Astro-Notes: TN Rep. Justin Jones

The Wikipedia page of Tennessee politician Justin Jones gives his birth details as August 25, 1995 in Oakland, California. As you've heard, Rep. Jones and his colleague Rep. Justin Pearson were expelled from the Tennesee House of Representatives on April 6, 2023 for disrupting proceedings in the Republican-controlled legislature based on the two Justins joining an ongoing grass-roots protest on behalf of gun control reform - and the fact that they 'dared' speak out in a powerful way. For as you know, the people's protests have been activated by the March 2023 mass shooting at Nashville's Covenant School.

Folks of all ages, ethnicities, and colors are coming together to push for common sense gun control legislation, and so when Randi Rhodes opened her broadcast earlier today, she happily asserted that, "We Have a Movement!" Because her and my Flower Power generation knows that coming together over pressing issues is exactly what the American people must do in order to effect karmic improvements within our society. Things don't have to be this way and the old pasty white anti-societal Republicans need to take their hateful paternalism and go!

So below is a quick mark-up of dual charts: a natal horoscope for Justin Jones set for noon in absence of an accurate birth time (lower left) and his 15 South Prenatal Solar Eclipse (upper right) which occurred April 29, 1995 @8Tau56 and which naturally is accurately timed:

15 South Themes: 'release of tension as a lingering situation suddenly clears but with a sense of group or collective loss or grief' (paraphrasing B. Brady). Last 15 South @20Taurus in 2013; Next 15 South @00Gemini in 2031.

Of note is that the high-handed expelling of Reps. Jones and Pearson from the Tennesee House of Representatives occurred on April 6, 2023 under the influence of a Full Moon @16Lib07 although in Nashville, the Full Moon perfected on April 5th at 11:34:30 pm CDT with the Sun conjunct wounded healer centaur Chiron (15Ari52), a signal of a major quest in the works, so perhaps the Sun-Chiron Conjunction is the cosmic symbol of our New Movement - and the Conjunction is in pioneering Aries, the sign where all endeavors begin!

Another Significant Solar Eclipse

Then in closing, we should mention that the 7 South Solar Eclipse of October 14, 2023 will conjunct Rep. Justin Jones' natal Mars @21Lib50 which suggests that an issue will finally be settled for or by him, or negatively, that rash or violent events may need to be guarded against - or some combination of both possibilities will be present.

If you wish, check out the horoscope of the Flower Power Solar Eclipse of November 1966 for it sports a cosmic peace symbol of planets.

Two Solar Eclipses and Nixon's War On Drugs

April 27 2021: By now most Americans are aware that Richard Nixon and his enablers invented America's War On Drugs, which he announced in 1971, and was intended to incarcerate his 'enemies', those unruly African Americans demanding their Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam-War protesters, made up mostly of my idealistic Flower Power Generation of peaceniks.

So becoming curious to see if the 9 Old South Solar Eclipse of Summer 1971, which ended with that particular manifestation, affected its own initial eclipse in the series (June 23, 0727 @4Can17, inner chart, its genesis or birth), I set up a bi-wheel of the two eclipses, as you can see, below. Also note that Nixon's taking the US off the gold standard in 1971 was also an issue of the final 9 Old South Eclipse (endings) and we can see that, yes, a few financial factors are involved along with the drug war and subsequent incarcerations. Exs: 1971 Pluto-Chiron midpoint (Plutocracy; exploitation; primal violence; racism) @5Can51 conjuncts US natal Jupiter @5Can55 of 1776 ('6 Cancer' = "Game Birds Feathering Their Nests"), and the 1971 Jupiter-Neptune duo (speculators, visionaries, hypocrites, wastrels, and political conflicts conjuncts Midheaven in 1971 and rises in 0727). As you know, it's primarily the hypocrisy of and speculation by wealthy entrepreneurs taking over the cannabis industry that's in the news these days so that profits can be made after 40 years of oppression and imprisonment of young people and non-violent offenders. This seems a classic example of 'do as I say, not as I do'.

Yet as noted, political conflict is the basic reason that Nixon declared the 'war' in the first place - to remove his enemies from the playing field. Making a windfall must have seemed a bonus for wealth-hoarder Pluto @27Leo50 which was actually eclipsed in 1971 so, listed on the chart are potentials for: 1971 Sun-Moon = 0727 Pluto: 'changed circumstances lead to critical stages of development; power; gang wars; criminality; rape' (R. Ebertin).

And as we now find, drug arrests and long sentences have long fueled America's massive prison system, a lucrative, cruel, and malicious scheme for profit for certain politicians, judges, lawyers, police departments, and others, thanks to Tricky Dick and his co-conspirators in 1971.

Then for the passage of legislation, you see that 1971 Saturn, planet of restriction and law, opposes 0727 Uranus, planet of freedom and rebellion. This transit identifies the "passage of restrictive legislation" that Nixon finagled in order to make his oppressive actions seem legal! Meanwhile, we might also note that the May 26, 2021 Lunar Eclipse will 'eclipse' 1971 Saturn, a Sun-to-Saturn transit suggesting serious circumstances and legal issues that involve authority concerns.

So below you see a bi-wheel of both the initial and the final 9 Old South Eclipse with themes of: 'idealism' and 'great energy via a forceful, controlling, manipulative Mars-Pluto influence' (Brady). Naturally, there are other chart factors which may be of interest to you so feel free to mention them in an on-topic comment if you wish: