Rubin Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014)

I suppose that most of us would be completely in the dark about this man if it weren’t for Bob Dylan’s song, “Hurricane”.

What drives a man to take up boxing as a career? What made him a target of police persecution?

In the grand scheme of things, the Jupiter opposition Pluto at the time of his birth may have been the whole reason for his existence: to highlight the injustice of the wrongful arrest and conviction of a black man in the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. There are no hidden agendas here.

This looks to be a case of “Wrong Person in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time”. But cosmically, I suspect that the Universe had a larger purpose to Hurricane’s legal troubles. (My fellow astrologers will have something to say about this, too, I’m sure.)

Suffice it to say, Rubin Carter took on the justice system and won his biggest fight, eventually.

It’s very telling what he is quoted as saying: