The Astrology of Pisces in Black Liberation

 

The Astrology of Pisces in Black Liberation

It’s Pisces Season I thought I will continue my Astrology of Black Liberation series in it’s natural order, in the current zodiac season that we are in. This being Pisces season, happy Pisces season and happy birthday to all the Pisces!!!!

One of the themes for Pisces energy in Black Liberation is love and humanity, specifically agape love for humanity. It’s breaking boundaries and barriers, giving up power, self-sacrifice, and martyrdom. It’s illusion, disillusion, the irrational, etc. Pisces ruled by it’s modern ruler Neptune and traditional ruler Jupiter. Pisces rules over the 12^th House. 12^th House themes includes CONFINEMENT. ENDINGS. SOLITUDE. INSTITUTIONS. SELF-UNDOING. TRANSCENDENCE. SECRETS. SUBCONSCIOUS.

The energy of Pisces especially Neptune/Jupiter is infused. Martin Luther King Jr had Pisces moon and Venus. Martin started with his people (black people) and their rights to vote and desegregation. Towards the end of his life he shifted focused to poor people and economics.

It’s important to remember Pisces is ruled also by Jupiter, it’s traditional ruler before Neptune was discovered in. Jupiter’s themes include LUCK. EXPANSION. TRAVEL. BELIEFS. FAITH. HIGHER EDUCATION. WEALTH. ABUNDANCE. GROWTH. RISK. OPPORTUNITY. GENEROSITY.

Pisces/Neptune energy just want to be loved and accepted and feels that everyone should be loved and accepted despite their imperfections and the mistakes that they have made. Imperfect beings where love cures all and there is a desire (or compulsion) to love. This need for love invites and attracts narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths, abusers, and users. OR vice versa creates narcissists, sociopaths, abusers, and users.

Pisces is neutral mutable water energy so there is a duality to them and they can play multiple roles well. By being able to play different roles, Pisces energy can put themselves in others' people shoes which allows them the ability to fight for all kinds of people.

In a series of more recent murders (2011-present) in the hands of police there has been debates on whether or not to march or support victims because of their criminal backgrounds.

Eric Garner, George Floyd, and Stephon Clark all have criminal records, with the latter being charged with crimes where they victimized women/ black women.

Particularly the debate centers around the anti-black women misogynoir some of these victims perpetuated. A lot of black women didn't want protest and to be mules and soldiers for men that didn't even respect them and would probably not have protested for them if the roles were reversed.

These issues became even more glaring especially after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and Black Lives Matter Activist Oluwatoyin Salau. If you don't know Oluwatoyin "Toyin" or "Queen" Salau, was a 19 year old Nigerian-American activist. She went missing and was later found murdered on June 2020 after tweeting that she just been sexually assaulted by a black man who offered to give her ride back to a church she was staying in.

During this time it became clear that people were not going as hard in terms of support for Toyin or Breonna as they were for other male victims of both police brutality and attacks against black women. There was a hypocrisy in attention, support, and media coverage of these black female victims.

On the other end of this debate, some feel that it doesn't matter and that all victims especially of police brutality should be supported. According to them what is wrong, is wrong, no matter if the victim was not a saint. I think this can be Pisces energy in Black Liberation. 

Sympathy for the devil, empathy for the mentally ill, love for all is also the mentality of Pisces energy in Black Liberation. Pisces energy loves everyone because their imperfect, are the underdogs/losers, and need help/saving.

Pisces energy in Black Liberation is the mentality that you don't have to be perfect or an angel for people to fight for you or to seek liberation. It does not matter your race, gender, sexuality, class, age, able/disabled, and etc. It does not matter if you made mistakes, were deadass wrong, or have hurt people in the past. For Pisces energy justice, healing, redemption, and liberation is for all.

The Astrology of Pisces in Black Liberation is that your life and the lives of others are worthy of love, protection, and liberation because you are a fellow human being. 

In Conclusion: The Aquarius Trinity aka The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation

In Conclusion: The Aquarius Trinity aka The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation

My Aquarius Trinity series is done. My series was to highlight the different sides of Aquarius's energy in Black Liberation. I also wanted to show the different kinds of Aquarius energy and the different kinds of ways it is used for Black Liberation.

In my series I referred to Aquariuses Toni Morrison (RIP), Angela Davis, and Alice Walker. They all represent three different sides and energies of Aquariuses while at the same time being very similar and Aquarian.

Toni Morrison is a more emotionally present, introspective, and curious Aquarius Sun with a Cancer stellium with several oppositions aspects between Cancer & Capricorn, Pisces & Virgo, and a bunch of t squares. 

Toni Morrison is the protective nurturing humanitarian side of Aquarius

Toni Morrison lifted up others, advocated for them, and gave them a platform via her work as an editor. By sharing her own resources and talents, it in turn gave her the courage to pursuit her solo dreams too.

Angela Davis, a double Aquarius with both a Leo & Gemini stellium, Air Grand Trine, and Bastard Earth Grand Trine.

Angela Davis is the rebellious, radical, political side of Aquarius

Angela Davis has fought is fighting to break down the systems of racism, capitalism, patriarchy/sexism, and prison-military industrial complex.

Alice Walker, a Full Moon Aquarius with an 8th/ Plutonian Leo Stellium, and Bastard Earth Grand Trine.

Alice Walker, coined the term black womanist, and was an advocate for women and for others to be yourself, in your own way, and at your own pace.

Alice is the creative, weird, individualist, and free thinker side of Aquarius

All these women are similar in the fact that do not shy away  from expressing their views on politics and social issues especially in regards to women and their rights. They are really into empowerment for women.

For reference I created a chart on their placements.

