Mystery Chart No. 10 Revealed
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:42 am
[Usual Caveat: if you want to work on the chart without knowing the native - stop reading now.]
One of the most striking things about this chart is that virtually everything is disposed by a malefic, including the malefics. And the malefics are not in such great shape, and they are in mutual reception. Venus disposes the Sun, but she is in Scorpio, detriment, and herself disposed by Mars in the 8th. Pluto is the only planet that is not either seriously debilitated or disposed by a weak malefic, and I don?t pay too much attention to Pluto before or since his demotion. The only planet with a decent amount of essential dignity is Jupiter. He is in his own triplicity and term, but he is retrograde.
Saturn is in yet another mutual reception, this one by exaltation with the Sun (whom he opposes), but since both the Sun and Saturn are in the signs of their fall, they will not be of much help to each other. The Sun is conjunct Spica and that is some help, but his life didn?t indicate Spica was all that beneficial for him.
The Mercury Mars square is significant and we?ll return to that, but what struck me is the Mercury ? Moon sextile. Usually a nice aspect between Mercury and the Moon is an indication of a well functioning mind. There is a balance between the rational mind (Mercury) and the imaginative mind (Moon), but both these planets are disposited by malefics, and unfortunately malice was the thrust of our native?s short life. The tight Mars square to Mercury offset whatever good might have come from the sextile.
Our native is Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated John F. Kennedy. Yes that?s what I said ? assassinated. This thread is not the place for gassy knollers to vent their spleen. We?re going to discuss the chart, but for the record the genuine evidence, as opposed to the more fanciful kind propounded by conspiracy buffs, all points the same way. Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy on Nov 22, 1963, and he had no help. It takes only a small of amount of digging through the fantastic stories of ?Badgeman, ? Babushka ladies,? grassy knolls, 100 ?mysterious? deaths and so on, to see them for what they are ? nonsense. It?s been 43 years since Kennedy?s death, and no legitimate evidence, forensic or otherwise has emerged that can explain the facts in any way other than Oswald did it.*
Oswald, to me appears to be at times compelling, and at other times breathtakingly superficial and short sighted. I cannot tell if he was simply semi-literate and ignorant, or reasonably intelligent and unbalanced. We?ve all met people like Oswald, apparently soulless, carrying a perpetual smirk that is possibly designed to convey superior knowledge when in fact it only masks a vast emptiness. We have not all met killers though. What intrigues me is the story told in Gerald Posner?s book Case Closed. Oswald had just been captured in a movie theater and was arrested for the murder of Police officer J.D. Tippet. He had two sets of ID on him: one with his real name, and the other with the name Alek Hidel. A homicide detective asked, ?Which one are you?? And Oswald smirked: ?You figure it out.? Let?s take the challenge.
Temperament: I get a balance of melancholic, phlegmatic, and sanguine, with no choler using two different methods. In one method, Dorian Greenbaum?s melancholy slightly dominates. In the other, John Frawley?s modification of Lilly, phlegmatic slightly dominates. Both show some sanguine. Oswald could never hold even a menial job for any length of time. If phlegm represents the desire principle, he had a desire for recognition (Moon in Capricorn?), but lacked the discipline, the skills, and the education to fulfill his desires. His main desire was nothing less than being recognized as a major theorist of Marxism. He never finished high school. But here we see the conflict of the phlegmatic principle and the sanguine. He wanted to be an intellectual, but lacked the drive, (choler?) to become one.
Significator of the manners is the planet or planets that most engage Mercury and the Moon. That planet is Mars. Mars is the exaltation ruler of the Moon and the domicile ruler of Mercury. Mars is also in a partile square with Mercury. Mercury and the Moon are in an easy aspect, which shows the imagination and rational mind can work well together. But Moon is in her detriment, and Mercury is an accidental malefic via the square from Mars in 8 and gets no real help from the conjunction with Venus in her detriment. The Mars square to Mercury and the Moon in her fall with both Mars and the Moon being disposed by Saturn in fall point to difficulties with the proper functioning of the mind. Oswald may have had what we would call today learning disabilities. His journal, which he called his ?historic diary,? is replete with misspellings, horrible syntax, and no sense of style at all. It is the work of a semi literate. Yet, objective observers have called him, verbally ?articulate.? Posner referred to him as ?dyslexic,? this has become a catch all term for learning disabilities when the meaning of the word is simply, ?difficulty with reading.? Oswald read, or tired to read, voraciously.
His embrace of Marxism, to me anyway, smacks more of a kind of twisted opportunism. I think he did it for shock value, and the shock value was designed to draw attention to himself. His grasp of economics was, to be kind, horrible. While he lived in Russia, better-educated people saw his understanding of Marxist thought to be juvenile at best ? it was really worse than that. Oswald wanted recognition for his intellect and he was not able to bring himself to do the necessary work (lack of choler) to create the recognition. He believed that in a Marxist state, like the Soviet Union, he would simply be recognized for what he was in his own mind, and honors would accrue, i.e., he wouldn?t have to work for it. But when he lived in Russia, not only didn?t the honors accrue, but also the Russians wanted him out of the country. When they threw him out or were about to, he attempted suicide (there is some legitimate doubt as to whether this attempt was sincere or just another attention getting stunt. It could have been real and he screwed it up, or he could have planned it so he would be discovered in time. There are arguments for both views).
