{"id":3234,"date":"2017-01-10T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2017-01-10T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:44:53","slug":"the-beltway-sniper-malefics-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navamsa.com\/?p=3234","title":{"rendered":"The Beltway Sniper: malefics in the crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

For 23 days in October 2002, the Beltway Sniper held the citizens of the Washington, DC, area terrorized in his sights. Ten people were shot and killed over the space of three weeks, another three people critically wounded. The shootings had no obvious motive, the victims seemingly targeted at random as they went about their daily business. The identity of the shooter, firing unseen from a distance with a high-powered rifle and telescope, remained a mystery to frustrated authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"jam-malvo-gun\"<\/a>In the end, diligent police work tracked him down. Fingerprints from a robbery scene identified a recent immigrant, Lee Boyd Malvo, who was a known associate of John Allen Muhammad. That latter name in turn led to a vehicle registration, and the police broadcast a lookout for the car in question. It was soon after spotted at a highway rest stop and the two men arrested.<\/span><\/p>\n

The triggerman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s plan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The mastermind and triggerman of the shooting spree was John Allen Muhammad, a 41-year-old former Army Sergeant who had earned an Expert Rifleman\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Badge during his 17 years of military service. Twice-divorced with four children, he had led a restless life ever since the Gulf War and his honorable discharge from the Army.<\/span><\/p>\n

His 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, who\u00e2\u0080\u0099d at first claimed he\u00e2\u0080\u0099d done most of the shooting, later recanted and admitted Muhammad had been the marksman. Their relationship was that of surrogate father and son. Malvo\u00e2\u0080\u0099s testimony eventually revealed that Muhammad\u00e2\u0080\u0099s escapade of terror had been meticulously planned to unfold in three phases:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. \"target-map\"<\/a>Phase One consisted of planning, mapping and practicing multiple shootings throughout the Washington and Baltimore area. The goal: kill six white people a day for 30 days (180 planned victims).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Phase Two would involve killing a pregnant woman with a shot to the abdomen. Then to kill a Baltimore City policeman and, at the officer\u00e2\u0080\u0099s subsequent funeral, detonate several improvised explosive devices to kill as many attending officers as possible.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Phase Three would extort millions of dollars from the government as a price to end the terror campaign. Muhammad would move to Canada, recruit homeless boys from orphanages and set up a training camp. There he would instruct the boys in the use of weapons, later turning them loose to carry out mass shootings in cities throughout the USA.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    However crazy he might have been, Muhammad thought big. His birth chart offers an intriguing combination of ambition, intelligence and violence. According to Astrodatabank, he was born December 31, 1960, at 6:12 am (Rodden rating AA) in New Orleans.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"ja-muhammad-2x-ved\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

    His chart is brimming with yogas. Jupiter in the ascendant in its own sign gives Hamsa Yoga<\/em>. Between kendra<\/em> lords Jupiter and Mercury, and trikona<\/em> lords Sun and Mars, these four planets form ten Raja Yogas<\/em>. The Moon and Mars form Chandramangala Yoga<\/em>, Moon and Jupiter form Kesari Yoga<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Intelligence abounds. Jupiter is swarashi<\/em>, while both Jupiter and Mercury enjoy dig bala<\/em>, thus giving them enough collective strength to call this Saraswati Yoga<\/em>. The Sun and Mercury form Budhaditya Yoga<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Despite the intelligence, the dark side is evident. Mars influences all three ascendants \u00e2\u0080\u0093 udayalagna<\/em>, suryalagna<\/em> and chandralagna<\/em>. So too does Saturn. And both malefics likewise influence lagnesh<\/em> Jupiter.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The lord of the rising nakshatra<\/em> is Ketu, a Mars-like malefic in the sign of Saturn. The sub-lord of the lagna<\/em> is Mars itself. The Moon is in a Mars nakshatra<\/em>. Mars is retrograde and strong. Mars\u00e2\u0080\u0099s recurring influence is the mark of a fighter, a killer, a warrior.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The Beltway Sniper\u00e2\u0080\u0099s killing spree ran from October 2nd to 22nd, 2002. For those interested in such details, the times, dates and locations for each shooting, fatal and otherwise, are given on Muhammad’s\u00c2\u00a0Astrodatabank page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"expert-rifleman-badge\"Muhammad\u00e2\u0080\u0099s entire killing spree occurred during his Saturn dasha<\/em>, Mercury bhukti<\/em>, Rahu sub-period. As we\u00e2\u0080\u0099ll see, all three of these period lords invoked violence through the agency of the trikasthanas<\/em> in Muhammad\u00e2\u0080\u0099s chart.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The trikasthanas<\/em> are always involved in violence against another, whether via theft or rape or the ultimate crime, murder.<\/span><\/p>\n