‘Mr. Hyde’
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By 5pm on the 21st - and this must surely be the time of death - Neptune (drugs) was rising in Scorpio as Saturn (mortality) still held the IC. Tellingly, asteroid "Vera" had just risen, with "Pax" on the Midheaven ... she was finally at peace after a long struggle with cancer. Sidereal asteroid "Fred" was home at the IC conjunct Saturn. "Paulina" - his sister Pauline - was setting and therefore present; and so was asteroid "Tea". Shipman habitually sent his patients to their eternal rest with their tea at their elbow!
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If you look now at Shipman's own birthchart as a 'Q' chart (a Quotidian chart, set for his birthday but at the same time of day as the event and for the same zone) at 17h00 BST, there is startling confirmation - for at this time (interestingly 4 pm GMT!) the most powerful and lethal configuration in the GP's chart appears: exactly on the horizon lies the Mars/Saturn conjunction in Cancer, rising, with the Capricorn Sun and Venus setting (killing of the mother by injection at the hand of the loving son); all square a conjunction of Chiron and Jupiter (the identity he claimed for himself, "the great doctor".)
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Now, I don't think this remarkable 'Q' pattern was also his birth moment. A day's unremitting hard labour with Solar Arcs, progressions back and forth, synastry, transits, interdimensional patterning, books and cuttings, and by no means least the asteroids, ultimately suggested 08h40 am - because at this time all the jigsaw pieces finally clicked together and I felt I had a good working speculative nativity.
The resulting Dwad patterns support it well: tropically, a Neptune MC conjunction lines up with that Sun,Venus / Mars,Saturn, bringing his most sensitive axis into full prominence .. and adding that curious mystique and glamour that comes of notoriety and a saturnine refusal to speak about his case any further. The dwad Moon near radix Neptune adds to this sense that much remains to be known; and the radix Moon in turn, at 10 Gemini in the 4th, is close-knit with dwad Chiron/Pluto accurately picturing his profound inner pain from the early trauma, his mother's cancer and death.
The dwad Libran Sun is also near the 8th-house radix Neptune, and Chiron; a dwad Aquarius Ascendant tightly opposite dwad Jupiter and radix Pluto completes a convincing image of himself in his mind as the benign medical magician who can make all things well, bound only by his own rules. This is what the Dwad, that special version of the 12th harmonic which fits over the framework of the decans, unfailingly shows us - the vivid inner reality of the private mind that Jesus pointedly affirmed, 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he!'
Remarkably, we find the same geometry in the Draconic dwad (though involving different signs); but it is in the Sidereal, where we each map our place in society and in history, that the full force of this man's ambition and perversity hit home. |
The sidereal dwad Sun and Moon are found in Scorpio in the radix 10th, opposite dwad Mars at their midpoint - which in turn intimately conjoins radix Uranus and Moon in 4th. The dwad Descendant ties in tightly to radix Chiron in sidereal Virgo; and dwad Uranus from 0 Capricorn hits the 29 Sag/Gemini sidereal Sun/Mars, Saturn to double the likelihood that this man,
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whose relationships will revolve memorably around pain, is one who will also be remembered for writing his own rule-book on the control and sudden ending of others' lives. Lives which his skewed vision interprets as intolerable; endings which his arrogance perceives as merciful release.
If further evidence were needed, look at the Reflex chart, the Contrascia (which I prefer to the Antiscia, as they are the natural reciprocals, in the 360 degree wheel, of the radix positions.)
Here the Moon, Uranus, IC/MC alignment joins closely and unambiguously with the axis of Sun, Venus / Mars, Saturn; every time one of these axes is triggered by transit, progression or direction, so at the same time is the invisibly connected other, that occupies the other two corners of their shared rectangle on the Ecliptic. |
Here is perhaps the most graphic pattern yet for the career bringing sudden death to loved elderly women and men at the point of a needle. You may also like to look at his Sun/Moon arc transform chart, his sense of completion.
“Show me some I.D.”
Do asteroids also support this possible 08h40 time? It would appear so!
Those of you who are still new to the idea of using tiny fragments of orbiting rock and ice, of which thousands have now been tracked, numbered and named, may like to see them as an ever-growing encyclopaedia of names and ideas, of which a small selection is relevant to each one of us. In an age when the obsession with personal data is almost fanatical, the object of greatest desire the tiny and elegant PDA or smart-phone in which we effectively carry around the details of our entire private and public life, our work and our dreams, our contacts and our calendar, is it any wonder that the heavens have as usual provided astrologers with a celestial counterpart?
A stranger knocks on the door/ we are presented with a speculative chart/ so naturally we reply, "Show me some I.D."
The angles and the Lights in every chart (often including the nodal axis) act as an I.D. wallet, a lapel badge, a filofax, a PDA. If you have the right time, and the right angles, the names of asteroids clustering on these axes should describe the people, places, ideas and attachments central to that individual's life. Conversely (and this is the only practicable way to approach asteroid work) when names of these all-important elements in a life are sought in the asteroid database and their positions mapped, you should find them aligned in virtual 'phrases' on the main chart axes. If not, despite adding the radix draconic, sidereal, helio and especially the tropical dwad positions, then the time is certainly wrong.
