Appendix C
Luc Jouret

Jouret's 3rd chart did not start out with a psychotic set. On the date of his death his sun conjunction mars in Sagittarius picked up a progressed neptune, giving him a schizoid set. For full blown schizophrenia, he would have had to start out with a similar set and have a new one by progression, or have the old one re-emphasized at the time of the event. He only had the new one. His schizoid set looks like this:

The set’s influence to an Angle and a 3rd house gives it potential for mental disturbance in a chart not normally prone to it. It probably represent a hair-raising sense of fear, but not necessarily a loss of self control.

Just in case, we should also check his 1st chart, which also plays into the significators for insanity. How strong was his identity? Did he start out at birth with that flat affect (produced by saturn) so many schizophrenics have? No, he did not. Jouret’s identity was strong. However, at the time of his death he had a lot of outer planet activity, including:

Progressed B Asc was conjunct saturn (2nd ruler) and opposition pluto.

Progressed C Asc was square progressed c1 neptune (4th ruler)

Progressed B MC was square progressed c1 pluto (conjunction progressed c venus, ruler of c 4th and c 9th houses).

Progressed b1 uranus is opposition C Asc.

There's that 1st chart Angle/saturn often occurring with schizophrenics. For some one who started out with a strong mind and a strong identity, Jouret had the next best thing to psychosis. Certainly he was very stressed.

He had two progressed Angle/mercuries, one of them progressed mercury in Scorpio (ruler of B MC and b 7th) square C Asc, a condition implying thoughts about death, whether one’s own or another’s. But the Angular mercuries suggest controlled ideation, which is counter to psychosis.

The above create the impression of some physical depression (mercury/saturn), a sense of emergency (mercury/pluto and mercury/uranus), and isolation (saturn/pluto).

One has, however, to be careful assigning meaning to 1st chart sets Its bailiwick involves identity and its physical consequences, with a lot yet to be sorted out. Is Jouret's duress because of his increasingly bad relationship with DiMambro, or because a decision has to be made about leaving, or simply because it is difficult to be rational with that much outer planet influence?

Ultimately, Jouret’s sanity at the end of his life is a difficult call to make. More research is needed with other individuals who have similar strong beginnings and turbulent ends. What load can individual’s like that carry? What options exist?

I put Jouret’s charismatic set in his partial chart in the main paper. It is:

It falls in b 11th house, so it is influencing both 11th houses, making him like pollen to bees for groups. It has 8th house influence through its sign, Scorpio. Occult (8th) religious (9th) activities through groups (11th) is entirely reasonable for Jouret. Its 4th house influence speaks for itself--he will be heavily engaged in such matters toward the end of his life. These alone imply nothing about suicide.

Jouret has even more occult influence in his 1st chart. It could also be interpreted as being heavily invested in the inner lives of others 8th/Scorpio). To his non-harmonic c South Node at 17 Scorpio 28 conjunct his b moon (ruler of b 8th) at 19 Scorpio 39 are added b1 jupiter at 14 Scorpio 30 (ruling B Asc in c 11th house) and c1 venus at 17 Scorpio 09 (ruling c 4th and 9th houses). So, from childhood Jouret had a powerful interest in transformations involving religion (9th) and groups (11th) but it operated strongest at the end of his life (4th)--all for positive (both benefics conjunct) reasons. But, this conjunction to the South Node is more dangerous than his set with his C MC because the South Node implies he is constantly pulled (and pulling others) toward dissolution of his individual identity (1st chart) into a shared one (8th) through transformations, possibly death (Scorpio/8th), either for reasons unknown to most of us, or somewhat to his own surprise, or to fulfill undetermined karma (all are in the 12th house).

All the above benefic 8th influence is countered by his actual planets in his b 8th house. It contains a conjunction of c saturn at 13 cancer 05, b mars at 15 Cancer 41, and c pluto at 18 Cancer 49 (at 17 Cancer 44 on date of death). Saturn rules c 12th house; mars, b 12th and 5th. This set picks up lights in other charts, its closest light being in his 11th chart, with b11 moon (8th ruler) at 15 Cancer 24. Is this highly afflicted 8th set with 12th and 4th (Cancer) influences symbolic of his fight and split with DiMambro, or is it an indication that his occult practices will go awry?

One more comment about Jouret. He was a bit of a Don Juan. He has a c 3rd/b 5th overlap. One way that expresses is, his ideas (3rd) are his children (5th) Another is sexual, his mind (3rd) stays focused on sex (5th). In his 7th chart he has b7 moon at 26 Aries 49 conjunct b7 NN at 26 Aries 55 conjunct b NN at 29 Aries 39 all in 3rd/5th. It favors (NN) multiple sex unions (5th moon). He’s bold about it (Aries) even in his thinking (3rd house). The set does not influence either 11th house. However, ruler of his c 5th house, c mercury at 9 Sagittarius 28, is conjunct B Asc at 8 Sagittarius 46 in c 11th house. He also has several 5th/12th influences, not the least of which is his lighted b7 mars at 21 Pisces 08 in b 4th house. It rules b 5th and 12th houses. Did he have just a little more charisma than DiMambro had bargained for? His Pisces mars would have been forefront about two years before his death, when C MC squared it.

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