Space will not permit the entire story of Oswald?s spiral into madness, if that is in fact what happened. After marrying Marina, a Russian national (Saturn rules 7 and 9) he managed to get back to the US. He lost a series of menial jobs, deliberately kept his wife from learning English, fathered a second child, took typing lessons (so he could type his historic diary, which became historic for unintended reasons), and ominously, scraped up 12 dollars to buy a rifle and another four or five to buy a scope for it, from a Chicago mail order house, which arrived at the same time as the pistol he ordered from another mail order house. This was legal in 1963.
His marriage was a horror show (Lord 7: Saturn Rx in fall). He routinely beat his wife, even when she was pregnant, blamed her for his failures, was argumentative, obnoxious, somewhat reclusive, and to some people he was frightening despite his utterly unimpressive physical appearance. They lived in one dilapidated neighborhood after another. They depended on charity more or less to feed their children. His wife was bitterly lonely, not being able to speak the language and having something of a victim?s instinct herself. It was something of a repeat of his own childhood.
Oswald?s father died two months prior to Lee?s birth. His mother, Marguerite Oswald, was possibly certifiably mad. It was rumored that she wanted to be paid for her testimony to the Warren Commission.** True or not it was entirely in character. She was forever protecting her son, even after his death, ?Sometimes a woman needs to be beaten by her husband,? she testified to the Warren Commission to try to justify Lee?s abuse of his wife. A control freak of the highest order, Lee?s brother Robert joined the military to get away from her and so, ultimately did Lee. She moved to different homes something like 16 times in the first 12 years of his life. They briefly lived in the Bronx, NY, but moved back to New Orleans when Lee was declared a truant by NYC board of education. He attended school 17 of 64 days. Marguerite Oswald testified that the NYC Board of Education was the source of the problem. THey ?Picked on? her boy because they do that when you?re absent only a single day. He son was not a truant.
Oswald has been variously described as ?intensely self-centered? a loner, a troublemaker, a bully, and at least one mental health professional described him, at age 13 as having, ?definite traits of dangerousness.? He had delusions of grandeur as well. When he returned to the US from Russia he told his wife he fully expected to be mobbed by reporters. He even wrote out answers to expected questions. He was surprised, not to mention disappointed, when no reporters came to meet him.
He explained his life?s failures the way all losers and more than a few criminals do. It is always somebody else?s fault. He was picked on because he was smarter than everyone else. The government was after him. The Marine Corps persecuted him (he was court martialed twice and eventually his discharge was reduced to less than honorable). No one appreciated him. He was better than the menial jobs he couldn?t perform up to standard.
In short, our native was a psychological mess. But there are lots of psychological messes that do not kill. The destinies of Lee Harvey Oswald social misfit and born loser and John F. Kennedy, President of the United States would become intertwined forever.
There are quite a few insightful remarks mde about the chart that should be discussed. I write the post that reveals the mystery native before all the posts are made, which is why I don?t address them at that time. This is a start, nothing more.
If anyone does not believe the lone gunman theory, please feel free to discuss the chart anyway from that perspective, but not to air theories. Reacting to conspiracy theories is a lot like hitting gophers over the head as they pop up from different holes. Ultimately nothing constructive is done. It isn?t terribly difficult to imagine scenarios. In order for the scenario to be taken seriously, there needs to be documented evidence that every part of the scenario took place. This is what is done in criminal courts. A District Attorney cannot win a conviction by simply arguing, ?Well this makes sense and what about this and what about that?? Some conspiracy buffs have made honest attempt to do just this, but closer examination, often accompanied by forensic techniques that did not exist in the early 1960s invariably causes those theories to fall. It is also true that every sensational crime results in ?witnesses? that come forward with fantastic tales, that never pan out. This most sensational murder produced more than it share of such witnesses, that claim they saw people who could not have been there, and things that could not have happened (e.g., the auto dealer who claimed Oswald came to him to buy a car and took one for a test drive. Oswald never had a driver?s license*** ). This is not evidence of a conspiracy but rather typical fruitcake behavior.
Let?s stick with the chart. If you want to tell me I?m full of beans about Oswald (not the astrology), write me privately and be polite. I?ll answer. If you want to tell me my astrology is full of beans, put that on the thread.
Tom
*The information on Lee Harvey Oswald contained in this and other posts by the author can be found in numerous places including, but not limited to the following sources:
1) Oswald?s Tale by Norman Mailer 1995
2) Case Closed by Gerald Posner 1993
3) The Kennedy Assassination website http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
** For those either outside the US or inside the US and too young to remember, since Oswald was himself murdered two days after Kennedy was killed, there never was a trial. Instead A Congressional committee headed, at least in name, by US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, was formed to investigate Kennedy?s and Oswald?s deaths. It became popularly known as ?The Warren Commission.?
***I just learned that Oswald took two or at most three driving lessons from Ruth Paine, the woman who took in Marina Oswald just prior to the assasination. I had either forgotten or never learned this. Paine described his driving as "unskilled." He never applied for a learners permit. The basic point still stands. He couldn't drive.
