Cesar Chavez – toppled off his pedestal ++ Dolores Huerta

US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who rose to become a secular saint for many for his advocacy of the rights of farm workers has been exposed in a New York Times report as a flawed hero for his abuse of women and underage girls. In his later years he became increasingly paranoid and autocratic. He died in 1993 at age 66.

Born 31 March 1927 3pm Yuma, Arikona into a Mexican family, he had an intense 8^th house Aries Sun in a controlling square to Pluto in Cancer, and trine Saturn in Sagittarius in his 4^th. A hard personality. He had a hard-working and ambitious, communicative 10^th house Mars in Gemini in a publicity-attracting sextile to Neptune; and a high-energy square to Moon, Jupiter, Mercury in Pisces. Moon Mars is always edgy around women since they spark off anger; and Sun Pluto would certainly make him quite dominating. His Moon was conjunct Uranus giving him an emotionally wayward tendency and he evidently had affairs through his marriage.  His Venus in indulgent, earthy Taurus was on the focal point of a mini-Grand Trine of a confident Pluto trine Jupiter Mercury.

 On his midpoints his Venus was conjunct his Mars/Uranus midpoint which Ebertin describes as passionate and giving the desire to enforce love. His Sun/Moon midpoint was conjunct Uranus in his 7^th so sticking to a one-to-one commitment in marriage was not his forte.  

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Dolores Huerta, born April 10, 1930, a labour leader and feminist activist worked with Chavez. Some credit her with inventing the UFW slogan “sí se puede” (transl. ‘yes you can’). She alleged several instances of sexual and emotional abuse by Cesar Chavez which she did not report at the time because police were hostile to the farmworkers’ movement and she thought that “no one within the union would believe her”. She also worried that reporting the assault would interfere with the movement’s success. Both assaults resulted in her becoming pregnant.

 She is a Sun Aries square Pluto in Cancer with her Pluto trine Mars so she would be determined herself but grew up used to overly controlling men. Her Mars fell in Chavez’s 7^th close to his Moon so she would spark off his Moon Mars anger against women. It was not all negative since her Mars was also conjunct his Jupiter and her Jupiter conjunct his Mars in the 10^th – so on the activism front they would lend each other support. Her Venus was in Taurus like him.  Their relationship chart has the same complex blend of control/domination with a composite Sun square Pluto – and a high-energy, superficially friendly composite Jupiter, Mars, Venus conjunction. Plus a hope for a better society Saturn trine Neptune.

 A strong woman like her would rub Chavez the wrong way at times with his Pluto machismo and anger at mother (Moon Mars).