Back Story: Madeline O'Hair, was an American atheist, author, social worker and activist, and as the leading spokesperson against God and religion she earned herself the title as one of the most hated women in America. Through legal battles prayer in school was outlawed by the Supreme court.
Early Childhood: Madeleine's father was the owner of a construction company, until the business crashed, and her seamstress mother, after learning she was pregnant with Madeline, tried to throw herself out of a window trying to abort the pregnancy.
" It was in Hawaii that O'Hair fell in love with married Army officer William J. Murray, Jr., a wealthy Roman Catholic. When she found herself pregnant by Murray several months later, he refused to admit paternity alluding to the fact that his devotion to the church would never permit him to divorce his wife. Noting Murray's family wealth, an enraged O'Hair sued for child support and took his name for herself and her illegitimate son.
Returning to the mainland distraught and pregnant, O'Hair divorced Roth and promptly made Roman Catholicism the target of her considerable rage. At the bull's-eye of this target was the Pope himself, personally responsible for preventing her lover from marrying her. Shortly after giving birth to her son, O'Hair assumed the position of a deranged Scarlet O'Hara during a thunderstorm challenging God that, if such a thing as "God" existed, it should strike both her and her child dead with a bolt of lightning." She interpreted their unscathed survival as a sign that "God does not exist, or he would have taken up the challenge....I've proved irrefutably that God does not exist." Source.
Madeline has had quite a dramatic life crusading against religion, God, along with her many organisations and the laundering of money. When her health declined and the lawsuits mounted, she disappeared on an "extended" vacation with $500,000 of her organisations money. Madeline kept up some communication with former employees, but this too faded.
And then ......
"After she vanished in 1995 with a son and a granddaughter and a half million dollars in gold coins, a former member of the O'Hair Organization mentioned that "death threats were as regular as rain. " While there were many theories, there were no clues; the three were never found. Speculation ran rife as to their whereabouts, with New Zealand being a strong possibility for the location of their exile, coupled with theories held by the IRS and her oldest son that the trio met with foul play and were murdered.
On 3/24/1999, David Roland Waters, 52, was arrested on weapons charges, under suspicion for being involved in the disappearance. A former office manager for O'Hair, he served time for a murder conviction in 1965 and is presently on probation for skimming $54,000 from the O'Hair organization. Prior to Waters' trial, on 1/28/2001, investigators unearthed the bones of dismembered body parts at a ranch, Cape Wood, Texas, believed to be those of O'Hair, her son Jon Garth Murray and the granddaughter she adopted, Robin Murray O'Hair. On 3/15/2001, the identity of the grisly remains were confirmed. As part of a plea bargain, Waters led authorities to the gravesite."
Madeline Murray O'Hair's Natal Chart
Madeline's life was rarely peaceful and her life ended in murder and this a rather gruesome and grim end. In life, she faced controversy, death threats and strong reactions from the public. Madeline acted deceptively in all her financial dealings and did a disappearing act when she couldn't face up to her responsibilities. A look into her Astrology may offer us a more detailed look at the personality and challenges in O'Hairs chart. Madeline's horoscope is strong in fire, with the Sun exalted in Aries and Mars is in its own sign of Aries. The Sun and Mars are conjunct in the natal chart and she is rather like a triple Aries. The fighting spirit is powerful in her personality and crusades, competitiveness and beating all competition are all dominating motivations.
Individuality is an important goal for Aries, and the courage and motivation to fight for someone or something creates a feeling of potency. Madeline presented the archetypal warrior image of Aries. However, she was described as an arrogant and aggressive woman and there can be impulsiveness, impatience and recklessness. There may be signs of self-centeredness and riding roughshod over less challenging personalities. Usually the ram is pretty direct in their action, but Mars the ruler of Aries along with the Sun in Aries are in the 12th house (spirituality, deception, confusion). Mars is also SQUARE to Neptune. Therefore she may act misguided at times, and her anger may be unconscious and relates to family history (12th) and national race. The 12th house in astrology relates to our ancestors and "the skeletons in the closet" or the "ghosts from the past" that continue to haunt the individual and his twelfth house complexes. The 12th house in traditional texts is known as the house of self-undoing. You could say these complexes over aggression, assertion and rage can't always be explained "rationally".
Mars in Aries in the 12th house is in a difficult position in the natal chart. Mars needs direction, identity, potency and the Piscean house is the reverse of all that (sign before Aries). Mars in this position of the chart can often show a powerful fighter, and I have seen many charts with 12th house planets and these perceived weaknesses turn out to be their greatest strengths. However, Mars here can also be self-defeatist in their actions, and Madeline was raging about a whole host of past emotions, sacrifice, transcendental experiences that could not be pinpointed. With Mars square Neptune this amplifies the con-fusion, and Neptune rules fusion, belonging and the collective soul. However, Mars rules individuality and fighting against dissolution and in-direction. Mars-Neptune is often found in the charts of spiritual and religious fighters and fighting for the underdogs in society (Social workers).
I don't think Mars-Neptune is the only aspect driving the activism in her chart and religious crusades. If you take a look at her Jupiter-Pluto conjunction, this woman does not take Jupiterian issues lightly. Jupiter rules the belief in life's meaning, ideals and the search for personal meaning. Jupiter rules hope, justice, goodness and under harsh aspects can rule fanaticism, exaggerated beliefs and intolerance. Pluto rules extremism, cruelty, devouring, healing, volcanic and obsessive natures. Pluto has an all or nothing approach to religion (Jupiter). With a Jupiter-Pluto contact there is always deep religious or political convictions or an intense pursuit of knowledge.
The interesting part, is that the CONJUNCTION plugs into Madeline's Moon in Libra. The need for justice, and the emphasis of the court case and legal battles (Libra) are all tied up with the Moon and also perhaps to the earlier experience of mother (Moon). A Moon-Pluto mother may have experienced trauma in her own life, some crisis, and she holds on to dark and powerful feelings which the child picks up. Jupiter inflates and looks for a sense of meaning to it all and it can also exaggerate emotions (OTT) to nurturing and emotional issues. All this extremism and exaggeration comes down through the mothers line of the family.
For anyone who wants to study charts and aspects there are more Jupiter-Pluto examples here And you will see from these example the large accumulation of money is also present. I would have looked at the transit chart for when Madeline went missing, but I am uncertain about the dates she disappeared. Mars-Neptune is an aspect which sometimes relates to people going physically (Mars) missing (Neptune). Jupiter on Mars can also be present for abductions. Don't forget abductions are rare occurrences and any planetary aspect can manifest in multiple ways (adding astrological small print). I have astrological charts of missing people and abductions that you may want to check out too.
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