Boston Strangler Victim 13; Unlucky For Everyone

January in Boston, 1964.  Cold harbor winds slip past the buildings.  People move rapidly from place to subway to place, coat collars drawn high around their faces.  One woman doesn’t quite see who grabs her at the door, doesn’t quite have time to resist, doesn’t really have much time left at all.  She is about to be victim 13 of the Boston Strangler.  Boston had been on edge for almost two years now as the number of young women were found raped and strangled.  The glaring headlines of the newspapers did not know that this string of killings had ended with this tragedy.  This set of Moon-to-Sun Return and Advanced charts may be the most unusual I’ve come across.  It is my hope that the ideas that came to me as I drew up these charts remain with me to share as I write these words.

Albert DeSalvo’s Moon-to-Sun Return in the 3rd house occurred on January 3, 1964 and is shown below.  As with all of these charts, the natal planets are shown in the outer wheel, the transits are shown inside.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The t/Moon-to-n/Sun in the 3rd house of this Return chart suggests 1) being more alert, open to ideas, questioning.  2) Writing talking, taking in information for processing.  3) Travel, shopping but not necessarily buying.  4) Neighbors and relatives have more of an impact on you at this time.  These are 3rd house considerations, things that the restless mind may be engaged in.  Any Mercury influences will only increase the exposure to ideas and inner questioning relative to the activities about you.

n/Neptune, n/Venus, n/Sun and n/Mercury are all triggered by this Return-Moon.  Delusions, desires, intent, thoughts and plans are all activated by this third-house analytical Moon.  Why is he doing this?  t/Part of Fortune (t/PoF) opposes t/Pluto; the process of taking control over another (the victim) is one to questions that are disturbing, momentary pleasure versus deeper meanings of what brings satisfaction (the 3rd to 9th house axis of questions, thoughts, learning)  t/Mars opposing n/Pluto and the Return Ascendant;  The unsaid need to control though physical action against others–this seems to be the obvious meaning of this pattern.  But, consider t/PoF opposite t/Pluto and the 3rd-9th houses.  There seems to be some disturbing thoughts going around in DeSalvo’s mind.

We have looked at the doubled-up Pluto influences.  Now, note the n/Sun-n/Mercury pattern being triggered by the t/Moon — and the t/Sun conjoining t/Mercury pattern in the 6th, close to n/Saturn.  Another doubled up pattern involving one’s intent (Sun) and ones mind/thoughts (Mercury).  For someone who acts with compulsion and anger, there is too much thinking going on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The rape and killing of the 13th victim of the Boston Strangler occurred on Jan. 4, 1964, the day after the Moon-to-Sun Return.  I’ve often thought that events that occur on or just following a Return chart tend to be more acute.  I do not have statistical evidence of this, but the opinion remains.  This chart will be much like the previous day’s chart, only the t/Moon and t/PoF will move much.   Here, t/Moon moves to conjoin n/Mars, a strong triggering of emotions and a need to act.  Note t/Mars at the Descendant angle opposite n/Pluto — this rage to control others on a personal level is really strong at this time in DeSalvo’s life.  The t/PoF is on the MC; these are both two “points”, not planets.  Yet, I have the sense that the consequences of his plan, his image of savagery that only he can see and know is some how being questioned, being put up to “chance and change.”  What is now so unsatisfying compared to what was so satisfying in the previous murders?

Venus is one component of desire and lust, Mars is another component. t/Venus squares t/Neptune; is the dream, the lust, losing its attractiveness after this large number of dead women?  n/Venus conjoins n/Netune — another doubled up planet pattern.  This shouts to us about the value of the dream.  Something has changed.

Instead of dealing with attitudes, actions, situations and experiences in a hard and fast direct manner, it would seem that these charts are presenting shadows of possibilities, ideas that are hard to grasp.  This posting seems to be taking us away from the paths that we have come to expect for this charting method.

