My astrology teacher, the late Olivia Barclay, was never one to mince her words. While talking to her in a pub in Walton-on-Thames, she told me that everyone with an Aries star sign was a bastard. And being a teetotaller, she wasn’t drunk. Of course Olivia was making a massive generalisation, but I think I know what she was getting at.
Aries people like to do what they want, when they want, and sometimes they can appear selfish. Yet in my experience they tend to be straightforward. Usually they tell you what’s on their mind, and there’s not much that’s kept hidden. So it was with some surprise that I discovered that Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in his cellar for twenty-four years, while forcing her into an incestuous, child-bearing relationship, had Aries as his star sign.
On April 9 1935, when Fritzl was born, the Sun was at nineteen degrees Aries, its point of maximum exaltation. According to traditional astrology, the horoscope Sun in this degree position should make someone very powerful, not to mention fortunate. However it seems that in this case, it’s lead to blinding egotism – a person who is so obsessed with themselves that morality, decency and humanity get thrown out of the window.
To top it all, Fritzl went on holiday to Thailand, leaving his daughter and her children trapped in his cellar. It’s true that Aries people like going on holiday, often at short notice, but Fritzl is Aries gone bad. A man so depraved and selfish that he can put his short-term and very perverse gratifications before anything else.
It’s worth noting that American murderer Jay Wesley Neill was born on April 9 1965. In 1984 – the same year that Fritzl imprisoned his daughter – he killed four people while robbing a bank, three with a knife, one with a gun. He was in a financial mess, and a bank robbery seemed to be the answer to his problems. That’s Aries gone mad – you hit an obstacle and you take immediate action, without caring less about the consequences.
Then there’s Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, born on April 9 1974, who killed at least forty-eight people. Known as the ‘chessboard killer’, he wanted to kill one person for each of the sixty-four squares on a chessboard. Before being sentenced to life imprisonment, he said ‘I was judge, prosecutor and executioner’, suggesting a massive, almost godlike ego.
Josef Fritzl took it upon himself to completely control his daughter for twenty-four years, to force her, and then her children, to live in a dungeon that he himself had created. Did he, in some warped way, believe that he had the right to do what he did? Did he think he was some twisted god? I don’t know, but to say the least, he strikes me as being a real bastard.
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