A
judge who sentenced a “fragile and vulnerable” woman to prison for begging has
blasted the legal system after the defendant was unable to access a lawyer. Marie
Baker, 38 and unable to read or write, was sentenced without legal
representation to five and a half months for repeatedly breaching an
anti-social behaviour injunction aimed at preventing her accosting people in
the streets of Worcester and in nearby Malvern.
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The incident reported in the news occurred just a day after
the Last Quarter Moon. A chart for the Moon phase at Malvern has the
Venus-Saturn square placed prominently on the meridian. Among other things, Venus-Saturn refers to a
poor (Saturn) woman (Venus). The planets
involved in a square are acting at cross purposes. They can produce a crisis if
we remain complacent. Here Saturn is in Sagittarius while Venus is in Pisces.
Sagittarius is quintessentially the sign of politics and
ideology. Sagittarius is the archetypal realm of our laws, constitutions,
judges, courts and also the politicians and law makers who bring these things
into being.
Pisces is a sign that we link to compassion so that a square
between Sagittarius and Pisces can create an internal conflict. Both signs are
associated with beliefs. Here we see the
conflict between the judge’s political and religious convictions. He holds diametrically opposite beliefs and
ideologies at the same time, and finds difficulty in following through with
anything approaching objectivity or rationality. The laws (Saturn in Sagittarius)
require him to rule against the defendant and yet he is torn by his belief that
he needs to be compassionate (Venus in Pisces) towards the poor and downtrodden.
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