the cumbria shootings
Six months after the floods and just over a week from the tragic crash on the A66, on June 2nd 2010 Derrick Bird, a taxi driver from Rowrah, got up early, equipped himself with a .22 rifle and a shotgun, and set off on a killing spree. He murdered his twin brother, his solicitor, one of his colleagues on the taxi rank in Whitehaven, and then nine other people in Egremont, Wilton, Carleton, Gosforth and Seascale. He injured many more. Some of these were connected to Sellafield Nuclear Processing Plant where Bird once worked as a joiner before having to leave in 1990, convicted of the theft of building materials.
(In these charts I have put the Dwad at the centre.)
Jupiter, Pluto and the Ascendant join up in the dwad with radix Neptune, also MC, Dragon’s Tail and Mercury, planet of siblings, come together opposite dwad Moon in Gemini, the siblings’ sign. For my money, this was either the moment when Bird made the final decision to obliterate everyone who had so offended his Libran need for a fair deal, or the time he entered his brother’s lovely house at Lamplugh and shot him while he slept. At 10h20 that morning the came first reports of gunfire, at Frizington. The Birds’ family solicitor had been shot as he came out of his house. The dwad Ascendant had just passed Jupiter. Then Derrick Bird drove west to Whitehaven and the taxi rank where he had his next scores to settle.
the Dragon’s Head has been sweeping over this axis and the Tail over the Charter’s Mars and Ascendant in Cancer. I have displayed the 1648 chart with its dwad at the centre because there you can clearly see how the dwad Angles have been battered by the transiting malefic Tsquare - and that the dwad meridian is right in the chaotic firing-line of the early June Mars-Neptune opposition.
to our familiar analytical and predictive techniques we need to look carefully for themes in a Solar Return by checking its radix/dwad and tropical/sidereal contacts, and then search the direct and converse progressions of the Return over the ensuing day/year to find recurrences of the same or similar configurations in the radix/dwad relationship. I’m sure there must be someone out there who could tailor their astrology program to do this at the click of a mouse! We have a lot of clever people in our midst.
So - going back to the sad succession of events on June 2nd 2010, how were the transits moving over that morning? We have already seen what was going on at Lamplugh, Frizington and Whitehaven. By the time Bird reached Egremont, Mars was making its approach to the Ascendant in Leo, opposite Neptune and the dwad of Pluto. Dwad Jupiter was right on the 7th cusp. Was he perversely enjoying his revenge at this moment? As the pattern intensified, under these planetary circumstances it is little wonder that he became obsessed with an over-riding compulsion to kill - not just the objects of his personal vendetta, but total strangers who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lethal accidental encounters. Yet if we were given access to their birth data, wouldn’t we find the patterns of injury and murder? Only God knows what really drove these people together on the fateful day. At Wilton Mars was hotting up, now square the dwad horizon. By the time he got to Carleton the dwad Asc had met that crucial Gemini Sun degree, and his natal Uranus picked perversely on an inoffensive man who worked as a mole-catcher, while he was talking to someone else. At Gosforth the pattern went critical: Mars hit the Ascendant just as both their dwads moved into the early degrees of Cancer, picking up radix Pluto and Ceres on the 7th and squared by Uranus at the start of Aries. Ceres robs a parent of their child: Bird took the life of a young rugby player and plunged a family into grief. At Seascale Mercury was conjoined by the Midheaven, and the dwad Ascendant caught up with both radix Venus and the dwad Moon in Cancer. Here Derrick Bird shot dead a young man who sold houses, a woman coming home with her shopping, and a retired man on his bike. Fifteen minutes later at Drigg Chiron was exactly setting as the dwad IC collected that 11 Gemini Sun. He shot a pensioner in the head. She just about survived. His final victim at 12h10 was a teacher taking a photograph in a country lane in Boot. Mercury now opposed and the Aquarius Moon squared the dwad Ascendant; a dwad Moon/Saturn conjunction was closing, and the dwad meridian had lined up with the radix Jupiter/Uranus-Saturn opposition. Bird shot her in the mouth at pointblank range. The camera took most of the impact and saved her life.
Support for this possible suicide time came when I worked through the Q-charts - Derrick Bird’s birth-date at the various hours and minutes of his last day alive: at 12h43 BST on the twins' birthday November 27th 1957 a sudden death by gunshot is vividly configured in the dwad with Saturn at the IC opposite radix Sun, and a 'setting' Aries Mars. At 12h20 however, the dwad shows MC with Moon's South Node and a conjunction of Chiron and Jupiter on the Ascendant, which is very persuasive ... and this is the officially estimated time of death. Bird’s body was eventually discovered by police with sniffer dogs at 1h40 pm as the dwad MC returned to the two Whitehaven MCs in mid-Capricorn and the radix Dragon’s Head. Mission accomplished - and mission accomplished. The trail of destruction is definitely shown in the 1957 birthday Q-charts; each one, mapped against its own dwad and the radix transits of each shooting, shows dwad Angles moving from Node to Node, from malefic to malefic, from rage to impulse to cruelty to oblivion. There are too many to cram into the end of this essay - I have just left you, at the top of the page, with this very last one, the last life taken, the Bird flown.
So what kind of man was Derrick Bird? First efforts at analysis in the weeks after the tragedy failed miserably - the media were spreading totally inaccurate data. Eventually the twins' Birth Certificate came to light, yielding the information above: date of birth November 27th 1957 in Whitehaven, at 03h00 (David) and (Derrick) 03h05 am. Here first is Derrick Bird's tropical nativity with its reflexes.
The dwad Ascendant is right on the cusp of Aquarius/Pisces, and may well be in the water sign with the dwad Dragon's Head, giving him - unlike his twin - a perpetual sense of victimhood, of being a plaything of fate who would one day get his own back and have his moment in the sun.
The radix interdimensional pattern, above, is little different between the twins. Five minutes has little impact on the radix, only differentiating the dwad as we have seen.
The burden of the sick and aging mother is dominant, with the sidereal Moon/Chiron conjunction at the tropical IC; the sidereal nodes and Neptune meet the tropical horizon, bringing fateful relationships, disappointment, loss. At the draconic MC is the tropical Sun, guaranteeing that these men will never be forgotten. In the tropical North Node, with Mars, is the sidereal Scorpio Sun; this double life will end in violence which seems to be inevitable with so much fire and Mars energy all over these charts. Not only the Draconic Sun in Aries as we have seen, but this is also opposed by sidereal Mars. Venus is strongly placed at the IC in coelo, and rules the both the tropical Ascendant and the sidereal North Node ... but she has South Node energy in the tropical, keeps picking up Saturn/Capricorn, and can't cool the passions rampant over the three levels. The early morning Dragon's Head and Sun are in the 2nd house of the chart; the right path for each man is to make his own way in the world, to be self-reliant, self-sufficient, and to pursue this with enthusiasm. David did; Derrick fell foul of the Dragon's Tail in the 8th through envy and resentment, and took his chilling revenge. Venus is at the IC in the sign of Saturn. And so is sidereal Chiron with the Moon ... not just a sick mother, but a very public suicide. .......................................................................................................................... |