I am not as good a teacher as I am a student, unfortunately.
The basic natal chart is a map. It shows the positions of the planets at a moment in time, usually the time of one's birth. The planets keep on moving after that moment, and form aspects to the natal positions over time.
The theory is that by watching these movements, we can get information about when events are going to happen in the individual's life. The German method only pays attention to the aspects that are considered "hard/challenging", and pretty much ignores the "soft" aspects.
I will look around on the web, and see who has the best "lessons" available for free, for those of you who want a better understanding of the basics.
No problem. I will go look at the site you listed, but I must forewarn...I chose to go to law school because my brain doesn't work like a scientist lol.
I guess my main question is this--
Can you definitely tell by a chart like this if, indeed, someone has died, or is it more or less showing that there may have been some major life event on this day (say like her being kidnapped on the 17th or 18th)?
During the Lauterbach investigation, someone on WS got the birth info on Laurean's child from a website. I believe that it showed everything except her name.
IF we could get a birth time for you, COULD you tell if she died?
Forgive my ignorance. I tried to learn about astrology when I was a teenager and I was too confused to get much out of it.
Another question--
Let's say that the chart shows that Casey has certain personality traits that you listed. When certain planets align, at the moment that they align, there may possibly make some of these traits more dominant? I am going out on a limb here, but I am thinking maybe when certain planets that control a certain aspect of her personalty align, then those (possibly bad) traits are the dominant traits and may not mix well with eachother and will act as a catalyst for disaster?
ex. Casey has an impulsive trait and an aggressive trait. When the planets that control these 2 align, they are dominant over others at that time. Thus, the possibility of her killing would be more dominant during that time?
If this is the case, how often would those 2 planets align and create this dominant trait and if it works like this, would she necessarily kill each time, or just have an explosive episode?
Yes, the specific questions do help, Medea.
I do not have a crystal ball, and I am not psychic. I use the transits to Casey's chart to see when she might have taken some kind of action that would be consistent with harm to Caylee.
One very possible timeframe is from very late at night on June 17th, through mid-afternoon on June 18th.
Casey is prone to lying, deception, exaggeration, and confabulation.
She is also excitable, argumentative, stubborn, craves excitement, and apt to have an explosive temper. She will act in haste without thinking through the consequences. These tendencies of hers were very active during the entire time frame of Caylee's disappearance.
Caylee's chart for the 17th and 18th isn't as clear as Casey's. Remember, we do not have her time of birth, and this would be very important in pinning down the most probable time for her to be harmed. There is one indication of trouble shown on the 17th/18th.
Looking at the 24th, I think it is more likely that Casey was pulling a fast one over the phone with her exBF, to make him believe that Caylee was climbing on the table. Just a little "drama" she was putting on to confuse everyone.
Now, remember. I could be very wrong, so do not take any of this as "fact". But, if I were LE, I would be demanding that Casey give the truth about where she was the night of the 17th, and into the 18th. I would want her to give names of who she was with, who might verify her story, etc...
Trying to pin down her location, and an alibi for this time might be very interesting.
I also noticed that it seems all the planets are consolidated in 3 houses. Is this strange or should they be better dispersed like Caylee's chart?
Oh my!
Just looked at the calender for Juny. Tuesday was the 17th and Wed. was the 18th. Maybe she got rid of her kid so that she could go to the club Friday night in her blue dress and dance on the stripper pole uke:
Poor Caylee.
I am going to go back at look at the timeline again, to see if I can figure out who might be able to provide an alibi for her. I only looked quickly at the timelines earlier, and when I found the birthdates, I was off and running to my astrology software to study up the timing.
Now, it will be interesting to go back, and see what was going on on some of the dates listed in the timelines.
You have it right. She has these impulsive explosive tendencies in her birth chart. These will be triggered off on a regular basis, but the slower moving planets are more significant in timing a major explosion, such as the one we are discussing. Uranus and Pluto are the slower moving planets that are involved, and the fast moving moon is triggering the slower moving two.
If you peer at the Casey's chart showing the two rings, you will be able to see Uranus, Pluto, and the Moon in the outer ring, making aspects to her inner planets. Uranus looks like a tv antenna, Pluto looks like combo PL, and the moon is a crescent.
Yes, I checked the timelines. There is a big blank from the 15th to the 24th.
I am suspicious of the exBF phone call, since it is so easy to pull the phone away from your mouth, make a few noises, tell Cayley to get off the table, and make or play some kid noises (from a tape or MP3?)
Casey is the drama queen of prevaricators, remember? She easily could have faked that. But, that is just my suspicion... maybe it is because I am fixated on June 18th...
I sure wish we could find out what she was doing from the 15th to the 24th!