The next posting will cover one of the more bizarre crime twists for a serial murderer, a twist that leads to his uncovering and ultimate demise.  Dave. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boston In 1962: Old Crime In A Becoming-New City

Boston, Massachusetts in 1962 was a city caught in transition; its neighborhood structure followed ethnic lines–Italians in the North End, Irish in the South End, the Anglo-Saxon blue-bloods whose ancestors arrive on the Mayflower in 1620 on Beacon Hill and the western suburbs, the Blacks in Roxbury.  And the north and south suburbs also had their pockets of ethnic clusters.  In 1962 a selection was in process to build a new city hall and government plaza, a symbolic start to reorganizing the city.  The winning design is shown above, a cubical clustering of concrete and glass to represent the new future for Boston.

The neighborhoods were not to change quite as fast.  The Winter Hill Gang ruled “Southey” and corrupted all of Boston, representing the crime family in the state.  Today, in 2013, the head of that crime organization, Whitey Bulger, has been apprehended after hiding out for decades and is now on trial in the new Federal Court House located on the new city waterfront.

While the organized crime activity continued in the 1962 Boston, individual crime was also prevalent.  On June 14th, 1962 the first of many rape-strangulations of single women occurred.  Over the next two years the city was terrorized by the man who was to become known as The Boston Strangler.  Albert DeSalvo, a resident of one of Boston’s suburbs, was the person who was responsible; his identity was not known until much later, and was due to his own carelessness.  DeSalvo was born Sept. 3, 1931 at 11:58 AM, in Chelsea, MA.  Sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune were all clustered in the Virgo 10th house, the MC being 28 Leo, the Ascendant was at 16 Scorpio.  While celebrity charts are interesting, we can find that ordinary people can sometimes engage in extreme acts, and that these extreme behaviors amplify certain chart factors.  We can more easily learn astrology from these amplified factors.  In the previous postings for George Carlin Solar Returns and Progressed Daily Angles charts were used.  In this series of posting I will utilize the Moon-to-Sun Return chart format.

This chart is a t/Moon-to-n/Sun in the 3rd house Return.  The theme for this Return chart is, in part, “. . . open to ideas, curiosity, an interest in those around you.  Taking in news and information for personal use.  An active mind, hands, feet . . .”  This extreme example move us out of the more conventional assumptions for a third house Sun and Moon.  The t/Pluto and t/Moon conjoin natal Neptune, Venus, Sun and Mercury.  Moon/Pluto is associated with an intensification of feelings, emotions and reactions.  The stellium of four natal planets could be seen as confused (Neptune) values (Venus) and intentions (Sun) based on one’s views/thoughts (Mercury) or any other typical keyword grouping.

But, what might be the trigger to the bizarre events that were to follow?  It is always useful to look to the Ascendant to see how one might act, and then to the t/PoF to see how the Ascendant might express itself.  t/PoF opposes t/Mars in the 10th; chance and change will be decided by the type and level of assertiveness expressed to establish one’s public image.  Mars can be brutal and angry.  Note n/Mars near the IC angle, broadly opposed t/Mars.  Now note t/Saturn and n/Saturn; DeSalvo had a Saturn-return the previous year — he was working out his expression of his n/Saturn in the natal 2nd house; what were his values, his chances of establishing self-worth in the tough economic times of the early 1960’s in Boston.  t/Saturn near the Descendant angle involves others in his sense of limitation.  He could have chosen a different way of expressing this t/Saturn at the Desc.,; finding a mentor, following in the footsteps of an older family member, etc.  No, he had to work out his frustrations against others as a means of displacing his responsibilities to himself.  This is an important life lesson that we can draw from Saturn at the 7th angle.  t/N.Node and n/Jupiter are at the Asc., opportunities (Jupiter) to feel good about oneself are related to “others” we associate with (N.Node) and interact with (Asc.).  

So, we have a sense of the theme for this two week period before the t/Moon opposes n/Sun.  Let us now look at an Advanced chart for date of the first rape-strangling.

