Jeffrey Epstein: Black Hole
Goya’s Witch’s Sabbath was painted in a very difficult time for his own country, Spain, when murder, starvation and rapine stalked the land.
Jeffrey Epstein raped, tortured and likely murdered women and children. I’ll just reiterate that. “Financier” Jeffrey Epstein raped, tortured and likely murdered women and children.
If you were a “friend” — and he seemed to have an awful lot of those –; you were chums with a rapist, torturer and probable murderer. At the Epstein buffet, I guess you could fill up on child-molesting, blackmail, torture, rape, wrapped up in philanthropy or think-tankery, or you might be jousting for a place at the table with a celebrity, a billionaire or someone who could be both. As a friend, you could borrow his plane or some cash, or stay at one of his fancy properties. You could borrow a person to abuse. He liked to lend out his “property” because it meant you owed him.
If you were part of the buffet — a young woman or child — you could expect to be treated with the same courtesy as a fruit salad or a trussed grouse.
His accountant, Richard Kahn, testified last week that Epstein was directly paid by knicker-seller Les Wexner; Leon Black, ex-head of the surely ironically-named Apollo Asset Management (who himself had 69 bank accounts, apparently); accurately named ex-Microsoft director Stephen Sinofsky; financier Glenn Dubin married to Epstein’s ex and named by Virginia Giuffre as a rapist; and members of the Rothschild family. None of these people are facing charges — yet.
Epstein’s web spanned the globe from Cape Town to Lost Angeles, Paris to New York. There were employees, by-standers, guests, “friends” galore. They were all, more or less, complicit. For example, he had a small squad of close employees, in particular Lesley Groff and Sarah Kellen, who organised his “calendar”.
His corrupting web spread through finance, politics, academia, college campuses, charities, movies, fashion. He was a human spider who, along with his partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, sat at the centre of an intricate pattern of social connections. He made introductions, dropped names, and faked an even bigger network. He understood that one way to lure people is to show them who he “knew” — and according to Epstein, and partly thanks to Maxwell, he knew a lot of important people.
Survivors of his sexual abuse describe him enjoying the cruelty and the power, getting off on the mind games. He chose victims who were vulnerable, because they were young and often alone or isolated. It seems clear that debauching young people was a game, tracking women down, luring them in, pursuing them even as they tried to escape, bending their minds to his will, hunting with his fellow hound-dog Ghislaine. A key coercive method was to separate them from family and country, often with the promise of work as models, or sponsorship for study. Since his network ran deep into Eastern Europe, through Africa down to Cape Town, through Latin America, he had access to vulnerable people in many locations. Again, think of all the other personnel involved in this people-trafficking empire.
Was Epstein’s web of corruption created by him? Or was he filling a position that was already there? In which case, when did it begin, who has replaced him? Was he the “butler” or was he a kind of “priest”, hired by a congregation to oversee the vice, lure in the johns?
What is the nature of Jeffrey Epstein’s natal chart? — which we will assume is correct.
The birth information is from astro.com and backed by a birth certificate. Please assume that all the signs and planets in his chart have both a good and bad side, but in this case, we’re looking at how they can go very wrong.
The first sign I look for when we’re talking about a social network is Aquarius, the fixed air sign, which is a connector of groups, unlike the other air signs, Libra and Gemini that are more attuned to the one-to-one. And we can see that Epstein was born with his Sun at 0° Aquarius in the first house. This is what people saw when they first met him — a networker, a thinker. Aquarius often has a knack for numbers, like Epstein, and it is certainly the sign of the “common man” — a self-identification that he cleaved to: an “ordinary guy” with his norm core clothes. It’s notable also that his private jet seems to have played a huge symbolic and practical role in his networking. This is a thing of the air, giving this Aquarian status (Saturn in Libra near the MC too). He was also self-described as “someone who lives on a phone”, another Aquarian object.