At 08h40 on January 14th 1946, asteroid 'Doctorwatson' was rising with sidereal 'Hygeia', helio 'Paracelsus' and 'Goddard' (his best friend at school) setting. 'Paulina' - his sister - was at the IC, at home (with 'Nemesis'). Opposite, on the MC, the career-point, were 'Scientia' and 'Shipka' (the closest match to 'Shipman'). 'Counselman' is with the Sun... and, for this "Dr. Death", so is draconic 'Atropos'. Draconic 'Christophe' (his son) and 'D'Arrest' are on the tropical Desc. Draconic 'Pillmore' / 'Darwin' / sidereal 'Hybris' and 'Hygeia' / 'VeraLynn' (his mother Vera) oppose close to the tropical MC / IC and Moon. Conjunct that Gemini Moon are helio 'Probitas', 'Silentium' and 'Requiem' with sidereal 'Pax'... Upright citizens deserve to rest in peace. Helio 'Tea' and 'Justitia' conjoin helio Mercury close to his IC where we also find sidereal 'Samuele' and 'Sara' his other children, and 'Signe' - Shipman did a lot of signing, of the many death certificates which eventually led to his conviction. Tropical 'Signe', together with draconic 'Autonoma' and 'Mercedes' - the maverick act of mercy - is in his fateful South Node. The same key asteroids recur in other interdimensional alignments. We have some I.D.
“Show me some I.D.”
Do asteroids also support this possible 08h40 time? It would appear so!
Those of you who are still new to the idea of using tiny fragments of orbiting rock and ice, of which thousands have now been tracked, numbered and named, may like to see them as an ever-growing encyclopaedia of names and ideas, of which a small selection is relevant to each one of us. In an age when the obsession with personal data is almost fanatical, the object of greatest desire the tiny and elegant PDA or smart-phone in which we effectively carry around the details of our entire private and public life, our work and our dreams, our contacts and our calendar, is it any wonder that the heavens have as usual provided astrologers with a celestial counterpart?
A stranger knocks on the door/ we are presented with a speculative chart/ so naturally we reply, "Show me some I.D."
The angles and the Lights in every chart (often including the nodal axis) act as an I.D. wallet, a lapel badge, a filofax, a PDA. If you have the right time, and the right angles, the names of asteroids clustering on these axes should describe the people, places, ideas and attachments central to that individual's life. Conversely (and this is the only practicable way to approach asteroid work) when names of these all-important elements in a life are sought in the asteroid database and their positions mapped, you should find them aligned in virtual 'phrases' on the main chart axes. If not, despite adding the radix draconic, sidereal, helio and especially the tropical dwad positions, then the time is certainly wrong.
At 08h40 on January 14th 1946, asteroid 'Doctorwatson' was rising with sidereal 'Hygeia', helio 'Paracelsus' and 'Goddard' (his best friend at school) setting. 'Paulina' - his sister - was at the IC, at home (with 'Nemesis'). Opposite, on the MC, the career-point, were 'Scientia' and 'Shipka' (the closest match to 'Shipman'). 'Counselman' is with the Sun... and, for this "Dr. Death", so is draconic 'Atropos'. Draconic 'Christophe' (his son) and 'D'Arrest' are on the tropical Desc. Draconic 'Pillmore' / 'Darwin' / sidereal 'Hybris' and 'Hygeia' / 'VeraLynn' (his mother Vera) oppose close to the tropical MC / IC and Moon. Conjunct that Gemini Moon are helio 'Probitas', 'Silentium' and 'Requiem' with sidereal 'Pax'... Upright citizens deserve to rest in peace. Helio 'Tea' and 'Justitia' conjoin helio Mercury close to his IC where we also find sidereal 'Samuele' and 'Sara' his other children, and 'Signe' - Shipman did a lot of signing, of the many death certificates which eventually led to his conviction. Tropical 'Signe', together with draconic 'Autonoma' and 'Mercedes' - the maverick act of mercy - is in his fateful South Node. The same key asteroids recur in other interdimensional alignments. We have some I.D.
Finally, we even know the inceptional chart for Hyde in Lancashire, where Dr. Shipman killed so many of his patients. This was on February 18th, 1881, set for 0h00 UT, data courtesy of the late Harold Wigglesworth in ‘The Astrology of Towns and Cities.’ Coordinates are 53N27, 2W04. Placing the composite of Hyde and the doctor with the two radix charts in a tri-wheel, we find (using 08h40 again) a highly significant conjunction of Chiron/Uranus straddling his Desc, Saturn between his angular Moon and IC, the Moon right on his Pluto, and an opposition of Jupiter/Neptune bringing inflated self-confidence and narcotic relief to his Sun/Mars/Saturn. The composite MC touches Hyde's Moon; its Mars opposes Shipman's, and their nodal axes lie inverted to each other.
The pattern is at its most dramatic when we look at the Q chart, ie Hyde set up for Shipman's own speculative time of 08h40. |
The Moon is exactly setting opposite a rising Venus/Jupiter/ Saturn conjunction ... now then! Here is something new for you!... What I have recently found is the crucial importance of the Dwads of 'Q' charts: in these, the accuracy becomes stunning. And here we find a tight conjunction of Capricorn Sun/Saturn/Uranus (conjunct Shipman's own Sun) all exactly square the Moon in Aries. Pluto conjunct MC opposes radix Uranus - and also on this axis is trouble-maker Eris, both radix and dwad.
For the town of Hyde, Shipman’s presence means the sudden, brutal separation of elderly husbands and wives in aggressively accelerated death.
Q.E.D.
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For the town of Hyde, Shipman’s presence means the sudden, brutal separation of elderly husbands and wives in aggressively accelerated death.
Q.E.D.
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