It's important to know that Black Liberation isn't just political, or social, or even personal. It's a mixture of all of these things and more. There are many ways to pursue black liberation and many different avenues. There isn't a right way. Also Black Liberation is never ending journey and that is ever evolving with the times.

Anyways HAPPY WOMEN"S HISTORY MONTH!!!!

The Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny’s Child: The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation: Part 3: Alice Walker

The Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny’s Child: The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation: Part 3: Alice Walker

It’s March and Women's History Month (though like Black History, Women's history is every month!!). Though it’s Pisces Season I thought I will continue my Astrology of Black Liberation series by working backwards into peak Black Liberation energy. This being Aquarius energy, the 11th sign, the 11th House, the Water Bearer, Saturn/Uranian energy!!.

What I call the Aquarius Trinity or The Destiny’s Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation. In Christianity the Trinity is oftentimes The Father (God), The Son (Jesus), and The Holy Spirit (Spirit). All distinct but also one. If you want to get low brow and not take it spiritually the Aquarius Trinity can be called The Destiny Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation. 

Long introduction aside if you haven’t read the title my last person to complete The Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny's Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation: Alice Walker.  I will be talking about her in this post.

I would say they all represent three different sides and energies of Aquariuses while at the same time being very similar, Aquarian, and being a big part of Black Liberation. 

To keep it simple I won't be going over their houses or writing about their rising signs in detail. Also to note I will be talking about Bastard conjunctions/aspect. Now let's get into it

ALICE WALKER


Alice Walker was born on February 9th 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia; a rural farming town. She born to sharecroppers parents and the youngest of 8 children. At age 8 she was left permanently blind in her right eye after an accident involving her brother and a BB gun. This is when she started reading and writing seriously. Alice exiled academically becoming her high school's valedictorian and receiving a scholarship to Spelman College in 1961. During her time at Spelman she met Martin Luther King Jr. who inspired her political activism and participation in the 1963 Washington March and helping with voter registration in Georgia and Mississippi. After two years of study she transferred to Sarah Lawrence on another scholarship in New York. A defining experience was when Alice became pregnant and had an abortion her senior year of college, she grappled with suicidal thoughts for some time after. She graduated in 1965.

In 1968 Alice wrote and got a poetry book titled, Once published. Around this same time she met a Jewish civil rights lawyer whom she later married in New York City in 1967 because interracial marriage was illegal in the South/Mississippi, having a daughter in 1969 and later divorcing in 1976.

She worked various jobs after graduation including the NYC Department of Welfare, back in the south with the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP in Mississippi, and a consultant on black history for a children's program. She secured positions as a writer in residence from 1968-1969 at Jackson State University and in 1970-1971 at Tougaloo College. She published her first book in 1970 titled, The Third Life of Grange Copeland.

She started teaching in 1972, became an editor of a feminist magazine in 1973 at the age of 29. Just before coming an editor she discovered an unmarked grave in Florida she believed to be that of anthropologist, novelist, and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston. This led to her writing an article on Zora Neale Hurston which sparked renewed interest in Zora amongst it's readers.

In 1976 Alice Walker second novel, titled: Meridian, was published.
In 1982, Alice published the 1983 Pulitzer Prize winning novel: The Color Purple. In 1983 she coined the term womanist to describe black women feminist that illustrates the intersecting and nuanced nature of race and gender. This novel was later adapted into a 1985 film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg and a successful Broadway show in 2005.

It's important to note that Alice Walker and Angela Davis are born in the same year with Angela being 2 weeks older. Both are from the south and their planets are pretty much the same except for the degrees and having different moon, Venus and rising signs. Let's get into her astrology, her astrology information from Astro-charts below:

Sun in 19 Degrees Aquarius
Moon in 20 Degrees Leo
Mercury in 25 Degrees Capricorn
Venus in 14 Degrees Capricorn
Mars in 9 Degrees Gemini Retrograde
Jupiter in 22 Degrees Leo Retrograde
Saturn in 19 Degrees Gemini Retrograde
Uranus in 4 Degrees Gemini  Retrograde
Neptune in 3 Degrees Libra Retrograde
Pluto in 7 Degrees Leo Retrograde
North Node in 6 Degrees Leo Retrograde
Chiron in 14 Degrees Virgo  Retrograde 

*Ascendant in 14 Sagittarius*

Some themes I notice in Alice Walker's astrology include:
- Born on a Full Moon
- Air Grand Trine with Sun/Moon in Aquarius, Mars, Saturn, and Uranus in Gemini, and Neptune in Libra

- Mercury conjunct Venus in Capricorn square Neptune in Libra trine Chiron in Virgo

-Mercury conjunct Venus in Capricorn trine Chiron in Virgo
- Stellium in Leo with Moon, Jupiter, Pluto, and North Node in Leo.
- Stellium in Gemini with Mars, Saturn, and Uranus in Gemini
- Oppositions between Aquarius/Leo

- 8th House Stellium: Moon, Jupiter, Pluto and North Node 

- 6 planets, 1 asteroid, and 1 node are in retrograde: Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, North node, Chiron

Sun in 19 Degrees Aquarius oppose Moon in 20 Degrees Leo

Alice Walker was born on a full moon with an almost exact opposition between her Sun and Moon. Off the top her moon energy (feelings, emotions, habits) are in opposition or resistance with her Sun energy (ego, personality).  Sun/Full moon energy/people is a bit different sort of opposition experience than other planets in opposition. 

To quote myself, "In the extremes Oppositions can make you be seen as contradictory, contrarian, hypocritical, without integrity or backbone because your actions and inner values are being pulled in opposite directions. I think Sun/Moon oppositions can go to the extremes because though consider "planets" technically in astrology the Sun and Moon are luminaries and are the most important "planets" in a natal chart. 

