TWO CRIMES COMPARED

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Two crimes that shocked public opinion, crimes whose victims were two students. Different places and circumstances, but the victims shared a similar young age, their status as university students, and a previously quiet and irreproachable life.

On November 1, 2007, the English student Meredith Kercher, known to her friends as Mez, was killed in her apartment. It would become the first “globalized” murder case, given the different nationalities of the accused, including the American Amanda Knox and the Italian Raffaele Sollecito.

On August 13, 2007, in Garlasco, the body of Chiara Poggi, a model student, was found. Her boyfriend, Alberto Stasi, discovered the body and was later accused of the crime but acquitted because the evidence collected against him was deemed insufficient. The only charge remaining against him concerned the possession of child pornography, which, according to the prosecution, would have been the triggering cause of the murder.

Mez has the Sun in the 1st House, together with Neptune and Venus: Mez is a sunny person who attracts male attention thanks to her considerable charm. The Moon, in the 7th House—the house of open enemies—and in Cancer, clearly indicates conflicts with her roommate Amanda Knox, herself a Cancer. This Moon is also the ruler of the 8th House, the house of death: it seems to confirm that Mez died at the hands of a woman, an open enemy. The second ruler of the 8th House is the Sun itself, placed in the 1st House: this indicates the possibility of suffering violence leading to death. Saturn and Mercury are in the 12th House and, as we will also see in Chiara Poggi’s chart, the 6-12 axis appears to play a very relevant role in these charts, and it is worth remembering that this is the “axis of trials.”

Let us now move to Chiara Poggi’s chart. Here the ruler of the Ascendant, Venus, is in the 12th House—the house of trials and hidden enemies—together with the Sun and Mars, the latter being in aspect to the malefic Saturn. Moreover, Mars is also opposed to Jupiter, between the 12th and 6th Houses. The ruler of Chiara’s 4th House, the Moon, is prominently placed at the Midheaven: the end of her life sadly coincided with her exposure in all the media. Furthermore, the Moon is conjunct the nodal axis, particularly the South Node, while in Mez’s case the South Node is perfectly conjunct Mars and Pluto, rulers of the 4th House—the end of life.

Chiara’s Moon refers to the sign of Cancer, and perhaps for this reason her destiny was tied to natives of this sign, such as her boyfriend Alberto Stasi. Mez, on the other hand, with her South Node conjunct the rulers of Aries/Scorpio, had her fate connected to natives of those signs (it is worth recalling here that Raffaele Sollecito is indeed an Aries).

Alberto Stasi’s chart shows a rather unsettling conjunction in the 8th House, composed of Mars, Mercury, and the Sun, opposed to Neptune in the 2nd House—and this Neptune is conjunct the South Node.

Amanda’s chart is almost a mirror image of Mez’s: she has the Ascendant where Mez has the Descendant; Mez has a strong 1st House while Amanda has a strong 7th House, composed of Saturn, the Moon, and Uranus. The nickname “Foxie Knoxie,” highlighting the slyness of a fox, suits well her strong Gemini component, while the square between Mars and Pluto suggests a certain destructive streak in the American girl’s character. Sollecito’s chart, in turn, is extremely similar to Mez’s but shifts the emphasis toward negative friendships (Saturn in the 11th House) and a Mars in the 12th House, which makes him somewhat submissive to his partner.

The Solar Returns of Mez and Chiara are quite interesting.

Erected for Perugia the first and for Garlasco the second. Mez’s Solar Return for 2006 shows the Ascendant in the 1st House, the Sun in the 11th House (often connected to death) together with Mercury and Pluto, indicating a very critical year. Even the one for 2007 would not have promised anything good, emphasizing dangers and major difficulties, as it features Mars in the 1st House, a Stellium as well as the Ascendant in the 7th House, and the Moon/Saturn conjunction in the 4th House (one’s home).

In Chiara’s case, the Solar Return Ascendant for 2007 falls in the Radix 5th House (affective life), while Saturn falls in the 12th House. We also find Mars in the 6th House and the Sun in the 8th House.

Stasi’s 2009/10 Solar Return places the Solar Return Ascendant in the Radix 3rd House: studies and new projects will be the main theme of the year, while the Sun and Mercury in the 5th House bring the focus back to sexual life: there is talk of a new girlfriend by his side but also of another trial for child pornography material, as some new files were recently found on his computer.

We conclude this excursus on violent death with a quick look at another crime that fascinated public opinion: the Via Poma murder, in which Simonetta Cesaroni died. Here too, as if by chance, we find a very harsh aspect between Mars and Saturn—a square—where Mars is located in the 4th House, the end of life, while Saturn is in the 8th House, the House of Death. All three of these cases had in common a violent death by a bladed weapon, a female victim, and a story that was never fully clarified.

Two crimes compared