North Carolina brothers declared innocent after 30 years in prison

LUMBERTON, N.C. — A North Carolina judge has overturned the convictions of two men who have served 30 years in prison for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl after another man’s DNA was recently discovered on evidence in the case. Superior Court Judge Douglass Sasser ordered the immediate release Tuesday of 50-year-old Henry McCollum and 46-year-old Leon Brown. The half brothers were convicted in the 1983 slaying of Sabrina Buie in Robeson County. AP; Sept 2.

To understand this news item I take readers back to the solar eclipse of November 3, 2013. The chart for this eclipse drawn for Lumberton, North Carolina, is shown here. Notice that it is placed in the mundane 12^th house which refers to criminals and prisons but also to the violation of human rights. The eclipse is conjunct Saturn [13sc] which has returned to the place it occupied in 1983, the year the crime was committed. Both Saturn and the eclipse [11sc]  are also conjunct the star Acrux, alpha Crux [12sc]. About this star Robson writes:

"Crux is said to give perseverance, but many burdens, trials and responsibilities, together with much suffering and many hardships".  [Robson*, p.41.]

A Mars-Neptune opposition lies on the meridian axis. Mars/Neptune aspects generally are connected to the archetype of the spiritual warrior as well as the inspired artist. At its highest manifestation, this aspect shows someone who has the courage to live their dreams, fights for those who are victims of society. At its worst, it is linked to  martyrs or victims of the actions of another or of society. Here Mars [11vi] is conjunct the star Zosma [11vi] while Neptune lies amidst the stars of Cygnus and Pegasus.

Zosma is a star that Bernadette Brady [1] associates with victimhood.

“The planet that is involved with Zosma will potentially involve suffering, perhaps through the person’s naivete allowing them to be led into a victimising situation, or perhaps by their working as a social worker or care giver. This is not a star of glory and fame but rather of the invisible work of dealing with the victim in oneself or others.” http://bit.ly/1rLG2K1

Neptune is conjunct the stars of  soaring Cygnus and Pegasus, symbols of freedom. Here some people are dissatisfied with the status quo in the world and work to discover new means of improving the human condition. Among the manifestations of stars in this area, Diana Rosenberg lists, “mistreatment of minorities and attacks on helpless subordinate peoples, but also efforts to alleviate their suffering”.

Jupiter [20cn] which  makes a semisquare aspect to the MC [4vi] is conjunct the star Castor, alpha Geminorum of the Gemini Twins – a constellation that refers to siblings, among other things. Castor was the determinant star of the Indian Lunar Mansion Punarvasu “The Two who are Good or Prosperous Again”. It was considered a mansion of safety and freedom.

Now, if we progress the eclipse chart to September 2, 2014, the date of the news, we find a T-square comprising Uranus-Pluto-Kronos-Hades on the angles.

The elements of the T-square can be delineated as follows:

Kronos-Hades: to see that authorities  (Kronos)  have made mistakes (Hades).

Uranus-Pluto : the need for transformation of decaying  institutions (Pluto in Capricorn) in order to protect  the rights of individuals (Uranus in Aries)

Finally, Uranus is conjunct the star Algenib. Algenib is a fortunate star on  the wing tip of Pegasus. It creates conditions that can lift us out of  psychic-emotional turmoil and binding limitations of an antiquated paradigm, both our personal paradigms and social paradigms.