Astrology Explored

August 21, 2008
When measuring the likelihood of repeating criminal behavior, every factor indicated that serial rapist Jerry “Buck” Inman was at risk to re-offend when he was released from prison in 2005.

“Releasing a sex offender unconditionally without supervision is not a good idea,” says UNF criminologist, Michael Hallett.

In prison for more than half his life, he committed his first sexual assault just shy of his seventeenth birthday. His crimes included kidnapping, sexual battery, burglary, armed robbery, grand theft auto and aggravated assault. Even while awaiting trial his penchant for criminal behavior continued. He was involved in a gang rape of fellow inmate.

Yet Jerry Inman is remembered this way:

‘I have known the family for 20 or 25 years and they are some of the best people I know,’ said resident Kathleen James, 68.

Jerry Buck Inman ‘attended our church and was in our youth group,’ she said. ‘And he was just a regular rambunctious boy, like all the rest of them. He was a real sweet little guy.’

His biological father skipped out on Buck and his family when Inman was very young. His mother married another man. Inman apparently had no education as there is no school registration records for him in his hometown, though his family was active in church. His family moved several times to different states during his youth. He apparently suffers from bi-polar disorder. He has no stable work history. Yet even with a history of violent sex crimes, no education and no work history, the Florida Department of Corrections did not see Inman as a danger to society.

In hindsight the Florida agency responsible for reviewing sex offender cases, Department of Children and Families, says “We made the mistake.”

That mistake cost three women, one the victim of an attempted assault, another a rape, and the last and most tragic Tiffany Marie Souers, a horrific sexual assault capped by her murder by strangulation in 2006. Inman has pleaded gullty to these crimes on August 19 this year. Psychiatrist Dr. Donna Schwartz-Watts< ahref=http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080820/NEWS01/308200006/1004/NEWS01>reports for the past two years Inman has confided he wants to die for his crimes.

The details of Tiffany’s death and his execution of the crime reveal a man cold and calculating. He described the rape as “hav[ing] sex with her. During this “sex” he was strangling her with her bikini top. He realized she was dead when “she stopped struggling”.

Inman is a curious sociopath. During the attempted and aborted rape attempt of his first victim after his prison release he kept apologizing to her and told her he would not hurt her if she did what she was told. It was only after she told him that “God will forgive you,” that he backed off on the attempted rape and merely stole her car.

Robbery, rape, murder, power, control, death. All Plutonian themes. So what in Inman’s astrology chart talks about these elements in his life? Pluto is in challenge aspect (square) his Sun.

Other infamous people that share the Sun square Pluto aspect are Susan Atkins, Mark David Chapman, Jeffrey Dahmer, Adolph Eichmann, Reinhold Heydrich, Joseph Mengele, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

Let us be clear. “The stars impel, they do not compel.” Human behavior manifests along a continuum of intensity based on our opportunities, limitations and personal choices. In my own study of sociopaths, an energetic connection between Pluto and a personal planet occurs in about 45% of these cases. But thousands of people living have this aspect in their chart. While they may grapple with Plutonian intensity throughout their life, they chose not to take it to the extremes that Jerry Inman did. What then are factors that would “impel” Inman toward these horrific choices.

We do not know Inman’s birth time, but it is easy to imagine that his Moon in Virgo sits closer to his natal Pluto than the sunrise birth chart below. Within the influence of Pluto, the moon becomes part of the Pluto’s opposition to Chiron. Chiron talks about deep-seated trauma, (wounds) that refuse to heal. If you notice in the outer wheel representing the attack and murder of Souers, the south node, representing the past, conjuncts Inman’s Pluto. With Pluto sextiling the planet of fantasy and illusion, you can be sure that Inman’s fantasizes about rape, and with Neptune sitting next to Jupiter, he fantasizes about it continually and obsessively. It is as if he inflicts the same pain he felt he can lessen its hold on him. He fantasizes about death as well, but he struggles between ending his emotional pain and his body’s survival instinct. Mars in the sexually charged sign of Scorpio in stress aspect to Chiron shows sexual trauma of his own. It is no longer curious that Inman’s family chose not to educate him in the public schools where the child might have access to professionals that might recognize the signs of abuse. Who was the abuser? We might never know.

On the day of Tiffany’s death, chillingly, transiting Moon, and transiting Pluto form a Yod, points right to Inman’s afflicted Sun. A Yod is often called the “Finger of God” and is often involved in events that seem fated.

This is a tragic case and an indictment of our justice system. If instead of sending a teenage Inman to jail for half his life, and by providing appropriate treatment it might have been possible to salvage him. UNF criminologist, Michael Hallett says that if sex offenders are caught early on there is hope that the offender’s behavior can be turned around.

“If you catch sex offenders early they can be treated effectively . . .”

But Inman never had that chance and Tiffany Souers paid with her life.

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