In July 2019, Jeffrey Epstein, a previously convicted sex offender was re-arrested and charged with sex trafficking by federal prosecutors.
A few weeks later, on the morning of August 10, 2019, Epstein was found by prison guards, dead in his jail cell. He was 66 years old, had been denied bail as a flight risk, was facing a lifetime prison sentence and was believed, by prison authorities to have attempted suicide three weeks earlier, but was not on a suicide watch at the time of his death.
The NYC Medical Examiner ruled his death a suicide by hanging (
ironically given his crimes, by bed-sheet, since there appeared to be cords in the room) but a controversial forensic pathologist (
Michael Baden of HBO's "Autopsy" series from the mid 90's), helping to fuel massive internet/public skepticism, stated he believed the evidence pointed to murder, noting what he called 'unusual fractures' in Epstein's neck.
Considering the powerful people he ran with (
he was friends with Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton as well as Britain's Prince Andrew and others) and the possibly unsavory secrets he might be privy to, certainly the possibility of his death being a
murder made to look like a suicide should be investigated
(
and it was, although we will never know for sure precisely how well, and confirmed a suicide and Michael Baden's ultimate determination was that it was inconclusive).
But what does the astrology show?!
Let's unpack the chart.
The inner wheel is a chart for the time of the 911 call made when prison guards found him unresponsive/dead in his cell and the outer chart is his birth chart (
time unknown). I have added asteroids Epstein, Ixion and Chaos and will explain why as we move through his.
First, we go to the ascendant/what is rising on the horizon.
Imagine we are looking at the chart as a scene and the ascendant, and first house, is the victim - who/what is right in front of us. The ascendant is 24 degrees Leo conjunct a 25 degree Mars. Juno conjunct the ascendant and Mars in that 1st house. Leo is ruled by the Sun in the 12th house
(
which rules places and people put away, like those in prison, the 12th house also rules endings, endings in small or confined spaces, suicides).
Also keep in mind that as we are looking at the Ascendant, the first house, the 12th house is
behind us, so not everything that happens in the 12th house can be seen - it's a house of mysteries and holds the secrets people sometimes carry to their graves.
An archetypal Leo would be an older male, strong features, thick blonde or reddish hair, ruddy complexion.
That Mars (
violence) conjunct the ascendant could indicate anxiety/a triggering situation/self inflicted injury maybe to the head. Notice Epstein's natal Pluto (
death, power) is sandwiched between the death chart's Mars (
violence) and Sun (
standing in for Epstein).
We have Venus (
young women, also ruler of Taurus/the throat and in this chart the 10th house of public life/the events of this chart becoming known) conjunct the Sun (
Epstein).
The other significator (
stand-in) for Epstein is the Moon.
Shown here in the 5th house (
Leo's house that can lead to excess - gambling, recreation, children, romance) in Sagittarius (
justice, the legal system), along with Sag ruler Jupiter which is in the chart's 4th house of home as well as 'the end of the matter'. So, the 4th and 5th forming a little closed loop. The excesses that lead to his legal situation and this chart's 'end of the matter'.
Case
closed.
Two other energies in Sagittarius (
both exactly conjunct each other and the Galactic Center/our cosmic homing signal!) are the Part of Fortune and Ixion. We will get back to the significance of this when we look at the mythology, including Juno, at the end of this post!
Let's move over to the 7th house cusp/the descendant/the perpetrator.
The descendant is 24 degrees Aquarius. There are no planets in the 7th house. Aquarius on the 7th can sometimes imply a perpetrator who feels the victim has or might impede their future or it might imply criminality through humanitarian related issues
(so is this a hired job at the bequest of some rich SOB or did Epstein, the sex-trafficker/blight on humanity do this to himself?).
Aquarius is ruled by ancient ruler Saturn and modern ruler Uranus.
Saturn is in the 5th house (
again Leo's natural house of excess) and at 15 degrees Capricorn is exactly conjunct Epstein's natal Chiron (
his old familial wounding). So Saturn (
death, endings, karma) at the time of his death is EXACTLY where Chiron (
unhealed wound) was when Epstein was born.
(
also note transiting Chiron is conjunct his natal asteroid 'Epstein" - he is born/marked by Chiron, as Chiron touches asteroid Epstein at his birth - we can't see what house, although his chart could be rectified and time of birth determined - and dies as Saturn touches that natal Chiron! Epstein a Chironic character in the sense he may hev used people's wounds/vulnerabilities and secrets against them)
Saturn (
the stand-in for the perpetrator) is applying to a conjunction with Pluto (
approaching) and Pluto is EXACTLY conjunct Epstein's natal Mercury at 21 degrees Capricorn
(
Kate Spade had transiting Pluto exactly conjunct her natal Mercury at 18 degrees Capricorn when she committed suicide).
Mercury/Pluto - thinking about death. Making death
reasonable. Pluto transits take away your power and leave you with what really is your power.
Or in this case, nothing - since we've got that 21 degree Mercury, 21 being Juno's number, the number of the power we get through our connection to the powerful and his connection to the powerful had ended.
Saturn's modern ruler Uranus is in Taurus answering to Venus in Leo answering to the Sun (
Epstein).
The 8th house (
house of death and whatever the means we know there is a death here) is home to Neptune in his home sign of Pisces. A mysterious death. Neptune is conjunct Epstein's natal Mars/Venus conjunction - so
draining that charismatic aspect he always counted on, leaving him, in a sense - impotent. Also activating his watchful/natal Juno as we will talk about when we get to the myths.
The transiting North Node (
17 degrees Cancer) conjunct his natal Uranus (
at 15 degrees). And Uranus in this chart being co-ruler of the Descendant (
perpetrator).
Also notice he was born with a natal Neptune/Saturn conjunction allowing him to elude authority/responsibility/limits as Neptune dissolves those Saturnian 'stop signs', but eventually, at a time with his natal Neptune's power dissolved by that square to Pluto and with transiting Saturn conjunct his natal Chiron (
and transiting Chiron conjunct his natal Moon in that 8th house of death) - and remember Chiron at his birth was powerfully imprinted to asteroid "Epstein" -
Saturn's final red light can't be avoided. Fate (
Saturn) steps in and he is STOPPED.
I would expect, if Epstein was murdered, to see something representing
that in the 10th (
authority), 7th (
perpetrator) and 6th (
people hired) houses, maybe the 2nd house, but those are ALL EMPTY.
The indicators I see of the possibility of murder - are the 10th house ruler (
Venus) in the 12th (
secrets) conjunct the Sun (
Epstein), but we saw in another case where the perpetrator committed suicide when he was trapped, a significator for the victim(s) in that house with him - in this case Venus representing the young women Epstein raped and, with Venus in Leo, the risks he took with the reputation/his resources/what he valued - his
downfall. The other indicator for murder that Aquarius 7th house, a possible indication of "a perpetrator who feels the victim has or might impede their future" and answering to Saturn in Capricorn (
natural 10th house ruler/authority) and Uranus (
who is answering to Libra, the 10th house ruler in this chart).
Whether these indicators are strong enough to over-rule the indicators for suicide laid out in the rest of the post I will leave up to you to decide.
Mysteries are mysteries for a
reason though. The chart is always going to show some ambiguity with a story missing a clear-cut ending that's
why it becomes a mystery.
I believe, based on this chart, his death is most likely a suicide. But since if it is a murder, it is designed to look like a suicide, it would not be possible from this chart to be 100% certain. I do think though his natal chart itself shows the possibility of suicide with the right transits.
OK, let's get back to the myth of Ixion because his namesake asteroid is conjunct Epstein's natal Neptune/Saturn conjunction (
Neptune/Saturn btw being the signs we'd expect to see prominent in a suicide chart) and transiting Ixion exactly conjunct the Part of Fortune for this chart (
the final outcome).
I warn you the myth might only add to the mystery for you!
Ixion, in Greek mythology, was the son either of the god Ares (Mars) or of Phlegyas (a notorious bad guy), and king of the Lapiths in Thessaly.
He married Dia, daughter of Deioneus to whom Ixion promised a sizeable dowry. Some time after the wedding with the dowry payment still unpaid Deioneus steals some of Ixion's horses in revenge, a crime Ixion quickly discovers.
He invites Deioneus to his castle for a feast, but when his father-in-law arrives, Ixion pushes the older man onto a burning bed of coal and sticks and kills him. Note this is the first murder in Greek mythology related to someone killing 'family' and so Ixion is often labeled by astrologers as an indicator for murder or a murderer and that might be true sometimes, and even here if the myth ended there, but it doesn't.
