tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28903363.post-10728610213892249352008-06-16T16:55:00.002-05:002008-09-01T13:21:45.556-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_TWlL0irXTcM/SFbGSN47RSI/AAAAAAAAADU/IXYfL-d7d2I/s1600-h/VAUGHN+911+CALL.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_TWlL0irXTcM/SFbGSN47RSI/AAAAAAAAADU/IXYfL-d7d2I/s400/VAUGHN+911+CALL.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212571634996299042" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);"></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b style="">BACKGROUND<o:p> </o:p></b></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">One year ago, early in the morning on <st1:date year="2007" day="14" month="6" st="on">Thursday, June 14, 2007</st1:date>, the local police in <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Channahon</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>, located in Will County, discovered four bodies in a Ford Expedition SUV on a cell tower service road near Interstate Highway 55 after responding to a 911 call. Kimberly Vaughn, 34, had been shot once in the head. Vaughn’s three children, Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11, and son Blake, 8, had each been shot twice. A wounded and bleeding, but ambulatory Christopher Vaughn, 32, husband and father of the deceased, had flagged down the passerby who made the 911 call. Allegedly, Vaughn initially told varying stories about what transpired. In one version, Vaughn pulled off the interstate because his wife was ill, got out to adjust the luggage rack, discovered he was bleeding and went for help. In this version, he claims he heard no gun shots. In another version, his wife shot at him as he was about to re-enter the vehicle and he fled. In others, he remained on the scene as his wife shot their children and then herself. Since Vaughn was treated at a hospital and released the same day, his wounds were apparently minor. He was subsequently questioned on at least three different occasions by the Illinois State Police who took over the investigation, but initially Vaughn was not identified as a suspect. However, at 7 a.m., on Saturday, June 23, Christopher Vaughn was arrested and taken into custody at a funeral home in St. <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Charles</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Missouri</st1:state></st1:place> as private funeral services for his wife and children were about to begin. He was charged with eight<span style="color:red;"> </span>counts of first degree murder in the deaths of his wife and children and was held in a Missouri jail while awaiting extradition to Illinois. (Four counts were subsequently dropped and he was charged with four counts of shooting each person with the "intent to kill.") <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:blue;" ></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:black;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">On July 3, 2007, he was brought back to Illinois and jailed in Joliet, the seat of Will County, where he has remained in custody as the State of Illinois and Vaughn's attorneys prepare for trial.<st1:state st="on"></st1:state><st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"></st1:state></st1:place></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>The time of <st1:time minute="25" hour="5" st="on">5:25 a.m.</st1:time> has been variously described as the time that the passerby picked up Mr. Vaughn, the time of the 911 call made by the passerby, and the time that the first officers arrived on the scene and discovered the four bodies inside the vehicle. In any case, I am exploring the event itself using the data <st1:date year="2007" day="14" month="6" st="on">June 14, 2007</st1:date>, <st1:time minute="25" hour="5" st="on">5:25 a.m. CDT</st1:time>, <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">Channahon</st1:city>, <st1:state st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b style="">THE EVENT CHART<o:p></o:p></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><o:p> </o:p></b>With Gemini rising, the event is about communication, and it began with a series of communications. First, Christopher Vaughn flagged down a motorist on the frontage road. Then the motorist made the 911 call, and the first responders discovered the vehicle with the bodies inside and realized that a crime had occurred which would have to be investigated and for which data would have to be gathered. Very quickly it became a breaking news story throughout northern <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:place>. The Gemini Ascendant also describes the setting for the event, a vehicle, near a cell tower, not far from an interstate highway, all ruled by Gemini. That the event, the communication, the news story, and the investigation are about a family is shown three ways: (1) the ruler of the Ascendant, Mercury, is in Cancer; (2) Mercury is the intercepted ruler of the 4^th house; and, (3) the Sun, which is conjunct the Ascendant within 15’ of orb, rules the cusp of the 4^th house. Cancer and the 4^th house, of course, both rule families. Furthermore, the Moon, which rules Cancer, is rising 10 degrees ahead of the Ascendant, out of orb of a conjunction to the Ascendant perhaps, but it still stands out.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">The event has <st1:time minute="16" hour="23" st="on">23:16</st1:time> Gemini rising and the Sun which is tightly conjunct the Ascendant is at <st1:time minute="1" hour="23" st="on">23:01</st1:time> Gemini. The synastry between the victims’ untimed charts (which I may discuss in a later article), the chart of the State of <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:state></st1:state></st1:place>, and the event, just using the event’s Ascendant-Sun conjunction is striking. <o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">The chart of the State of <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:state></st1:state></st1:place> (December 3, 1818, 12:00 pm, Washington, D.C.) has a stellium of five planets and one asteroid in Sagittarius which includes Uranus at 20 Sagittarius, Mercury at <st1:time minute="57" hour="23" st="on">23:57</st1:time> Sagittarius, Neptune at 26 Sagittarius, and Vesta at 28 Sagittarius. All of these are within range of opposing the event’s Ascendant-Sun but Mercury opposes it within minutes.<o:p></o:p></p> <p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">A country’s, state’s, or city’s Mercury includes its attitudes towards its youth and this case involves the murders of three children. With the Illinois Mercury so closely conjunct the event’s 7^th cusp and the <st1:state st="on"><st1:state st="on">Illinois</st1:state></st1:state> Sun at 11 Sagittarius opposite the event’s Moon at 13 Gemini, it appears that the State of <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:state></st1:state></st1:place>, as represented by various agencies within its criminal justice system, is going to take this case very personally. With the Illinois Pluto (death, crime, murder) square the Illinois Mercury in Sagittarius (laws), there’s the natal potential that the murder of a child or children could become a prominent, significant, or pivotal legal case. Currently, the State of <st1:place st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:state st="on"><st1:place st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:state></st1:state></st1:place> has a moratorium on carrying out the death penalty, but prosecutors can still pursue it in sentencing and they are, in fact, doing so in this case. Perhaps this case will play a major role in the future of that issue.