According to Tammy's friend Happy Chic:
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Tammy was an alcoholic and prescription drug abuser. After she quit drinking a few years back, she relied more on the prescription drugs. ... she wanted to get off of the pills and entered rehab. She had also returned to drinking. She only stayed in the rehab a few days and begged her boyfriend to take her home on Memorial Day. ... Her boyfriend ... was taking her to work so as not to leave her alone. ... She was acting very strangely ... over the past year or so. ... So last Saturday morning (6/9/2007), as her boyfriend was leaving for a job ... she ran out and begged him not to leave her, stating that she might not make it through the day or that she would probably be dead when he got home. Other circumstances are that she turned in a drug dealer and told her mother on Thursday night that he had threatened her life. She was afraid of her ex-boyfriend and begged her current boyfriend to leave one gun in the house for protection as he removed them when she started drinking again.
Her 14 year old son ... found her dead of a shotgun wound to her face. Nothing left of her face . . .
Investigation is ensuing for various reasons. It looks like suicide but she took the time to write a short note, why didn't she close and lock the bedroom door so her son didn't have to see her like that and be scarred for life? Why is her ring missing? Why did she have a flat tire. Why were strange cars in their driveway that morning? She had been at her sister's house the day before and was unusually calm so maybe she had a plan but if she did, she didn't want to follow it through or she wouldn't have begged her boyfriend to stay home. ...
The subsequent investigation determined Tammy's death was a suicide, but because of the circumstances noted in the last paragraph of above quote, the family suspects Tammy was murdered.
What can the Stars tell us?
While most Western astrologers won't 'go there,' a correctly timed natal chart will give clues as to the manner and circumstances of death. Because planetary energies can manifest in a variety of ways depending on the life circumstances of the chart owner, it is important to remind you that
a natal chart can never be read blindly. Each person is unique. Please do not compare this chart and analysis with your own chart or that of loved ones and freak out because you think you see similarities!!
Tammy Lynn's natal chart gives multiple testimonies of depression, anxiety and susceptibility to addiction. Her natal SUN at 29 Virgo is partile conjunct URANUS which can sometimes be like walking around with your finger plugged into an electrical socket --- one shock after the other. It doesn't help that she has a powerful Virgo stellium involving JUPITER, PLUTO, MOON, SUN and URANUS which connects all these energies and throws them against CHIRON at 01 Aries. Because of the projection noted in oppositions, this could seem like someone else (opposition) is always hurting her (Chiron) but in reality, it is herself.
MERCURY is her chart ruler and dispositor of her Virgo SUN, making this planet enormously important. MERCURY is the mind and in this chart it is close opposite depressing, frustrated SATURN Retrograde in Aries. MERCURY is conjunct the Part of Suicide 27 Libra, so suicidal thoughts would be expected. This becomes even more important because MERCURY/SUICIDE opposes SATURN Rx (frustration, depression), the ruler of Tammy Lynn's 8th House of Death.
The natal 8th House cusp is given to Capricorn which among other things denotes emotional depression. Lord 8 SATURN Rx in Aries forms a Yod involving PLUTO and NEPTUNE. Ebertin describes this planetary picture: SATURN = PLUTO/NEPTUNE as 'dark forebodings, pessimism, self-torment; grievous emotional suffering, gradual decline of one's powers and faculties.'
All of this so far strongly points to emotional depression, pessimism, self-torment, overwhelming emotional suffering and the like (and with NEPTUNE involved, likely connected to alcohol/drugs) being the causal factors of Tammy Lynn's death.
In addition:
1. the Arabic Part of Depression at 24 Aries is close conjunct Lord 8 SATURN Rx, partile opposed natal VENUS 24 Libra (Lord of 12th House of Self-Undoing) and close opposed natal MERCURY 25 Libra (chart ruler and dispositor of SUN).
2. the natal Prenatal Lunar Eclipse (23 Libra), Part of Death (24 Libra), Asteroid TORO of brutality (24 Libra) and Part of Suicide (27 Libra) are
all conjunct Tammy Lynn's natal VENUS, ruler of her 12th House of Self-Undoing
and natal MERCURY (the mind-set) which as mentioned earlier is both Tammy's chart ruler and dispositor of her Virgo SUN --- with all of these opposite frustrated, depressed SATURN Rx Lord of 8th House of Death.
There is nothing in this natal chart that suggests Tammy Lynn will ultimately be murdered.
To confirm, we look at the Death Chart:
Because this is a Death Chart, we must pay special attention to SATURN, the classic significator of death. SATURN is posited at 20 Leo in the 12th House of Self-Undoing, close opposed NEPTUNE of suicide in critical degree, 21 Fixed. SATURN sextiles the SUN and sesquiquadrates the MOON, showing opportunity for death (SUN sextile SATURN) and an aggravated emotional state of mind (MOON in angry Aries sesquiquadrate SATURN of Death).
Lord 8 MARS at 18 Aries is strong in his own sign in the House of Death. Aries is the energy of the Self. When placed on the 8th House, this suggests death by one's own hand. Again, we see the opportunity (there was a gun in the house) with MARS, agent of Death, partile sextile SUN (life, the life principle), and applying trine to SATURN (death) opposite NEPTUNE (suicide). It was easy (trine) to accomplish. URANUS is also in 18 degrees, partile square SUN, showing the death's sudden, shocking nature. Notice URANUS is posited in Pisces, a sign associated with (among other things) suicide.
The manner of death is clearly illustrated: MARS (gun), self-administered (Aries), applied to face/head (Aries).
Additionally:
1. The Arabic Part of Self-Undoing at 08 Pisces is partile opposed Event chart EQ (a secondary Ascendant) in the 12th House of Self-Undoing.
2. The Part of Suicide 11 Capricorn is in Fateful Degree (same degree as the Nodes) and close opposed to chart ruler MERCURY at 10 Cancer.
3. The 4th House cusp End of Life at 11 Sagittarius is in Fateful Degree with Lord 4 End of Life JUPITER opposite SUN (the life principle), trine SATURN (death) and partile square the ASCENDANT 14 Virgo (the body). This again suggests it was 'easy' (trine) to embrace death/ act against the body (life).
4. With Leo on the 12th House cusp, we see yet another connection between Life (SUN) and self-undoing (12th House).
5. Death chart Lord 1 MERCURY placed in natal 1st House (see bi-wheel) is another indication of self-initiated action.
The preponderance of the astrological evidence is death by suicide.
Thanks,
Soulscape
