




Peter Sutcliffe, the serial killer, known as the Yorkshire Ripper has died in prison. He was convicted in 1981 for murdering 13 women, mainly though not all prostitutes, and attempting to murder seven others. He was sentenced to 20 lifetimes in prison and spent most of his incarceration in Broadmoor Hospital for the criminally insane diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. He said at his trial that the voice of God had sent him to kill the women and told friends recently he would be welcomed into heaven as a Jehovah’s Witness.
Born 2 June 1946 8.30pm Bingley, England, he did have an exceptionally troubled chart with a packed 8th house of Moon Saturn in Cancer, Pluto and Mars in Leo and Venus in Cancer, suggesting a truly difficult family inheritance in terms of psychological strain. His Gemini Sun was conjunct Uranus Mercury in his 7th trine a 10th house Jupiter in Libra with Neptune also in Libra conjunct his Midheaven.
When he started his five year murderous spree in 1975 his emotionally wounded Moon Saturn had moved by Solar Arc to conjunct his Mars, which is the classic assassination signature. Tr Pluto was also moving through his 10th during the killing years, exacerbating his need to be in a dominant position. Police incompetence allowed him to continue longer than it should.
At the moment the tr Jupiter Pluto conjunction is exactly opposition his Moon Saturn putting an end to a destructive life. His Progressed Moon is just across his IC into his 4th giving him some peace, but opposition his Progressed Mars exposing his anger at women mercifully for a final time.
His strongest Harmonic is oddly enough not the 18H which is often the case with serial killers, but the 16H. In numerology this is the number of destruction and warns against catastrophes, disappointments, humiliations. Life can change completely. Sometimes this is self-inflicted. And his 7H, which can be mentally finely balanced.
Add On: His ex-wife, Sonia Sutcliffe, continues to own and return to their marital home though she lives elsewhere in a flat bought by her second husband. Sutcliffe evidently remained obsessed with her until he died. She stood by him through the trial and only divorced a decade after his conviction.
She was born 10 August 1950, the daughter of Ukrainian and Polish immigrants and was treated for schizophrenia in her 20s. According to wiki a journalist who had many conversations with Sonia, described her as “the most irritating, strangest and coldest person I’ve ever met. She’s so incredibly prickly and demanding”. She lost a libel action against The News of the World which had claimed she benefited financially from her husband’s crimes.
She’s a controlling Sun Pluto in Leo which was conjunct Sutcliffe’s 8th house Mars – and she was evidently domineering towards him. Her Venus in Cancer was also conjunct his 8th house Moon Saturn with her Mars in square to his Moon Saturn; and her Uranus (Moon) in Cancer was conjunct his 8th house Venus. What an intense, deep-rooted and complicated attachment.
Their relationship chart had an affectionate composite Sun Venus Moon in an illusory square to Neptune; and adventurous Jupiter opposition Uranus squaring onto Mars, for a volatile, drama-filled bond; with a chained-together Saturn Pluto conjunction.