A
proceeding that is supposed to decide whether two tweets by lawyer Prashant
Bhushan constitute contempt of the Supreme Court is turning into a serious
legal quagmire for the apex court, partly because of its decision to revive an
older case and partly because of aggressive legal moves by Bhushan’s advocates.
The
Supreme Court will pronounce on Friday its judgment in the contempt of court
case initiated suo motu (on its own) against lawyer Prashant Bhushan for his
tweets against the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of India, SA Bobde.
A
three-judge bench headed by justice Arun Mishra and also comprising justices BR
Gavai and Krishna Murari will deliver its verdict at 11 am. August 14.
The Supreme
Court of India ( founded 28 Jan. 1950) is
the premier judicial court under the Constitution of India. It is the highest
constitutional court, and has the power of judicial review. Of late the supreme
court has been embroiled in several
controversies, from serious allegations of corruption at the highest level of
the judiciary, expensive private holidays at the tax payers expense, refusal to
divulge details of judges' assets to the public, secrecy in the appointments of
judges', to refusal to make information public under the Right to Information
Act. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, has stated that corruption is one of
the major challenges facing the judiciary, and suggested that there is an
urgent need to eradicate this menace.
Astrologers
have long recognized that the date of birth of an individual or the date of
formation of an institution contains hints about future challenges. Startling
information can often be obtained from what have come to be known as the Sabian
symbols. These were developed by Elsie
Wheeler, a medium who channeled the symbolism of each astrological degree, and astrologer
Marc Edmund Jones. Essentially, the
chart wheel that most of us work from in astrology contains 360 degrees (being
that it is a circle, of course), and the Sabian Symbols describe each
individual degree through the use of metaphor and archetypal imagery.
Presented
here is the noon chart for 28 Jan. 1950, the date the Supreme Court of India
was founded. Using the standard solar arc directions, the progressed Sun [18ar]
is within a degree of an opposition to
radix Neptune [17li19]. Dane Rudhyar’s [1] delineation of the Sabian symbol for radix
Neptune is:
PHASE 198 (LIBRA 18°): TWO MEN
PLACED UNDER ARREST.
KEYNOTE: A breakdown in the
constructive relationship between the individual and society, and the
expectable result.
If it is to remain steady and
consistent, every form of order must be able to protect itself by the
application of sanctions. Both a society and a personal ego constitute forms of
order. Any form of order excludes what the form cannot securely and safely
hold. It excludes, or exiles, the alien, the unassimilable; if it cannot send
them to outer space, it must isolate them in a special type of inner space, a
prison. The individual
whose actions introduce unacceptable principles into the established order runs
the risk of being "punished" or re-formed according to this order.
The problem for a society is how to include in its patterns of order agencies
or channels for transformation — and particularly how to keep them truly
operative; for individuals, it is how to make their transforming vision or
impulse acceptable to society. The fact that two men are pictured under
arrest suggests a polarization and a purpose transcending a merely personal fit
of recklessness.
This is the third stage of the
fortieth sequence. Negative
as the image may seem, one may see implied in it the power in every individual
to assume social risks in order to express his convictions or deepest desires.
Nevertheless, one thing is needed: FACING THE CONSEQUENCES.
Could the
situation being faced by activist lawyer Prashant Bhushan for contempt of the
Supreme Court be described any better?
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