sexism, and many other isms had she been selected as a face of the Civil Rights Movement.’ It would have also undermined the Civil Rights movement at the time. However now Claudette’s story deserves to be told.

All this aside I chose Claudette as a Virgo representation for my Astrology of Black Liberation series because her story is very interesting and shows the dual nature of Virgo.

The archetype of Virgo as I mentioned previously is one of a duel dichotomous Virgin/Whore, Virgin Mary/Mary Magdalene, Saint/Sinner complex which is not just a trait of Virgo but also the other mutable signs.

Virgos are seen as this neat button up, orderly, subdued, calm, sign and energy. This is true but Virgos are also messy, wild, sexual, spiritual, and unruly sign and energy too. All the signs are complex and problematic but not all the signs are allowed to be seen as such. Scorpio is seen as just evil. Pisces is seen as just pure and angelic. Some signs aren’t allowed as much grace as others.

Claudette image was problematic but also interesting. All the things that made her problematic also made her iconic. All this aside let’s get into her astrology.

Below are her placements. Please note that her moon sign does changes to Gemini in the evening* I am just going to go with Taurus moon though Gemini moon can fit her too.

Claudette Colvin Astrology Details

September 5th 1939 Montgomery, Alabama.12 pm/birth time unknown.

Sun in 12 Degrees Virgo

Moon in 28 Degrees Taurus (moon changes to Gemini if you use a 9 pm evening birth time)

Mercury in 27 Degrees Leo

Venus in 12 Degrees Virgo

Mars in 25 Degrees Capricorn

Jupiter in 6 Aries (retrograde)

Saturn in 0 Taurus (retrograde)

Uranus in 21 Degrees Taurus (retrograde)

Neptune in 22 Degrees Virgo

Pluto in 2 Degrees Leo

North Node in 1 Degrees Scorpio

Chiron in 17 Degrees Cancer

As you can see Claudette had an Interesting mix of Earthy, mutable, cardinal, fixed, and firey energy.

Virgo stellium with Sun conjunct Venus & Neptune all in Virgo

Claudette had a Virgo stellium with Sun conjunct Venus & Neptune in all Virgo. This shows Claudette’s strong sense of idealism (Neptune) logical, knows right from wrong, have data/knowledge to back it up, radical ideals and ideas. She seems like that type to use what she learned in school and her wisdom against people that disrespect, abuse, or offend her. Watching her interviews you can see she has an agile quick mind and I am sure in her younger years she can argue with someone using logic and facts.

It also seems she possess a quiet confidence, a humble intelligence and charming being. I don’t see her as being an agitator but also don’t see her running from a challenge.

I think during this time (1955) it was a transition period in United States social politics. The NAACP was becoming more prominent and I am sure that after World War II population and economic boom, contributed to blacks wanting more of the “American Dream.” Black men fought for this country too during World War II but they went back to being treated as second class citizens after the war. I am sure during this time they were fed up. They gave their lives, some suffered from shell shock, while watching their white counterparts treated as heroes, benefiting from America’s new wealth with social programs like G.I Bill (to get free education) and cheap affordable housing in new Levittown inspired suburbs.

I think Claudette saw that change, and being a young at the time was influenced by the times, the injustices, had her own thoughts about how the world should be and acted on them without the jaded wisdom that the adults had.

Claudette's Virgo Neptunian idealism wasn't unrealistic and was definitely appropriate for the times.

Grand trine in Earth: Sun/Venus/Neptune in Virgo, 

Moon/Saturn/Uranus in Taurus, and Mars in Capricorn.

Claudette had a Grand Trine in Earth. A grand trine is where all the signs of an element is represented a chart. In this case Claudette had all 3 Earth signs with Sun/Venus in Virgo, Moon/Saturn in Taurus and Mars in Capricorn.

This shows that she is very grounded, practical, and solid individual. She has a strong sense of self and her place in her world. Strong earthy types cannot be manipulated easily with words, emotions, or through actions

Moon widely conjunct Saturn and Uranus in Taurus

 

Watching an interview on YouTube she did with 1010 wins, she expressed that she didn’t think about the consequences. Remember she was 15 at the time she refused to give her seat and was arrested. During this time she could’ve been lynched or her home fire bombed. She wasn’t thinking about that she just saw injustice and was tired of being treated as a subhuman. She didn’t set out for activism, and to influence a movement. She was simply tired coming home from school and didn’t want to get up. The bus wasn’t crowded and the white woman wasn’t old or crippled. The white woman that demanded she get up was just purposefully being unreasonable and flexing her privilege.

I think what makes Claudette unique was in those moments she wasn’t going to be bullied or pushed around.

Claudette having Moon widely conjunct her Saturn and Uranus all in Taurus is very fitting. I can see Claudette having an inner quiet rebellious spirit with independent fixed emotions that isn’t easily convinced or swayed. She was tired (physically and emotionally) and she wasn’t getting let Jim Crow keep her from her rest. We all have those days when she are sick and tired of the “rules.” However in this situation these “rules” were ridiculous and wrong.

This also shows Claudette is stubborn as hell, headstrong, confident, hard-working with a strong constitution. Moon in Taurus is “exalted” so her emotions are seen as stable and appropriate. Taurus energy is notoriously tenacious and are do not get enough credit for. When a fixed moon (especially a Taurus moon!) emotions are strong enough, they will not budge or be flexible. There is no talking out, adapting, changing, or compromising. Especially when it backed by an equally rebellious and chaotic Uranus in Taurus and a disciplined, poised, and persistent Saturn in Taurus that kept her Uranus energy under control.

