JonBenet Ramsey – glitzy and tragic

JonBenet Ramsey, the miniature beauty queen murdered nearly 30 years ago is back in the news with a Netflix True Crime documentary about her.

 On the morning after Christmas the family reported a kidnap and the house was over-run by police setting up for a ransom demand; and when the body was discovered, it was moved by the father, further contaminating any evidence that may have been left. The initial call to the police was deemed odd and rehearsed, as was the ransom note. The parents John, a multi-millionaire business man, and Patsy, now dead, were always under suspicion but never charged. A mentally unstable, serial sex offender confessed in recent years but that has never been corroborated.

JonBenet was born 6 Aug 1990 1.36am Atlanta, Georgia, and had a truly difficult chart, so even before her murder, must have lived with high levels of anxiety, fear and anger. Her 4th house Leo Sun opposed an Aquarius Moon, MC, North Node squaring onto Mars in Taurus opposition Pluto in Scorpio. For her, both parents carried the overly dominating Mars Pluto signature. Her superficially glitzy (fashion conscious) Venus Jupiter in Cancer opposed Saturn hinting at an emotionally cold atmosphere in childhood. Her Saturn was trine Mars and sextile Pluto – bleak, unkind and deprived, trapped.  It’s often the case with individuals who exhibit an exterior ‘beauty’ that they are driven by underlying dread and horrors. They put on a façade of pleasing in order to escape punishment or worse. Her highly-strung Uranus Neptune in Capricorn in her 8th house hint at a family legacy of potential instability from a previous generation.

 Poor little mite had quite a psychological burden to carry from square one.

  When she died her Aquarius Moon had moved by Solar Arc to close the square to the Mars Pluto opposition to exact. And her Uranus Neptune conjunction in her 8th had moved by Solar Arc Directions to close the conjunction to exact.

  What struck me years ago when I first looked at the charts was how stressed/emotionally conflicted the parents’ relationship chart with each other were. John Ramsey, 7 Dec 1943 12.45am Omaha, Nebraska, is a volatile Sagittarius Sun opposition Uranus Mars in Gemini and widely opposition Saturn in Gemini; with Uranus Mars trine Neptune, sextile Pluto – so quite explosive and controlling. Patsy Ramsey, 29 Dec 1956, who died of ovarian cancer, was a Sun Capricorn trine Pluto on one side and square Mars in Aries on the other; with a Sagittarius Moon conjunct Saturn trine Mars trine Uranus – certainly impulsive and ambitious with a Fire Grand Trine but also probably passive-aggressive.

 Their relationship chart had a composite Venus opposition Mars square Pluto probably opposition Moon which is an unpleasant mix of sexuality and power.

  No proof of anything, but JonBenet was a lotus growing in a swamp.

  Burke, her brother, 27 Jan 1987, is a Sun Aquarius square Pluto with a Capricorn Moon probably conjunct Neptune square Mars in Aries; with Mars trine Saturn Venus (Uranus) in Sagittarius. So he’ll be bubbling with the family tensions and anger as well.

 The Netflix producer now says he has backtracked from his initial suspicion of the parents as being responsible. Whether or not this renewed exposure brings any answers is questionable. Though on her posthumous chart her Solar Arc Uranus is exactly conjunct her Moon at the moment.

   One way or another, her life always was going to be a tragedy. 

26 thoughts on “JonBenet Ramsey – glitzy and tragic

  1. The documentary is heavily biased and misses key information. The police never claimed there was snow for their to be no footprints in, for example. And all the weight given to the DNA is misleading. The sample is too small to be re-tested for genealogy and the scene too contaminated for the any DNA evidence to be meaningful. It needed to be biased to have John Ramsey’s involvement – without which, there would be no Netflix doc. I don’t think the truth will ever be known. Poor little mite indeed. Is there anything significant in the composite chart with her brother?

  2. What stands out to me is that at the time of her death the tr. Moon was conj. JonBenet’s natal Venus and opp. her Saturn, activating her Saturn – Venus opposition, which is a cold and loveless signature in the natal chart.

    • Astrologer Liz Greene identifies Venus opp. Saturn holds the archetype The Prostitute. Certainly this played out with JonBenet’s participation in the Beauty contests at her age.
      I would add the following:
      Transactional love
      ability to “craft” Beauty
      great ability to find a deal!!
      certainly a “long learning” about Love

      I have this… Venus in Gemini in 6th opp Saturn in Sag in 12th (conj Asc.)
      Well before I knew astrology, I had a sense that I could be an escort or even a good Madame!.. God knows how that thought came in at such a young age!! When I read this in Liz Greene’s book on Saturn, I was shocked.. had never told a soul.

      I never did pursue that profession, but I certainly see places in my life where this plays out.
      And most definitely I have had a long, interesting, challenging, rewarding journey to understand love.
      And I am GREAT at finding deals!! 🙂

      • I know two people (one male and one female) with Saturn opp. Venus natally and they have both married partners who are considerably older and financially comfortable. It is not prostitution, but it is transactional.

      • Oh my. I have this aspect, as well. Venus is Scorp opp Saturn in Tau. Also have had two husbands both of whom are significantly older than I am. There is such a generational divide since I don’t have any of the same outer planets of these two men. I divorced my first husband during his second Saturn return and I am now unhappily married to second husband close to my second Saturn return. Hmm.

        • My Great Grandmother had the opposition in Taurus/Scorpio. She was 23 years younger than my G Grandfather. I have the trine in Earth and my husband is 14 years older than me.

