I wanted to come back on the Triple Pisces. I rejected that woman, hard and I wanted to explain what drove me mostly because although the story stands alone, things are far more interesting when you’ve privy to more of the root.

I try to expose the roots when time permits which is why I think I so many Scorpios read here. It makes a nice meal. It makes things more satisfying but anyway, I went to see Double Aquarius, Angela Davis speak.

You can read her rich history but I saw her about 15 years ago in the early 90’s which was post her history, history when hers was a household name circa, 1970-72. In whatever case someone invited me to hear her speak (about rape) and having nothing better to do that evening, I showed up and was completely taken with her.

She was beautiful for one thing and she was a phenomenally powerful speaker. Sitting there in the middle of the predominantly African audience, I was simultaneously stupefied, mesmerized and enchanted by this force of nature who no longer sported her trademark afro. Davis was angry about rape.

She was incensed but she said she did not think the problem would or could ever be solved by women. She said the only way we would get rid of rape in our society is if men decided to get rid of rape in our society. In other words, men would have to stop supporting it.

She said men supported rape and other forms of violence against women when they continued to play basketball with a guy they knew beat his wife the night before. The audience was full of African men and she was addressing them specifically. She was challenging them and pressuring them with a fervor and intensity that was uncommon to say the least and I thought she was right. But being me, I could feel the people around me start to twitch. And feeling them start to twitch, I was pretty sure something was going to happen and then it did.

“Men should be on the front lines against rape!” she said with enormous punch and power. This woman (with Pluto opposite her Sun) challenged every man in the room. “Why aren’t you fighting for your women, your wives, mothers and your daughters RIGHT NOW! Why do you continue to support RAPE?” she said in a defiant challenge characteristic of the Mars Uranus conjunction in her chart.

::twitch, twitch::

But then she said it. She told the African men that not only should they stand against other men who are violent towards women, they should also be on the front lines fighting alongside the gay community. She said the gays were but another minority group and everything that happened to the blacks, happened to the gays. She said the blacks and the gays ought to join forces and fight together and you know what happened? 70% of the audience stood and walked out. Never seen anything like it before or since. You’d have thought she just killed a baby or something and I felt my heart rip apart in my chest.

For some reason this was personal to me. I was not a detached observer and it was like watching fabric being ripped apart. I stayed. Of course I stayed and I listened to every word she said and I decided then and there I would never support rape. I would never play basketball with someone committing acts I consider to be heinous and this is why the triple Pisces had to go. And it’s interesting, one more bit…

My mother was also a double Aquarius (with Pluto opposing her Sun, even tighter than Davis). And she used to say the worst that could happen to a person is when “decent people don’t want anything to do with you.”

No wonder that speech resonated.

Have you ever pulled away from a person on principle?