Jackson vs. AEG verdict

[Jim Eshelman]

This was, to me, an interesting (and successful) use of mundane astrology to predict the outcome of a "contest."

In Michael Jackson's family's suit against concert promoter AEG, the jury returned a verdict effectively finding AEG not responsible for Michael's death. The jury was called into the court room October 2, 2013, 3:30 PM, Los Angeles, CA. We learned that they had a verdict about an hour and a half earlier (about 2:00 PM) and that it would be read at 3:30 PM. I expected this to be a sufficiently important LA-local event to show via mundane astrology techniques, so I took a few minutes to see what was happening in the ingresses and their quotidians.

Those who know the details of my professional life will understand that I couldn't post the prediction in advance. I had, however, followed the case very closely and yet was unable (by conventional means) to tell which way it would go. I affirm that the prediction described below was finished and told to a coworker by 2:15 PM.

Going into the prediction, I really didn't know what to look for. Both parties were local to LA, and were IN Los Angeles, so a simple benefics vs. malefics breakdown (for example) wasn't going to tell the tale.

There were several Saturns prominent - but that just meant somebody would lose. No way (from that alone) to pin it down. One that I could have used and didn't - I'm still not sure it is meaningful - is that transiting Saturn 15°17' Libra conjoined Cansolar Moon, 15°23' Libra, within 6'. As the suit was brought primarily by Michael's mother, this could be read, "the mother's loss." But it wasn't clear enough.

But then (the last chart examined), I saw the Cansolar Quotidian. Noto nly was transiting Mercury (9°23' Libra) conjunct ingress Saturn at 9°57' Libra, but the CanQ Ascendant was 7°43' Cancer, within 2°. I sat staring at that Mercury-on-Saturn angularity on the Q angles and the words that arose in my brain were, "They say no."

That was it: The verdict would be "They say no." In a civil suit, the jury would find insufficient to "say yes." An individual planet was insufficient to tip the scales, but this aspecton the Q angles would do so. Just to "ice the cake," the Ascendant, at the time the jury was returning, was 10° Capricorn.