Confessions of a libra

Chart pulled from: Astro-seek

29.08.25

In light of a recent conspiracy I watched on Tiktok stating Harriet Tubman can’t have been real, I have decided to make her my first public chart interpretation. The ancestors said it was time. Due to the institution of racism – Harriet Tubman like many of our Black predecessors – lost access to time that is rightfully theirs. Harriet Tubman is said to have been born into slavery somewhere between 1820-1825. Historian Kate Clifford Larsen is the one credited for locating a line item in an enslaver’s log dated March 15, 1822. This is the date I have decided to use for the chart interpretation.

As far as Astrologers go, I exist and interpret within the realms of the 12th house. I do not need all the information to be able to paint a picture as to the codes that Harriet was born with, that allowed her to have such a prolific life. In Astrology, the birth time allows for greater depth and specificity as to the things that make us unique. Without it, we have a lot of information but lack a lot of nuance. Harriet Tubman was born Araminta ‘Minty’ Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland. Harriet was the name of her mother though affectionately called ‘Rit’ during her life. Harriet was a name adopted later in life, and Tubman is her husband’s surname adopted through marriage. Harriet was born as a Pisces Sun at 24 degrees. This is poetic, in that many Black liberators across the world – including the ones who liberated my people in Zimbabwe – were natural born mystics.

Not only is Pisces the sign of the mystic, of the spiritual but so is the 24th degree. She suffered a traumatic head wound due to an enslaver as a child, from which point she began experiencing visions and vivid dreams. These, she ascribed to be premonitions from God. When you see that she was born with a Sun-Pluto conjunction, with Pluto in Pisces at 29 degrees – the anaretic degree – this is the moment that triggered her destiny. Pluto is the planet of death and rebirth, Pisces is all about the unconscious, the anaretic degree speaks to a pressure point – the final karmic download.

I would posit that she always had the gift of Sight, but it was likely a low hum for her in the background of her life. This injury was the pressure her soul needed to lock-in. She was likely a soft and spiritual child, but spirited with Pluto conjunct her Sun. She was born with natural grit and personal power. Harriet wasn’t alone in her fighting spirit, as her mother Rit was also known to have threated an enslaver who came to collect her youngest son Moses, threatening to split open the first man who entered to steal him. This speaks to a lineage of fighters, and when Harriet answered the call later in life – she was answering to something bigger than her. Something her predecessors had likely fought and prayed for. I myself, relate to feeling the call of all the fighters who came before me – and letting that flame guide me in all my decisions.

The Moon speaks to our emotional world, our subconscious comfort , our family of origin and our mothers. The Moon’s transit is every 2.5 days and as such we will explore both moon signs that could relate to her. I will use intuition to determine which one feels right for her soul. With the Moon in Scorpio that would speak to; emotional turbulence during childhood, deep transformative emotional experiences, emotional sensitivity but accompanied by true strength and a deep need for privacy. Scorpio Moons are not ones to show their perceived weaknesses, they will curate your perception of them to their liking and they are built for power-play. They never want to feel like they don’t have the upper-hand. This can be to their detriment, as they can refuse emotional vulnerability, as they deem that to be a safe power-play.

If Harriet had a Sagittarius Moon however, that may speak to a childhood where she travelled and may not have felt secure. She may have had to interact with people from other cultures, it could speak to a mother with deep faith or concerned with her own independence. This could make her emotional world quite optimistic, expressive, it would make her have a dry wit, be a philosophiser and an independent spirit. It’s truly hard to determine as many decisions were out of her and her family’s hands, as enslaved people. It’s hard to say if her mother was independent, when she was required to work away from her family to support the an enslaver family. Intuitively I do feel a Scorpio moon suits her. As this cannot be corroborated, I will not be interpreting any aspects she may have to the moon.

Harriet has a Mercury-Venus conjunction in Pisces. Mercury is the planet of; communication, learning, intellect, transport and commerce. Venus is the planet of; love, relationships, beauty, business and art. This speaks to a natural artistic nature in Harriet. She was likely casually wise in speech, able to charm in her soft cadence, romantic or dreamy in her thoughts and self-expression. She was likely seen and received as compassionate. Someone who was flexible with herself and others. She could inspire you through her speech and how she held herself. She may have been admired by many for her feminine expression. She may have also been projected upon, as someone with heavy Piscean energy.

Ultimately, Harriet has a Pisces Stellium with the following planets all in Pisces; Sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto. This gives her the natural gift of faith, romanticism, art, mysticism, unseen or supernatural gifts (as with her visions) and the gift of finding meaning in the mundane. Back to that anaretic degree, the childhood head injury wasn’t the only one she suffered, having another severe head injury at 13. This one caused by a desperate enslaver’s attempt at recapturing a freedom seeker. This injury fractured her skull leading to; chronic pain, seizures and narcolepsy. It’s crazy that I have heard many things about Harriet but never that she lead a revolution with a disability. It’s a damn shame that isn’t more highlighted, as it adds to the power of her spirit. One that should never be forgotten.

Her disability in this case wasn’t something that was built to slow her down. In this case, it was new spiritual architecture. It was her body working as an oracle, letting her energy guide her next moves. And what she will never be credited for, is her ability to decode that and work with it – not against it. This is evidence of her personal power that she drew from, to sacrifice her life and time for the greater good. It is something we should all be in awe of. This is the kind of story that adds steel to my spine and makes me stand up taller. How can I, a Black woman in the modern age choose not to keep the flame alive? We are certainly not done. We are not free, until we are all free. And the Prison Industrial Complex should be our next target for Black liberation all over the world. Not just in America, I’m looking at you Australia.

