Peter Tobin – not a spark of human decency ++ other serial killers

Peter Tobin, the serial killer has died in hospital while serving a life term prison sentence for three murders but was suspected of many more and he had boasted of killing 48. He died without disclosing any further names.

His criminal career started young and he was sent to approved school aged 7, then into borstal, starting with burglary and forgery before moving on to murder. His three wives all gave similar accounts of falling for a charming, well-dressed psychopath who turned violent and displayed a sadistic streak during their marriages. At one point he was thought to be connected to the Glasgow Bible John murders but the police eventually ruled him out.

  He was born 27 August 1946 4.50pm Johnstone, Scotland, the youngest of eight siblings, and had a Sun and Moon in Virgo in his far-travelled 9^th house. It was rumoured that he had joined the French Foreign Legion when young but deserted.  He also had Neptune, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter in Libra in his 9^th which would be where the superficial charm came from. His Uranus in the 7^th on his Descendant would not make stability in close relationships easy.

  What probably was the driving force of his lack of empathy would be Saturn Pluto and Mercury in his 8^th house. Saturn in the 8^th is fearful of intimacy and Pluto in the 8^th is resistant to being dominated. One of his wives said: “The thing he most enjoyed was having power and total control.”

 His Saturn Pluto were also sextile his Neptune Mars for an uncomfortable and perverse mix.

 The Harmonic which usually shows up for serial killers is the 18^th and sure enough it is heavily aspected with a T Square, a Grand Trine and significantly a Yod onto Mars inconjunct Saturn sextile Venus. Such a Yod does have overtones of sadism.

  His 9^th Harmonic is even starker and more brutal with Pluto opposition Mars square Uranus and a Yod of Neptune sextile Sun inconjunct the Midheaven.

  The 9^th and 18^th (9X2) are associated with what brings pleasure and while in the past the 9^th has been glowingly described in terms of idealism and humanitarian influences, it also has a negative impact for those wo fall prey to their primitive instincts of greed or worse.

Add On: A quick skip round other notorious serial killers:

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, had Saturn and Pluto in the 8^th along with Venus and Moon, a 7^th house Sun Uranus in Gemini and Jupiter Neptune in the 10^th – similar in certain respects to Tobin. His 9^th harmonic had Mars trine Pluto.

Ted Bundy had Saturn Pluto conjunct in the 12^th with a Sun, Moon, Mars in Sagittarius and three planets in Scorpio.  His 9^th harmonic had an exact Mars Pluto conjunction trine Uranus.

Jeffrey Dahmer – Sun Mercury in Gemini in the 8^th, Mars in Aries trine Uranus, and Jupiter trine Pluto. His 9^th harmonic had Mars Saturn conjunct trine Pluto trine Moon Sun.

Even scarier was Harold Shipman, the doctor who had an estimated 250 victims. He had Mars Saturn conjunct  (the traditional astrology signature for an assassin) in his 6^th house of health and work opposition a 12^th house Capricorn Sun Venus; With Neptune in the 8^th trine a 4^th house Moon Uranus in Gemini sextile a 7^th house Pluto. Cold and nasty.

  The two Astro-signatures I’d expect to find are Saturn Pluto and Mars Saturn. Certainly an afflicted Mars and often a superficially charming Venus and a confident Jupiter.