Amanda Knox – fated to be a scapegoat

“The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox” is a new documentary about the legal fiasco which saw her imprisoned for a murder she did not commit in Italy. It was followed by an acquittal, subsequently overturned, before being dismissed categorically and compensation paid after an EHCR ruling that her rights had been violated in the initial interrogation without a lawyer or interpreter present. In all she went through a gruelling marathon from the murder of her flatmate Meredith Kercher in 2007 until 2019.

 There were odd resonances throughout in particular her bizarre behaviour after finding Meredith’s body and a media frenzy which labelled her as Foxy Knoxy, putting her on the wrong side of public opinion. After she returned to the US after her prison sentence, she finished a degree, and wrote a book about her case and became an activist for the wrongfully accused.

    She married and has recently produced two babies and had an active social media presence with copious photos of her in her underwear which hardly helps to boost her gravitas.

  Born 9 July 1987 2.47 am Seattle, Washington, she has a 2^nd house Sun, Mercury and Venus in Cancer in opposition to Neptune in Capricorn in her 8^th and square an Aries North Node  in her 11^th.  Neptune in the 8^th occurs in film stars’ charts, giving them an unconscious ability to project an aura. In her case it clearly propelled her onto the public stage in a different way; and may also account for her ‘dissociated’ or spaced-out behaviour after the murder.

  Her Sagittarius Moon in the needs-a-partner 7^th is conjunct a self-willed, irritable, high-tension Saturn Uranus conjunction so she won’t find relationships easy. She also has a Mars in flamboyant Leo square Pluto in Scorpio which carries overtones (or undertones) of acute frustration, anger and fear. It will tend to attract her consciously or unconsciously to dramatic and risky situations.

 Plus she has a yod onto Pluto inconjunct her North Node sextile Ascendant.

  Meredith Kercher, 28 December 1985, also had a hard Mars Pluto in a conjunction with her South Node and conjunct Knox’s Pluto – so quite a tangle. And Meredith’s Capricorn Sun was exactly conjunct Amanda’s 8^th house Neptune. There was some weird karma going on in there even if the murder was all drifter Rudy Guede’s doing.

  In the aftermath of the murder, Knox had tr Pluto moving through her trapped 8^th until 2019 when she was finally offered compensation for her botched interrogation, prosecution and conviction. She also had her Solar Arc Saturn conjunct her 8^th house Neptune in the immediate aftermath, with her Solar Arc Uranus, Moon and latterly Saturn all opposing her Cancer Sun through the years-long ordeal which followed.

  When it finally came to an end in 2019 with the EHCR compensation ruling tr Uranus was conjunct her Jupiter for a sigh of relief.

  Her scapegoat 12^th harmonic is powerfully aspected with a 12H Grand Cross of Sun opposition Mars square Uranus opposition Mercury; and a Grand Trine of Sun Jupiter Pluto.  The meaning of this number is sacrifice  – being sacrificed or becoming a victim to other persons’ intrigues. 12 warns against being a victim of circumstances or dragged into other people’s affairs to suffer the consequences. It can be the harmonic as well of the victim/healer.

Mars Pluto can also carry the meaning of having the misfortune to suffer brutal assaults.

  I am still puzzling about what drew her into the centre of a media storm and made it all too easy for the public to project onto her their prejudices – apart from her 12^th harmonic I mean. Her 8^th house Neptune North Node would be part of it plus Mars square a yod apex Pluto. The way the story was spun plus her own odd behaviour made her difficult to warm to.