  3. In the US, there’s often a cruel rush to convict parents, which happened to David Dowaliby whose 7-year-old daughter was abducted and killed on September 10, 1988. Jaclyn was born May 17, 1981, in Chicago. David Dowaliby’s conviction was overturned and the killer has not been found. By all accounts they were loving parents, who have since changed their names.

  4. Chiron in JonBenet’s chart is in a very close conjunction to the Venus, and Lilith is at 19 Scorpio, so within range of the Mars /Pluto opposition as well.

  5. I was at the University studying media studies when the case came out, and while we didn’t really take an in depth look at the case, a lecture did mention it in relation to the American talk show culture – especially the daytime shows targeted to “domestic”, mostly female audiences.

    Having now watched the first two episodes of the Netflix show, how this was both investigated and reported back in the day seems wild. Tabloids – or should I say weeklies – would come out, openly, with theories on how another child was the killer. The fact that just months after JonBenet’s death, a teen girl who’d attended the same dance school was assaulted at her home by an intruder who’d apparently hid in the house for hours seem to have been a footnote in the investigation. And all this was seen as, if not totally appropriate, somehow acceptable. The invasion of privacy wasn’t seen the way it is now, and I think it all chanced with one event less than a year later – Princess Diana’s death.

    Astrologically, I would associate the change to Pluto moving to Sadgittarius – sign of mass communication, among other things. Many of the theories I studied and were very “niche” in the late 1990’s became mainstream in the early 2000’s. I’m not certain of the English speaking World, but at least in countries I lived, they had quite popular shows that were concentrated in criticism of journalism. Only all this to be wrecked by the internet in Pluto in Capricorn years.

    • The UK libel laws in some situations are overly restrictive but they do put a damper on this kind of American scenario. If you can’t prove it don’t print it used to be the old Fleet Street adage.
      Though there was a case a few years back when an oddball teacher was spotlighted as guilty and when it all came down, he was innocent and it was the perfectly normal guy whodunnit. Just goes to show.

      • @Marjorie, yes, libel and privacy laws differ. However, self regulation is a thing, and in the US, this goes through financial interests. I just finished watching the third part, and in that they told Patsy sued the author and the publisher of the book that claimed she was the killer in 2001 for tens of millions. This was settled, and likely for seven figures. Also, CBS ran a segment a late as 2016 honestly quite absurdly claiming Burke Ramsay killed his sister, Burke sued, and likely got a hefty sum, too.

        Obviously, this becomes a trapping too, because people will settle for a very obvious financial gain. But on the other hand, there are likes of Sandy Hook parents or Georgia election workers, who will not give in.

  6. I happened to watch the first episode of the documentary on Netflix last night. So far, I think it has been slightly more sympathetic towards the Ramseys. It’s such a baffling case, and so tragic that this bright little girl met such a terrible fate.

    I have an open mind about the case, but the astrology as Marjorie says is abysmal. It doesn’t tell a happy story. I noted that JonBenet had Chiron tightly conjunct her Venus in Cancer and that Patsy’s Chiron in Aquarius tightly conjuncts JonBenet’s Moon. JonBenet’s tender natal Cancerian Chiron/Venus opposition Saturn in Capricorn, sitting as it does in the parental signs, her Mars/Pluto opposition, making up a fixed Grand Cross with Sun opposition Moon in Aquarius/Leo along the MC and IC – all these are indications of underlying tension and power play associated with the parents, perhaps generational with Mars in JonBenet’s 12th.

    • “It doesn’t tell a happy story. I noted that JonBenet had Chiron tightly conjunct her Venus in Cancer and that Patsy’s Chiron in Aquarius tightly conjuncts JonBenet’s Moon.”

      One thing I think this might be related to is genetics: Patsy got ovarian cancer in her late 30’s, and apparently it was her mother who got her to go to the doctor due the abdominal swell. Ovarian cancer this early in the life tend to be genetics, most notariously a BRCA1 mutation. I think that if JonBenet had lived, they might have found the gene. I’ve seen this elsewhere, with Chiron being the trigger.

      • Interesting Solaia because I have seen Mars/Pluto in the case of Cancer, and the Mars/Pluto opposition in JonBenet’s 12th/6th could well describe that genetic health legacy.

  7. Thanks. The reason I asked is because I have a friend in Boulder CO, where the Ramseys lived, who said at the time that the local police acted incompetently during the investigation and ignored evidence such as footprints outside a window of the house.

    • One thing that stood out to me in the documentary, apart from the staggering incompetence of the Boulder Police was the aftermath and the media feeding frenzy. The TV mock trial for instance, which found Patsy ‘guilty’ was appalling and I was shocked that it was even allowed.

    • @Lakedefiance, watching the documentary, I realized how much of visual aspect of this story I’d missed. Boulder has a creepy vibe to me, but maybe because it’s where Stephen King’s classic “The Stand” is situated (or maybe the creepiness was what made him make Boulder a protagonist in his book, he has that sense…).

      One thing that I realized I hadn’t understood when the case was news or reading about it later how huge and labyrinthy the Ramsey house was. My in laws live in a house that’s kind of similar plan, two and half stories, with many walk-in closets, but “only” about 3000 square feet. They have a very barky dachshund, but it’s difficult to hear that dog in some spaces. Also, when we were staying over the last time, my sister-in-law told their younger son would not like being there alone after school, because he thought someone might have sneaked in and would be hiding when he returned. Now, the boy was born 10 years after this case, and my SIL was very strict on PG, but the kid, while completely fearless physically, has some Cancerian sensitivities.

      • In the US, corruption, connections and big money prevent such cases from being investigated. A dead body was found in your basement, what other evidence do you need?

  8. Marjorie: In JonBenet’s death chart, could that Uranus in the 4th indicate an intruder who committed the murder? Someone unexpected in the home?

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