Antonin Scalia is a Supreme Court Justice who sits on the far right side of the bench as he goes after our civil rights the way Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny. I’m not certain of his time but he could easily have Moon in Libra or Scorpio in a square to Pluto and opposite Uranus, so intimacy issues and obsession would be a problem for him and judging by the girth under the robes, eating himself to death is what he might be aiming for. His Sun/Saturn in Pisces conjunction are opposite Neptune, so his father wasn’t very well defined in the mind of the young Antonin. He has some issues with the inconjunct of Mars to Neptune and the one from Venus to Pluto and the Moon is opposite Uranus, so he needs some unusual emotional stimulation and the other aspects incline one towards a gay lifestyle. He may even be married for cover but he’s banging the boys on the side, is my estimate.

Clarence Thomas has a conservative and controlling Capricorn ASC and his Moon is in Aquarius in the 1st, which befits a Cancer, as momma always took good care of little Clarence. That is an interesting juxtaposition since Aquarius is the sign of the future and Cancer is the attached to the past. But if you’re wondering about his values, you only have to consider that his Mercury and Venus are both retrograde and conjoining his Sun, so these twisted attitudes and values are very personally attached to his soul. And they are all conjoined to Uranus, which doesn’t make him progressive at all. He’s so steeped in the past and old traditions that I’m sure many brothers refer to him as the ultimate Uncle Tom. But what is most telling is that his Pluto is closely square to his nodes and the South Node is in Scorpio, so corruption is his stock in trade, as well as sexual obsessions, if you remember the Anita Hill trial. If you ask me, it should have been Thomas on trail.

So who is John Roberts? His Aquarian credentials are diminished by his Mercury in a square to Saturn, which is a tendency to view things negatively and to be a slow learner. His Moon is in Pisces, so he’s a person of faith, but it squares his Venus, so he doesn’t really like women, like Rummy, and look who he hangs with. Mars has only one planetary aspect with a sextile to the Sun but it squares the nodes, so his anger issues are going to come into play. I think it may also play into a lack of personal accountability or responsibility, plus, he was a jock, as captain of the football team and worked in a steel mill, so of course he’s a Republican, playing Tom Cruise’s character in “All the Right Moves.” With Mercury opposite Pluto, he might project his thoughts of corruption onto the people he works for and that would actually make sense. Sandra Day O’Connor has her Moon in Aquarius and this guy has Sun and Mercury there, so he could be principled enough to be able to make fair-minded decisions based on the research he likes to do. What strikes me as inappropriate is his age, while another factor is the lack of experience on the bench. Let him have more than two years on a court of appeals and earn some stripes there. Then he can go to the show. You don’t throw a rookie pitcher in the World Series; so don’t put in so young a justice. But we also have to look at the person who most influences his stance on some pertinent issues…his wife, and I see she is an ardent antiabortionist. She could derail his ascension to the highest bench in the land. We have to decide our judicial way with a clear understanding of what our founders set up for us and make sure we know what we are getting before acceding to another tricky ploy of distraction.

David Souter is the appointee of Bush the 1st and he turned out to be more liberally moderate than conservative. Who knew a Virgo would serve in a way that worked properly as opposed to from an ideological perspective? He’s a compassionate, considerate, analytical and understanding judge and may have been perceived as a conservative early on as he has Saturn on the South Node. As one matures, they advance toward the positive traits of the North Node while repudiating the negative traits of the South Node. The Libra North promises compromises, awareness of the rights and values of others and takes a back seat when it comes to leadership. You rarely hear much about him or his opinions, as he is merely doing his job to the best of his ability with the detailed astuteness and a lack of any partisan agenda. His Moon is in Scorpio, so he digs deeper into research material than most and loves his quiet time. The 4 planets in Virgo trine Mars in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus to form a Grand Trine in Earth bringing an ability to build a solid foundation and excellent reputation. His detractors will call him weak or wishy-washy but he believes in this country, having his Chiron and Pallas Athene in Cancer near the US Sun degree, which is the same degree as his Nadir. Mars is opposite Pluto, so he will have to face down the corruption that seeks to influence his vote. It is my opinion at this time that he might actually be the best Justice for the Chief position. Except for Mars square the nodes and Saturn, he has little in the way of planetary conflicts. He’s more like an abbot or old monk. It’s better than sending in a rookie to lead the team.

