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The Daunte Wright Shooting

Not ten miles away from the George Floyd murder trial, another unarmed black man needlessly lost his life during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.  When police pulled him over, Daunte called his mother, worried what the outcome might be.  The official story of why Daunte was stopped has changed; apparently, the initial charge was car deodorizers hanging from his rearview mirror.  This shortly morphed into an expired license plate, during a pandemic where the DMV has been closed for months and processing of registration renewals has been notoriously delayed.

Once halted, police found a warrant for his arrest, for failure to respond to a misdemeanor hearing.  When Daunte attempted to reenter his vehicle to flee the scene, he was shot by a 26-year veteran of the force, Kim Potter.  He drove off, but the car crashed several blocks later, with Daunte dead at the wheel.  Brooklyn Center PD characterized this as an “accidental shooting”, and Officer Potter’s bodycam footage seems to bear this out.  After warning the struggling Daunte that he would be tased, she cautions nearby officers “Taser!  Taser! Taser!”, discharges her service revolver, then exclaims “Holy shit, I just shot him!”

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Daunte Wright with his son, not yet two; when he died, asteroid Wright conjoined Jupiter, opposing asteroid Photographica in a T-Square with asteroid Requiem, named for the funeral mass for the dead, in a celestial representation of national fame (Jupiter) for the victim (Wright) via bodycam footage (Photographica) of his death (Requiem)

Unless this was an extraordinary well-thought-out CYA measure enacted in the moment, it seems that Potter did in fact shoot in error, but this does not absolve her and her fellow officers of responsibility in the death at a traffic stop that went horribly wrong and escalated needlessly.

Let’s see what the stars have to say.  Daunte’s mother states that her son called her about 1:40 PM CDT, so that’s the time I’ve used for the following chart.  Its aptness is apparent immediately, with asteroid Dante (homophone of Daunte) at 1 Taurus exactly squared the Ascendant/Descendant axis at 1 Leo and Aquarius.  This placed Daunte Wright front-and-center in the critical moment of the traffic stop that led to his death.  With the Sun just entering its orb of conjunction with Dante from 22 Aries, Daunte Wright was highly visible, illuminated for good or ill; with Dante fast approaching Uranus at 9 Taurus, the stage was set for a shocking, volatile event, with Uranus also ruling shootings generally, as well as the electric current of a taser.  The Sun also opposes asteroid Black at 21 Libra, emphasizing the racial nature of the event.

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Daunte Wright’s mother, Katie; asteroid Rip, Mercury and the Moon were just cresting the Midheaven when Daunte called (Mercury) to tell her (Moon) police had pulled him over and he feared for his life (Rip), perfectly portraying that dynamic; asteroid Kate conjoined Saturn, ancient lord of death and asteroid Brooks, for the city of Brooklyn Center where the shooting occurred

Rising on the Ascendant was asteroid Atropos at 22 Cancer, named for the mythic Greek Fate who severs the thread of life at death, conjoined asteroid Polizzi at 28 Cancer, a celestial stand-in for “police” (based in the Italian form Polizia and German Polizei).  So, a death caused by police.  Pluto at 26 Capricorn has just set in the west; the modern lord of death, Pluto also rules homicide.  Thus Sun, Pluto, Black, Atropos and Polizzi form a Grand Cross incorporating themes of racial heritage, death and the police.  Which officer is involved?  Asteroid Potter, for Kimberly Potter, at 3 Aquarius conjoins the Descendant at 1 Aquarius and Pluto, and opposes Polizzi, also closely squared Dante at 1 Taurus, for the conflict between them.

On the 12 Aries Midheaven are asteroid Rip at 13 Aries (which acts as a death indicator in the form of the acronym “RIP”, “Rest In Peace”, a common tombstone inscription) with Mercury at 14 and the Moon at 17 Aries; these oppose asteroid Copland at 15 Libra on the 12 Libra IC.  This is the phone call (Mercury) to his mother (Moon) and the concern over his possible death (Rip) at the hands of police (Copland), and makes the event the focus of all eyes (MC) in the news cycle (Mercury). 

