The six-year-old boy kissed his mother good-bye at 8 a.m. on May 25, 1979, and walked down two flights of steps into the crowded city street. The woman stood on the fire escape balcony, arms folded and patiently watched her son march toward the intersection of Prince and Greene Street.
She had just given him a dollar to buy a soda. His school bus stop was located only two blocks west from where he lived. This was the first time her son was allowed to walk the route unassisted. Prince Street is a tree-lined avenue in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, which was undergoing a dramatic change in 1979. Originally an industrial area containing factories, warehouses and businesses, SoHo was being transformed into a trendy, much-desired neighborhood by young, upcoming professionals yearning to escape from the high rents of the Upper East Side. They came into the neighborhood with plenty of money and fresh ideas. They converted old manufacturing lofts into spacious, airy apartments. Broken-down warehouses became successful condominiums while abandoned factories became gourmet delis and trendy cafes.
The little boy with the big smile walked past storefronts carrying his oversized book bag. He glanced behind him to see his mom still watching from the distance. As the boy approached the corner, he turned his head. A wisp of fine brown hair blew into his face. Mother and son exchanged a brief, spontaneous smile. Beyond him, she could see a small group of his classmates waiting for the bus in the distance. She turned and went back upstairs to tend to her other two children. She would never see her son alive again.
The boys name was Etan Patz. Within the next few moments, Etan was stolen off SoHos busy streets. What actually happened to him and to where he was taken, remains a heart-breaking mystery. His fate, as of this writing, is still unknown. The Etan Patz case is the oldest, open missing child case in New York Citys history and probably one of the oldest in the nation. In 2003, suspicion irrevocably settled upon convicted child molester, Jose Antonio Ramos, 60, who is incarcerated in a Pennsylvania prison. In 2002, Etans long-suffering parents declared him legally dead and planned to sue Ramos in civil court. They did this to force him into a courtroom where they can ask Ramos under oath what happened to their son. Each year, on Etans birthday, his father sends a card to Ramos asking him, What did you do to our son?
Child abduction is the equivalent of a nuclear blast to a family. In many ways, having a child abducted and not ever knowing his or her true fate, like the Etan Patz case, is worse than the childs actual death. Etans father, Stanly Patz once wrote, In this crime, there was a beginning, but there is no end. This psychological limbo ensures the parents pain continues indefinitely. But thankfully, there are few cases as tragic as Etans. Most abductions, which this article will address, end with some type of finality. In some cases, it is the beginning of a life of grief to devastated parents.
Etan's case is still considered by the NYPD to be a cold case.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Etan Patz or that leads to the arrest and conviction of the individual responsible for his disappearance is asked to call the FBI/NYPD Etan Patz hotline: 212-384-2200.
This case came back to me after a reader sent me the information. In 1979 I was a young woman who was not paying a lot of attention to these types of cases, being mostly concerned with the crimes committed against women my own age. I had my own concerns and only remember being vaguely aware of this child and his face on the milk cartons. I do remember, however, thinking that this was a good idea if it would help find missing kids. I did not drink milk and I still don't, being vegetarian most of my life, but I realized then that kids drink milk and their mothers are the ones who might see other kids when out and about so the exposure was in the right place. Anyways, this was a landmark case that brought nationwide attention to the plight of missing children, which, even then, was much larger than it should be. Who on earth is taking our children and why? It's a hard question to answer. So I was very intrigued by this case. Could Astrology give us insight into an unsolved case so old and heavily investigated? Let's see.
In the first chart, you can see what Etan is doing. Cancer is rising and the Moon is in the eleventh with Mercury. He is joining friends who are other children. This is exactly what was reported: he was heading towards a knot of children waiting on the bus. This little detail proves to me that this chart is viable. Now, the person he is next to meet is ruled by the seventh house, which is ruled by Capricorn and Saturn. Saturn is in the third within 8 degrees of the nadir. There was someone along the street there that was standing in front of housing units or other lodging. I remember New York City as having flats and step ups in various places along the avenues and in Soho, there were residential areas in the city along the streets. If there were housing or lodging units along this road, this is where this person was standing. On the street outside. This may be why it was so easy and fast for this person to snatch the child. One quick grab and in the door they go. But this is just another assumption on my part, which have often been proven wrong, so let's just go with the chart. It clearly shows that there was someone standing along the street in front of housing units or hotels as Etan moved towards the group of kids waiting for the bus.
The thing that gets my attention is the north node between Saturn and the nadir. This tells me that this person had sort of planned this; he or she had noticed that the children came along this route and that they were accessible and vulnerable there. There is no doubt that he or she had planned to take a child; whether or not they targeted Etan individually is unknowable. But Saturn is in Virgo and is disposed of by Mercury, the marker for the children, so it is an easy guess that the children were the purpose of this persons' being there. He or she no doubt planned to snatch a child. The Moon and Mercury, I must point out again, are closely conjoined, which indicates that perhaps any child could have been a victim there but that Etan happened to lag just far enough behind to be a target at the opportune moment. Another thing I must point out is the exact trine from the Moon and Mercury with the cusp of the eighth house, at 29 degrees of Capricorn. What does this tell you? Notice also that Saturn rules the cusp of the eighth house as well as the seventh, dovetailing the motivation of this individual. There IS a sexual component here; sex and death, they mix in the stars.
Considering this and looking things over closely, I note that both the Moon and Mercury are in conjunction with the Pleiades, the seven sisters. I have seen this fixed star configuration in the forefront of one violent murder chart after another. In fact, it was my ability to track it in the first of the Gainesville murders way back in 1990 that I knew that there would be more murders and that they would be on certain nights, at certain times. It was that well lit in those skies! And that case, like the case of Etan Patz, was destined to be a high profile case. So the Pleiades here, especially conjoined the Moon, sends up red flags for me. So does Caput Algol, the most violent star in the heavens, which is nearby as well. If I had one thing I would want people to do, I would want them to follow these fixed stars and not let their children or loved ones out of their site on days or nights when these stars were overhead, in the ascendant or near the natal planets. I am dead serious here. This chart has other markers as well. The Moon and Mercury are both under the Sun's beams so a child was in grave danger that morning, any child, not just Etan. Like I said, he happened to be at the right place at the critical moment and that's all. Although this was planned out, the target was unknown.
I must also point out that the chart is riddled with aspects to and from fixed stars. Geidi Prima, for instance, is in the first house exactly square Neptune in the fifth. This is a marker for rape. And then the fixed star, Manubrium, is in the seventh house trine to both the node and Saturn, which is the planetary ruler of the seventh. This fixed star points to the burning of bodies, arson and cremation. This may be what was done with Etan? I am not sure but it is possible. Now, looking back at the planets I note that the Moon and Mercury are both disposed of by Venus, which is nearby in the eleventh in the sign Taurus. Venus is in dignity and closely aligned with Mars. In turn, these two planets are in trine aspect to Saturn. This is a married couple who is nearby at the time, off to the side, perhaps, watching the kids, maybe even their own child as he or she boarded the bus. They may have been co conspirators, though, as the trine aspect shows facilitation. However, this could also be accidental. They may have distracted key witnesses at the time, allowing the abductor to abscond with the child unseen.
In the chart for 9 am, I notice subtle changes. The eighth house ruler is now Uranus, which is in Scorpio in the fifth house. Mars and Venus are now angular, ruling the tenth house / fourth house axis and both are positioned in the tenth. Jupiter in Leo is now rising into the first house and forming an angular square to Mars, Venus and Uranus. This is an interesting configuration. This is showing me a couple, male and female, who are parental type figures. The seventh house ruler, Saturn, is still trine to these planets as they move into angular positions, carrying over the relationship I glimpsed in the earlier chart. I am afraid I see a married couple or some other pairing of male and female and not a lone abductor such as the man who was claimed to have done this. It is possible this man, the confessor, was involved but there is no way, looking at this chart, that he did this alone. Pluto angular in the fourth, disposed of by the powerful Venus, points to violence and peculiar behavior in a home environment. The Moon is sinister to a square with Saturn which indicates that Etan resisted and there was an altercation between the boy and the man who took him.
The presence of the fixed stars seem to support the claim that Etan was killed. The charts do not specify his death on the same day as he was taken, which leads me to believe he was held for awhile before he was killed. This whole thing happened right there in the neighborhood (third house) and there are no markers for movement so I do not believe the child was taken out of the city. In fact, by 10 am, I see that the seventh house ruler becomes Uranus and this planet is in the fourth house, which indicates that all the activity went on inside someone's home. The movement of Uranus from ruling the eighth from the fifth to ruling the seventh from the fourth indicates the boy was taken for a sexual purpose and that this sexual purpose was acted out in a private residence; behind closed doors, so to speak. But none of this negates the power of both Venus and Mars, which continue to linger in the foreground. There were at least 3 people involved in this and there was more to it than a single man wanting to do nasty business with a child.
The chart for 10 am gives me a few more clues. The first house ruler has become the Sun, which is placed in Gemini in the eleventh. Etan's markers have never left the eleventh house and now it is disposed of by Mercury, which echoes the Moons' conjunction with Mercury in the earlier charts. This has Etan's markers consistently in conjunction with Mercury and tells me that Etan was not the only child there. He was with kids when he was taken and there were other kids in the place he went. I know this seems far fetched but this is what I see here. Etan was taken to a home (fourth house) where there were other children, either resident there or taken there themselves (Mercury and Moon in the eleventh). And here is the thing. If you take into consideration that both the Moon and Mercury are disposed of by Venus, now in the tenth, it makes a case for a woman again. In fact, the mother of these other children? Or is the mother of the abductor? Or his wife? The child's babysitter? It's hard to tell. But there is just no doubt in my mind that these people were co conspirators in this case and whether or not you believe this confessor did it, I feel confident in asserting that he did not do this alone.
There are still no death aspects in the chart directly. True, there are fixed stars that conjoin planetary players and this indicates murder, at the least, and possibly even sadism or mayhem. Caput Algol in particular is bloody and ugly. At least, that has been my experience. So there is no doubt that somebody died this day in some fashion but I am not sure it was Etan. Perhaps it was another child? I admit this chart is getting a little crazy and it's hard to read to some extent but I think what I see is accurate. This is what the aspects say. I must also point out that at 10 pm, the seventh house ruler is Uranus and it's position in Scorpio in the fourth is scary. Pluto is knocking on the door as well, just beginning to conjoin and then quickly cross the nadir. But the first house, which represents Etan individually, is clean except for a lovely Jupiter at the ascendant. The Sun, which is his current marker, is in Gemini in the eleventh. The Sun is sextile to Jupiter and sinister to a square with Saturn. Jupiter has no sinister aspects besides a wide trine to Neptune and waning contacts from Venus and Mars. So it doesn't look like Etan is in imminent danger and neither does it appear that he was killed right away. But there is one omen that hangs in the air: the seventh house ruler, Uranus, also rules the eighth, so there is some nefarious purpose stinking up the mix. But the Moon and Mercury are dexter and waning in their opposition to Uranus and the nearest sinister aspect is a very wide square from Jupiter. I just don't see that Etan was murdered at this time. This does not rule out his murder at a later date. Perhaps they just weren't finished with him yet.
Now, as I've proven in many cases, the least of which was not the Caylee Anthony debacle, that I can read charts for days on end and follow times from hour to hour. This, however, has not proven to bring further light to the cases I read. A quick glance at the charts for 11 am and noon show nothing more than day to day activities. At 11, the cluster of planets in Taurus all shuffle into the tenth, showing a possibility that these people moved outdoors or at the least, left the house. They may well have moved the kids at that time. Pluto rules the nadir and it is in the third at 11 am, which indicates they moved the home location. In other words, they took the kids elsewhere. Probably to throw off the dogs that were no doubt on their trail. (They weren't, actually. His mother didn't even report him missing until 3 pm, when he failed to return home from school but the abductors did not know that). The chart for noon shows Neptune moving into the fourth house so it can be assumed that they put these kids in a home that was very well hidden or the part of a home that was secret or disguised. The seventh house ruler is still Uranus and it has moved into the third house so it might be theorized that they were moving these kids into adoption or adopting them themselves. I know this seems strange in light of the confessors story and the assumption that Etan was murdered but the charts do not show this. In fact, the more you read of them, the more confusing the case appears to become. So I am just not going to run through a hundred more charts here on this post. But I do promise to continue to look at this chart privately and if I come across anything more of value, I will post it.
So this is the part of the reading where I really get silly. I will attempt to describe the person who did this and given an idea of where they took Etan when they moved him. Charts are capable of rendering this information, it's just questionable if I am able to read them right on these sorts of details. I realize that the case seems all but sewn up with a man crowing in a prison cell that he murdered this beautiful child but I will still take a stab at the charts. Saturn in Virgo would be the marker for the abductor and the couple would be described by Venus and Mars in Taurus. Because of the dignity of Venus and the disposition of both planets by Venus, I tend to think this was a married couple or two people very much in love. Traditional readings for Saturn in Virgo give a tall, thin man. He would be swarthy of complexion or even sallow (yellowish in tint). This does not describe Mediterranean or Asian people exclusively; many whites are swarthy and I, myself, have been deemed a "honey" or "yellow" complexioned white. So please do not read this as racial profiling. Overall long features, such as a long nose, long fingers, lengthy lip line, etc.. and a high forehead, a feature generally attributed to Virgo. Because of the earth influences, we would assume dark or dark brown hair and eyes. In character, this person would be reserved, rather quiet and seemingly very serious. He or she would also be extremely discreet and cautious, which would aid them in the commission of these types of crimes. The Mercury influence also points to an affinity for younger people and perhaps also children. On the darker side, Saturn in Virgo in it's purity can incline towards mental disorders and brain diseases and give tendency towards thievery and duplicity. Dishonesty may be at the core of the personality. I realize that this tends to describe, in general, every single child molester on the planet; I mean, they would have to be discreet and devious and serious about their business to even begin this evil activity. But this generally supports the idea rather than destroys it although it does not lend much aid in isolating this man. However, I suppose, interested parties could compare this traditional analysis to the man who has claimed guilt for this crime. Please let me know what you find.
Three eight-year-old boys - Steve Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore - were reported missing on May 5, 1993. The first report to the police was made by Byers' adoptive father, John Mark Byers, around 7:00 pm. The boys were last seen together entering Robin Hood Hills around 6:00 pm by a neighbor. Initial police searches made that night were limited. Friends and neighbors also conducted an impromptu but unsuccessful search that night, which included a cursory visit to the location where the bodies were ultimately found.
A more thorough police search for the children began around 8:00 am on the morning of May 6, aided by Crittenden County Search and Rescue personnel. Searchers canvassed all of West Memphis, but focused primarily on Robin Hood Hills, a frequent playground for children and the last location where the boys were reported seen. Despite a human chain making a shoulder-to-shoulder search of Robin Hood Hills, searchers found no sign of the missing boys. Search and Rescue personnel broke for lunch at 1:00 pm, but police and others continued searching.
Around 1:45 pm, Juvenile Parole Officer Steve Jones spotted a boy's black shoe floating in a muddy creek that led to a major drainage canal in Robin Hood Hills. A subsequent search of the ditch found the bodies of three boys. They were stripped naked and had been hogtied with their own shoelaces: their right ankles tied to their right wrists behind their backs, the same with their left limbs. Their clothing was found in the creek, some of it twisted around sticks that had been thrust into the muddy ditch bed. The clothing was mostly turned inside-out; two pairs of the boys' underwear were never recovered. All of the boys had been severely beaten on their heads and faces, and Byers had a fractured skull. He also had deep lacerations and injuries to his scrotum and penis.
The original autopsies were inconclusive as to time of death,[citation needed] but the Arkansas medical examiner determined that Byers died of blood loss, and Moore and Branch drowned.[6] A later review of the case by a medical examiner for the defense determined that the boys had been killed between 1:00 am and 5:00 am on May 6, 1993.
The official interpretation of the crime scene forensics for the case remains controversial. Prosecution experts claim Byers' wounds were the results of a knife attack and that he had been purposely castrated by the murderer; defense experts claim the injuries may have been the result of animal predation. Police suspected the boys had been raped or sodomized; later expert testimony disputed this finding despite trace amounts of sperm DNA found on a pair of pants recovered from the scene. Police believed the boys were assaulted and killed at the location they were found; critics argued that the assault, at least, was unlikely to have occurred at the creek.
And, then, from one of my readers:
Byers was the only victim with drugs in his system; he was prescribed Ritalin in January 1993, as part of an attention-deficit disorder treatment. (The initial autopsy report describes the drug as Carbamazepine.) The dosage was found to be at sub-therapeutic level, which is consistent with John Mark Byers' statement that Christopher Byers may not have taken his prescription on May 5, 1993
So far the best I can find is this. Take your time, I’m just curious on your take on this story.
The 3 teens accused are:
Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr. - DOB 7/10/75- 18 yo
Charles Jason Baldwin - DOB 4/11/77 16 yo
Damien Wayne Echols (was born Wayne Michael Hutcheson) - DOB 12/11/74 19 yo
The 3 boys Stevie (not sure if it’s Steve or Steven) Branch, Christopher Byers(adopted last name), & Michael Moore were last seen by a neighbor going in the woods called Robin Hood Hills where they were later found around 6p on 5/5/93 and the 1st call to the police was at 7p. They weren’t found until the next day. Also on 5/5/93 at 8:42 pm, workers in the Bojangles' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene (a direct route through the bayou where the children were found) in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing an African American male "dazed and covered with blood and mud" inside the ladies' room of the restaurant. The man was bleeding from his arm and had brushed against the walls. The man had defecated on himself and on the floor. The police were called, but the man left the scene. Defense attorneys later referred to this man as “Mr. Bojangles”. The police never went inside the restaurant that night but went back the next day after finding the dead boys. They eventually lost the “Mr. Bojangles” evidence before it could be tested.
Basically on May 5th 1993, three 8 year old boys went missing, they were found the next day in a drainage ditch naked and tied up… They didn’t have much to go on and seemed to have botched the investigation. About a month later they arrested 3 teenagers now called the West Memphis 3. One of the teens has an IQ of 72 and confessed after something like12 hours of interrogation in which only a couple hours were recorded (no parent or lawyer present), he later recanted. His confession and “Satanic Panic” in the Bible belt because the teens wore Black and listened to heavy metal music seems to have sealed their fate. They said that the boys were mutilated in a cult ritual but later evidence suggests it was animal activity. There was a Black man covered in blood that ran into the Bojangles restaurant next to where the boys were found acting all weird but when they called the police the officer went through the drive thru rather than go inside. After they found the dead boys the police went back to the restaurant and collected some blood evidence but then later lost it. Jesse Misskelly (the one that confessed) and Jason Baldwin received life plus 40 years.. Damien Echols (Jason’s best friend and only adult (18)) was sentenced to death. They’ve been appealing for new trials and everything else with the development of new evidence and jury misconduct but the same judge keeps denying every attempt. A lot of careers were made from the case so it might have something to do with that as to why they won’t admit maybe they were wrong. I don’t think they did it but from everything I’ve read there is room for reasonable doubt..
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This is a really ugly crime that has grabbed the attentions of the country once again as the push is on to prove the boys who were convicted for it are actually innocent. Another man, an unnamed black man, has been the subject of intense concern in the matter and should be, although I don't believe he actually is, a person of interest. As far as the authorities are concerned, they have their killers, boys who were found guilty mostly by association. They wore black and listened to heavy metal so they must be satanists! Or so said the prosecution in this case and the local community went into what is now called a "satanic panic" and summarily persecuted these young men. This case really grabs me hard for a number of reasons. For one, there has been absolutely no single murder attributed to "satanism" ever proven to have occurred in the U.S. and this is never, not even once. There are no real cults of satanists in America although there are a few nutcases running around singing AC/DC songs like Night Stalker and committing crimes while on drugs. The real live Church of Satan, now known as the Church of Set, exists in California and it's credo does not include murder, blood sacrifice or even torture; they do get hinky with nude alter figures and naked women who like to dance on tables once in awhile but they have yet to hurt anyone. Besides all of this, people still persist in believing that there are such entities as the Devils minions running around doing his bidding after performing blood rituals in the dark. There is just no proof that this is true; it's been dismissed as urban legend.
Second, I am personally offended by the references to heavy metal because I, myself, am a heavy metal and hard rock fan. Now, I admit I don't care for the death metal stuff which is too fast for me and mostly about murder and mayhem but I love a lot of the music. I won't name bands, though. Just that I like fast, flashy guitars and lots of drums and bass and leave it at that. I am just not that judgmental to assume that because someone worships a certain way or likes a certain form of entertainment they are evil or bad or guilty of murder. That's Taliban type stuff and just not Democracy. I still believe that people are innocent until proven guilty however tempting it is to condemn someone out of hand simply because I don't like them. So I couldn't resist this case. The charts may tell me that these boys really did do this thing and that they don't deserve my consideration, but I am willing to take that chance.
But the truth is the chart was really hard to figure out. I wasn't sure how to read it. This involved three victims instead of one and involved a possible three killers instead of one. The victims were only 8 years old so do you read it for the parents, for the children or for a combination of friends and family? This means a debate between the first, fifth and third houses. Which one makes sense? It was really hard to determine so I studied the charts for a long time before deciding whether they are viable. Of course, no matter what, the Moon depicts our victims, no matter how many, so I started there. I saw, right away, that in the chart for 6 pm, when the boys were last seen, the Moon is in the first house. This shows the boys in control of their situation, alive and well and doing what they please. They were "directing their own show", so to speak. This tells me right away that perhaps the first house is the place to start. I also note that the Moon is in Scorpio and is disposed of by Mars in Leo in the tenth and that Mars, in turn, rules the seventh. And this pattern tells a clear story. The boys are heading out to meet with someone specific. Their purpose at this time is to find this person. Mars is in the tenth so they are doing this "out in the open", in an area where they were easily seen. And they were seen. So this is working.
And then I move on to study the seventh house and see that both the Sun and Mercury are positioned there. What does this tell me? That the person they are "about to meet" is a older man and a younger person. This is most likely a father and son or daughter combination because Sun in Taurus is in the same sign as Mercury, also in Taurus. But there is enough distance between them, 12 degrees, to imply they may be loosely related in some way such as by marriage. And, then again, even though it's a full 12 degrees, it's still close enough to be under the Sun's beams, which hints at danger. This child, however related, is in danger from the older man. There is a shadow here. And these boys are on the way to see these people, perhaps unaware of the current state of affairs. To top this off, the Moon opposes the Sun and Mars, which disposes of the Moon, is square the Sun and Mercury. There is a disagreement here. They are meeting up with these people to "set things straight", perhaps.. or, perhaps... "to duke it out"? That singular Mars in Leo is pivotal and it is disposed of by the Sun, so it was the older man who called this "meeting" of sorts; or, simply, asked the boys to come. The first house, which appears to be the central force in this chart, is ruled by Venus, which is placed in the sixth. By traditional readings, a child who is missing who is ruled by planets placed in the sixth, will "never be seen again". I think this is pretty true to what happened, don't you?
I agree that the sixth house has many meanings, all of which can be broken down in various ways, depending upon the aspects and placements in the chart. For instance, the subject could be sick, could be held captive, could be sold into slavery or held in servitude. But, generally speaking, I see it as describing a looming danger of sorts, the seriousness of which can be seen in other placements. But Venus here is again disposed of by that singular Mars in the tenth, so I can say that whatever outcome this danger has, it is dependent upon the activities of the boys in their meeting with this person. It really all boils down to that. So, from this, I must surmise that the boys did not die by accident, they did not come upon a stranger who snatched them and killed them, they set about going to meet someone they knew and that person or persons was the last person to see them alive and likely was responsible for the carnage that was discovered the next day.
And what does this chart tell us about the person or persons who did this? Well, Mars is the marker and it is placed in the tenth house. This tells me that the person was one in a position of power over the boys, an adult, for sure. The tenth house points at patriarchal figures like the police, the teachers in school, the father figure, the authority that dispenses punishment for breaking the rules. This would be someone the boys feared and respected, that they were afraid to defy. Notice will you that the Sun and Mercury are both in Taurus, which is disposed of by Venus in the sixth house, again the ruler of the first. This is quite a loop the planets are creating, from one to the other, in a kind of private circle, excluding all other planets from the configuration. So I believe I have cornered the placements and aspects in this chart that define the event. In this regard, I consider the chart to be viable.
So I start rolling the charts forward. At 7 pm, things change a little but the picture remains clear. Mars, still ruling the first, has moved into the ninth house. Sun in Taurus remains in the seventh, but Mercury has moved into the sixth. Venus, the dispositor of the Sun, has moved into the fifth. The older man is waiting for the boys. The younger child, who had been with him earlier, has been set aside. This child is no longer present but I cannot say what has happened here. Mercury is in accidental exaltation in the sixth house. I believe this other child is safe, regardless of the stress of the sixth house; perhaps he or she has been set aside, held captive elsewhere? Locked in a bedroom? Hidden in the attic? It's hard to tell. But the real omen for me is the entrance of Pluto into the first house. I know that not many Astrologers consider Pluto in important force in event charts but I am one of the few who still do. The planet, or comet, or meteor, or whatever they are now saying it is, creates patterns in charts that are easily read and are proven accurate time and again. And if it is a meteor or a comet or a planetoid or whatever, just that fact alone indicates to me that other meteors or comets or planetoids or whatever must have a role to play as well. I am first and foremost a scientist and this regard I trust the results of my experiments and it is only through those experiments that I find things to be true. So far, Pluto has proven true to itself in too many experiments to be ignored. So bear with me.
Pluto arrives in the first house at around 7 pm, just in time for the death of these boys. It is in dignity if you are willing to credit it with partial rulership of Scorpio. Otherwise, it is merely ascendant, which is powerful enough for an event chart. The Moon is dexter and moving away from it, as well as being dexter to the square with Mars and moving away from that, so read this to say that the boys were not looking for a fight. But the Moon is sinister to an opposition with the Sun, which is the dispositor for Mars. Mars is no longer angular so the outcome of this is variable. But Mars does still rule the first house so it's placement matters. Here it has moved into the ninth, so it looks like the boys are going into the woods. The Moon, Mars and the Sun are loosely connected in a T Square, with Mars as the short leg. It is the connector that brings the first house and seventh house together. As the Moon ticks swiftly to an exact opposition with the Sun, I believe the boys are about to confront the man who has either agreed or demanded to meet with them. And this is happening out in the woods. Does this seem strange to you? That an adult male would insist on meeting three young boys in the woods? Remember that the originating chart had his rulership in the tenth, showing that he has authority over these boys and they would be hard pressed to ignore him. Remember that the Sun in Taurus, his marker, is disposed of by Venus and notice that Venus has moved into the fifth house. He is currently, at the 7:00 hour, preparing to meet with "children", as the fifth house denotes. Venus, in turn, is disposed of by that singular Mars, now in the ninth. He is preparing to meet them in the woods. And it doesn't look like there is more than one man; it also doesn't look to me that this man was a stranger.
Fixed stars also stand out for me. Caput Algol and the Pleiades both sit in the seventh house during the event. Pluto, in fact, is exactly opposite to Caput Algol. This a very strong indicator of violence and bloodshed. In fact, I would say, from personal experience with this placement, that this was a horrific event. The fixed star Miram is nearby which means that this man may have lied to the boys to get them to come to the woods. Mars is close to Asellus Austral which may mean that this man is a criminal type, someone who is ued to lying and cheating to get his way and may be known by many as sort of "sleazy". Pluto is also directly square to the fixed star Alfard so it may well be that one or more of the boys died by drowning. Refer to my teaching site and read the post on fixed stars for clarification on this.
This is a fascinating chart but it is pretty clear. These boys went to meet his man, someone they knew but perhaps not well, in the woods and they were killed there. I suspect the other child, the one that was sequestered earlier, was a girl. His daughter.. or stepdaughter.. perhaps? I suspect the meeting was about this girl. The childs' marker, Mercury, is in the first decan of Taurus, which is ruled by Venus, which describes a girl. She perhaps had already been punished for whatever caused this uproar and he was ready to fix the boys up as well. But he went way too far with the boys. Crazed violence. The fixed star Polis is near to Pluto in the first so the fire may have been fueled with alcohol. This man may have been very drunk or high on drugs. Whether this man was the same as the man they now call "bojangles" is not clear. However, it would be possible if this man had a daughter that these boys knew or that, at the very least, they were aware of the black man in their daily life and considered him an authority enough to demand their appearance there in the woods. Consider the authority or paternal figures in the boys life. Their teachers, their guardians, the parents of their friends.. anyone who would assert this kind of power over the boys. From there, you will find this man.
The 8 pm chart is very clear, as well. The Moon has moved into the twelfth and Pluto is right on the Ascendant. At that same time, the Sun has moved into the sixth. The boys are dead or dieing as a result of extreme violence (Pluto with Caput Algol) and the man who did this is in bad shape. He is injured. Killing these boys took the wind out of his sails and nearly killed him as well. The Moon is exactly opposed to the Sun, a full moon night, showing that the fight was hard and vicious and deadly; the boys did not go easily. And perhaps he had not intended to go this far, to merely beat them senseless, but the energies present this night pushed him over the edge. This was not a senseless, random crime. This man called out these boys and beat them to death out of rage over something. And I think it involved the girl; his daughter, his sister, his stepdaughter, somehow related. But is this man the same man as "bojangles"? Or was it someone they haven't ever considered? It is obvious to me, at this point, that the chart is not describing the boys they have convicted for this crime. Please remember that this is not my opinion or the result of a psychic reading. This blog is about Astrology and it is the simple reading of Astrology charts that renders this information. If you give credence to Astrology, then this result deserves consideration; however, you are free to dismiss it if it doesn't work for you.
Looking at the chart for the time when this man was seen in the restaurant, it is not clear if this man was related to the crime. I can say that it is possible. The seventh house ruler is still Venus and it has moved into the fourth house, which can be read as a restaurant. However, it can also be read as the man's home so the killer may have simply gone home and the man in the restaurant was the victim of a different drunken row. The marker for me is the Sun in the sixth, showing the killer to be in very bad shape, which is consistent with the man in the restaurant. It is interesting that both the Moon and Pluto in the twelfth house are in the sign Scorpio on this full Moon night; this shows the boys being in water, near a sewer most likely and in a place where they would not be readily seen or found. The twelfth house shows the grave and in Scorpio, the grave would be water but with Pluto also there, something stinking and rotten like a sewer or a drainpipe, which is close to where they were. I realize that the reports have said that two of them drowned but I had to point out how the fixed stars showed that in the chart. As I said, you can go to my teaching chart at http://theforensicastrologer.today.com and read the post on fixed stars to see that Miram has this effect. It is interesting learning.
I think the chart is successful in showing that a single man was responsible for the beating of these boys and not the group of men they have convicted. This saddens me greatly. I hate it when the system fails because without that system what do we have? The cops are dealing with matters that are far too important, far too grave, to take their jobs lightly and make such huge mistakes. To have simply overlooked this man in the restaurant is a gross miscarriage of justice; he could well have been their killer. However, of this I cannot be sure. The killer here is defined by the Sun in Taurus. This does not mean he is a Taurus or that he has planets in Taurus but that he is defined by those elements that are created by the Suns placement in the sign Taurus. This means that he is probably rather athletic; thick, short and strong. He is unlikely to be tall, skinny and lean. He probably does physical labor that keeps him in fine shape. He may also have artistic leanings but he would not be a fine artist but more of an artisan, making things with wood or stone. Traditionally this would give a broad or Roman shaped nose with a wide mouth. It might also give dimples. It also tends to a darker complexion rather than a fairer one but this does not restrict race. Many whites are dark skinned as well as many blacks are light skinned. But whatever race, this person would have a darker complexion than others of the same race.
This position gives a "do or die" temperament, with great resolve and stubbornness. This person does exactly what he says he will, he is pretty straight forward. He has a roaring temper, quite like an angry Bull, and tends to go all the way. Slow to anger, slow to quiet. This man may have been in many disputes in his neighborhood or workplace. He is hard to placate once ired. Disputes get him going and he will never admit he is wrong. He can be very mean and is often vengeful; he believes in an "eye for an eye" and it is likely that he felt wronged by these boys. Perhaps he believed that they had done something unkind to his daughter. Perhaps he was defending her honor. I realize the boys were only eight years old but teasing and bullying goes on at all ages and it would not take much to anger a man with a temper like this. Especially one who is strong and manly and loves to fight. This man is all about honor. He would be known for this sort of thing; he would not have hidden it.
After reading the charts, I am pretty sure that the boys they arrested are not the ones that did this. This is a sad truth about our system; it sometimes fails. It will be up to powers much greater than you or I to make sure this case is reopened and investigated again. Thanks to big names like actor Johnny Depp the case is getting more exposure and under the bright light of scrutiny, some Judge may decide to readdress it. But until that happens, there is nothing much any of us can do. But this was an interesting read none the less and a clear demonstration of how Forensic Astrology works.
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