I think this way because the sun/ego/identity can't be fully expressed because the Moon feelings/emotions/habits contradicts the Sun personality/ego/identity. It's like an inner war mixed with frenemy/jealousy situation where the Sun and Moon are competing for attention.

A positive is Sun opposite the Moon can see and experience different perspectives, be more open to new ideas, and can be more well rounded.

Alice especially with Leo moon is a bit different. The Leo moon is more internal, less in your face because it's your emotions and feelings. Not everyone gets access to your emotions so people don't get to see the inner you more often. This doesn't mean that Leo moons are less Leo, it just means it's hidden and not out on display.

Leo moons can feel that they didn't get as much attention or wasn't seen as special or unique. So they may act out. Or even do the opposite, hide out.

Alice has a Leo stellium and has Moon conjunct Jupiter in Leo and bastard conjunction between North Node in Leo and Pluto in Leo all retrograde. She has strong Leo/Solar/Sun energy, but a lot of it is pushed inward and more reflective due to all that retrograde energy. It's important to note that 8th House Stellium: Moon, Jupiter, Pluto and North Node all in Leo, so this also adds a darker, deeper, Plutonian level to her Leo stellium.

Especially with Moon conjunct Jupiter in Leo and a bastard conjunction between Pluto in Leo Alice probably has very colorful, loving, creative, extreme, and intense emotions, habits, and reactions. Performative emotions, exaggerations with feelings, bombastic displays, and a need for her whims to be catered too.

Mercury conjunct Venus in Capricorn square Neptune in Libra trine Chiron in Virgo

Alice has Mercury conjunct Venus in Capricorn square Neptune in Libra trine Chiron in Virgo.

If you see how she looks (Venus in Capricorn) and speaks (Mercury in Capricorn), she's serious, soft spoken, frank, seemingly introverted, bookish, and without any frills which is very Saturnian. Her Venus (sense of beauty, art, relationships) is working with her thinking/speaking/communicating abilities (Mercury).

Leo energy mixes well with Capricorn energy though they are not traditionally compatible. A mixture and a sort of refinedness, regalness, class, and ambitiousness which is what I see with Alice. I can also on the downside see her being elitist, snooty, and reliant on being able to have social mobility.

Unlike Angela Davis who has a similar chart to Alice. I think Alice leaned into her Leo side of Leo stellium/ Aquarius/Leo opposition more than balancing it with her Aquarius energy like Angela has. I think Alice's Sun is starving a little, with hot air but gets help from the other air signs and other planets that give her support. Particularly her Gemini stellium.

Angela seemed to balance her Leo stellium with Aquarius energy and find a way to toggle back and forth between her opposition using her Gemini stellium as a mediator. Alice seems to revel in her Leo stellium energy partially because she is Plutonian and her Leo stellium is focused in the 8th House. For Plutonians this isn't energy you can ignore or suppress, it's powerful and you have to use it or it will use you.

FYI I am only comparing Alice with Angela to show that free will, nature plays a huge role in astrology and astrology is very much about your genetics, upbringing, and environment, and experiences. 

ALICE WALKER WITH TONI MORRISON. AQUARIUS KNOWS EVERYONE

When writing on my Liberation series I like to watch several YouTube interview videos (if available) and interpret their astrology using my person of interest's own words, their behavior, demeanor, and energy fields.  I watched a few interviews with Alice Walker (especially the ones with the insufferable Charlie Rose). It's clear Alice is focused more on her personal emotional/physical/mental/spiritual growth and journey. She isn't trying to dismantle systems like an Angela or trying to nurture, form partnerships/use her platform to elevate voices and mentoring black creatives like Toni.

Alice is about healing, about trauma, generational trauma, about finding truths in the human condition, and personal empowerment.

Alice's most famous story, The Color Purple is a coming of age story about the liberation of a shy abused black woman forcibly separated from her sister and placed under the hands of an abusive older husband, who later on finds herself and her strength via pain. She liberates herself. Self liberation and self actualization are important themes in The Color Purple.

In terms of her Aquariusness I am not saying Alice Walker is less of Aquarius because I definitely see the Aquarius energy in her. It's just that her Aquarius energy is overpowered and it's a constant battle with her Leo/8th House energy. Her daughter, Rebecca Walker, also a writer and feminist, spoke out and stated that she felt neglected, traumatized and felt Alice wasn't interested in being a mother. I believe Rebecca but I also think it's more complicated than that.

This can showcases the underside of Alice Walker and a common accusation for the Boomer generation = Pluto in Leo side of the Boomer generation. They are accused of being selfish narcissists who sacrificed and ruin their children's/future generation's futures with their self-centered irresponsible pursuit of pleasure, their desires/passions, the American dream, and to fit in/be accepted.

Though a bit exaggerated their are some truths to this. A lot of the radical hippies became the hypocritical yuppies who became more conservative with age (that is natural part of growing up regardless of generation) and renounced their youthful rebellion phase. They gladly uphold the systems and ideologies they superficially fought against in order to get their piece of the American pie.

Alice as a single divorced mother, who also was a strong womanist (black feminist), and had a successful writing career and was a teacher; struggled. She loved and mothered the way she knew how while choosing not to compromise her ambition, creativity, or give into societal norms of being a mother first, second second. I can see why she probably wasn't as attentive.

I think Alice indirectly confirmed she was a bit detached from her mother role with her daughter, via her own words in a poem in her poetry novel. HER BLUE BODY EVERYTHING WE KNOW  “Now that the book is finished,/ now that I know my character/ will live,/ I can love my child again./ She need sit no longer/ at the back of my mind,/ the lonely sucking of her thumb/ a giant stopper in my throat.”

