Short Astro Analysis of Judge Aileen Cannon
According to public records, Aileen Mercedes Cannon was born February 1, 1981 in Cali, Columbia. Her mother is Cuban and her father American (from Indiana). Cannon grew up in Miami, graduated from Duke University in 2003 and from University of Michigan Law School in 2007. After clerking for a federal appellate judge in Iowa and several years in private practice, Cannon became an assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida (2013–2020). (Bio here.)
She married Josh Lorence, a restaurant manager, on June 8, 2008. They have two daughters and live in Vero Beach, Florida in a house they purchased, according to public records, in August 2020 for $750,000. (Cannon’s confirmation hearing was in July 2020. She was confirmed on November 12, 2020. It looks like they bought the house in anticipation of her confirmation.)
Public records show that her husband was born either August 1st or August 18th, 1981 (a Leo).
Cannon’s Sun is in Aquarius. Since we do not have her birth time, the houses and Ascendants are not applicable. Aquarians like to be independent and original thinkers. This can sometimes make them unpredictable and obstinate, unable to take in new information or adopt other viewpoints.
She has three planets in Libra — the sign of justice. Her Saturn is conjunct her Jupiter in Libra and both are trine her Sun. Saturn/Jupiter people are builders of things that last. (Thomas Jefferson had a Saturn/Jupiter conjunction (across two signs: Leo and Virgo.) Cannon’s AQ Sun trined her Jup/Sat conjunction suggests she wants to create an original system of justice under her own terms.
She has Mars in AQ as well, in conjunction with her Mercury in Pisces and both trine Pluto in Libra. This is highly intuitive, emotionally volatile with a drive to push boundaries — and again relating to justice.
Her Mercury/Mars conjunction also is squared Uranus in Scorpio. She wants freedom of thought, to break taboos. There may be (according to one astrologer): “Massive suppressed desires and uncontrolled overstepping of all prohibitions.”
Her Venus (and possibly her Moon but without a birth time, we can’t be sure of that position) is in Capricorn. Venus in Cap may be reserved, reliable, rigid, untrusting.
Of additional note is something that isn’t really immediately visible in the chart: Cannon has five planets in a row with each one at approximately the same degree in each sign from Libra through Scorpio, Sag, Cap, and Aquarius: Pluto (24.20 Libra), Uranus (29.40 Scorpio), Neptune (24.05 Sag), Venus (26.49 Cap) and Mars (25.51 Aquarius). What does this mean? Most obviously, it means these planets are all working together, in tandem and they are all affected by each other.
Not only are these planets all in alignment, they align with the Galactic Center, “urging us to both release old emotional wounds and traumas and also to engage our New Paradigm roles” and acting “as a transmitter of Divine Consciousness.”
This is a heady and explosive mix of powerful planets! The three outer planets (Pluto, Uranus, Neptune) in line don’t really “get along” well, causing a sort of internal cauldron of forces. Think of it this way: Pluto = volcanoes; Uranus = lightning; Neptune = oceans. Put ’em all together and what have you got? Explosions, eruptions, whirlpools!
Then Venus and Mars join the phalanx— personal planets bringing these larger forces directly into her relationships and activities. Mars drives her to do things — being in Aquarius (ruled by Uranus), she is driven to disregard rules and precedents, be oppositional, do things her own way. Venus in Cap (ruled by Saturn, the lawmaker) wants to rule and be accorded dignity and respect. But with all these forces acting upon each other, she cannot get what she wants. The planets are in conflict with each other and are in adjoining, incompatible signs. (And to mix it up more: Pluto is in Libra, ruled by Venus; Uranus in Scorpio, ruled by Pluto; Neptune in Sag, ruled by Jupiter!)
This woman is a dangerous mix of powerful, uncontrolled, volatile forces. She should not be on the bench deciding the fates of others.
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