Black Astrology : THE HOROSCOPE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on Tuesday, January 15, 1929, at 10:45am (CST), in Atlanta, Georgia. He was born with the Sun in Capricorn, the Moon in Pisces, and his time of birth gives him Aries rising. In other words, Dr. King is a Capricorn with a Pisces personality, who saw the world through the eyes of an Aries...

The planetary positions in Dr. King’s horoscope reveal the personality of a great humanitarian and visionary. Perhaps one of the most remembered of his speeches was the one in which he spoke of “going to the mountain top,” and there communicating with God. Capricorn is the sign of the goat – the mountain climber – and the position of the Sun in Capricorn in the 10th house of careers, status and professionalism certainly reveals the prominence that Dr. King would attain in the world. (The earth sign Capricorn rules the 10th house on the natural zodiac.)

Dr. King’s Moon in Pisces occupies the 12th house of silent suffering and secret enemies, and this lunar placement relates to the paying of a delinquent karma. The Moon conjuncts Venus in Pisces, and this aspect attains one to the plight of his fellow man, and indicates a deep love for humanity. Venus, the planet of love and the ruler of Dr. King’s 7th house of relationships, is exalted in his horoscope – by sign and house position – and forms an exact sextile (60° aspect) to his Capricorn Midheaven (i.e., the cusp of the 10th house, the highest point in the horoscope).

With Aries rising Dr. King was born to lead. In astrology the sign Aries is symbolically depicted as a ram, a rash animal noted for butting its head when engaged in conflict. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac; the first fire sign and the first cardinal sign, and with this sign on the Ascendant of a rare, natural-zodiac horoscope, Dr. King was bold and dynamic, and possessed the inherent attributes of pioneering and leadership.

Dr. King’s horoscope also reveals a highly evolved, extremely intelligent and spiritually motivated individual. Mercury,the planet of the mind, is in Aquarius, the sign of its exaltation, and occupies the 11th house, where it is accidentally exalted! It sextiles his Ascendant and trines (120° aspect) Mars(his life ruler) and the Part of Fortune. With Mercury exalted by sign and house position, and favorably aspected, Dr. King was a great thinker and intellectual – one of the most brilliant minds of our time...

Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, tenants the 1st house, in the earth sign Taurus, indicating a deep religious and philosophical nature. It forms a powerful trine with Neptune in Virgo, indicating a great desire to relieve oppression the world over. (Taurus is also the Sun-sign of his wife Coretta, who also has the Moon in Pisces, which accounts for the strong bonds of their marriage.)

Mars is in Gemini and occupies the 3rd house of communications. It forms a powerful opposition (180° aspect) to Saturn (his ruling planet) in Sagittarius, which occupies the 9th house of the higher mind, religion, philosophy, and long journeys. This position of Saturn shows that Dr. King was not only aware of human suffering, but (1) could establish certain plans to relieve that suffering due to an understanding of the socio-economic structures underlying it; (2) could create and implement new socio-economic structures to take the place of the old; and (3) possessed the personal power and drive to lead African-Americans to realize the plans he envisioned.

Pluto, the planet of regeneration, is in Cancer, and occupies the 4th house of the home and ancestral roots. It opposes his Capricorn Sun and trines his Pisces Moon. This combination of planetary influences points to Dr. King’s identification with the collective consciousness of African-Americans, and his need to constantly improve their condition in this country. His struggles would lead to his own evolutionary growth, as seen by the Sun’s position and its relationship to the Moon and Pluto.

Cancer and Pisces are the signs that rule African-Americans, consequently we witnessed the evolutionary growth of African-Americans as a result of Dr. King’s strong and inspiring leadership. The two destinies – both personal and collective – are thereby seen as joined in Dr. King’s horoscope.

The tendency toward the violent death that would curtail his visions can also be seen in Dr. King’s horoscope. Saturn, his ruling planet, is adversely aspected by an out-of-sign square (90° aspect) from Uranus in the 12th house and opposed by Mars, his life ruler. An unseen enemy or assassin also involved in politics would be the likely assailant. Mars is the dispositor of Uranus in Aries, and as such is linked to its effects. The South Node in the 8th house also indicates sudden or violent death. Pluto in opposition to a 10th-house Sun can cut short one’s career, while Mars opposing Saturn, ruler of the 10th house, certainly indicates the possibility of the curtailment of one’s ambition through some sudden and/or violent act.

This is further emphasized by the Saturn-Uranus square, as well as the position of the Moon in relationship to the malefics, Mars and Saturn. This powerful T-square in the mutable signs indicated that Dr. King’s hopes and wishes would not reach fulfillment, and that they could be curtailed through sudden violence.