Alice has Neptune in Libra (like Angela) so she is concerned with social justice and breaking down the boundaries and illusions that separate people and prevent/destroys relationships which is oftentimes race, gender, class, sexuality. Neptune in Libra is concerned with Equality and balancing ideals. Since it's Libra they want to this with the collective power of others and partnerships.

As stated before she coined the term womanist to describe black women feminist that illustrates the intersecting and nuanced nature of race and gender in feminism. She lived the life she believed in and had to let others know who she is, not just who she's assigned to be (WIFE, MOTHER, WOMAN, then WRITER in that order). She's more than a mother or wife.

In terms of Alice's Aquarius energy she fought passionately for women's issues particularly domestic violence and genital mutilation/female circumcision in certain African communities. However in her personal relationship with her daughter took a backseat and was second to her career and sensibilities. 

This common Aquarian trait of caring more and being more present for others and for strangers than their loved ones. It's a famous Aquarian detachment I love humanity, hate humans perspective. Alice using her writing to examine her emotions instead of allowing herself to feel it and be in. Alice doesn't have any water energy outside of house places and is an Uranian/Saturn Aquarius/Capricorn mix so she probably was avoiding, intellectualizing emotions, had coldness, lack of empathy, and understanding others' emotions. She explored emotions in her art but I don't think she did it in her personal life (well at least not from a feeling place). For reference her daughter Rebecca is a Scorpio.

I chose Alice for the last Aquarius in my Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation because Alice Walker's brand of Aquarius energy in black liberation is examining the human condition on a more personal individual level than on a wide spread. Contextualizing Alice seems more focused on being true to herself and creating art that examines womanhood, trauma, and other issues in the black community. As oppose to rallying up people to break down systems (other than maybe patriarchy?). 

I see her as the quiet individualist, hermit, weirdo Aquarius who is into Individuality, personal creativity, personal power, freedom from patriarchy, and sexual norms.

Black Liberation doesn't have to protesting, fighting, organizing, and politicalizing. Black Liberation can be about individualism and living by your own rules not just by society and what they designated you as. But as who you want to be.

The Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny’s Child: The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation: Part 2: Angela Davis

The Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny’s Child: The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation: Part 2: Angela Davis

It’s the last day of February and Black History Month (though Black History is every month!!). Though it’s Pisces Season I thought I will continue my Astrology of Black Liberation series by working a little backwards into peak Black Liberation energy. This being Aquarius energy, the 11th sign, the 11th House, the Water Bearer.

I couldn’t decide on which Aquarius I wanted to choose, so I decided to talk about a bunch of Aquariuses including what I call the Aquarius Trinity or The Destiny’s Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation. In Christianity the Trinity is oftentimes The Father (God), The Son (Jesus), and The Holy Spirit (Spirit). All distinct but also one. If you want to get low brow and not take it spiritually the Aquarius Trinity can be called The Destiny Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation. 

Long introduction aside if you haven’t read the title I am referring to Aquariuses Angela Davis, and my last person to complete The Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny's Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation: Alice Walker. 

I would say they all represent three different sides and energies of Aquariuses while at the same time being very similar, Aquarian, and being a big part of Black Liberation. 

To keep it simple I won't be going over their houses or writing about their rising signs in detail. Also to note I will be talking about Bastard conjunctions/aspect. Now let's get into it

Angela Davis was born January 26th 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. She has 3 siblings and her mother who was a teacher and a father owned a gas station.  Angela Davis  is a writer, philosopher, scholar, professor and a 1960s/1970s counterculture political activist and radical. She's a Marxist -Socialist- Communist- Anti-Capitalist, Anti-imperialism, Anti-war, Anti Prison-military industrial complex, Lesbian- Feminist Vegan revolutionary. She is classic, traditional Uranian-  Aquarius prototype and one of the PEAKEST of PEAK Black Liberation energy.

Angela grew up in a place known as Dynamite Hill. This neighborhood was known for its racial violence in the form of house bombings by whites in the 1950s Alabama to force out black middle class from their neighborhoods. Her mother was an active Communist so Angela grew up around radical intellectuals and communist organizers, even participating in a Communist youth group.

Angela Davis pursued a degree in French and then philosophy attending Brandeis University in Massachusetts, France (Biarritz and Sorbonne Universities), and Germany (

University of Frankfurt) graduating in 1965. During and after college she joined international communist/political organizations. She furthered her studies graduating with a masters from University of California, San Diego in 1968, and earning a doctorate at Humboldt University in East Berlin.

In 1969-1970 she became an acting assistant philosophy professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She was fired for being a communist.

In 1970 her guns were used in a courthouse armed takeover hostage situation that resulted in the deaths of 4 people including a judge. She was charged with three capital offenses that included aggravated kidnapping and first degree murder and was facing the death penalty. She was found to not be directly involved and acquitted of all charges in 1972.

This was not before she fled and was on the run as a fugitive alluding the Feds, and was put on the FBI'S most wanted list before her capture. After she was arrested she spent over a year in jail. This led to her being seen as a counterculture hero in which her supporters rallied behind her. Her supporters included Aretha Franklin (who paid her bail), The Rolling Stones, John Lennon, another counterculture GOAT who even made a song about her titled, "Angela" in 1972.

This experience led to her lifelong quest to abolish prison and the prison industrial complex.

After her acquittal she went on a communist traveling speaking tour to Cuba, the Soviet Union, and East Germany. In the 1980s she dipped her toes in direct politics accepting nomination twice as a running mate for a Communist presidential hopeful. From the 1960s to now Angela is a lecturer, author and a professor for various colleges and universities achieving an academic career while participating in and supporting grass roots causes like prison abolition.

