Saddam Hussein's execution by hanging and the Fixed Star Caput Algol

[Carole]

It's interesting to observe that in Saddam Hussein's Chart, the fixed star Algol conjuncts Mercury (Mercury rules the intellect, the mind...and its dispositor is Venus in Aries, sign that rules the head). Retrograde Saturn is transiting his first House in Leo right now, and squares Algol and his natal Mercury. His natal Saturn is retrograde in Aries, 8th house.
Caput Algol (the most malefic fixed star) is known to bring violence, danger and beheading, literally or symbolically. Saddam could be executed by hanging this New Year's Eve weekend.

Well, according Vivian Robson in her book "The Fixed Stars & constellations in Astrology", if culminating, Algol brings murder, sudden death, beheading, and makes the native prone to murder and mischief. It doesn't say anything about Algol conjunct Mercury.

Saddam Hussein had Algol culminating and conjunct Mercury, at about 10 degrees from the exact degree of the Midheaven.

[Themis]

do you know which day which time exactly?

[Carole]

No, I only heard in the news that his execution would be on next weekend.

[unukalhai]

It's done.

I like FOX's graphic the best.. haha.

http://www.fusionpics.com/out.php/i16940_saddamhanged600.jpg

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/29/hussein/index.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/29/iraq/main2309460.shtml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16389128/
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/807313.html

Former President of Iraq, dubbed 'Butcher of Baghdad,' reportedly executed by hanging shortly before dawn on Saturday in Iraq for role in killing of 148 Shiite men and young boys after assassination attempt

Also hanged were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court.

The deposed leader died before dawn Saturday in Iraq, which was just before 10 p.m. Friday EST.

Two witnesses due to attend the execution told Reuters earlier they had been summoned for 5:30 A.M.(0230 GMT).

[Themis]

5:30A.M., where was the Moon, i know it has been in Taurus, not far from Algol?

[starlink]

The execution itself seemed to have been at 6 am and the Moon was exactly conjuncting natal Uranus. Also interesting that transiting Jupiter (often connected with death because of becoming free, especially with longterm painful suffering) is square his Sun and conjunct his Moon in the 4th house. Jupiter being the ruler of his 8th house of death. Solar Arc Uranus sextiles his Neptune, also ruler of 8. Another thing I saw was that Progressed Chiron is in exact inconjunct with Jupiter and half sextile Pluto at 26 degrees Gemini.
And transiting Pluto exactly opposing his natal Pluto and half sextiling Jupiter, ruler 8. Half sextiles can be very powerful when exact. Also Solar Arc Saturn in exact half sextile to his Sun. I like the observation from Carole , it really fits the picture!

[starlink]

Sorry, trans.Jupiter is not square but inconjunct his Sun, I miswrote this and could not get the edit thing to work!

[Draco]

Wikipedia gives the exact time of the hanging as 06.07, Baghdad time.

I don't know about Algol, but it is interesting that in this chart, Vindemiatrix is at midheaven, and is associated with weeping widows, and therefore the deaths of men, especially in a military or official capacity.

Dr. Eric Morse writes of Vindemiatrix:

It figures strongly and regularly in deaths which are in some way dramatic, newsworthy or are resented in much more than the usual degree by those left behind (assassinations, common criminal murders, executions, airline disasters etc.).

The fact that Vindemiatrix is conjoined the midheaven reflects the level of public interest in this execution.

The importance of the midheaven and therefore Vindemiatrix in this event, is highlighted by the fact that the midheaven is conjoined with the Dragon's head and tail, via antiscion and contra-antiscion respectively.

[unukalhai]

Nice observations!

I find it interesting how Moon and Saturn sit on the other side of the chart, throwing a good number of various aspects to the bunched planets, with Saturn in the 8th house... and also how the Moon/Saturn and Sun/Pluto&GC midpoints form an opposition along the 3rd degrees of Capricorn/Cancer. Saturn also exactly opposes the Uranus/Chiron midpoint.

It also doesn't seem too surprising to find the Pluto/GC conjunction as the closest thing to the ascendant.

The way the video leaked certainly seems congruent with the Vindemiatrix/MC interaction Draco pointed out; which seems very relevant.

[Sweet Stars]

Shame on those who cheer on anyone's death or even find it funny.

I still wonder how my government even had a say in this.

Especially when they are Nazi's themselves.





2 wrongs don't make a right.

Judgement day will come for all who kill and agree with killing.

Humans who kill have no right to judge another killer.

[Draco]

Shame on those who cheer on anyone's death or even find it funny.

I'm so glad that you have said that SweetStars. I wanted to comment but held back, although I did in fact find one post on this thread in particularly poor taste.

I still wonder how my government even had a say in this.

Yes, me too. It almost makes you ashamed doesn't it? What makes it even worse for us over here, is that Britain does not condone capital punishment, and yet the British government vocally applauded the execution of Saddam, which is just so very shaming, for a nation that will not even hang it's most prolific serial killers but will cheer for the execution of a foreign despot, which had posed no threat to the British when this whole mess began in the first place.

I do hope that no-one thinks that as a Briton, that I support my government's shameful involvement with the Iraq situation. The British people objected to the Iraq war by a huge number, but Blair stuck two fingers up at us all, and decided to kiss Bush's **** instead - 51st State indeed.

2 wrongs don't make a right.


Absolutely, it's as simple as that. I know he was a wicked, evil and merciless man, but that is supposed to be what makes us better - America and it's cronies cannot preach a path of righteousness by way of spiteful vengeance, but for Britain to publically condone this when she does not even execute her own most evil and sadistic killers, that really is just quite disgusting.

[Draco]

Unukalkhai.

I think you're right about Vindemiatrix on the midheaven having something to say about the publication of the execution video, as after all, the midheaven is all about going public.

I wonder, does anyone else have any event data in which Vindemiatrix sits at the MC. I wonder what other event charts with this feature reveal?

EDIT:

Just to add, all over the internet the time of the execution is reported as either 6.00 or just before, but the 6.07 time as quoted by Wikipedia makes the most sense, for Vindemiatrix on the MC.

I wonder why there is a discrepancy about the time as given on Wiki compared everywhere else?

[unukalhai]

What wiki page lists 6:07 as the time? It might be useful to go over the history of the page, determine who entered 6:07 as the time, and contact them to ask for clarification.. if the edit was done by a registered wiki user it should be possible to contact them.