Ambition
He was born as ambitious, status-conscious Capricorn came over the horizon, which means Saturn is his chart ruler. Saturn is the highest planet, so his ambitions were paramount. It makes a conjunction with Neptune — which we will come back to — but for now, it’s enough to say that Neptune makes Saturn limitless, and so his ambition was vast, uncontainable. He did not just want to reach the top of the financial world, he wanted political, philosophical power — and as so many women found to their cost, he wanted physical power too. Saturn can be cold and cruel — and according to survivors his cruelty was both psychological and physical. This is Saturn in one of the social signs, Libra, and his ambition was to climb the social ladder. Libra is the sign of the diplomat, politician, social connector, so again, this is what some people saw. But isolating people was also one way he controlled them — this may be Saturn (as jailer) in Libra.
Epstein’s actual Midheaven (career, public image, direction) is ruled by that sign of secrets and spies, Scorpio, which means that potentially sleazy Mars in Pisces and Pluto in Leo rule it. Pluto, the plutocrat, in Leo, the sign of kings, is clearly the VIPs Epstein worked for, “befriended” and manipulated. It’s at the end of the Seventh House of peers. One of his jobs was to make those “special people” feel like they were one of the guys, Aquarius, by bringing them down to the dirt (Taurus on the IC with Jupiter).
Cruel Teacher
Let’s talk about the evil side of Chiron — so often blithely labelled “the wounded healer”, without further thought given to other ways this part human-part beast can work.
Epstein had Chiron rising in the sign of status, Capricorn. It’s the most prominent object in his natal chart. When rising like this it can show that we are either a healer or, in this case, its opposite — a person who harms. Epstein’s life work was to harm people, create holes in them that were impossible to heal, and keep those holes open.
In the myths, Chiron is a teacher of heroes; and in astrology, you often see a prominent Chiron like this in the charts of mentors or gurus. In fact, Epstein started his career in teaching, and spent a lot of effort aligning himself with prestigious academic institutions. And more sinisterly, he was a kind of corruption coach for both the women he enslaved and his “friends”. Furthermore, he was seen as an advisor: the friends were constantly asking for his advice — a classic Chiron gift — on finances, getting their children into college, seducing women, logistics, who to talk to. With that Chiron conjoining Mercury, he may actually have given sound advice in some areas — especially when it came to power structures which is a purview of Capricorn.
Chiron can also show where we feel vulnerable, and here it is in Capricorn, the sign of the establishment and social status. In interviews, Epstein’s status anxiety is obvious. He tries to boost himself by associating himself with big-name academics, politically powerful people. At the same time, he does not disguise his own humble social origins: calling himself “just a good kid”, who made it from Coney Island to Davos. In his emails, he is brash, vulgar, coarse, impatient, mocking. So he has weaponised his vulgarity in the soft world of the super-rich, who may have felt that he had something which they lacked, a kind of street smarts, or common touch, especially with that Aquarian Sun opposing the regal sign of Leo.
An Amoral Human Calculator
Mercury right next to Chiron is a trickster too, of course, a dealmaker, a shapeshifter. Looking at the emails, all his relationships appear to have been transactional.
His instinctive grasp of systems — Aquarius Sun sextile Pallas Athena at 0° Aries in the house of money — was clearly a talent. This made him a strategic, organised, calculating intelligence. He saw patterns. He understood systems, hence his financial contributions to the Santa Fe Institute. But I wonder if that sense of big patterns meant that in personal relationships, he was just experiencing structures, instead of connecting with people. In fact, morally, he was a vacuum. Despite a fascination with philosophy, he did not see how morals connected to relationships.
Personal connection can sometimes be a problem for Aries Moon — especially perhaps when it conjoins cool, calculating Pallas Athena. Aries Moon has trouble seeing other people as people sometimes. Not only are you the hero of your own story, you are the only real person in the story. Everyone else becomes a non-player character. In fact, the combination of Capricorn, Aries and Aquarius can simply be cruel — and cruelty seems to have been his pleasure. Epstein’s Fifth House of fun is ruled by that intelligent, cold Mercury in Capricorn conjunct Chiron.
Like many people, Epstein has an opposition between Chiron and Uranus — but his opposition is right across his axis of relationship. Uranus in the house of the “other” speaks of unusual relationships. Often this is harmless enough: maybe a big age gap or cultural difference. But Uranus can also break things, or just simply be kinky, and it also rules his Sun in Aquarius, so it’s a very important planet in this chart.