Let's get into her astrology

Sun in 5 Degrees Aquarius

Moon in 20 Degrees Aquarius

Mercury in 11 Degrees Capricorn

Venus in 28 Degrees Sagittarius

Mars in 6 Degrees Gemini Retrograde

Jupiter in 24 Degrees Leo Retrograde

Saturn in 20 Degrees Gemini Retrograde

Uranus in 4 Degrees Gemini  Retrograde

Neptune in 4? Degrees Libra Retrograde

Pluto in 7 Degrees Leo Retrograde

North Node in 6 Degrees Leo Retrograde

Chiron in 14 Degrees Virgo Retrograde

* Ascendant in Taurus*

Some themes I notice in her astrology include:

- Double Aquarius

- Air Grand Trine with Sun/Moon in Aquarius, Mars, Saturn, and Uranus in Gemini, and Neptune in Libra

- Stellium in Leo with Jupiter, Pluto, and North Node in Leo

- Stellium in Gemini with Mars, Saturn, and Uranus in Gemini

- Oppositions between Aquarius/Leo and T Square between Gemini/Sagittarius and Virgo

- 5 planets, 1 asteroid, and 1 node are in retrograde: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, North node, Chiron

- Bastard Earth Grand Trine

Angela has her Sun in 5 Degrees Aquarius bastardly conjunct Moon in 20 Degrees Aquarius

Angela is tapped into the Uranus-Uranian rebellious freedom fighter energy side of Aquarius. This is the side of Aquarius that people love to highlight citing Uranus's modern ruler.

This is her pedigree greatly influenced by her mom, her parents and parents' friends grassroots Communist ideas and beliefs. This a great case study for when nurture and nature are intertwined and support her fate and free will. Would she have been a Communist revolutionary if it wasn't for her parents/environment?

I think she would but I think it amplified and reinforced her nature. 

Angela is a double Aquarius so her personality/ego (Sun) and emotions/habits (Moon) are in alignment and are after similar goals and experiences which is freedom, liberation, independence. To not be limited and controlled because of her race, gender, sexuality, politics, class, or lifestyle. It can be seen as idealistic but is it really futuristic.

Angela has Mercury in 11 Degrees Capricorn trine Chiron 14 degrees in Virgo. Despite her zany rebellious Uranian energy there is a methodical, organized communication and thinking abilities. She thinks before she speaks, speaks slowly, careful with her words, logical, and intentional.

Mercury is trining Chiron (the wounded healer) so her words are powerful and have the power to heal or harm depending on how it's used.

If you add in her Ascendant in Taurus she has an Earth bastard grand trine which balances and grounds her airy Air Grand trine with more a practical realistic perspective.

Venus in 28 Degrees Sagittarius with a bastard sextile with her Sun/Moon

Angelia has her Venus in 28 Degrees Sagittarius with a bastard sextile with her Sun/Moon. This compliments her Aquarius energy well. Aquarius and Sagittarius are kindred spirits both wanting freedom, independence, and to cross boundaries.

Her traveling while pursuing her undergraduate and graduate studies is peak Sagittarius/Jupiter energy and shows her adaptability and her quest for knowledge, and new experiences. This is very Jupiterian. Jupiter isn't just about expansion, luck, crossing boundaries.

She grew up in the South in an incredibly volatile racist, violent times where she had to learn to fight, to be aware of her environment and world. I am sure she probably felt she had to escape so she used her mind/education as a means to escape her immediate environment/country.

Air Grand Trine with Sun/Moon in Aquarius, Mars, Saturn, and Uranus in Gemini, and Neptune in Libra

Angela has a Air Grand Trine with Sun/Moon in Aquarius, Mars, Saturn, and Uranus in Gemini, and Neptune in Libra. Constant communication, interacting with people, and being in the know is important to her. Relationships and novelty. 

Neptune in Libra is concerned with social justice and breaking down the boundaries and illusions that separate people and prevent/destroys relationships which is oftentimes race, gender, class, sexuality. Neptune in Libra is concerned with Equality and balancing ideals. Since it's Libra they want to this with the collective power of others and partnerships.

Specifically she has a Stellium in Gemini with Mars, Saturn, and Uranus in Gemini. This shows that she's highly adaptive, intelligent, curious, and is always willing learn.

On the downside she's restless, nosey, and gets bored easy. You know that phrase idle hands are the devil's tools.

She fights with her mind, with her words, ideas, her philosophies which is how air dominated and mercurial people fight.

Angela with Mars, Saturn, and Uranus in Gemini used knowledge, the act of learning (Mars in Gemini) and knowledge is power as her form of rebellion (Uranus in Gemini). Becoming educated (traditionally with school/higher learning) and receiving street smarts from the world/community didn't hold her back but help her develop discipline and apply her knowledge and wisdom with responsibility (Saturn in Gemini). 

ANGELA DAVIS AND TONI MORRISON

Stellium in Leo with Jupiter, Pluto, and North Node in Leo

Angela has Angela has pride in who she is and her history.

Racism and the system of racism is very evil and very insidious and huge part is shame. Racists and the system of racism is all about blacks feeling shame. 

-Shame that their ancestors and family members were enslaved and conquered.

- Shame of their features, hair texture and skin color, particularly if dark skinned.

- Shame of your existence, taking up space, and being confident, gifted, talented, smart, beautiful, articulate, resilient, etc.

When I started my black liberation series. I started it last year 2020 in Leo season. A lot of the modern revolutionaries were born during Pluto in Leo (roughly 1939-1957 in astrology with [BABY BOOMERS generation - BORN 1946-1964]. Coming of age during Pluto in Virgo time. A lot of Pluto in Leo generation's liberation energy has to do with pride and to unpack the effects of shame, and what Jim Crow-Segregation-Reconstruction-Racism did to their psyche. 

The opposite of shame is pride. Blacks with Pluto in Leo running through their veins didn't want the shame because it was put on them, and all they wanted was to live. The Pluto in Leo generation were/are naturally confident, creative, filled with love, and bursting to show and tell the world.

