MsAnais
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For those having difficulty sleeping tonight:
Stumbled across this article on the "statistical analysis of birth charts of serial killers"
http://www.nvwoa.nl/pdfart/ruis/ruisen.pdf
"It is found that serial killers are frequently born when celestial factors are inMutable signs ..... The frequency of planets in the 12th house issignificantly high ..... and thefrequency distribution of Moon aspects deviates from the theoretical distributionin the whole sample... and in the dataset with known birth time.......It is concluded that, based on the two datasets, some of the claims ofastrologers cannot be rejected."
Basically this article states that there are patterns noticeable in the astrological charts of serial killers.
PS: this article is like another language for me, but someone here may appreciate its worth.
Thanks so much for this, Spooks.
Even if people aren't into astrology, it has some great non-astrological info about the development of serial killers. Such as this section, which explains it so well:
Specific sorts of behaviour, such as animal torture, fire setting, bed-wetting, frequent daydreaming, social isolation and chronic lying, characterize the childhood of serial killers. As adults they are addicted to their fantasies, have a lack of empathy, a constant urge for stimuli, a lack of external goals in life, a low self-control and a low sense of personal power. The lack of empathy or remorse, the superficial charm and the inflated self-appraisal are features of psychopathy.
Serial killers have also been said to have a form of narcissistic personality disorder with a mental addiction to kill (Vaknin, 2003).
In many psychological profiles of serial killers the central theme is frequent daydreaming, starting in early childhood and associated with a powerful imagination. It leads to the general fantasy world in which the serial killer begins to live as protection
against isolation and feelings of inadequacy arising from this isolation (Ressler & Burgess, 1990).
Many serial killers enact their crimes because of the detailed and violent fantasies (power, torture and murder) that have developed in their minds as early as the ages of seven and eight. These aggressive daydreams, developed as children, continue to develop and expand through adolescence into maturity, where they are finally released into the real world (Wilson & Seamen, 1992). With each successive victim, they attempt to fine tune the act, striving to make the real life experiences as perfect as the fantasy
(Apsche, 1993).
http://www.nvwoa.nl/pdfart/ruis/ruisen.pdf