</p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">There is more interesting synastry between the event and the charts of the victims and the State of Illinois but even looking only at the synastry involving the event’s Ascendant-Sun conjunction, it appears that this case may ultimately loom larger in the reputation of the legal system of the State of Illinois than anyone can currently envision considering that four of the six planets in the state’s Sagittarius stellium are in its 10^th house.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">My own natal Mercury is at <st1:time minute="4" hour="23" st="on">23:04</st1:time> Gemini, conjunct the event's Ascendant-Sun within minutes. Although I used to, I rarely follow crime stories closely anymore, but this one has captured my curiosity, interest, and concern.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Looking at the 3rd house because the ideas of communication, conveying and collecting data and information, travel, and news are so prominent, we see Venus and Saturn in Leo. Venus rules the 5th house, children. Children are involved; children in a vehicle, 3rd house. Venus also rules the 12th house, secrecy, things behind the scenes. The story, 3rd house, of an event that took place in secret is being exposed and communicated. Saturn rules the 8th house, death, and is in Leo in the 3rd. The event involves the deaths of children.<br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The most prominent planet in the chart is the Sun which is conjunct the Ascendant within minutes. Again, the Sun rules both the 3^rd and 4^th houses reinforcing the idea that this event is a story, 3^rd house, about a family, 4^th house. The Sun also represents the male principle and potentially the father principle, at the very least it is a masculine planet. It was a man, Christopher Vaughn, the husband of Kimberly Vaughn and the father of the deceased children who brought the crime to the attention of the authorities. Thus, the Sun in the event chart may very well represent him since it was he who emerged from the crime scene almost exactly at sunrise to call attention to a shocking and brutal crime. Or, perhaps the fact that the Sun, which is so closely conjunct the Ascendant, rules the 4^th supports the Illinois State Police spokesman’s statement at the first press conference about the case that the perpetrator was from the family and that there were no outsiders or unknown persons involved. As far as the public knows, Christopher Vaughn has been the only suspect from the beginning. Does the Sun represent Christopher Vaughn? Does it represent the perpetrator?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Please, please note:</span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">I want to be absolutely clear that although Christopher Vaughn has been charged with these murders, he is innocent until proven guilty. Although I am using astrology to examine the event, I have no intention of drawing any conclusions as to his guilt or innocence.</span><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">To continue...that a brutal crime occurred that wiped out nearly an entire family (and devastated the extended family) is shown by Pluto, death, crime, brutality, opposite the Sun, the ruler of the 4th. The crime scene was described as horrific even to seasoned investigators. The Will County State's Attorney, James Glasgow, stated in a press conference that everyone who has worked on the case has been scarred by it. That it was shocking is shown by Uranus square the Sun, Moon, and the Ascendant/Descendant axis.</p><div style="text-align: justify;">As noted above concerning the synastry, all of the Sagittarius planets of the State of Illinois are clustered around the Descendant with the Illinois Mercury right on it, opposite the event's Sun. This synastry strongly suggests that the 7th house in this chart represents the State of Illinois as a legal and investigative entity, which advocates on the behalf of victims, and which includes the state police, the entire team of investigators and forensic analysts, the state's attorney, everyone, in fact, you has been and continues to be involved in gathering and analyzing evidence, and who are working to determine the truth and bringing the perpetrator to justice.<br /><br />With the Sun on the Ascendant opposite Pluto in Sagittarius in the 7th house, conjunct the 7th cusp, and opposite the Ascendant-Sun within a 4 1/2 degree orb, it looks like there is a team, a collective group of investigators, opposite an individual. Sagittarius rules teams and would, of course, rule a legal team. With the 7th house Pluto opposite the Sun, there is a great deal of pressure and focus on the one suspect in the case, Christopher Vaughn, and not only does Pluto in the event chart oppose the Sun, the natal Pluto of the State of Illinois at 23:21 Pisces squares the Ascendant-Sun of the event. That's a lot of pressure and focus by the state on the event itself and on the one individual they have arrested and charged. And there is an obsession, Pluto, with the truth, Sagittarius. With this event occurring so late in Pluto's transit through Sagittarius, I cannot help but wonder what its repercussions will be with Pluto in Capricorn. Could this be one of those events that creates a bridge from the end of one sign to the beginning of the next as the Simpson case did from Scorpio to Sagittarius? This case has not received much national attention so far. Vaughn is not a celebrity as was Simpson, and in the national news and to some extent locally, this news story was quickly eclipsed by that of the pregnant woman who was murdered in Ohio around the same time. Since it was announced in October, 2007, that the State was seeking the death penalty, there has been very little news about this case, and I do not believe that a trial date has been established yet. However, with the synastry involving the Sagittarius planets of the State of Illinois, I still think it will eventually take on considerable significance at least within the state.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">to be continued</span><br /></div><br />Peace to you--Doreen<br /><br />Note: My source for nearly all the facts in this post is news articles in the Chicago Tribune.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> <span style=";font-family:&quot;;font-size:12;" ></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"> <a name="_ftnref1"></a><span style=""></span><o:p></o:p></p> <div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p></div>Doreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08654705601429271768keyongardendoor@aol.com