Angela rocked an Afro (like many who followed the Black pride movement). She didn't run away from her blackness, she took pride in it. Her Leo stellium showed she refused to be denigrated, AND limited because of her race/gender/class. Especially with North Node in Leo is was born to stand out, shine, and be the light for others.

Oppositions between Aquarius/Leo and T Square between Gemini/Sagittarius and Virgo

Angela has oppositions between Aquarius/Leo and T Square between Gemini/Sagittarius and Virgo

In terms of oppositions and my opinion is that oppositions in Astrology doing/being/going after and believing in the same things but doing it in the opposite way. Aquarius/Leo and Gemini/Sagittarius want/believe/go after the same/similar things but in opposite ways.

Leo is confident and wants to shine and be the center of attention. Their energy is directed inwards. Leo place themselves in the center they are the Sun.

Aquarius is confident too, they shine when they let others shine. Their energy is directed outwards. Aquarius place others in the center and don't mind being an outer planet, Uranus!

I would say that Angela's Aquarius sun/moon probably feels discomfort with her stellium in Leo so her compromise is to be amongst her people, where she can shine and at the same time she can use her Aquarius-ness water bearing skills to give others the platform and space to shine too. It's a win/win and everyone gets what they want. The only thing Angela has to watch out for is ego getting in the way from both sides (not just on Leo side, Aquariuses have egos too!!).

It's important to note that Angela has a lot of retrograde planets and planetary placements. She has 5 planets, 1 asteroid, and 1 node are in retrograde: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, North node, Chiron. In astrology often times retrograde planets are seen as a nuance or less Retrograde planets are not less than direct planets . Introspection, having to slow down and delated gratification. 

Angela has a T Square between Gemini/Sagittarius and Virgo. A t square is an opposition with a square. Gemini and Sagittarius are in opposition and they are both squared Virgo.

In the extremes Oppositions can make you be seen as contradictory, contrarian, hypocritical, without integrity or backbone because your actions and inner values are being pulled in opposite directions. This can be true but most of the time it's not, especially if you find the commonality of where the opposition meets in the middle.

Virgo/Pisces opposition for example is their need to serve and help. Cancer/Capricorn it's security. Taurus/Scorpio it's abundance/resources. Aries/Libra it's identity. Leo/Aquarius it's ego.

For Gemini/Sagittarius it's their need to learn and acquire knowledge. Sagittarius does this by traveling, religion, higher education, and stretching the boundaries. Gemini it's more local/centralized, and it's through communicating with other people, being involved in the community, hobbies/interests, etc. 

As I mentioned before Angela uses her Gemini/Sagittarius opposition well. She used her Sagittarius part by pursuing higher education, completing much of her studies abroad and traveling. Her Gemini is her community organizing, publishing books, engaging with the media, and creating grassroots organizations. Both is her traveling tours, giving speeches, and pursuing a career in academia by teaching/lecturing in colleges and universities. 

Her Chiron in Virgo is squared her Gemini/Sagittarius placements so her wounded healer is in the Virgo areas of efficiency, perfection, attention to details, and having standards. Gemini/Sagittarius is not concerned with these things. To be honest I think she's using her Chiron in Virgo in the best ways she could. Her activism can be seen as healing and affirming for others. Perhaps it's not for her and she isn't satisfied until she achieves her goals. It's normal not to be dissatisfied; which is reasonable and not her fault at all.

It's the way the world is set up! Especially in terms of Black Liberation, where it's always one step forward two steps back. Racism and anti-blackness is very insidious and evil like an efficient perfect virus because in the sense that it can change it's form and adapt to go unnoticed and checked.

Regardless Black Liberation is more of series of journeys than just a destination. My definition and form of Black Liberation may not be yours and vice versa. That's ok!

I chose Angela Davis as one of The Aquarius Trinity of The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation because she is the quintessential Aquariuses, the Uranian modern Aquarius.

Stubborn Rebel, political agitator, polarizing, idealist freedom fighter for the oppressed. Willing to both use her ego and put her ego to the side to fight for others. This is Aquarius energy in Black Liberation. One of strongest stances is Anti-capitalism and prison abolition. 

Aquarius does not fight for everyone (that's more Pisces).  Aquarius fights for the oppressed/underdogs, they fight for the voiceless, they fight for the ones with similar ideological or social characteristics (race, gender, class for example). Angela is fighting for the Marxist -Socialist- Communist- Anti-Capitalist, Anti-imperialism, Anti-war, Anti Prison-military industrial complex, Lesbian- Feminist Vegans who are disenfranchised like her. This is her brand of black liberation.

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The Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny’s Child: The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation: Part 1: Toni Morrison

The Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny’s Child: The Astrology of Aquariuses in Black Liberation: Part 1: Toni Morrison

It’s the last days of February and Black History Month (though Black History is every month!!). Though it’s Pisces Season I thought I will continue my Astrology of Black Liberation series by working a little backwards into peak Black Liberation energy. This being Aquarius energy, the 11th sign, the 11th House, the Water Bearer.

I couldn’t decide on which Aquarius I wanted to choose, so I decided to talk about a bunch of Aquariuses including what I call the Aquarius Trinity or The Destiny’s Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation. In Christianity the Trinity is oftentimes The Father (God), The Son (Jesus), and The Holy Spirit (Spirit). All distinct but also one. If you want to get low brow and not take it spiritually the Aquarius Trinity can be called The Destiny Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation. 

