THE ASTROLOGICAL CHART OF DOCTOR HAROLD SHIPMAN.
BRITISH MASS MURDERER.
IN THE ABSENCE OF ACCURATE DATA THIS CHART IS CAST FOR SUNRISE ON THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH IN NORTHERN ENGLAND.
In the absence of accurate birth data this chart is set for Sunrise on the day of Harold Shipman's birth in the north of England. Obviously on this day many people were born, and only one of them became a mass murderer. yet a close look at the state of the solar system on this day does shed an objective light on the motivations and complications within the psyche of this man. What a day it was! The Sun, Venus, Earth, Mars and Saturn were aligned in more or less a straight line between Capricorn and Cancer at that time. From the earth's point of view the Sun and Venus were both conjunct in Capricorn opposite a conjunction of Mars and Saturn in Cancer. The planet Jupiter in Libra formed a T-square with this massive opposition. The moon was in Gemini.
The universe has to unfold its potential. The potential of this planetary picture is extremely strongly challenging. Sun in Capricorn opposite Mars in Cancer portrays an inner need to control, challenged or reinforced by an urge to protect. Mars in Cancer protects but combined with Saturn it is engulfed in shadow and sorrow. Mars in Cancer focuses on home roots and most important mother, the real pain is here, Saturn represents death, Mars in Cancer mother. Mars and Saturn together (both traditionally in a detrimental position in Cancer) work against each other. This combination is a seething mesh of overheated emotional undercurrents kept well in check. This pair of planets symbolically throw a shadow on the soul of this Man. The role of Jupiter in Libra is the smiling genial amiable agreeable sociable mask, providing the acceptability. The square that this planetary force makes with the grievous opposition is to blow this out of control and over the top. I guess there was a compulsive element here.
The Moon and Uranus in Gemini provides the brilliant intellectual the profuse note taker in court, the scholarly mind. Venus in Capricorn.confers a loyal husband and a faithful family man.
There we have it. Bits are missing, we need a time and place of birth, we need to get to the root of the drug problem. However the basics are here shedding light on what to all concerned in this case has been a mystery. What drove this man to mass murder? The Mars Saturn opposition to a Capricorn Sun lies at the heart of the mystery.