The Las Vegas killer, Stephen Paddock born April 9, 1953 at 11:05am. His birth time confirmed on his birth certificate.
This man is now the largest mass murderer in US history. On October 1, 2017 between 10:05 and 10:15 p.m. PDT he killed 58 people and injured 546 others at a country music concert in Las Vegas as he shot from a 32nd floor hotel window from across the street. He killed himself before authorities were able to capture him. Looking at Paddock’s natal chart I can see an astrological configuration that indicates the possibility of such a mass murder event.
The authorities have very little information on this man’s motives. He had no prior criminal record and there is very little to indicate what led him to perpetrate such a heinous act. He had had a successful career in government services and made over a million dollars in real estate speculation. On the surface he seemed like nothing unusual but there has been speculation that his was having financial trouble due to too much gambling as a reason for his final act.
His sun is in Aries (self directed me-first energy) with a conjunction to Venus (beauty, harmony & finances) in the 10th house (career, status and reputation). He would have been a charming guy to sit next to in the casino while gambling. I think his public appearances would have been one of like-ability and attractiveness and appearances would have been very important to him. His Venus-sun conjunction would have helped him to keep his dark and obsessive side under tight wraps.
He has a T-square with Pluto in Leo in the 2nd house opposite Moon in Aquarius the 8th with both planets squaring Jupiter in Taurus in the 11th. This orb between the three planets is tight at 21 – 23 degrees.
This t-square shows the possibility of the mass murder with Pluto (the criminal element, obsession, sex & death) in his 2nd house (his possession and values) representing his large arsenal of high powered guns. Pluto is in opposition to his moon (emotions, the public) in the 8th house (house of death). He probably obsessed (8th) about killing the public with his guns. These two planets squaring Jupiter (luck and abundance) in the 11th house (groups, goals and the masses). He may have had some issues working out his plan for his death to the public but he certainly had good luck (Jupiter) in succeeding to kill a huge number of people at a concert (11th house-group gathering). I believe this t-square describes the event itself.
Of course, this possibility is easy to see now that we know the outcome of the particular situation and his life. If he had visited me for a consultation prior to the killings I never would have come up with that one. Something that heinous would never ever occur to me. Not even if I knew about the gun collection.
If he were my client I would have looked at his chart and thought he had some difficult “Mom issues” with the T-square mentioned above.
The Moon in the natal chart tells how you feel about your Mother. Being in the house of sex, death and transformation, he may had difficult sexual issues because of how he felt about Mom. He might have been sexually abused by her. With the Moon’s opposition to Pluto (also sex death and transformation) in the 2nd there may have been power struggles or domination issues with Mom that would have affected his relationships, sexual and friendship (11th). He would been have very emotionally intense or very brooding with Moon in the 8th opposition Pluto. He may have imagined his Mother’s death or even killing her.
To make matters worse in the Mom department he has the “not so easy” conjunction of Saturn and Neptune in Libra in the 4th house in a tight opposition to his sun and Venus in the 10th house. The 4th house is the house where you actually find Mom, the woman herself. The Saturn-Neptune conjunction there could tell us something about her. On the positive side, Mom may have been a hard working artist or someone who could turn a dream into reality. On the negative side, she may have been dissatisfied with life, unable to reconcile her dreams with reality or possibly an alcoholic wanting to escape life, possibly making her son an enabler.
This Neptune-Saturn energy is not an easy energy to reconcile in a horoscope and it is in tight opposition to his Sun (ego & personality) and Venus (harmony and relationships) conjunction. He probably had many difficulties in romantic and business relationships.
In Paddock’s birth chart his relationship with his Mother was very probably a strong influence in his dark motivation to kill but we will never know for sure. We can only look to his chart for the possibilities.
Let’s examine Pluto which rules power, personal power and power to the masses, power struggles, the underworld and unscrupulous behavior, intensity, crises, psychology, obsession, sex, death, birth and transformation. Pluto adds intensity to whatever point in a horoscope it touches.