Ixion, reputation and soul, ruined by this act, is driven mad. The other kings are so offended by his act of xenia (poor hospitality, which was held sacred) they refuse to perform the rituals of catharsis (probably think Pluto's death and rebirth here) that would cleanse him of his guilt/sin.
So, Ixion is shunned and made to live as an outcast.
(we can connect this part of the myth to Epstein's original sex abuse convictions, over a decade before his death, that he 'got away with/received a slap on the wrist' - via a secret, highly controversial plea deal in 2008 thanks to former U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, who is now Trump's Labor Secretary - much as Ixion did, but which did result in Epstein's powerful downfall/public shunning and desertion of his powerful friends and his life as an outcast - although a wealthy outcast - before an in-depth series of articles by the Miami Herald - keep in mind Jupiter rules the media as well as the legal system - sparked renewed public outrage over his sexual crimes and the judicial inequality of his sentence)
OK, back to the myth.
At some point, Zeus (Jupiter, king of the Gods to the Romans) takes pity on Ixion and instead of making him pay for his crimes decides to offer him a seat at his table where Ixion in another act of xenia (poor hospitality) begins to lust over Zeus's wife Hera (Juno to the Romans, and right on the ascendant of this chart).
In disbelief when he is told of this, Zeus (Jupiter) sets a trap for Ixion by forming a cloud into the shape of his wife and placing the Hera (Juno)-cloud naked beside a sleeping Ixion (what a temptation!).
When Zeus (Jupiter) discovers Ixion having sex with the Hera (Juno) cloud - and impregnating it/her (?) - the ultimate act of poor hospitality and ABUSE OF HIS PARDON - Zeus/Jupiter expels Ixion from Mt. Olympus with his thunderbolt, binding Ixion (via Hermes/Mercury) eternally to a winged fiery wheel that is always spinning -
and I didn't mention Mercury in the post, but notice he is in that 12th house of the death chart, the house containing Epstein/the Sun and at the powerful/critical 28th degree of Cancer, so answering to that Moon (Epstein) in Sagittarius (the law).
The sex Ixion had with the 'cloud' named Nephele (nephos meaning cloud) produced a child named Centauros who later mated with the mares on Mount Pelion creating the race of Centaurs, including Chiron.
Are we looking at ancient archetypal patterns playing out through the life of a man called Jeffrey Epstein (
which no more absolves his guilt/sin than anyone else's) or have I gone mad as a hatter? Both?
Although archetypes are impersonal patterns of influence that are both ancient and universal, they become personalized when they are a part of our individual psyche. Encoded in all of us to enable us to fulfill our sacred purpose/contracts while on Earth, but how high or how low we go with these energies - we do have some free-will here, of course - is up to us ....
Endowed with the rain-making gift of creating from thin air (
his reputation/financial abundance) and charged with tests involving his use of xenia "hospitality" (
think about his plane and island), his acts through sexual abuse/excess/no limits, used in perversion - turning young people into inanimate objects for his own pleasure.
And it is not only Saturn and Pluto that end Epstein's excessive lifestyle/life.
We can see Juno (Hera), an essential Goddess necessary for sustaining life, on the ascendant - bringing Mars and the noose - as echoing that Uranus in Cancer - remember we are always on the lookout for repeating patterns - since Juno's revenge is unleashed when the integrity of the social structure is threatened by behavior that might destroy the family unit and the social cohesion that is dependent on it.
Social taboos are part of her domain.
The need to create family structures is inherent in nature and we violate Juno's territory at our own risk.
Notice in Epstein's natal chart Juno is conjunct (we might say looking over) his Mars/Venus conjunction, that love/passion aspect that can bring charisma/contact with powerful people/an urge toward too much sex - watching what he does with that.
Juno is "violated" by the chaos that ensues when individuals cannot control their instincts ... and she always has her revenge.
Also Juno is about the power we hold through our connections to the 'real' power/the king and what we will do to hold onto it - Juno a powerful player in his chart and life story.
So there are a kind of 'deep-state' murderers at work here, but maybe they are the ancient archetypal ones we carry inside us and misuse at our own peril.
xo all
