Ian Brady – child murderer

Ian Brady, Britain’s child murderer and rapist, died on Monday.  Michel Gauquelin has his birth data, so I am using it. He says it is the “birth record” from the hospital.  

Mr. Brady has a see-saw temperament type, with most of the planets located in the Southern public part of his chart. It also leans towards the Western or opportunistic side of the map, showing how he took advantage of each situation to his benefit.

See-saws or as Robert Jansky re-termed them Hourglasses, an idea we think far better and more evocative of how this type works,  are always caught in a balancing act with a shifting emphasis between the two hemispheres  in Brady’s chart between a desire to be quietly prideful (PoF at 24 Taurus 58) and an incredible desire for fame and fed into his narcissism of four planetary pairs.

The group of planets, asteroids and Arabian parts at his ascendant is disturbing.  Brady has TransPluto right next to his ascendant, suggesting that he grew up in a critical and perfectionist environment wherein the personality, the ego and first house felt picked to pieces.  As this aspect is coming from the Twelfth house conjunct Uranus, Brady took this personally and harbored this criticism within.

Ninth House expression

Across from Vesta in the Sixth House, and so creating a T-Cross with his Sun, 11 Capricorn 49 (remember Jones and Leo recommend rounding) , and highlighting the Ninth House as its focal expression.  While the Ninth is the home of long journeys, from Glasgow to London is about 400 miles, it is also the place that journalism (the Fourth Estate) resides, suggesting that he realized making his name in Glasgow would not make as big a splash as it would in London town fueling his need and desire for notoriety and publicity.

Asteroid Hygeia, not shown, is at 1 Libra, is next to Poseidon and opposite the harsh father of Saturn. This combination of public dis-health (Hygeia) in his working Sixth, coupled with desire, Poseidon, has another outlet, this time in the Third House of Brothers and Sisters at the Arabian Part of Divorce ( Part of Divorce: Ascendant + Venus – Descendant)

  Could Brady have wanted to create a family for himself, of little virginal girls faithful to him, unlike his mother who serially remarried?  It is hard to say, but the chart and his murders are psychotically disturbing. Of course, these two T-Crosses create one large Grand Mutable Cross supporting the See-saw configuration.

Also in his Third House, conjunct Divorce are other odd parts like the Part of Deception & Lying (DECEIT Ascendant + Venus – Neptune) , and Sudden Advancement (SUDDEN ADVANCEMENT   Ascendant + Part of Fortune – Saturn) which is opposite his Sun showing his desire of wanting notoriety. These parts seem to be his way of making a big a splash. London’s Fleet Street  Tabloid journalism playing up his feats added to his glee.

As for Myra Hindley his accomplice, his chart shows Juno in the Seventh next to the Arabian part of Cooperation (COOPERATION Cusp of the 7th house + Moon – Sun) opposite his Part of Fortune.  Without Myra, a lot of this would not have happened, as he needed a willing accomplice who supported his ambition.

  Whether Miss Hindley was truly a victim of his Svengali methods as the London Times wrote,  is difficult to say, we do not have her horoscope on hard,  but with his part of marriage exact to his Saturn, there is in my mind at least, that this was a significant relationship to Brady.

His progressed chart to his approximate time of death, shows once again everything hitting in his chart in the Tenth House of career fame.  It would seem that Brady had more than his fifteen minutes of fame, and twice.

The Charts

ian brady progressed