This chart, for June 14th, 1962, is advanced five days.  The MC’s rate of advance for those five days is 5 degrees, 6 minutes of arc.  The positions of the transiting planets are for those actual positions for June 14th.  We have a chart of progressed/advanced angles, transiting planets and natal planets — all arranged in an altered house setting.  This is what cyclic charts, such as Return charts, do.  They present the natal and transiting planets in a modified house structure which symbolically represents the changed set of circumstances that we have to face.

t/Moon is at the IC and opposing t/Mars at the MC.  Natal Mars was part of a major T-Square of Jupiter = Mars-opp-Uranus.  “One seeks gains through surprise and aggression .  DeSalvo’s needs (Moon) to act/do-something (Mars) somehow triggered this natal pattern of seeking gain through surprising others with one’s actions.  t/PoF trines t/Pluto and n/Neptune — if we want to get into some psychology.  Trines are easy courses of action.  When two other planets are involved, the inner-most planet (in this case the PoF acting on behalf of the Asc.) may alternate between which of the other two trine-planets are used.  So, “chance and change” is achieved through subtrafuge (Neptune) and brutal control (Pluto).  It’s all about the excitement.  He finds a target, tracks the victim-to-be, strikes-rapes-strangles, is satisfied.  

We will follow the bizarre events in this story as it unfolds.  The twists and turns are that which a TV soap-opera would put in its story-line.  Dave.

Limbaugh: Deeper and deeper into hot water

Normally Rush talks to his audience, giving them a rash of enthusiasm, distorted claims, commentary criticizing political opponents, all of which is truth to some, entertainment to others, and crap to others.  It is all in how you view him and his views.  Today, March 2nd, his remarks of the past couple days have riled up the public in general, woman in particular.  His trashing of Sandra Fluke and her Congressional testimony has outraged many and has started to erode sponsorship of his radio show.

The chart below is a Progressed Daily Angles chart, a chart derived from his Solar Return (precession corrected) chart of Jan. 13, 2012.  The angles of that chart have been progressed to today, the transiting planets for today are shown in the outer wheel, the natal chart (relocated to Palm Beach, FL) is on the inside.

Unlike many of these daily charts that I post on this site, this chart is complicated. It does not read in easy, straight forward steps.  If I was doing a yearly report ahead of time, I would probably have missed this date as a crucial date for Rush Limbaugh relative to a public relations storm.  Let’s try to take this chart apart a bit at a time:

• Daily Ascendant (12 Sag) is in the 10th house, close to t/Node but not close to the MC angle:  Rush’s speech and actions relate to his public image. The North Node indicates associations and interactions with people will be involved.  Since natal Mars conjoins natal Asc. (22 & 21 Aquarius), his attack-style personality and words are involved by the association between the Ascendants.
• Daily MC (21 Virgo) opposes natal N.Node and natal Moon:  His public image and stature opposes groups & women (Node & Moon) on this date.  He has been sharply critical of Sandra Fluke’s testimony before Congress this past week, in particular his mis-characterization of her words and position as an impromptu spokesperson for woman’s contraceptive rights.  The points of the story are everywhere on TV, the Internet, and other blog sites.  I will not cover those issues here other than to relate them to the astrological factors.
• Referring back to the first notation above, transiting Mars is opposite the transiting Sun in the first house.  (Playing astrological hopscotch is part of how we interpret these charts)  This pair, in opposition, points to a fight!  In this case it is not Rush’s fighting words exclusively, but the very strong reaction against him (Sun) as symbolized by Mars in the 7th (other people).   Transiting Sun squares the daily Ascendant:  His self-image and actions are in conflict with his position of the issues.
• Pluto is the planet of fundamental destruction and transformation.  We need to look at Pluto in this chart.  Natal Mars opposes natal Pluto:  Rush likes to attack “institutions” and those who are powerful.  He like chaos and controversy.  Transiting Pluto opposes natal Uranus:  Personal upsets and challenges take on social-scale upsets and challenges — the issues in this case involves personal health care rights and decisions being controlled by powerful corporations, institutions, laws, power-brokers.  The individual against the many.
  

The story is all there.  What is missing is the tightly angular placement of a focus planet — this would signify a date of significance.  What we have here is a view of an ongoing process and not a singular event.  This will go on for some eight or nine days until a crises event comes into play.  Woman’s groups, political pressure, consumer boycotts against sponsors of Rush’s radio show will all come into play.  The news media will fuel this uproar. We will follow this subject as it plays out.  Dave