Brittanee Drexel

The few cases where people do vanish there is a high occurrence of  Mars-Neptune contacts and other aspects too. It doesn't happen all the time, but I wondered about the significance of this aspect in the horoscope. It's an aspect that shows up in Brittanee's chart, she is the missing teen, that still has not been located. Here are some quotes on Mars-Neptune and the Britanee Drexel case to follow.

"With Mars in aspect to Neptune, Neptune wants to come through Mars. So, when people with this aspect want to assert themselves, they should do it with sensitivity, refinement, and artistic flair. In some cases, this with difficult Mars-Neptune aspects appear to be taken over by external forces which compel them to act in a certain way. For instance, if there is a lot of anger in the atmosphere that is not being expressed, it may be the person with Mars in aspect to Neptune who ends up acting it out. Neptune acts as a psychic vacuum cleaner, picking up the nature of whatever planet it aspects from the atmosphere. I know people with Mars conjunct or square Neptune who occasionally act strangely out of character, or even "wacky," as if something has overtaken them.

I do worry about people abnegating personal responsibility. I'm thinking of the Nazi war criminals who proclaimed their innocence because a higher authority made them do it. Sometimes people with Mars-Neptune aspects seduce other people to seduce them. They want to do something but are guilty about it and are afraid to admit it to themselves. Accordingly, they set up a situation in which someone else then coerces, forces and pleads with them to do that thing they are afraid of admitting they want to do. You know what I mean- it's the "I did it because I was drunk syndrome", or "I did it because the other person need me do it" or "I did it for Jesus." - Dynamics of the Unconscious by Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas.

"One can easily become involved in scandal or trouble resulting from fraud or racketeering by unprincipled agents. Stay clear of chance taking, gambling, alcohol, drugs, gas or anesthetics; this is no time for surgery and be extra cautious of food poisoning and bad drinking water." Astrologers Notebook, May Elsnau.

"In regard to the external life, he may be brought in contact with the objectionable sides of life - indeed, it is certain that this will Be the case. For example, unscrupulous money lenders, cheats, share pushers, persons addicted to sexual irregularities, drug takers or vendors, coarse minded and foul mouthed persons, bullies, dishonest bankrupts, drunkards and so forth. It's necessary for the individual to find outlets for his imagination and to learn to let reason control this faculty, not only in somethings but in all. The effect on the health is through worry, diseases of imagination, or through poisons or bad water. I believe there is some peril to be apprehended from animals and from treacherous and brutal human beings. Neither of these dangers will be great unless some other serious afflictions occur." The Astrological Aspect, Charles Carter.

The Britanee Drexel Story

Brittanee went on a trip to Myrtle beach while she was on spring break with friends but acted in secret (Mars-Neptune) and her parents were unaware of the trip.

Brittanee had asked to go on the trip during her spring break from school with a group of older teens and young adults, but Dawn Drexel said no, sparking a fight between the mother and daughter. "I just told her 'No, I don't like the idea,'" Drexel said. "I didn't know the people she was going with." And, Drexel said, she didn't like the idea of her teenage daughter driving down to Myrtle Beach without a parent in tow. Brittanee, she said, stormed off to a friend's house, saying she needed to cool down. She apparently defied her mother and went with her friends anyway. Diagnosed with depression, Brittanee had recently been put on anti-depressant medication after the stress of family problems, including the divorce of her mother and stepfather, became too much for her to deal with on her own.

The house, Drexel said, was in foreclosure and Brittanee was protective of her younger brother and sister, wanting to make sure they were all right. Though the anti-depressents were prescribed only recently, Drexel said they were told they could take about a month to build up in her system. "I really don't know what state of mind she's in right now," she said. One of the last people to see Brittanee was her friend Peter Broswick, one of the Rochester men who Brittanee visited at the Bluewater Resort Saturday night. According to the police report, two of the men told police she stayed only for about 10 minutes and left to return some clothing to another friend.

Knipes told ABCNews.com that the men, including Broswick, checked out of their hotel between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. that night and drove back to Rochester. "Sinister? I don't know," he said, pointing out that Rochester is a 16-hour drive from Myrtle Beach and the men may have had school or jobs they needed to get back to. The others, according to a police report, told detectives that they had only met Brittanee, through Broswick, the night before at a night club. None of them, he said, are considered persons of interest at this time.

The Astrology of a Missing Teen

Brittanee appeared to be in an emotionally troubled state at the time of her disappearance and I am not sure if these men she was travelling with are completely innocent. Astrology can't make a judgement on who did what and where and how. However, the whole thing reeks of natal Mars square Neptune. Astrologically Brittanee is a powerful Librian and she can get along well with the opposite sex. The teenager is extremely pretty and Britanee likes to take care of her appearance, spend time on hair and make-up. Libra is a social sign, that needs to please and create harmony around them, and Librians don't deal well with dis-harmony. The young teen wasn't handling the break up of her parents marriage well, and she really does need harmony in her environment and for people to at least "appear" to be getting along. Sun (individuality) square Uranus (breaking rules) shows a rebellious nature and explains why she went off on spring break against her parents wishes, it can also show her step (Uranus) father (Sun).

Neptune (confusion and dissolution) is exactly conjunct the North Node in Capricorn, along with Mars in Libra square Neptune. Brittanee has a cardinal nature, and she likes to take action, but there is some disharmony between relating harmoniously (Libra) and authority and control (Capricorn). Brittanee has Mars (aggression) square Saturn (control) and this heightens the danger of violence from men, as Mars also rules the male principle. Mars and Saturn are called the lesser (Mars) and greater (Saturn) malefics in traditional astrology. In modern astrology we hardly use the term, but we understand the difficulty some planetary aspects pose to one another. We need to keep grounded in these type of interpretations, thousands of women/men have these type of combinations and many were born the same day as Brittanee and won't meet the same fate. 

At the time she disappeared transiting Jupiter trined Mars (tight) and squared Pluto. Transiting Neptune was trine Saturn and Mars. Transiting Pluto trined Brittanee's natal Venus-Jupiter conjunction in Virgo. Transiting Pluto was also conjunct Uranus. However, until she is found we may not know what happened. I do question how much planetary energy around the individual unravels some of this mystery. I think most astrologers and non-astrologers, agree that going on holiday with men is not a good idea for any teenager. The easy Neptune energy in her horoscope at the time of her disappearance is setting off Britanee's natal Mars square Saturn. We can all "guess" but the facts are still unclear. I would like astrology to be advanced enough to give clearer and definitive answers, but we only work with symbols.