FYI I am speaking of the last Destiny's Child line up, not the original 4 girls, so just Beyoncé, Kelly, and Michelle. These are just analogies, I am not comparing these three Aquariuses to God nor deciding who’s the Beyoncé or who’s the Michelle. If you don’t like my analogies they can be the Three Magi (or Wise Men or Kings), the Three Musketeers or Three’s Company or Three Blind Mice or even Three 6 Mafia (depending on the levels of Mutable energy in their charts). Ok the last two examples definitely not.

All my rambling aside if you haven’t read the title I am referring to Aquariuses Toni Morrison (RIP), Angela Davis, and Alice Walker. I would say they all represent three different sides and energies of Aquariuses while at the same time being very similar and Aquarian.

To keep it simple I won't be going over their houses or writing about their rising signs in detail. Also to note I will be talking about Bastard conjunctions/aspect. 

A Bastard conjunction or Bastard aspects is an astrology slang phrase I coined to represent the relationship of planets that are not technically conjunct or form aspects (aka have relationships) because they fall outside the limits due to having wider orbs and degrees.

Bastard child aspects or Bastard aspects represent an out of wedlock child that's vaguely related but not that strong of union or relationship with their family/siblings because it is outside the bounds of rules/tradition. 

I consider a planet a bastard conjunction (or square or sextile or trine, or etc.), when they are in the same sign regardless of degrees or orbs. I consider this because even if they are out of orb or too wide of a degree. They are still working towards the same goals, struggles with similar things, and behaves similar to a technical aspect even if their relationship isn''t that or as 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. 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 Conjunction. Bastard Square Bastard Trine Bastard (insert aspect here) etc.   

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TONI MORRISON

Toni Morrison born on February 18th 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She was the second of four children to working class parents. She was an American professor, editor, playwright, essayist, children's writer, and novelist. She first started out teaching and transitioned into editing until after her divorce (while pregnant) in the mid 1960s. As an editor for Random House publishing company becoming it's first black female fiction editor and is credit to pushing Black literature and writing into the mainstream media and publishing worlds. She helped publish books for Muhammed Ali, Huey Newton, and Angela Davis to name a few.

She didn't start writing professionally until 1970 at aged 39 with her first book, The Bluest Eyes. She followed with Sula (1973), Song of Solomon (1977), and Tar Baby (1981). She's best known for her critically acclaimed, New York Times best selling, 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning 1987 novel Beloved; that was later turned into a 1998 movie starring Oprah and Danny Glover. She also won a Nobel Prize in 1993 for Beloved. Beloved was part of a trilogy with Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1997). 

Toni Morrison was later honored many years later with a Presidential Medal of Honor in 2012. Sadly in 2019 during Leo Season at the age of 88, Toni Morrison died.

Below is her astrology information from Astrocharts

Sun in 29 Degrees Aquarius

Moon in 11 Degrees Pisces

Mercury in 10 Degrees Aquarius

Venus in 12 Degrees Capricorn

Mars in 29 Degrees Cancer Retrograde

Jupiter in 10 Degrees Cancer Retrograde

Saturn in 19 Degrees Capricorn

Uranus in 12 Aries Degrees Aries

North Node in 17 Degrees Aries Retrograde

Neptune in 4  Degrees Virgo

Pluto in 19 Degrees Cancer Retrograde

Chiron in 14 Degrees Taurus

* Ascendant in 25 Degrees Taurus*

Looking at her chart placements a few themes stand out. 

Toni Morrison is a more emotionally present, introspective, and curious Aquarius Sun with Pisces Moon, and Cancer stellium. She has Cancer Mars, Cancer Jupiter, and Cancer Pluto.

Ironically she's also has a more stoic/traditional Saturn ruled Aquarius ( as opposite to an Uranian Aquarius) with the Capricorn/Saturn influence of Venus conjunct Saturn in Capricorn. She has several oppositions aspects between Cancer & Capricorn and Pisces & Virgo, and a bunch of t squares.

She's also more of an earthy Aquarius with a bastard grand Earth trine with Venus & Saturn in Capricorn, Neptune in Virgo, Chiron in Taurus, and  Ascendant in Taurus. Cardinal energy is pretty dominate having 3 out of the 4 Cardinal signs in her chart. Lastly she is 12th Houser with a stellium of Uranus, North Node and Chiron in the 12th House.

Toni has a bastard conjunction between her Sun in 29 Degrees Aquarius and Mercury in 10 Degrees Aquarius. She's an Aquarius so she's naturally an intellectual that is concerned with her community and the world around her.  Part individualist loner and part social intellectual trendsetter she put her talents to use as first a professor and then an editor. 

Using her water bearer energy she valued inclusion and promoted the words and stories of Black American movers and shakers like activists, writers, and athletes. 

Toni has her Moon in Pisces Sextile her Venus in Capricorn. This shows harmony between her emotions (Moon) and sense of beauty and richness in relationships (Venus).

Her Moon trine is Jupiter both in water signs which shows emotional optimism, emotional openness and the need to expand oneself by using their feelings and intuition as conduits and guides for a fulfilling experience.

Toni Moon has a bastard opposition with Neptune in 4 degrees Virgo this shows bit of a conflict between her emotion impulses, and habits (Moon) and her sense of boundaries, illusions, fantasies (Neptune). Possibly shows problems with respecting boundaries and/or having her emotional boundaries respected. Neptune in Virgo has a nervous critical fidgety energy while Moon in Pisces has a sensitive, emotional sponge vulnerable sort of energy. Creating a seesaw effect and cycle of reinforcing, and then breaking down emotional boundaries and illusions.

Toni Morrison has Venus 12 Degrees Capricorn conjunct Saturn in 19 Degrees Capricorn opposite Jupiter in Cancer

Venus square Uranus/North Node in Aries

All this points to strong Saturn energy by way of Capricorn and sense of delays, having to start over, limitations, and maturation/wisdom via pain and struggles.

