United States Supreme Court Hearing

"Why should the federal judiciary be interfering in what seems to be a very carefully thought-out scheme?" -- Justice David Souter If Justice David Souter can query why the federal judiciary should intervene, then perhaps it is reasonable for me to ask if I can still read a chart. Notwithstanding the fact that no one, not even media pundits and news anchors could have foreseen the debacle now known as "Election 2000," what frustrates me is that my little world of "certainty-through-astrology" is undone. I, too, am a collective creature. I don't know all the workings of my unconscious regardless of the fact that I've logged 20 years (not consecutively) of deep psychotherapy. Since the birth of the U.S. Constitution in September of 1787, the USA has never experienced a Pluto transit through the 10th house of the Constitution chart, nor over the Ascendant and through the first house of the USA Declaration of Independence chart. For the 213 years following 1787 (and the 211 years after the inauguration of George Washington in 1789), the USA has not experienced a universal purge in quite this way.

And so we are collective creatures driven and divided along partisan lines -- a virtual "Rashomon" of perceptions where the axiom "the observer cannot be separate from the observed" is proof perfect of the new physics. How do you step out of the hologram if you are the hologram? If the supreme value of the Republic is that the rule of law (see Mundane Astrology & Astrological Law) is sacrosanct, then is the irrevocable force of Pluto's transit through Sag (USA's first house) the clarion call for a Constitutional Crisis? And if so, the crisis embodies the terrors of having one's supreme value forever altered. Transiting Jupiter (now retrograde) will oppose Pluto again by direct motion (exact May 6, 2001. This occurs (presumably) after Election 2000's train wreck has been cleared off the collective track. But I suspect that the president-elect carries with him the seeds of a potential catastrophic political "Jihad" where the fragments of the shattered "mirror" (2000's early Saturn-Uranus square) will relentlessly cut to the quick the way Florida's chads have cut our two political parties asunder. Transiting Saturn's opposition to Pluto (August 10, 2001) will be far nastier. By that time, the consequences of Election 2000 will hurt much more. This One Might Go The Distance Al Gore experienced two severe losses today at about the time the transiting Moon trined Mars and conjoined Uranus: "In an emergency hearing, Sauls refused for the third time in less than a week to order a manual recount of disputed ballots, at least until Saturday. The Florida Supreme Court, which was implored to intervene, refused without comment." "In yet another ruling announced later in the day, the state high court unanimously refused to order a new election in Palm Beach County, rejecting a plea from voters who contested the design of the county’s “butterfly ballot." MSNBC When I say "go the distance," I mean that Election 2000 just may wind up in the House and the Senate. It seems eminent that the Florida Legislature will hold an emergency session in order to create a Second Slate of Electors as an insurance policy on the first sanctioned by Katherine Harris on November 26, 2000. Jeb Bush has already indicated that he will sign such a bill. At least 50% of the American electorate will discover the true meaning of "Caput Algol" on that day. To say that many will flip their wigs is a crass understatement. There are no charts on my desk that even hint at an ending to this matter. Stick This In Your Notebook ". . . Saturn will go direct in late Taurus a few days after the presidential inauguration in January. But this is not the Saturn station that matters. The one we have to watch out for is the retrograde station in autumn 2003 at 13 Cancer (the USA's natal sun degree as well as George W.'s). The last time Saturn reached 13 Cancer was in August 1974, when Richard Nixon resigned. Slowly, step by step, a picture of the future is emerging." [September 7, 2000] Rocky Gardener The U.S. Supreme Court Hearing Chart [Link] Ascendant (17 Capricorn)=Petitioner, George W. Bush. 7th house 17 Cancer)=Respondent, Albert Gore, Jr. 10th House (11 Scorpio)=Supreme Court Justices 9th house (00 Libra)=Attorneys for both sides

