Astrology Explored

June 19, 2008

Two women who did not report back as scheduled on an overnight backpacking trip in Denali National Park were located and returned to waiting family members on Wednesday.

Abby Flantz, 25, of Gaylord, Minn., and 23-year-old Erica Nelson of Las Vegas greeted their family members at the park’s headquarters, park spokeswoman Kris Fister said.

Rescuers narrowed their search when a cell phone call made by Erica to her mother indicated that the two hikers where in the northeastern section of the search area. Initial news reports that the hikers were found were pulled after two hours of searching failed to locate the young women. Only after a second cell phone call was made were they located.

Forensic Astrology is a very new sub-specialty of astrology made popular by Edna Rowland with her books “Destined for Murder: Profiles of Six Serial Killers” (with Sandra Harrison Young) in 1995 and “True Crime Astrology” in 1996. As with anything new there are a lot of hits and misses as we work out the rules of how Forensic Astrology works. It is apparent that Forensic Astrology does have its own set of rules as the event chart does not always work out the way Horary astrology suggests it would or as the traditional Western interpretations of transits suggests.

For instance in the chart below, the moon was in the fourth house, which is traditionally called “the house of endings.” This along with an ominous Pluto opposite Venus and a square from Uranus to Venus suggests the worst. Why then didn’t I make that prediction? Because after looking at many death charts of people they didn’t “look” dead. They “looked” lost, which they were.

There were three things I reasoned out that don’t appear to be true. The news reports say the women aren’t injured, while I hypothesized that one had injured her ankle. I said they would be found when the moon was in Aquarius which I based on a piece of information that things are “found” when the moon is in Aquarius. And their eventual location was approximately 23 miles east of their original location, not west. This last piece is based on an experimental technique that proposes that we look at the planets with the strongest “gravitational pull” to locate a person. And I would have been dead on if I remembered to flip the chart. For those that don’t know, the top of the astrological chart is South while the bottom is the North, so in figuring out the direction I should have, for visual purposes, turn the chart upside down and I would have gotten the direction correct. If I had not made that error, my prediction would have looked ever so much more impressive.

What was interesting in this case is the correspondences in the numbers. Fifteen is the number of miles to the station where Erica and Abby started their journey. The Libran moon was at fifteen degrees at the start of the day. Venus in Gemini represented the two young women. Venus was at twenty three degrees and they were found approximately 23 miles from the start of their journey (as best as could be determined from map resources on the web). With Mercury in Gemini, the sign of the twins, it took two cell phone calls for Rescue personnel to locate them. And the Sun in Gemini? Here is something to mull over. In hindsight, the Sun could have represented the area itself, which in my research I learned is actually two parks, a national park and a state park. How about that? As it was, the young women were found in territory that was out of the national park proper.

These are all things to keep in the notebook, as I study more cases. One day, all this might be a book all on its own.

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