Uranus, Defender of Gay Rights and Same Sex Marriage

Back in 2003 after the Lawrence v. Texas case was decided I noticed that Uranus had moved into a new sign, which it is still in, that of Pisces. The case was argued before the Supreme Court on March 26, 2003 Uranus had just moved to 0 degrees Pisces on March 11. The decision to invalidate all sodomy laws in the U.S. was handed down on June 26, 2003 just after Uranus had turned retrograde. Well, what uproar among conservatives after that decision!

Uranus is the planet whose symbol is freedom and equality. It was discovered March 31, 1781 at the time between the American and French Revolutions. How appropriate! So it is natural that Pisces ruling confined spaces (think closet) and the oppressed spirit should be given freedom to soar.

As with other civil rights movement from women’s suffrage to the long struggle of African Americans for full equality, Uranus has been front and center in its movement through the signs. Uranus moved into Pisces on April 1, 1919 just before the State began voting to ratify the 14th Amendment giving women the right to vote. The ratification was completed on August 18, 1920. And of course the last state to ratify the Amendment was Mississippi in 1984.

Interestingly Uranus was in the last degrees of Gemini before going into Cancer when on July 26, 1948 Executive Order 9981 eliminated racial discrimination in the U.S. military. Uranus moved through Cancer (the traditional symbolic sign of the African peoples) during the great strides in legal fights of the Civil Rights movement (Brown v. Board of Education and calls for civil rights legislation). The adverse reaction started when Uranus moved into Leo in 1956 (Little Rock) but turned around again when it entered Virgo in 1962 about a year before the beginning of debate that lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

So as we have seen there is always a period of leaps in civil rights advancement that Uranus sparks followed by a backlash that the revolution is getting out of hand. The California referendum that is sure to come in November 2010 will have Uranus retrograde in the final degrees of Pisces so I expect to see a win for Marriage Equality in California before Uranus finally goes into Aries in 2011. This should cause quite a dust up in the years Uranus is in Aries with a vigorous fight over Supreme Court Justices. But Gay Rights and Same Sex Marriage will get to full equality after Uranus travels through Aries after the backlash from the hold out states (think South) until it enters Taurus in May 2018. I predict full marriage equality will be handed down by the Supreme Court that June!