JonBenet Ramsey, the miniature beauty queen murdered nearly 30 years ago is back in the news with a Netflix True Crime documentary about her.
On the morning after Christmas the family reported a kidnap and the house was over-run by police setting up for a ransom demand; and when the body was discovered, it was moved by the father, further contaminating any evidence that may have been left. The initial call to the police was deemed odd and rehearsed, as was the ransom note. The parents John, a multi-millionaire business man, and Patsy, now dead, were always under suspicion but never charged. A mentally unstable, serial sex offender confessed in recent years but that has never been corroborated.
JonBenet was born 6 Aug 1990 1.36am Atlanta, Georgia, and had a truly difficult chart, so even before her murder, must have lived with high levels of anxiety, fear and anger. Her 4th house Leo Sun opposed an Aquarius Moon, MC, North Node squaring onto Mars in Taurus opposition Pluto in Scorpio. For her, both parents carried the overly dominating Mars Pluto signature. Her superficially glitzy (fashion conscious) Venus Jupiter in Cancer opposed Saturn hinting at an emotionally cold atmosphere in childhood. Her Saturn was trine Mars and sextile Pluto – bleak, unkind and deprived, trapped. It’s often the case with individuals who exhibit an exterior ‘beauty’ that they are driven by underlying dread and horrors. They put on a façade of pleasing in order to escape punishment or worse. Her highly-strung Uranus Neptune in Capricorn in her 8th house hint at a family legacy of potential instability from a previous generation.
Poor little mite had quite a psychological burden to carry from square one.
When she died her Aquarius Moon had moved by Solar Arc to close the square to the Mars Pluto opposition to exact. And her Uranus Neptune conjunction in her 8th had moved by Solar Arc Directions to close the conjunction to exact.
What struck me years ago when I first looked at the charts was how stressed/emotionally conflicted the parents’ relationship chart with each other were. John Ramsey, 7 Dec 1943 12.45am Omaha, Nebraska, is a volatile Sagittarius Sun opposition Uranus Mars in Gemini and widely opposition Saturn in Gemini; with Uranus Mars trine Neptune, sextile Pluto – so quite explosive and controlling. Patsy Ramsey, 29 Dec 1956, who died of ovarian cancer, was a Sun Capricorn trine Pluto on one side and square Mars in Aries on the other; with a Sagittarius Moon conjunct Saturn trine Mars trine Uranus – certainly impulsive and ambitious with a Fire Grand Trine but also probably passive-aggressive.
Their relationship chart had a composite Venus opposition Mars square Pluto probably opposition Moon which is an unpleasant mix of sexuality and power.
No proof of anything, but JonBenet was a lotus growing in a swamp.
Burke, her brother, 27 Jan 1987, is a Sun Aquarius square Pluto with a Capricorn Moon probably conjunct Neptune square Mars in Aries; with Mars trine Saturn Venus (Uranus) in Sagittarius. So he’ll be bubbling with the family tensions and anger as well.
The Netflix producer now says he has backtracked from his initial suspicion of the parents as being responsible. Whether or not this renewed exposure brings any answers is questionable. Though on her posthumous chart her Solar Arc Uranus is exactly conjunct her Moon at the moment.
One way or another, her life always was going to be a tragedy.
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