Some have said that they associate Harriet Tubman’s disabilities with her religiosity. I say, she would have been spiritual either way with that Pisces Stellium. For us Spiritualists, we see life’s pressures as initiation points. Many of my spiritual initiations (and there are many), are accompanied by deep tragedy and chaos. What those injuries did, is they sharpened her spirit like a blade. They brought urges that may have simmered beneath the surface and primed her over time, through symbols. Her lineage likely left coded messages in the visions she received, like a breadcrumb trail to the liberation they knew she was capable of leading.

Harriet Tubman had a Leo Mars conjunct her South Node, both retrograde. Harriet made herself useful as she grew older, negotiating with her enslaver to select her own work assignments in exchange for a yearly fee. This allowed her to travel Dorchester County and learn the lay of the land. In time, her assignments les her to work alongside her father and Black sailors that were regular travellers along the East Coast. These were all experiences that guided her when mapping out escape routes for herself, then for her people. She was resourceful, intelligent and covertly gathering intel that would help her later in life. This I can very much relate to as a 12th house Sun with a North Node in the 12th. That Leo South Node means she came into this life already equipped and having mastered Leonine energy in past lives.

She likely ruled and shone publicly in previous lives, but in this one she was born to rule covertly. That is why the placements are in retrograde. Her courage was something that she felt more than it was something visibly expressed. This makes her a sleeper agent, and made her able to lay low until such a time as she could lead the right people to safety. That Mars is why she trained others to be brave, instead of keeping that spirit for herself alone. The retrograde, decentralised her, giving her a less egoic Leonine energy. Her Mars and South Node is in Opposition to her North Node in Aquarius, destiny’s call to serve humanity through radical means. Her liberation story was indeed radical. She relied on her visions, she networked both in the South and once she escaped to the North. She built something that hadn’t been built before, she did something forward-thinking and almost futuristic for her time. She truly stepped into her soul contract without resistance, and did it justice.

That North-South axis of hers teaches us that she came from a past where she was revered for leading likely in the acceptable sense. Then she came into this life to lead radically – to freedom. She was nicknamed Moses – an archetypal prophet for the collective – and even after the war she poured her life into humanitarian causes. Aquarius is literally about networks, railroads, futures and liberation movements. Every point, she hit. Just as I, Harriet has a Jupiter-Saturn aspect – though hers is Conjunct where mine is Square. There is an intense relationship between her faith, her optimism, her vision of the world vs her work, her responsibilities, her discipline and her limitations. With Jupiter in Taurus, she had a natural resourcefulness and ability to build lasting abundance. She has the ability to be patient where stability was concerned, and find joy through sensual pleasures. She was likely someone who knew how to create happiness and warmth despite the constraints.

With Saturn in Aries, she came to learn how to lead. How to take charge without making herself small. Saturn wants you to learn things in a sustainable way but Aries wants to get the energy out quickly, because of that fire. As such she likely was balancing the Taurean nature of finding joy in the slowness, with the Aries impulse to achieve, to liberate (as Aries doesn’t like to follow). Her asking to do her own assignments as an enslaved person was a great show of that Aries in Saturn. The maturity of finding a pocket of freedom to be autonomous, so that she could be unencumbered was a great impulse. That Jupiter-Saturn conjunction speaks to her ability to have and build a vision that was long-lasting. One that was so expansive it could serve others for generations to come.

This Conjunction trines her Uranus-Neptune Conjunction in Capricorn. There was a mutual relationship between this grounded yet expansive vision and assertiveness with the legacy-building side of her. Capricorn as a sign is all about future thinking, Capricorn also wants to serve the family and the community in a practical way. She had the ambition in Capricorn, the ability to achieve her vision in innovative ways (Uranus in Capricorn, North Node in Aquarius, Pisces Stellium), the sheer will to survive AND protect (Leo Mars retrograde, Saturn in Aries, Pluto in Pisces). While she was fighting for everyone, it’s important to remember always that she was a person. As such, she had wounds, discomfort and insecurity. Chiron is in Aries, Conjunct to Pluto. Harriet likely had to overcome personal discomfort with leadership. When we take into account Saturn in Aries, she likely felt others got in the way every time she had to take a stand.

She may have lacked confidence in her own courage. She may have had to do courageous things, while second-guessing herself. She might have struggled with the constraints to her autonomy, deeply and intrinsically before she was ever able to free herself. With Lilith in Scorpio, she may have been sexualised young as an enslaved girl. She may had people project onto her regarding; her sexual magnetism and innate personal power. She may have pulled in relationships with power dynamics where they wanted to possess this energy within her or contain it. She likely was someone other women were jealous of. Men likely hated her power. She is someone who was very well versed in power dynamics if we also add that Sun-Pluto Conjunction. It is likely why she was able to not just question her present position as an enslaved person, but decode it and strategise against it. As a fellow strategist, I respect this immensely. I exist as someone within systems that I have decoded and am actively plotting against.

Finally with that Mars-Saturn trine, we can see that Harriet was built for ambition that lasts. She was born with the will to achieve, and the patience to respect divine timing. She didn’t need to rush, she needed to systematically collect information and enact plans so precise – so guided by Spirit – that they fulfilled her North Node. Harriet Tubman was not only real, but she was gifted to us as a true vision of feminine power. A symbol that true power does not in fact come from subjugation, but rather from ancestral fire.

She was brought to remind unsustainable systems, that anything built on; theft, fraud, murder and displacement isn’t legitimate. That systems that rely on control, will always crumble in time. All it takes is one brave soul. All it takes is one person to say no more. May her life also serve as a warning to the Masculine principle that tries to subjugate the Feminine. Women have never needed men to serve and protect. Women have always been capable of love and war. May her story and cosmology serve as a lantern to guide us, in these dark political times. Asé.