Police ascertained the four year old son confirmed the father indeed took the boys on a late-night camping trip. News articles stated they left sometime between midnight and 12:30 am on Monday, December 7, 2009.
The husband alleged he last saw his wife 'around midnight'. I cast the chart for 12:05 am, despite suspicions he was lying through his teeth....
Whether this was a true Last Seen time or a fabrication, I still found the chart compelling enough to make this post.
All four angles are mutable, suggesting all was in flux at the reported time, and changes were in the offing.
We find Lord 1 MERCURY (Husband) at home in the 4th House exactly conjunct PLUTO of complications (not to mention crime...) and not far from the Part of
MisFortune. Both are square SATURN and sesquiquadrate MARS. You may recall SATURN in the 1st House 'destroys the question' (Ivy Goldstein-Jacobson). This is a dire testimony for the question behind the chart: Is the Missing Person Dead or Alive?
Interestingly, the MARS/SATURN (brutality, cruelty) midpoint at 11 Virgo is partile trine the Part of Death in the 12:30 am chart (11:04 Taurus, not shown) --- the time the father & boys supposedly left for their camping trip. Additonally, the antiscion of this chart's MARS also equals the 12:30 am chart's Part of DEATH --- 11 Taurus.
The NODES are posited in the 22nd degree of Capricorn/Cancer. In that same degree we find the MOON, URANUS and the Part of MARRIAGE, giving a chilling sense of a catastrophe/tragedy/fatality involving the wife.
JUNO, the marriage Asteroid supplies additional confirmation: at 26 Pisces, JUNO is inconjunct (150 degrees) from TORO (brutality) and the MARS/PLUTO midpoint (rage/murder).
The MARS/URANUS midpoint (sudden violence) is partile conjunct Susan's natal (sunrise) MOON, 05 Gemini. The Midheaven of this chart, 12 Gemini, is partile conjunct Susan's Solar Arc 8th House (death) cusp.
As Tuba previously pointed out when discussing the 12/6/09 4:30 pm chart, MARS opposes NEPTUNE, suggesting prior poisoning or drugging occurred. That aspect is evident in this chart as well.
FATALITY at 02 Cancer partile opposes the MERCURY/PLUTO conjunction. The opposition is an awareness aspect. The fatality was caused by the husband (MERCURY, Lord 1).
The probability of fatality is further shown by the Part of MURDER at 15:35 Sagittarius in partile conjunction with the SUN, which is the general significator of husbands. The murder occurred at home (SUN in 4th House) and the body was hidden (MOON in 12th House of Secrets/Misfortune/Woe).
In addition to the MOON, Susan is symbolized by Lord 7, JUPITER. In this chart we find JUPITER at 21 Aquarius in critical degree partile conjunct CHIRON in the turned 12th House of Misfortune/Sorrow/Woe, again confirming she is in very bad shape (if not dead) and hidden.
Notice JUPITER conj. CHIRON opposes MARS conj. MOON, crossed by MARS/NEPTUNE midpoint at 21 Taurus opposed Susan's Secondary Progressed SUN 21 Scorpio ---- a Fixed Grand Cross suggesting violence, drugging/poisoning resulting in death.
It would not surprise me if the forensic evidence collected during searches of the home results in the husband's arrest on suspicion of murder. On that note, if anyone comes across his birth data, I would like to give it a look.
Thanks,
Soulscape