Astrology of the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal

 

Perseus saving Andromeda

Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men, two of them fatally, last year during Black Lives Matter protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Being accused of homicide, Rittenhouse has denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he acted in self-defense. A Wisconsin jury ruled on Friday (Nov.19) that Kyle Rittenhouse is not guilty of any of the charges brought against him in connection with three shootings at a protest in Kenosha in August 2020.

The Kenosha shooting took place on August 25, 2020  at  11:49 – 11.59 pm CDT [1]. A chart for the  current solar return is  presented here.  As always planets on the angles are the ones to focus on. Here we have Jupiter on the descendant in paran aspect to Uranus on the MC.  For Jupiter-Uranus, Martha Wescott writes:

To experience a release from tension and feel optimistic or fortunate due to a change or sudden event or experience.

Now if we progress the return chart to Nov.19, the angles once again align with Jupiter and Uranus, triggering the paran aspect leading to a fortunate event for Rittenhouse.

But going a little further, we notice that Uranus [14ta] on the return MC is conjunct stars Almach, gamma Andromeda, Menkar, alpha Cetus and  phi Perseus.

In the southern heavens is Eridanus, the River of Life. Conjoining stars include Menkar, the snapping jaws of Cetus, the sea monster  of collective human consciousness  ( the “liberal” crowd baying for Rittenhouse’s blood) and  Almach, the foot of Andromeda , the chained woman (symbolic of the  prisoner). Almach is Andromeda's snagged foot about to be bitten off by conjoining Menkar, the jaws of Cetus. Perseus, the rescuer arrives just in time to free the trapped Andromeda.

Finally we look at the chart for the lunar eclipse of Nov. 19 drawn for  Kenosha, Wisconsin. The eclipse Moon [27ta] is conjunct the star Algol, which Diana Rosenberg links to “mob violence, terror and murder”. The eclipse is square  fortunate Jupiter [24aq] placed in the 5^th house  (child or young person) and opposite Mercury [21sc]. The Sabian symbol for Mercury is:

PHASE 232 (SCORPIO 22°): HUNTERS SHOOTING WILD DUCKS.

KEYNOTE: The socially accepted release of an individual's or a group's aggressive instincts.

Essentially, this Sabian symbol is stating that there are times when an individual’s aggressiveness is justified and socially sanctioned. The jury accepted that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense.

 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting