theforensicastrologer

Here I want to take another example chart and examine it from the perspective of the seventh house ruler. In a forensic chart, the seventh house always designates the person the victim is “next going to meet”. This means it could be someone she or he has planned to meet or it could be a sudden meeting between strangers. In any regard, because forensic charts are done for persons who are dead or missing, then the person they are “next going to meet” takes on grave importance. Did they run off with a lover.. or were they snatched by a dangerous person? The seventh house and it’s ruler hold these secrets to be ferreted out and are extremely important in forensic charts.

I am going to use a chart for a young man who simply walked to a shed somewhere behind his home and never returned. He simply disappeared from his back yard in the midst of doing something mundane. There were people working around the home on that day, cleaning up and fixing a car in the garage while the boy was waiting for his father to return from a hospital stay. What does the seventh house tell us about this boy and whoever it was that he must have met on his way to the backyard shed?

Look at the chart. Notice that the seventh house is covered by Aquarius, which makes Uranus the seventh house ruler. There are no planets in the seventh house, which gives no more influences to consider in the reading. Uranus is in the sixth house, closely conjoined to the seventh cusp, in the sign Aquarius. Right away you notice that Uranus is in dignity and very powerful being so close to the cusp. It also disposes of itself. With Uranus in the sixth house, you might have to guess that the person you are looking for is “at work” or “doing service” in some way. Considering that people were around the house, “working” and “servicing the car”, then attentions must be given to this. It is highly possible that the person this young man met on his way to the shed was one of the people working around the home. It is not only possible, but probable.

Now consider the aspects to Uranus. The standout angle is a sinister sextile from the Sun, which is the first house ruler (and therefor the significator for the victim), which is placed in the ninth house. There is also a dexter sextile from Mars in the fifth although Mars has no power in this chart. The only square aspect is dexter from Saturn in the tenth. So this all makes the premiere aspect the sextile from the Sun, which rules the victim. What does this tell us? That this person was on good terms with the victim, there was trust and perhaps even friendship. The Sun in the ninth also tells me that the victim has gone outside, is “out and about” and not inside the home. I looked at google maps for this location to get a look at the area and it is extremely rural, open fields and undeveloped land with planted in woods and forested areas. This is being clearly described by the ninth house placement! Consider then that Uranus is in the sixth house and what does the sixth house mean? Work and labor. Again, I think this person was working on something outside the house near the shed or at least between the house and the shed for the victim to have “come upon him”. Uranus always indicates surprise.

One last planetary element that should be considered is that the Moon is closing in on a conjunction with Pluto in Sagittarius and will translate the light from Pluto to the Sun in a trine formation. This translation of light always causes things to happen; in this case, it is bringing violence (Pluto) to the victim (the Sun). Since the Moon rules the victim, as well, and it placed in Sagittarius (ninth house again!), I think the fact that this young man went outside at the time that he did caused a confrontation that lead to his disappearance.. and possible death. I think he came upon the “worker” doing something he wasn’t supposed to be doing.

But because we have so few factors to consider in regards to planets and houses, I want to look into fixed star placements and other configurations to add more light to Uranus and it’s influence in the chart. As far as fixed stars go, Uranus is sinister to an opposition with Alfard, known to indicate death by asphyxiation or drowning. It is EXACTLY square to Caput Algol, an evil star known to indicate murder and mayhem. It is also sinister to a square with Miram, a star known to indicate deceit and lying. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind at this point that someone is lying in this case; this boy didn’t just disappear into thin air and there were too many people on the property for no one to have seen or heard a thing. Uranus is also sinister to a trine with Betelguese, a fixed star that points to accidental death. It is possible that an argument ensued and the boy was killed by accident and then dumped in a river or a lake. This is what these signs may be saying.

I must also point out that the midheaven of this chart is slowing moving towards conjunction with Pleadies, which for me always means murder. Sometimes mass murder. The fixed stars in this chart are defining this person as someone dangerous and capable of murder. And this is just in the first chart! Notice in this chart that Neptune is also hanging out in the sixth house but it is not conjoined or aspecting Uranus. This shows another person on the property who was also working but not entangled in what this person is doing. So this alone tells me that there was only one perpetrator. No one else seems to have been aware or involved. And I think it was sudden, because of Uranus. I think the boy stumbled on someone doing something they shouldn’t and then was abducted and killed to keep him quiet. But here I am, reading the chart for you! Instead of just showing you want to do and leaving you to do it!

OK. What you should do to learn about the seventh house is to draw up a chart for a case you are interested in and focus on the seventh house and it’s ruler. Try to apply all of the elements I have been telling you about as you investigate the influence of the house, the planets placed there, the ruler of the cusp and it’s dispositor. From this, you should get an idea of who and what your subject met up with after they were last seen. And in this way, the seventh house is the door to learning what exactly happened to your subject and what type of person did it.