Charles Manson, the notorious leader of a death cult who directed his followers to commit a string of brutal murders, in the late 1960s has died aged 83 in prison.
Born 12 November 1934 4.40pm Cincinnati, Ohio, he had a powerfully persuasive Sun Venus in Scorpio in his 7th house, so would be able to exert a mesmerising charm over those he met, especially with his Sun Venus being trine a 4th house Pluto.
He convinced a number of his followers that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, using a combination of drugs and charisma to bring the “family” – mainly young, middle-class women – under his control. He believed in a coming race war in America and planned to hasten the war and emerge as the leader of a new social order, hoping that black Americans would be blamed for the killings, heightening racial tensions.
His own childhood was a car-crash with a 16 year old single mother, a heavy drinker who did prison time for theft, and a father he never knew, being farmed out to relatives and care homes as he grew up. So his need for a family would be obsessive.
His Sun Venus squared onto Saturn instilling in him a sense he was never good enough for his rejecting parents. His rebellious, status-quo-upsetting Uranus was strongly marked being conjunct his Ascendant and squaring onto Pluto opposition his midheaven. His impulse was towards anarchy and chaos. His Moon was in likes-to-shock Aquarius and being in his 10th house drove him to find a public audience for his life’s work. His Moon exactly conjunct the North Node in Aquarius gave him zeal for a cause which he followed compulsively since both were opposition his Pluto and square Mercury in vengeful Scorpio.
His later childhood and early adult life saw him in and out of prison for theft, and pimping for prostitution, at one point being incarcerated as dangerous in a criminal psychiatric unit. In the late 1960s in his mid 30s he started assembling his cult. His followers killed nine people, among them the heavily pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, wife of Roman Polanski. Manson was not at the scene of the killings, but was convicted of murder for ordering them, and spent 40 years in custody.
When Sharon Tate and others were killed in 1969 tr Pluto in Virgo was trine his midheaven – giving him a sense of achievement and power. Though tr Saturn in Taurus opposition his lucky Jupiter and moving into his low-profile 1st quadrant for several years suggested his spree was at an end. At the moment Pluto has moved by a third of a zodiac to conjunct his midheaven, exposing his brutally twisted reputation to more scrutiny.
He does not have a strong 18th Harmonic, common amongst serial killers, since he never actually murdered anyone (that is known of). His most notable harmonic is the 11th which is a a difficult one to live up to. The positive side can be idealistic and inspired. But lived on the downside it leads to fanaticism, irrationality, dishonesty, greed and even perversion. His ‘victim’ 12 H is also marked, as can be the case where those who were brutalised as children, turn brutal as a defence against their inner feelings of powerlessness.
Some of his quotes are worth reading : http://www.azquotes.com/author/9412-Charles_Manson
MTN, maybe it lived within them anyway. Other kids did LSD etc and did not murder anyone.
How he could get these young people from seemingly good families to commit such horrific acts is astonishing & terrifying, his creepy eyes say it all, he’s proof that evil exists in this world.
Easy to quickly label someone as evil; have you not read about his upbringing?
Evil is not a term used in psychoanalysis. Oddly enough behaviour of extreme depravity would be seen as infantile. I know, I know, babies are sweet, innocent, cuddly little things. In reality they harbour an explosive volcano of emotions which with a good-enough mother are digested down to manageable proportions. With an atrocious mother, those feelings never get a chance to mature into civilized behaviour, but stay compacted at love/hate, sado-masochistic infantile levels. Which in an adult body leads to disastrous consequences.
Not all children with an appalling primary caretaker turn out bad, usually because there was another caretaker for at least part of the time who gave positive nurturing. Some emerge from hellish beginnings to be really good people.
Understanding the later effects of early damage doesn’t excuse criminal actions. But for some the tragedy of their upbringing becomes a tragedy for their victims. Are they able to take responsibilities for their actions and choices, indeed do they have choices in any realistic sense? What changes the course of a bad life to a good life is often an act of grace, way outside the individual’s control. Not a question to which I have ever found an answer.