

Women’s reproductive rights: Venus ruler Vth in Cancer
How might competing goals be squared and made good? ‘Life, liberty and happiness‘ – these show as Sun, Jupiter, Venus in the Declaration of Independence (Moon IIIrd). The heartfelt goal of anti-abortion campaigners is to guarantee Life (Sun) to the foetus (Vth), from religion and through law (Sun ruler IX). Yet in contemporary liberal-democratic culture, the foundation of Happiness, societal and individual, comes from women’s reproductive and sexual rights – hence IC conjunct US Venus in Roe v Wade (1973).. – GC
