The Turning Point in American Race Relations: The Astrology of Brown versus Board of Education

by Shelley Jordan

The election of Uranian Barack Obama represents a milestone in a nation that has suffered bloody conflict over its tormented racial history. This election could not have occurred without the antecedent conditions of the American Civil Rights Movement. One of America's major turning points in its violent battle with racial injustice occurred in 1954 at the closing Uranus-Neptune square. At that time, the Supreme Court struck down the legal sanctioning of separate but equal schools for blacks and whites in the groundbreaking decision Brown versus Board of Education. The revolutionary Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was Piscean Earl Warren, who authored the opinion that resulted in a rare unanimous decision by the Court. President Eisenhower believed he was appointing a safe conservative when he named Earl Warren as Chief Justice, only to discover that Earl Warren was no conservative. The appointment was viewed by Eisenhower as the biggest mistake of his presidency. The announcement of this hotly debated decision was finally released on May 17, 1954, at 1:20 PM, Washington, DC, forever changing the course of history.

Supreme Court Decision to End School Segregation
"News hunger on the matter was so intense that the Associated Press issued a flash bulletin at 12:52 PM noting simply that Warren was issuing the opinion, another at 1:12 PM saying that he "had not read far enough into the court's opinion" for reporters to discern its conclusion, and a final bulletin at 1:20 declaring that the court had struck down school segregation as unconstitutional by a vote of 8-0." Branch, Taylor: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63; Simon and Schuster, Inc; , p. 112; 1988

At the moment school segregation was finally declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the Moon was almost exactly full in Scorpio - the same Moon that has been referred to as the legendary Buddha Moon, under which the Buddha attained enlightenment. The Full Moon made a square to transformational Pluto in Leo in the 12th - children were the topic of this decision, which was fueled by the observed psychological damage done to black children by segregation. Mercury the messenger was poised at the Midheaven in Gemini. This communication was anxiously awaited by millions of Americans and would affect the futures of their children at nearly every level. Uranus was in Cancer (families), making the closing square to Neptune in Libra (justice).

The cycle of Uranus and Neptune was pivotal in the evolution of the civil rights movement in America. This square fell very close to Justice Warren's 7th house Cancer Moon. Saturn in Scorpio was transiting Justice Warren's radical Uranus-Midheaven conjunction (his tenure has been called the Warren Revolution). Mars and the North Node fell across his authoritative Capricorn Ascendant. (Earl Warren: March 19, 1891; 2:00 AM; Los Angeles, California. Rodden rating: A. Source: http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Warren%2C_Earl)

The Uranus-Neptune cycle traced the evolution of America's racial struggle. Uranus represents social consciousness; Neptune is the vision required to obtain a goal. Their conjunction in 1821 heralded the beginning of the Constitutional debate over race with the 1820 Federal Law on Slave Trade, which prohibited importation of slaves, violation of which would be punishable by death. The opening square in 1868 witnessed the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing equal rights for all citizens. The opposition in 1909 saw the birth of the NAACP, one of the most effective civil rights organizations in the US. The closing square brought the full blown Civil Rights Movement and the rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.