Birth certificate data is September 1, 1938 at 11.28pm EDT: 40n38, 73w56 (Brooklyn, New York)
His chart’s astrodyne report
Sun – planet of power, authority and celebrity – in house 4 dominates.
It’s square Moon, conjunction Mercury, Mars and Neptune, opposition Jupiter and square ascendant.
Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, Moon, Mars, Midheaven and ascendant have above average power and have played a prominent role in his story.
Sun is high in discord and inclines towards an inflated sense of self-importance and dictativeness.
Sun and Mercury decanate is Bootes – achievement – and he has an amazing ability to assimilate information and tackle gigantic mental tasks. He’s pragmatic, down-to-earth and practical.
Virgo dominates. It’s high in discord and inclines towards acid criticism.
Mercury is parallel Sun, conjunction Mars and opposition Jupiter.
Moon decanate is Aquila – exploration – and he has exceptional executive and investigative skills and is very restless.
Moon is trine Saturn, square Neptune and opposition ascendant.
Saturn and Midheaven conciliate the Moon-ascendant opposition and appease the stressful personality clash he has with his clients (Moon in house 7).
Ascendant decanate is Ursa Minor – intuition – and he’s a natural born scholar who can place in proper order and sequence all the factors related to a matter or proposal.
Venus in house 5 intercepts the Mars-Mercury-Jupiter opposition and conciliates the stress and strife it’s inclined to attract.
His chart is high in discord primarily due to the Sun, Moon and ascendant T-square.
Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus were retrograde when he was born. Jupiter turned direct in September 1985; Venus turned retrograde in March 1997; and Pluto turned retrograde is January 2000.
His story
Alan Dershowitz is an American lawyer, academic and scholar of US constitutional law and criminal law.
He’s a celebrity lawyer who has represented Mike Tyson, Patty Hurst, Jim Bakker and OJ Simpson and was a member of the defense team in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump.
His notable quite: The defendant wants to hide the truth because he’s generally guilty. The defense attorney’s job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
January 21, 2020: As a member of Donald Trump’s defense team, Dershowitz states that “every politician conflates his own interest with the public interest therefore ‘it cannot be impeachable’”.
His chart progressed to January 21, 2020
Events markers are a progressed aspect to house 9 (public expression of opinion) and Sun (Donald Trump and all politicians).
Progressed Sun at 20S04 in house 6 was parallel birth chart Moon at 20S29 in house 7.
Progressed Mars at 17 Libra 49 in house 5 was opposition birth chart Saturn at 17 Aries 08R – the cusp ruler of house 9 – in house 11.
Progressed Saturn at 11 Aries 40R in house 11 was sesquisquare birth chart Mars at 26 Leo 22 in house 4.
And progressed Mercury (academic thinking) at 21 Sagittarius 03 in house 7 was square birth chart Neptune (spin and confusion) at 20 Virgo 25 in house 5; and progressed ascendant at 16 Leo 14 in house 3 was opposition birth chart Midheaven (publicity).
Progressed Moon at 19S39 was parallel progressed Sun.
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