A truly depressing tale has ended up with life sentences in California for parents David and Louise Turpin for starving and torturing all but one of their 12 children. They were chained to their beds, severely under nourished, were taken occasionally to Disneyland but were only allowed to shower once a year and had never seen a dentist or a doctor.
It’s a bizarre story with few sensible explanations as to why they behaved as they did.
David Turpin, 17 October 1961, is a Sun Libra in a wobbly up and down square to Saturn Jupiter in Capricorn with a Capricorn/Aquarius Moon. He does have a can-be unpleasant Mars, Neptune, Mercury in Scorpio sextile Pluto, which suggests a vengeful or cruel streak. His Venus in last degree Virgo is trine Saturn and Jupiter – so he would alternate between superficial charm and coldness.
His can-be-dominating 5th harmonic is startling, bringing together Neptune Mars Uranus and Saturn into a conjunction – which certainly suggests perversion, cruelty, high-level neurosis. His 7th harmonic which can be mentally on a fine balance is marked; as is his obsessive 11H. And his destructive/self-destructive 16H is fairly brutal, controlling and inclined to megalomania.
His wife Louise, 24 May 1968, is a feisty Sun Mars in Gemini though that squares his Pluto, so he may well have had her under his thumb. She has a fated Yod onto a focal point Saturn in Aries which has heavy karma attached and requires real maturity to live up to its lessons. Her Saturn opposes his Sun; and her Moon probably in Taurus opposes his Scorpio planets – not a relationship that brought out the best in either of them. Their relationship chart has a delusional composite Sun square Jupiter Neptune. But would really need birth times to make sense of what was an unthinkable folie a deux.
They both have charts of deliberate cruelty with their Saturn’s squared there’s no way out, Capricorn/Aires, locked in. What’s strange is the immaturity, lack of duty. Did you notice the looks on their faces? Sheriffs opened the door on these two, and they knew it was over, their little secret. Hers is quite antisocial, his is that of a brilliant deviant. That early moon/Aquarius is conq. Jeffery Epstein’s Sun.