Sandra Day O’Connor, the retiring Supreme Court Justice is an Aries with Moon in Aquarius, which is why Reagan picked her, perhaps, as he felt a connection. I guess the Aries personality didn’t care what people thought she was going to do, as her Aquarius Moon needs to surprise people. Everyone thought it was going to be old man Rhenquist retiring, and it was when he died but little Missy Sandy shocks the entire spectrum of American politics. She has her Aquarius Moon and Mars in Pisces opposite Neptune, so she knows she has to be compassionate, to be true to her principles and ideals and to understand the nuance and essence of the constitutional rights and laws. Her Moon sextiles Pallas Athene near the North Node, so diplomacy and sensitive, instinctive wisdom are her forte, often setting the scales as they should be. She has Venus conjoined to Uranus, just like Liz Taylor, who has it exact, but Sandy Day has Saturn and its opposite planet, Pluto, in squares to Venus. This has caused her to limit her associations and impulsive attractions to people and to be in favor of women’s issues. Mars square Jupiter in Gemini is always taking on too many things and will fight for the rights of the underdog, battling conventional, read conservative, wisdom, or lack thereof. In an interesting juxtaposition of nodal rulers, her North Node ruler, Venus, is exactly square the South Node ruler, Pluto, a challenge for her to confront her values that must be built upon personal qualities and concerns rather than be bought by corrupt lobbyists or corporate friends. Sun square Saturn often reflects a lack of self-esteem and a late bloomer, as early struggles lead to self-mastery through self-discipline and effort. Time has a way of catching up with you, though and she has had a rough pass of Saturn through Cancer, especially now, as it squares her Hygeia and affects her health. She also has Pallas there being squared, so beware the scare of the Bush dog, barking at you to go away or something might happen to your family. But, according to her solar return, the fight has gone out of her and she’s tired of dealing with the brutish idiocy of this administration. She’ll say she wants to spend more time with her husband, since the Moon in Libra and the Sun/Venus conjunction make a good case for intimate partnership.

Samuel Alito is an Aries with Moon conjunct Mars in Virgo inconjunct Jupiter conjunct Venus, so has a lot of animosity towards women in general and maybe has issues with his mother in particular, since it must have been her who brow beat him into being the anti-abortionist he is. He is judgmental in a way not good for a jurist and has this misplaced idealism of a perfect society that he helps clean up. This is the wrong kind of person to sit in judgment of any American and we should send him over to Iraq and let him sit on the court there. His Venus and Jupiter trine Uranus so he has this utopian ideal that many neocons have; to eliminate the burden of minorities from our land and purify it for their fascist world takeover. It is his Sun/Mercury trine Pluto that really ties him into a ideal of corruption and sneaky backdoor dealings. His Moon and Saturn both square Chiron, so some research into his family background might be illuminating. Saturn square Ceres, indicates a severe lack of nurturance and motherly affection, which fits Moon/Mars in Virgo opposite Vesta, so a woman has to be sacrificed for the man, which is why he supports wife-beating and a man’s dominance over his woman, so would require a woman to get permission from him for an abortion. Moon/Mars is the slave a woman is perceived as with man as Mars beating her when needed, keeping her in her place. Virgo is the sign of servitude, so his mom might have been a role model here for him. Hold on a second! Don’t we have equal rights? Oh, wait, I don’t think the states ever ratified it or that Congress ever passed it. Maybe in 2023, the centennial year, might it pass, at long last. Since he is Italian by birth in the state of New Jersey, land of Tony Soprano, I think his family tree should be researched a little more thoroughly and he might be revealed to have some skeletons in his closet, perhaps even literally. And is that a comb-over? Or did some poor mammal have to die to give him a lid?