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Officer Kimberly Potter, a 26-year veteran of the police force, is seen as asteroid Potter, conjunct the Descendant and squared asteroid Dante (for Daunte), with asteroid Kimberlyespy (Kimberly) conjoined asteroid Gunn and opposed asteroid Lachesis, named for the Fate who determines the span of life

The bodycam footage was essential in helping the story go viral.  Asteroid Photographica represents all forms of photographic imagery, video or still shot, and came to its direct station at 23 Leo the week before, on April 3rd.  (Note that just days earlier, the footage of another traffic stop was released, of an off-duty US Army lieutenant in Virginia, who was pepper-sprayed and generally humiliated by local police, pulled over for missing tags when a temporary tag was visible in his rear window.  Note also the endless replay ad infinitum of the footage of George Floyd’s death during Derek Chauvin’s trial over this same period.)  From there, Photographica opposes Jupiter at 25 Aquarius, bringing publicity and “fame”; Damocles at 29 Aquarius, which represents the impending doom; and asteroids Brooks and Wright at 19 and 24 Aquarius, identifying the victim, Daunte Wright, and the venue, in Brooklyn Center (asteroid Kate, for mother Katie Wright, appears at 14 Aquarius, wide of the overall pattern but conjoined Brooks and Wright).  This polarity T-Squares asteroid Requiem at 25 Taurus, named for the funeral mass for the dead.  Also here are asteroid Gunn and Kimberlyespy, at 17 and 18 Taurus, for the weapon and its shooter, Officer Kimberly Potter; these oppose asteroid Lachesis at 15 Scorpio, named for the Greek Fate who determines the span of life, a role Potter enacted for Wright in that moment.

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The fatal moment; with Neptune squared Mars, confusion regarding weaponry was a likely manifestation, and with death indicators asteroids Osiris and Anubis conjoined this pair, the outcome was tragic

Was the shooting accidental?  The celestial jury says ‘yes.’  Neptune at 21 Pisces squares Mars at 22 Gemini, causing confusion (Neptune) in regards to weaponry (Mars).  With Neptune is asteroid Osiris at 24 Pisces, named for the Egyptian god of the dead, and with Mars is asteroid Anubis at 21 Gemini, named for the Egyptian deity governing funerary rites, for a double dose of fatality-related energies with the incident.  As well, asteroid NOT, a general disqualifier, appears at 1 Capricorn exactly conjunct TNO Ixion, named for the first murderer in Greek myth.  In short, this was homicide, but not intentional murder.

Nevertheless, Daunte Wright died because of a pervasive attitude of suspicion, distrust and disrespect emanating from many police departments toward persons of color.  His name will be added to the litany of justifiable grievances that community holds against law enforcement.

Alex Miller is a professional writer and astrologer, author of The Black Hole Book, detailing deep space points in astrological interpretation, and the forthcoming Heaven on Earth, a comprehensive study of asteroids, both mythic and personal. Alex is a frequent contributor to “The Mountain Astrologer”, “Daykeeper Journal”, and NCGR’s Journals and “Enews Commentary”; his work has also appeared in “Aspects” magazine, “Dell Horoscope”, “Planetwaves”, “Neptune Café” and “Sasstrology.” He is a past president of Philadelphia Astrological Society, and a former board member for the Philadelphia Chapter of NCGR.

2 comments, add yours.

Laurien

Wow! As usual the asteroid configurations are amazing, but it really blows me away that they can help determine Potter’s culpability. I think you ought to be called as an expert witness at Potter’s trial! However, you are right that the real cause of the shooting is racial discrimination and bias, which must stop.

loel

Alex, thank you so much for showing how this plays out in real-time with PNA’s. I have learned so much from you this past year as I have reacquainted myself with astrology. Racism needs to be dismantled now. Despite the accidental aspects of this shooting, we have yet another man of color being killed by those that pledge to serve and protect all citizens in our communities. The continued monologue of cultural wars only reinforces the overwhelming need for getting justice to communities of color, how they are treated differently from whites in all aspects of their lives. Slave Karma is going to be a bitch, and America has best get started making amends ASAP to avoid this karmic tie for the misdeeds they failed to address at Philadephia in the summer of 1776 when our country was born. It’s a grand cross to bear, isn’t it?

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