Abraham Lincoln signs the Confiscation Act of 1861

by Jude Cowell, partisan for the common good

Anyone with an interest in America's Civil War history is likely aware that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act on August 6, 1861 just a few months after the War began in April. One point: the Act declared slaves to be contraband and it established a variety of restrictions against the seditionists. Follow the above link for more details.

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And so for SO'W and this end-of-the-week post, below you see a DC Horoscope set for August 6, 1861 and timed by the day's New Moon @13Leo56 in lieu of an exact hour.

Perhaps you'd like to check out the planets and a few astro-notes on that particular day during the early months of that particular war with 1861's Confiscation Act symbolized and speculatively timed by the Leo New Moon of August 6th:

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SO'W readers may wish to check out the Horoscope of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address with the speech's far-reaching results and 4th house Uranus Rx @24Gem05, the position of Tr*mp's 'Prez Bid' New Moon conjunct aggressive Mars on the morning of June 16, 2015 - and now being activated by transit Mars, perigee in Gemini.