Possessed by the devil?

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Possessed by the devil?

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Looking for charts of people born July 22, I stumbled across that of Maria Ilena Politano, born July 22, 1994, 6:30 PM CEDT, Polistena, Italy. As Astro.com summarizes her short life:
[Murdered] when less than a month old, killed by her parents in a deadly mix of ignorance, suggestibility and superstition. Convinced that their infant was possessed by the Devil, Laura and Michele conducted a Satanic ritual of torture from which the child died on 9/12/1994, Polistena [Italy]. The parents were both imprisoned for homicide along with the man who led the ceremony and his sorceress...
I read this paragraph and thought, somewhat joking, "She must have had a Capricorn Moon." Bingo! Exactly! Moon in Capricorn opposite a Cancer Sun.

The chart is loaded with themes contained in this short biographical story. A Full Moon Cancer-Capricorn certainly shows "parent issues" - which were horribly extreme in this case. A close T-square of Venus, Mars, and Saturn is one of the worst-aspected natal Venuses you'll ever see, showing cruelty where you'd expect love. For pure weirdness, a Uranus-Neptune conjunction tightly straddles Eastpoint, and mundanely is conjoined by the nearby Moon. One detail after another spills out of this chart for this mind-stunning, heartbreaking event.

Her Moon is 2°02' shy of opposition to Sun at birth, and had moved to within 0°04' of that opposition on the day of the fatal exorcism. The SNQ the same day brought the natal Venus-Mars-Saturn to angles.

Her final Demi-SLR (September 2, 1994) certainly shows suffering under parental narrowness, control, and failure: Sun opposes Saturn near the meridian, with her natal Venus-Saturn opposition even closer to the angle.
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Re: Possessed by the devil?

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My grandfather was born on July 21, 1901, and people used to call him the devil. He has a natal Moon and Mars in Virgo. He did have parent issues. His mother was a prostitute and his father died of pneumonia when he was a toddler. He had to raise his siblings.
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