Several factors are critical to viewing today's chart. Let's use a check list to see if we can make sense of the chart:¹ If the rulers of the first and seventh are afflicted by the malefic planets, neither party will win. The Ruler of the first house (Bush) is retrograde Saturn on Caput Algol in the 4th house of the chart. It also rules the South Node (15 Capricorn) which conjoins the Ascendant. The Moon (Gore) is beseiged between malefic Neptune and Uranus. The Moon applies to a trine with malefic Mars, will conjoin Uranus, square Saturn, the ultimately square 10th house (Supreme Court Justices) Mercury at 26 Scorpio. Mercury opposes Saturn-Caput. It appears that neither party will get what he ultimately wants. The one whose ruler is more powerful or better aspected will be the victor. Venus (22 Capricorn) is in the first house (Bush) and is in mutual reception by sign to Saturn-Caput in the 4th house. Venus mitigates malefic Saturn, but not greatly. However this 10:00 AM chart falls upon the "day of Venus" and the "hour of Saturn." There could be a slight edge for Bush, but I still don't think he'll get the keys to the kingdom out of the U.S. Supreme Court. If the ruler of the first applies to the ruler of the seventh or if the ruler of the first is retrograde, the querent will be compelled to accept the verdict and agree to it. Actually, the ruler of the seventh applies to a square to the ruler of the first (Saturn retrograde): Moon traveling towards a square to Saturn. It may be that Gore will be compelled to accept the verdict (or a part thereof), rather than Bush. If both the rulers are in angles and equally dignified, neither will submit and both will suffer. Both the ruler of the first and the seventh are equally dignified. Both will suffer mightily. And neither will submit. If the ruler of the first is badly afflicted, retrograde, via combust or in its detriment or fall, especially if the ruler of the seventh disposes of the ruler of the first, the adversary will win. Saturn is badly afflicted, and Saturn is the "great malefic." The Moon in the chart does not rule Saturn, but applies to a square to it. Bush's adversary cannot win this way, either. A slight edge may go to Bush here, because the Moon (Gore's ruler) is in the first, which means that Gore is in Bush's territory. However, since Bush petitioned the Court, Gore would be dragged along. The Moon in the first testifies to that. If the Moon applies to a benefic aspect of the ruler of the seventh or the eighth, and to a malefic aspect of the ruler of the first or the eighth; the adversary will overcome through scheming and evasion. The Moon applies to a square with Saturn (malefic ruler of the first) and has already begun separating from the ruler of the 8th (Sun at 9 Sagittarius). The Moon's last aspect before 10:00 AM was a conjunction to Neptune. Scheming? Evasion? Not before the U.S. Supreme Court. We heard Laurence Tribe's (Gore's attorney) peppered by the Justices with equal force. The Moon is in Bush's territory. So is Neptune. The Moon's conjunction to Neptune in this case may harken to future events in Florida: The Legislature's second slate of electors. The querent will overcome if: a. The ruler of the seventh is retrograde, via combust or afflicted in the first. (Querent in this case is really Petitioner Bush). The Moon is afflicted in the first house. When it trined Mars and conjoined Uranus later today, Gore lost two significant suits in Florida (See above). My take on this is that we'll hear the Supreme Court Decision Monday around 9:00 AM: 11th house of the chart: the future of the Supreme Court's (10th house) decision: Pluto 12 Sagittarius 37 - Sun 9 Sagittarius 44 = 2 degrees, 53 minutes, or roughly 3 days. Monday, December 4 is also when the Senate reconvenes. I doubt the Justices will want the Senate to go back into session without their answer. I think the decision will be split along partisan lines with a simple majority that leans slightly toward Bush. The key question is whether federal intervention is indicated in a situation where States' rights are sancrosanct and protected by the U.S. Constitution. That might be what Bush needs to continue running out the clock in Florida to insure the second slate of electors. But then again, what do I know? This changes by the hour! ¹"Horary Astrology" by Geraldine Davis, copyright © 1942, First Temple of Astrology, Los Angeles, California, p. 216.