Uranus is in the sign of family here, and one of Epstein’s obsessions seems to have been breaking families, and creating a weird one of his own. Uranus is connected to science too, which was a fascination of Epstein’s. He probably saw himself as a real scientific thinker with that Mercury, Chiron, Uranus combination — and he clearly felt it was his right to experiment on those closest to him. Cancer is also a sign associated with mothering and babies — and it’s become clear that Epstein was obsessed with eugenics and supremacy.
Perversion
Because of his money and influence, his paymasters and his mastery of pay, he was able unchecked to indulge is own perverted proclivities for most of his life. So we come to the conjunction of Mars and Venus in Pisces, Lilith in the 8th House and back to that Uranus. In that interview with Steve Bannon, he makes it clear that he was of the school that believes women are from Venus and men are from Mars — odd considering his own natal chart.
But often with Mars-Venus conjunctions, Mars, the planet of masculinity, passion, anger and violence, over-rides Venus, who becomes weak in the face of all that fire. However, Mars is softened in Pisces, and it’s said that Mars here can have rather sordid tastes sometimes — enjoying a roll in the gutter. In contrast, traditionally, Venus, the planet of women, is exalted in Pisces, but here is an example of just how peculiar some of these traditional notions can seem if you put them in the context of a natal chart (instead of horary). Epstein did not have a universal love of humankind. The opposite is true. He seems to have despised most people. Mars over-rides Venus.
Pisces has no boundaries; it can be indiscriminate. So this Venus-Mars conjunction suggests that Epstein’s gutter libido was impossible to satisfy. He may have felt himself to be in a permanent state of uneasy semi-arousal. This conjunction makes an exact trine to Uranus on the descendant — which can be kinky when it comes to sex, taboo-breaking. Indeed, breaking people, breaking women and children was exactly what turned him on. And that conjunction also makes an exact sextile to his Chiron, a wound that never heals. Indeed, this is the strongest pattern in his chart: Chiron-Uranus-Mars and Venus: a wound-a kink-sex. And around it looped again and again. The numbers, the numbers.
Cruelty
There is another important pattern in Epstein’s chart connecting Black Moon Lilith in Virgo with his Aries Moon-Pallas and his Sun. It’s called a Yod or “finger of god”. It’s not showing up on this graphic, because the program doesn’t recognise it, so I have drawn it in.
With a pattern like this, you can be sure that what is on the point is a direction that person could go. This pattern connects his ego (Sun) with what makes him feel safe (Moon) and they point to Lilith (the uncivilised, angry part of himself). All his abuse of women is in an effort to tame something he feels to be unbridled, to make himself feel important (the Sun), to make himself safe (the Moon).
Lilith is in the 8th house associated with secrets, taboos, other people’s money. Lilith can always be cruel and here her cruelty happens in secret. It also suggests that other people’s illicit money may have been a focus for him. He knew where the bodies were buried.
Like all the signs of the Zodiac, Virgo has many associations, but an important one is, as an earth sign, its connection to the body — and specifically to the body as a sacred vessel of life. It is the opposite of Pisces, where the sacred becomes ethereal or universal. In Virgo, the sacred is our fleshly selves. Epstein’s Lilith in Virgo defiles the sacred bodies of others, specifically maidens, or virgos in Latin. That Yod tells us that this is a really important focus. So much of Epstein’s chart is in plain sight, but this is concealed in the 8th. People chose not to see what this half-man was doing, even though it was mostly out in the open. (I would not believe anyone in his orbit who claims they were unaware.)
The other hidden planet is Jupiter, the planet of fortune, in the Fourth House, tucked away. Epstein was lucky with money. He may have thought that everything that happened was down to his own smarts, but Jupiter in Taurus can give people a Midas touch — and it makes a perfect trine to that ambitious Capricorn Rising. Another characteristic of Jupiter in Taurus can be a big appetite. And in this part of the chart, it connects with real estate, hence his many properties. What has happened to the money from them?
