The grisly trial in France of Dominique Pelicot and fifty others accused of raping his drugged wife Dominique over nine years has ended with guilty verdicts all round. It only came to light when videos were discovered on his computer by police investigating another crime. His wife has been given universal acclaim for her courage in coming forward publicly to back up the accusations.
I am not altogether convinced by the birth data from wiki and would have expected it being France that birth times might have been available. But on what is given at the moment they were born close together – he 27 November 1952 and she 7 December 1952 – which makes them Sagittarius Suns with Saturn Neptune in Libra square Uranus and a Capricorn Venus. He has an Aries Moon and she a Leo Moon perhaps conjunct Pluto.
His Venus is close to Chiron which Melanie Rhinehart links with the Psyche Eros love story – of an individual who wishes a relationship without disharmony – which drugs would certainly provide. She remarks “ They may seek out pliable, self-effacing women only to be confronted later on by the full might of an emerging Aphrodite.”
Gisele has a closer relationship between her Mars and the an Aquarius North Node square Jupiter giving her determination and guts. Her later degree Venus in Capricorn is also more linked to a square to Saturn Neptune.
But what is most striking in very similar charts are the midpoints. Hers are generally upbeat with her Sun = Jupiter/Uranus and her Jupiter = Mars/North Node. His on the other hand are troubling.
His Sun = Uranus/Neptune and Saturn/Uranus – connected to the elimination of waking consciousness; and self-willed, irritable, prone to violence.
Venus – Sun/Pluto – striving for power through relationships.
Mars = Jupiter/Saturn and Venus/Pluto – a desire to enforce changes ++ rape, a brutal sensuality.
Jupiter = Mars/Pluto – confident in using brutality to achieve aims.
Jupiter = Sun/Neptune and Sun/Saturn – hope for success with no effort.
Saturn = Venus/Mars – ‘abnormal and pathological sex expression’ according to Ebertin.
Pluto = Sun/Jupiter – over confident leading to conflict with authorities.
If the birth dates are sound the midpoints do make a good deal of sense about the difference between them.
Both have Pluto at 23 degrees Leo which is catching the disruptive tr Uranus square exactly as the verdict comes down.
See previous post: French village – De Sade to Pelicot
15th September 2024
Not only does he have Venus conjunct Chiron but mean BML is sesquiquadrate Venus. Diddy has Venus conjunct Jupiter square mean BML in his chart. Could hard aspects between Venus and mean BML create an extreme distortion in relation to pleasure, indulgence and appetites?
…and Fred West has mean BML at 22 Taurus (Venus ruled) in opposition to Venus 16 Scorpio.
In all the news reports, Gisèle Pelicot is reported to be 73 years old to Dominique’s 72 years. So she should be at least a few days/ weeks older than her husband rather than the other way around. Are the DOBs reliable?
Gisele Pelicot is an extraordinary woman. I hope she can find some peace and healing.
Meanwhile, it appears Dominique Pelicot has allegedly committed other crimes:
“a further investigation for the rape and murder of an estate agent in Paris in 1991, and an attempted rape in 1999, amid questions over whether he could have been a serial offender for decades.
Investigators in Nanterre outside Paris have reopened two cold cases and placed Pelicot under formal investigation, as police consider potential links to other cases involving young estate agents. Pelicot could face another trial at a later date.” Guardian
There is DNA evidence in the 1999 case. Of potential interest astrologically, is the early Aquarius Mars in his chart. For 1991, when Saturn is in early Aquarius, there’s a Lunar Eclipse that summer, 3 Aquarius, conjunct Saturn. There’s a Solar Eclipse 18 Cancer opposing Neptune and trine Pluto in Scorpio which activated Pelicot’s Uranus, 18 Cancer.
For 1999, Neptune is in early Aquarius. There is a Lunar Eclipse at 5 Aquarius, conjunct Neptune, square Jupiter in Taurus on his natal Mars. There’s also the blockbuster Solar Eclipse that August at 18 Leo, with its fixed Grand Cross including Uranus 14 Aquarius on his North Node for some kind of change or revelations around his direction in life?
Now we have Pluto in early Aquarius, following Saturn and Neptune’s positions in the years of these alleged attacks. It seems possible Pluto will bring those secrets to light, and may go some way towards confirming an accurate chart for DP. As various observers have pointed out, he may have been a serial offender for many years prior to this awful case now. The French ‘rapist of the Sambre’ managed to get away with his multiple crimes for around thirty years after all. He, too, was a very ordinary married man in a very ordinary little town…..
Her Sun Sag/Mercury and Leo Moon/Pluto probably explains why she was willing to relinquish her anonymity. Two signs for whom the truth is important.
Here is Dominique’s natal in a biwheel with today’s verdict. Trans Mars, assault, rape, returns to the 9th of court, justice, to oppose his natal Mars…
“what goes around, comes around.” Natal Mars, joins Node, to indicate
that the rape involved a group of men.
https://ibb.co/zFFXBt6
Curious case. I watched ‘Appropriate Adult’ as a recreation of the Fred West interviews. The mind of the psychopath is so well played out replicating the tapes and the Love Bombing of empath Janet Leach while in interrogation shows the fragmented and predatory nature. This case is similar of that man but also of other 50 or so people, I understand. They also operating the same. Human psyche is fascinating. There is a book on Fred West by Geoffrey Wansall called ‘An Evil Love’. The psychopathy and symbolism of the behaviours and childhood experiences of West are studied with great acumen. Wansall fills in all of the missing details like a detective, like the involvment of West’s brother from sightings of his parked van and his heart problems around the times that victims may have been being mishandled. The case with this man and these other men seems something similar. Strange and stranger. I imagine a lot of the men involved probably look very unasuming. Geoffrey Wansall cited that Fred West had a saying from his father which was, “To be a good murder, you must look as normal as possible, or people will suspect.”
Thanks. Not sure intuitively I would put Pelicot in the same psych box as Fred West whose victims were conscious and some ended up dead – he was seriously unhinged, controlling angry and cruel – though a birth time for Pelicot might change a lot. Have put West’s chart above.
Reminds me, last line…of a recent movie in Indian movies line,”murderers r people like us. Among us. We may even be in love with them”
I remember a saying in police dept,”truth is stranger than fiction” as mostly one whom none suspects is the culprit so as someone told me when I was learning law,”police r trained to be suspicious. If they are at home they will keep an eye on their wife n kids.” So much like Scorpios..i m born in family of one n married to one but I just don’t care, maybe that’s the reason it has no punishing effect on me as on others.
And India let’s rapists and murder run rampant, particularly in relation to women.
Any astrology to show misogyny and India?
His has Venus conjunct Chiron with his Moon squaring that midpoint. Perhaps a difficult relationship with his Mother? His Mother may have pushed him Aries headstrong Moon – or he was unable to please her? As Pluto is sextile is Saturn, which could have worked a continual undercurrent with a Parent or Authority. I am not sure how long the abuse went on for. Could Pluto entering Capricorn have grounded his anger regarding Mother/women? Taking it out on his wife? As Pluto is conjunct his South Node a past event.
This whole thing is just so utterly horrific. I haven’t been able to read much about it as its far too disturbing to me. Sending her peace and healing.
I just saw an interview on the BBC with the psychiatrist that the police hired to interview Mr. Pelicot after he was first arrested. The psychiatrist diagnosed Mr. Pelicot as having a split personality. Does anything in his astrology point to that?
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cyv3682zyeeo
My brain is not entirely in gear being sodden by winter bugs. But I nearly added a muddled thought about Saturn Neptune being central to all of this. He certainly comes across as a weak man, not a rampaging bully, hence the drugs. Split personality is a kind of standard but unclear psych diagnosis. Maybe a way of trying to explain (and sanitise) a monster living in plain sight – as opposed to grasping the horrible reality that he might just have been semi-normal.
Well that’s enough to give me pause, especially with the upcoming Saturn Neptune conjunction again in 2025. I can only imagine how it might play out at more personal levels, especially in Aries of all signs.
Tks, Marjorie.
‘as opposed to grasping the horrible reality that he might just have been semi-normal.’ I think this is the first time in a supposedly civilised 1st world country that two realisations have hit people like a gut punch about how women are treated 1. that this man really is just ‘semi normal’ 2. this town wasn’t some anomaly and this is in fact the the usual density of men prepared to be opportunistic rapists.
I will bet that her moon/pluto was instrumental here, her ability to push through as she did until she overcame is awe inspiring.
I don’t want to hear astrological rationalisations for why he and the other men charged hates women, so I’m steering clear of astrology articles on this rape case generally, it doesn’t help us and it lets them off the hook. I have a tough chart and I don’t go around causing mayhem pain and violence.
Well said Marie!