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Jupiter has been moving in retrograde toward a second conjunction with Pluto for some time now. By June 19 it will be within a one degree orb of that aspect. The aspect will be exact on June 30 and remain within a one degree orb until the 10th of July. This should signal an intensification of what is already a tense situation. Also, given the very different natures of these two planets, this should also signal a period of mixed messages and confusion.
You probably remember what happened with Jupiter and Pluto got together for the first time back in late March and early April. That’s when our President declared the Coronavirus kaput and promised that America would be open for business by Easter. That was also when heavily armed protesters started showing up at statehouses around the country demanding an end to the restrictions that had been imposed by governors in response to the pandemic.
It seems like every week a new name tops the list of potential running mates for Joe Biden. This week the favorite seems to be Susan Rice. Of course, Rice has always been in the conversation. As the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, her resume is substantial. However, the call for a woman of color to be Biden’s pick has recently pushed Rice up toward the top of his list.
The one thing on Rice’s resume that might hold her back is her involvement in the Benghazi controversy. I know. After what’s happened in this country during the past three and half years, the importance given the events in Benghazi back in 2012 seems ludicrous. But for Republicans, just the word is sufficient. It carries implications of misinformation and poor policy decisions that could hurt a Biden-Rice ticket.
The nationwide outrage over the death of George Floyd (along with the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and so many others) has increased the call for Joe Biden to pick a woman of color as his running mate. It has as also brought some names that may have previously been far down on Biden’s list of potential candidates much closer to the top. Among them is Atlanta Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Florida Congresswoman, Val Demings.
Bottoms has earned praise for her strong reaction to the rioting that erupted in her city shortly after the death of George Floyd. She has also been openly critical of the actions of President Trump with regard to protesters. Demings’ resume includes a long career as a police officer in Orlando, Florida that ended with her being appointed the Chief of Police in that city. This gives her a unique perspective on the unrest that is currently rocking the country.
I have to begin with an apology. I completely misread the square by Mars to the Sun and Moon in my analysis of the May 22 New Moon chart. (Click here to see the article and the chart.) I looked at it in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic and did not fully consider its potential for violence. The placement of the Sun and Moon in the Ninth House of that chart referred to our ideals, not our health, and when those ideals were trashed by the actions of police officers in Minneapolis (and in Louisville and other places across the country), many of us reacted with the outrage of Aries the Warrior.
This is not to say that before the murder of George Floyd, we, as a nation, were living in exact accordance with our ideals. The Ninth House represents the principles toward which we aspire. I think a lot of people had gotten the notion that, since Ferguson, our country had taken some steps toward those Ninth House aspirations. The brutality exhibited by the police officers who arrested Floyd showed us otherwise. That was Mars busting through our ideals. It was also Saturn, which was trine the Sun and Moon in that lunations chart, teaching us a lesson about complacency.