Hired by Whom
It seems fairly obvious that Epstein was put in his position in order to blackmail, bribe and corrupt. Guesses at the moment include Mossad and the CIA, and possibly the KGB too, although we may wonder if these are all the same organisation since the Berlin Wall came down. If you look at a website run by “private intelligence company” Black C**e, you will find all the themes that Epstein brings up in his interview with Steve Bannon laid out on the front page — “complex systems”, the “seemingly impossible”, “intelligence”, even the name is rather like “dark matter”. Just wondering…
There are also the questions of magic, astrology and his role as a wizard of some kind — which sounds crazy, but, hey, so does murdering babies, abducting children, believing in a superior races and discussing the soul with Steve Bannon in that famous interview. From this interview, he clearly saw himself as a sort of science wizard, hanging out with other science wizards (Uranus on the Descendant), but I think there’s more.
I look at Epstein and I see some kind of magus — and not in a good way. This fits with Capricorn Rising and Saturn-Neptune in Libra closing in on the Scorpio Midheaven. He built a temple on his island with a Zodiac on the ceiling, and in that interview with Bannon he talked about the “other forces” that work in the universe, those which are not measurable using scientific methods. He said: “No one has been able to describe what the soul is, but we all know it exists.”
If that’s the case, if he really thought that (because this a man of thought not faith), what was he doing hurting other people’s souls? Because his crimes were both material and spiritual. There’s not really a conundrum there though, because for all the fancy philosophical talk, Epstein had no moral compass at all. He was an ethical vacuum, a big hole, like that Chiron Rising. And Aquarians really do need to work this out for themselves. They need a system of ideas. His Sun at 0° is literally a zero.
For someone who clearly understands that there is more to life than the material world that we see, it’s remarkable that he is such a vacuum. But he said: “The soul, I describe, as the dark matter of the brain.” His soul was certainly dark matter.
When you talk about ethics in astrology, you want to look at Jupiter — which in Epstein’s case is on the half-way point between the Nodes of the Moon. This suggests that his life pivoted on that Jupiter in Taurus. He may have had a choice at a certain moment in his youth between greed and humanity. Once he chose corruption, he was lost. Like Faust, another seeker after knowledge who believed he could measure the world at first, he made a deal with the devil that led him to damnation.
Undone
One final thought. Epstein was born on a conjunction of Saturn and Neptune in Libra, and currently we are having the same conjunction in the opposite sign, Aries, right on his Pallas. Pallas Athena is the goddess of weaving. She was challenged by a mortal to a weaving contest once, and promptly turned Arachne, for that was her name, into a spider.
Now, at this conjunction on his natal Pallas, his web is being undone. He thought he could play god with other people’s lives, and now he may just be scuttling around like a bug somewhere on this planet, ready to be squashed under the heel of one of us passing peasants.
Arachne on redware
And one very last thing. Epstein had the fixed star Vega rising, which according to Vivian Robson writing in the 1920s, “makes its natives grave, sober, outwardly pretentious and usually lascivious.”
Wow.Amazing and succinct takedown and forensic account of his chart etc.
Many were in his sphere of influence-just to be in the room of heavy hitters-to network and to be seen:Oprah,Elon,Naomi.And then these are those who frequented the depraved arena of abuse and exploitation:Clinton,,Ehud Barak,Bill Gates,Les Wexner and reams more.Many Democrats and those on the right of the political spectrum. Will they be prosecuted or just able to stuff it off -as “bad judgement.”
I think this story has quite a long way to go — and more heads will roll in time. There’s also the social opprobrium, and the fact that there are so many more files to publish.
I love this series. Particularly how you lay about you, hip & thigh, using the astrology as your broadsword. Very satisfying to read your clarity lifting the veils on the harsher sides of these challenging powers and how they work here. I’m up to here with the focus on his/their vileness, a focus I find prurient and appalling. Your rigorous sanity is like medicine for a horrible illness. Thanks! Nice work!
Thanks, Isy. I spent a long time polishing this sword.
Incredibly insightful and pleasant to read! Thank you.
Thank you!
Your point about the YOD with Lilith supports a conclusion we reached some time ago, when we found a prominent Lilith in the charts of serial killers. They sought to suppress the concept of woman as they couldn’t cope with it. Your article suggests the same reaction at play.
Exactly so, Jackie. It’s horrible, but there it is.
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