Being Irrepressible: Minnijean Brown-Trickey’s Pisces South Node Gifts + Mars in Aries
A dear friend, who found this podcast episode to be incredibly powerful, forwarded it to me thinking I might feel the same. 1000%.
It's an interview on the Chris Hayes' Why is this Happening? pod with Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the Little Rock Nine, who integrated into Central High School in 1957.
Here's the official description of the episode:
“I went because they didn’t want me there,” says Minnijean Brown-Trickey, our guest this week. It’s been more than 60 years since she made history. At 16-years-old, she and eight other black students found an angry mob and the national guard blocking their entry to Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. Backed by 1,200 soldiers, they eventually made it inside for their first full day of class. White students threw hot food at them, called them names and even sprayed some of them with acid. One day, a white kid hit Minnijean with a purse. She responded by calling the student “white trash.” For that, she was expelled, which profoundly affected her trajectory. She ended up finishing her education in New York City and went on to become a civil rights activist and speaker. Minnijean joins WITHpod for a moving conversation about how she channeled the trauma she experienced into a life of activism, the continued fight for racial equality and more."
The sound of 81-year old Minnijean's voice alone is unforgettable, not to mention her vibrant storytelling of her life experiences and her wisdom for living. This "crone" (she proudly claims that honorable title) has lived her whole life with an irrepressible Piscean ideal at the center of her soul and a commitment to courageous, Aries risk-taking action.
You can see her birth chart below. This is a Noon chart, as no exact birth time is known for her (publicly, at least). Since we don't have an exact birth time, we don't know which houses the the planets are in, and we don't know the signs on the angles of her chart (Ascendant, Midheaven, etc). But, we do know the signs the planets are in and how they are aspected to each other. This gives us a lot of information.
A couple of snippets about her chart:
Her South Node (karmic/ancestral past) is at 22 degrees Pisces.
From an evolutionary astrological lens, a person with a Pisces South Node comes into this life with exponential Piscean energy from past lifetime experience (and ancestral inheritance) wired into the core of their being. A potential gift in this Piscean history is that there can be a strong tendency to orient to life with "anything is possible" ideals and a direct connection with big vision and dreams.
Add to that, Minnijean's Mars is in Aries! Mars is the planet that rules Aries, so the Aries fire within her in this lifetime has the capacity to be super-charged. I could feel this in her voice immediately!
Her Mars in Aries is almost exactly opposite her Venus in Libra. From an evolutionary perspective, a person with this particular alignment has the potential to work the axis of both independently and collaboratively fighting/advocating for justice and peace in a very personal way in this lifetime.
There's much more to explore in her chart, but I will leave it here for now. I hope you enjoy her interview on the podcast. What a trailblazing visionary!
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