{"id":2245,"date":"2014-12-31T18:16:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T23:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2015-01-01T07:12:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:12:16","slug":"the-yorkshire-ripper-a-study-in-stellar-forensics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"The Yorkshire Ripper: a study in stellar forensics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Peter Sutcliffe<\/strong>, aka <\/span>The Yorkshire Ripper<\/em>, terrorized the north of England in and around the cities of Leeds and Manchester from 1975 until 1980. The case received sensational press coverage in its day and was both a burden and embarrassment for the British police services which, in the pre-computer era, had at one point dedicated over 300 officers to the pursuit of the serial killer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sutcliffe was a truck driver, married but out and about, especially on weekends when he liked to drive around with a rope, a hammer and a knife in search of adventure. In the early years prostitutes were his targets but later he became a free-range hunter, and ordinary women fell to his attentions.<\/p>\n

During his six-year rampage of assault and murder he enjoyed significant luck in escaping detection and was interviewed by the police nine times without being singled out as the man they were looking for.<\/p>\n

Criminal data<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were 23 incidents in total attributed to the Yorkshire Ripper, 13 of which resulted in murder, 10 of which were non-fatal.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Wikipedia for Peter Sutcliffe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s biography, plus specifics regarding his 13 murder victims \u00e2\u0080\u0093 their names, as well as the date and location of their murders. http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Sutcliffe<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Another site provided the approximate timing of all 23 assaults (fatal and non-fatal) by Sutcliffe. These times were based on witness or victim testimony, police\u00c2\u00a0speculation, or Sutcliffe’s own confession. http:\/\/www.execulink.com\/~kbrannen\/index.htm#map01<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

A retrospective look at the \u00e2\u0080\u009ctime signatures\u00e2\u0080\u009d of these assaults sheds light on the astrological timing of Sutcliffe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s activities.<\/p>\n

Peter Sutcliffe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s birth chart<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 June 1946, 8:30pm GMT, Bingley, England (sidereal zodiac, Lahiri ayanamsa)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chart analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

The salient features of Sutcliffe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s chart are as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. He has Scorpio ascendant with a powerful (exalted) Ketu in the first house. Ketu occupies Jyeshta, a tikshna<\/em> star. Ketu acts like Mars much of the time anyway but in this case it also happens to be proxy for its sign-lord Mars.<\/li>\n
  2. Ascendant lord Mars is in an aggravated state, debilitated in 9th house Cancer. Mars occupies Ashlesha, a krura<\/em> star.<\/li>\n
  3. Moon is dark (weak) in 8th house Gemini, last degree (sandhi<\/em>), very tightly conjunct Saturn, and hemmed between malefics Sun\/Rahu and Mars.<\/li>\n
  4. Thus both significators of the manas<\/em> (emotional mind), Saturn and the Moon, are sandhi<\/em> in the last degree of Gemini and hemmed.<\/li>\n
  5. Yogas are few: Budhaditya (Su\/Me in 7th), Kesari (Mo\/Ju in mutual kendras), weak Neechabhanga for Mars, Parivartana with Me\/Ve in 7th\/8th houses, Durudhara (Mo flanked by weak malefics).<\/li>\n
  6. Conventional morality is in the trash bin. 4th lord Saturn is in the last degree of a dual sign in the 8th house. 9th is occupied by debilitated Mars. 9th lord Moon has gone 12 away in the 8th, where it is sandhi<\/em> in exact conjunction with Saturn.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Highly-activated 8th house<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Sutcliffe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s 8th house is highly activated. It contains a dark Moon in exact conjunction with Saturn, and flanked on either side by other malefics \u00e2\u0080\u0093 Sun and debilitated Rahu in the 7th, debilitated Mars in the 9th.<\/p>\n

    This moon is the dispositor of lagnesh<\/em> Mars. Since both are weak, this is a poor prognosis for an upstanding life. The 9th house in particular is dharma<\/em>, but with only occupant Mars and lord Moon contributing to its condition, this is a prescription for immorality.<\/p>\n

    Sutcliffe has Parivartana<\/em> Yoga between Venus and Mercury, lords of the 7th and 8th houses respectively. This creates a sambandha<\/em> between other people in his life and some element of violence, whether sexual assault or murder.<\/p>\n

    If we complete the exchange in our mind\u00e2\u0080\u0099s eye, this would place Venus with Sun and Rahu in the 7th, a pretty certain recipe for sexual irregularities of some kind. Venus is karaka<\/em> for relationships, but placing it in the 7th would also simulate karako bhavo nashto<\/em>, in which relationships with others is spoiled or, in this case, literally killed.<\/p>\n

    KP theory<\/strong><\/p>\n

    There is a derivative of Vedic astrology called KP, an abbreviation for Krishnamurti Paddhati<\/em>, meaning the Krishnamurti method.<\/p>\n

    It uses the sidereal zodiac with the Krishnamurti ayanamsa<\/em>, advancing all zodiacal positions in the chart roughly six minutes of arc beyond those of a Lahiri ayanamsa.<\/p>\n

    The KP system uses an unequal house system, Placidus, where houses can be more or less than 30 degrees, and where some signs may not appear on a house cusp, eg, when a 30-degree sign is fully enclosed in an unequal house of 40-degree arc, while other signs straddle two cusps.<\/p>\n

    Shown below is Peter Sutcliffe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s KP chart, where the numbers within the double-lined outer border indicate the house cusps.<\/p>\n

    2 June 1946, 8:30pm GMT, Bingley, England (Krishnamurti <\/strong>ayanamsa)<\/em><\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a>Once we shift from equal- to unequal-house systems, planets can shift houses. Because cusps have changed, planets may now also rule different houses. For example, in Sutcliffe\u00e2\u0080\u0099s chart Mars shifts from 9th house (equal) to 8th house (Placidus). And it now owns three houses \u00e2\u0080\u0093 the 1st, the 5th and the 6th. Other lordships will have shifted as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Planets do not change signs, however, and their aspects remain as in traditional jyotish<\/em>, as can be more readily noted in the rasi chart.<\/p>\n

    As regards the prediction of events, KP postulates that the effect of any house will become evident only when the planets having a say in its outcome find an opportunity to exert their effects, ie, during their dasa<\/em> (major period), bhuktis<\/em> (minor periods) and pratyantara<\/em> (sub-periods), invoking circumstances as follows:<\/p>\n