On April 4, 1968, the day Dr. King was assassinated, his horoscope – already afflicted at birth – was being besieged by several powerful, negative influences that indicated portending danger:

The transiting Sun and Saturn – conjunct in Aries in the 12th house of secret enemies and on his Ascendant – were squaring his natal Sun in the 10th house of careers and Pluto in the 4th house of all endings...

Transiting Mercury and Venus – conjunct in Pisces and also in the 12th house – were forming powerful oppositions to transiting Uranus and Pluto in Virgo in the 6th house, and these oppositions were squaring his natal Mars and Saturn. Thus the ill-fated "grand cross" in the mutable signs on that day...

Transiting Neptune, ruler of the 12th house of secret enemies, was in Scorpio, the sign of death, and in the 8th house of death. With these powerful negative influences besieging his afflicted horoscope, it would have been advisable for him to do no traveling the week of April 4, 1968...

Pluto occupied the angular 4th house in Dr. King’s horoscope but was retrograde and in a close square to his Aries Ascendant – only five minutes from being exact. His close Mars-Saturn opposition in Gemini-Sagittarius attracted a great deal of publicity, mostly unfavorable. In fact, it may have been the negative influence of this aspect which prompted him to pursue a dangerous course of action which ultimately led to his assassination. This same opposition – formed by his progressed Mars – was only 14 minutes from its exact phase on April 4, 1968...
 
Dr. King’s horoscope reveals a highly evolved, extremely intelligent and spiritually motivated individual. Mercury, the planet of the mind, is in Aquarius, the sign of its exaltation, and occupies the 11th house, where it is accidentally exalted! With Mercury exalted by sign and house position, Dr. King was a great thinker and intellectual – one of the most brilliant minds of our time...
 
The Martin Luther King You Don't See On TV

By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
Media Beat

It's become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King's birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about "the slain civil rights leader." The remarkable thing about this annual review of King's life is that several years - his last years - are totally missing, as if flushed down a memory hole.

What TV viewers see is a closed loop of familiar file footage: King battling desegregation in Birmingham (1963); reciting his dream of racial harmony at the rally in Washington (1963); marching for voting rights in Selma, Alabama (1965); and finally, lying dead on the motel balcony in Memphis (1968). An alert viewer might notice that the chronology jumps from 1965 to 1968. Yet King didn't take a sabbatical near the end of his life. In fact, he was speaking and organizing as diligently as ever.

Almost all of those speeches were filmed or taped. But they're not shown today on TV. Why? It's because the national news media never came to terms with what Martin Luther King Jr. stood for during his final years. In the early 1960s, when King focused his challenge on legalized racial discrimination in the South, most major media were his allies. Network TV and national publications graphically showed the police dogs and bullwhips and cattle prods used against southern Blacks who sought the right to vote or to eat at a public lunch-counter.

But after passage of civil rights acts in 1964 and 1965, King began challenging the nation's fundamental priorities. He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without "human rights" - including economic rights. For people too poor to eat at a restaurant or afford a decent home, King said, anti-discrimination laws were hollow.

Noting that a majority of Americans below the poverty line were white, King developed a class perspective. He decried the huge income gaps between rich and poor, and called for "radical changes in the structure of our society" to redistribute wealth and power. "True compassion," King declared, "is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."

By 1967, King had also become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 - a year to the day before he was murdered - King called the United States "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

"From Vietnam to South Africa to Latin America, King said, the U.S. was "on the wrong side of a world revolution." King questioned "our alliance with the lauded gentry of Latin America," and asked why the U.S. was suppressing revolutions "of the shirtless and barefoot people" in the Third World, instead of supporting them.

In foreign policy, King also offered an economic critique, complaining about "capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries."

You haven't heard the "Beyond Vietnam" speech on network news retrospectives, but national media heard it loud and clear back in 1967 - and loudly denounced it. Time Magazine called it "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi." The Washington Post patronized that "King has diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people."

In his last months, King was organizing the most militant project of his life: The Poor People's Campaign. He criss-crossed the country to assemble "a multi-racial army of the poor" that would descend on Washington - engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the Capitol, if need be - until Congress enacted a poor people's bill of rights. Reader's Digest warned of an "insurrection." King's economic bill of rights called for massive government jobs programs to rebuild America's cities. He saw a crying need to confront a Congress that had demonstrated its "hostility to the poor" – appropriating "military funds with alacrity and generosity," but providing "poverty funds with miserliness."

How familiar that sounds today, more than a quarter-century after King's efforts on behalf of the poor people's mobilization were cut short by an assassin's bullet. As 2003 gets underway, in this nation of immense wealth, the White House and Congress continue to accept the perpetuation of poverty. And so do most mass media. Perhaps it's no surprise that they tell us little about the last years of Martin Luther King's life...

(Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon are syndicated columnists and authors of "Adventures in Medialand: Behind the News, Beyond the Pundits," Common Courage Press)
 

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