Mars in Capricorn opposite Chiron in Cancer

I think Mars in Capricorn plays an important role in her actions too. Mars is exalted in Capricorn. Mars in Capricorn energy keeps their head down and work hard. They aren’t passive aggressive or overtly emotional, they aren’t detached and argumentative, or quick to use violence and intimidation. 

Mars in Capricorn literally doesn’t have time for all that bullshit. Mars in Capricorn prides itself on showing self-discipline, and keeping calm in crazy or unfair situations. Mars in Capricorn is mature respectable energy.

It’s amazing because unlike the newspaper lies about the incident. Claudette didn’t argue, curse, or physically attacked the police officers. FYI I believe her side of the story. She was terrified of the officers and didn’t want to be raped or lynched. Teenagers were generally also different (more respectful to authority/elders) during this time (1950s”) than now (2020).

What makes her situation different is that she decided to fight her situation legally which was unusual at the time. She got a lawyer involved and sued (along with 5 other plaintiffs who had done the same and were arrested/punished for it). The federal court case was Browder vs Gayle that commenced on Aquarius season on February 1st 1956. It went up to the Supreme Court and on Gemini season on June 13th 1956 bus segregation was abolished and deemed unconstitutional.

It took intelligence, strength, and wisdom for her to go through the legal process and seek the guidance of those older than her.

This is big Mars in Capricorn BOSS ASS energy (getting the LAW/ENFORCERS involved). Going to the higher ups and fighting within the system, and winning.

It’s also important to note that Claudette’s Mars in Capricorn is opposite her Chiron in Cancer. Her actions (Mars) seemed to activate her wounded healer (Chiron in Cancer) which was linked to her literally being a young mother and her place in history being smudged out because of it.

It’s important to note she was not pregnant during the bus incident, but later became pregnant and gave birth a year later in March 1956.

She punished for her pregnancy: she was a poor unwed teen mom. Her image wasn’t respectable enough which led to fighting for years to be recognized and be respected for her actions. 

Rosa Parks actions were directly inspired by her and others actions. This is not to take away from Rosa Parks and her legacy, which is great, powerful, inspiring, and deserving. Even Rosa Parks knew this and is quoted  saying "If the white press got ahold of that information, they would have [had] a field day. They'd call her a bad girl, and her case wouldn't have a chance."

Claudette’s actions played a significant role that helped spark protest/change. Claudette’s youthful defiant spirit and bravery inspired grown educated and experienced adults much older than her into action. Her light, her actions were dimmed and she deserves her due.

I am saying that she deserved her just due NOT for clout or ego or contrived materialistic/monetary gains. Claudette Colvin deserved her just due because

1. her actions inspired the Montgomery bus boycott AND lead to the abolishment of bus discrimination and segregation.

2. She put herself in a vulnerable and unsafe position due to her bravery.

She had to flee her home and move up North to NYC (the Bronx specifically) in 1958. She left her home to save her life. This was a time again were blacks were being beaten, kidnapped from their homes and lynched, and/or their businesses, churches, and homes where being fire bombed for fighting back against racism. Her child could've been motherless due to the racist reactions to her activism.

It’s also important to note that she is 81 now and she later became a nurse. She used her Chiron in Cancer (and Virgo energy) to devote her life to caring for others which is just amazing and further shows her character and adaptability.

Mercury widely conjunct Pluto all in Leo & widely trine Jupiter in Aries

I think these set of placements is the icing on the cake for Claudette Colvin. Not only her youthful energy and idealistic outlook with her Sun conjunct Venus & Neptune in Virgo but also her Mercury widely conjunct Pluto all in Leo & widely trine Jupiter in Aries

Her Mercury widely conjunct Pluto all in Leo shows she was confident, proud, and thought of herself as more than who she was coded by society to be. Mercury in Leo values, loves, speaks and thinks highly of themselves. Especially with a wide conjunction with Pluto in Leo I don’t think she had an inferiority complex and she knew her mind and voice was her power and her gift.

Especially with Mercury widely trine Jupiter in Aries Claudette had an optimistic warrior attitude. I think this mentality kept her safe. Remember this was a time again were blacks were being beaten, kidnapped from their homes and lynched, and/or their businesses, churches, and homes where being fire bombed.

I have to keep stressing, repeating and emphasizing this because she was so young during this time and those were the potential consequences of her refusing to get up and legally fighting the system. DEATH. Look at Claudette's own perspective on her actions in this powerful quote, "History kept me stuck to my seat. I felt the hand of Harriet Tubman pushing down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth pushing down on the other."

As a 15 year old during Jim Crow 1950s’ Claudette’s mind had to be strong, and rely on faith to carry herself through this time period. Her Mercury widely trine Jupiter in Aries shows this and I think greatly helped her.

Overall I think Claudette is a great example of Virgos in Black Liberation because her actions could be seen as passive but they were more than that. Virgo is a feminine Earth mutable sign. It’s receptive and passive. Passive isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a mode of action. Passive allows you to take in energy and ideas in a slower more intimate way. 

Virgo energy is intelligent, curious, and mercurial and is always learning and improving. Claudette was young and she didn’t think fully about the consequences of her actions. But Claudette represented the youthful, ageless spirit of change, growth, and reform. Claudette’s active and strong passive defiance, her intelligence, practical grounded strength, and her ability to adapt is Virgo liberation energy.