Toni started professional writing at 39 as a mature single divorcee in the 1970s.' I could imagine she was emotionally raw, insecure, and scarred from her divorce.

The lows of her Capricorn energy gave her inspiration and confidence to lean into her Cancer energy. While the highs of her Capricorn energy have her the discipline, responsibility to fulfill the goals of her Cancer energy and not be boggled down by emotions. As I said before oppositions work in the fact that opposition pairs work and go after the same goals, values, the same themes and ideas but in opposite ways. Capricorn leans into stoicism, hard work, duty to guide and hold people accountable despite emotions while Cancer leans into emotionalism, also hard work, and a duty to support/nurture others in service of emotions. Both striving for security.

In an interview with her Aquarius sis Oprah she felt a calling, she feels an obligation and a duty to devote herself to 1. being a mother 2. being a writer.

This brings me to her Mars in 29 Degrees Cancer Retrograde

and Jupiter in 10 Degrees Cancer Retrograde energy.

As I said before the lows of her Capricorn energy gave her inspiration and confidence to lean into her Cancer energy, especially her faith in Jupiter in Cancer (exalted btw). Her abundance/expansion optimism (Jupiter), the urges and calls to action of her (Mars) energy allow her to release her Capricorn energy.

In March 8th 1998 60 Minutes interview she said she felt a debt to her people, and especially to her mother, literally and symbolically. 

I suspect her writing made her feel a sense of security, purpose, and made her feel closer to her family, her people, and herself.

Family and motherhood is clearly very important to Toni Morrison. Later in her career she wrote children's books with one of her sons. A 2004 CBS Sunday Morning interview on YouTube shows this. Combining business and family, security and creatively.

The rebellious atypical Aquarius energy is supported by her independent Aries North Node & Uranus conjunction that gave her stubbornness and strength to pursue a career while being a devoted mother.

In her art, in the book, her book, the one that really put her on the mainstream map was Beloved. Beloved was about a formerly enslaved post Civil Water Reconstruction woman and her family. This woman who had escaped slavery made the desperate decision to killed her young 2 year old daughter to avoid slavery. Years later she is haunted by the ghost of her dead child.

Her book is very reflective of her several oppositions aspects between Cancer & Capricorn and Pisces & Virgo. Along with the violence, death, transformation cycle of the t square between Pluto/Jupiter/Mars in Cancer & Venus/Saturn in Capricorn opposite then squaring Uranus conjunct North Node in Aries.

Virgo fixation mixed with Pisces both dissolving earthly boundaries to be haunted by a supernatural spirit from the great beyond. This is peak Moon in Pisces opposite Neptune in Virgo energy. Showcasing a spiritual death, disillusion of self and exploration of the emotions of trauma, guilt, and grief of taking one's own child.

While the t square between Pluto/Jupiter/Mars in Cancer & Venus/Saturn in Capricorn opposite then squaring Uranus conjunct North Node in Aries. A tale of a mother (Cancer) that loved her child so much, with such rawness and intensity that she had to kill her daughter as both an act of rebellion, survival (Uranus/ North Node in Aries) in the form of extreme violence to protect and spare (Mars) her child (Pluto/Jupiter/Mars in Cancer) from the horrors of slavery, racism, trauma, torture, rape, physical emotional mental and sexual abuse (Pluto).

It was a mercy killing, a necessary evil, wrong morally, neutral spiritually, and a reasonable but extreme decision as a parent, a compulsion to nurture (Toni's words). In Toni's words via a PBS NewsHour interview it was the right thing to do but it was not her right to do it. The mother in Beloved chose and controlled Beloved's fate by choosing death which is also an interesting juxtaposition between Toni's own Pluto conjunct Jupiter in Cancer with Pluto exacting opposing Saturn (no bastard opposition). It deals with the themes between fate/faith (Jupiter), control (Saturn), death Saturn/Pluto and transformation (Pluto).

Toni Morrison's Beloved was inspired by the real life story of enslaved woman Margaret Garner who killed her child rather than give her up to life of slavery. This action speaks of Toni's Mars in Cancer and Pluto in Cancer which in of itself recalls, reinterpret and transforms a real tragic historical story (Pluto) into one that shows the extremes of motherhood and love (Jupiter). 

All this aside to get more into the Black Liberation Aquarius energy and why I chose Toni Morrison for one of the Aquarius Trinity aka The Destiny’s Child of Aquariuses in Black Liberation is that Toni's work, life, and ideas symbolizes what the pursuit of Aquarius energy in Black Liberation looks likes.

Toni lifted up others and gave them a platform via her work as an editor. By sharing her own resources and talents, it in turn gave her the courage to pursuit her solo dreams too.

An interesting tale of Toni Morrison's character, Aquarius-ness and commitment to Black Liberation is that Toni (then in her editor bag at Random House) reached out to a young 26 year old Angela Davis for her to write a autobiography. This was after Angela Davis was acquitted of her charges with the government and out of jail. Angela was not interested and very hesitant due to her age and feeling too young to write an autobiography. Toni was 13 years older than Angela.

Toni was insistent, she felt Angela's story was important and needed to be told. Toni saw her potential and reached out to her, almost like parent/older sister role. She knew Angela needed coxing and nurturing.  Angela did write her autobiography titled: Angela Davis: An Autobiography, Random House (September 1974). They would form and maintained a sort of Mentor (Toni), mentored (Angela) relationship and friendship for decades.

This brings to me to my point Toni Morrison's form of Black Liberation is brining people together, lifting others like herself up, and giving voices to the voiceless (Aquarius) and her own personal brand of Liberation through her own writing that combines her emotional, protective, maternal instincts, & family centeredness (Cancer stellium), sense of duty, urgency, and steadfast despite age/time (Capricorn energy),

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