Nov 16: Terence McKenna & Genevieve Lhermitte

[Jim Eshelman]

McKenna, Terence. Nov 16, 1946, 7:25 AM MST, Hotchkiss, CO (AA).
Lhermitte, Genevieve. Nov 16, 1966, 10:35 PM CET, Brussels, Belgium (AA).

Both of these are fascinating characters.

[Jim Eshelman]

Lhermitte gives one of the saddest, most grievous stories of mass murder and deep personal problems, with one of the more fascinating horoscopes. The recurrence of Sagittarius Moons for murderers is pretty obvious, with other names including Ian Brady, Lee Harvey Oswald, Marc Dutroux, Mark David Chapman, and William Heirens, plus the biggest Nazi holocaust figures; but Lhermitte's story is quite different from theirs. I suggest you read about her ONLY if you have a strong stomach.

We don't need the mundoscope to see her story straight on the face of the horoscope. (It does make the Mercury-Neptune conjunction Class 1.) Her aspects are vivid, dramatic, expressive, almost symphonic. If you examine her chart, look first for patterns to explain her serious mental illness, and then move on to the intimate details of her crime. It's all there.

[Jim Eshelman]

We've discussed McKenna's chart here earlier, including the fact that the horoscope doesn't really grab the fullness of who he was an what his life's work was about, until dug into more deeply (especially with midpoints).

I'm fascinated that both Leary and McKenna had Libra Suns - one with Moon in Aquarius, the other in Leo. I don't see anything about Libra that thematically suggests being evangelists for psychotropics specifically, and I wish I could see a commonality: That's what's missing in McKenna's chart in particular, a link to his specific focus.

Here is my Libra analysis: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=35#p161
I can see things fitting about the individual men, but nothing leaps out as, "Oh, this archetypal thing, that means many things, was always a hidden reference to psychotropics." There are collateral themes, for example, the a natural response to beauty, a sense of social justice and social activism, the "optimistic futurist" theme - which may be as close as we get to this topic in their charts! - even a broad pantheism, more obvious in McKenna than Leary (but, having known Tim personally a bit, I think it was present in him if not in his published work). My astrological soul thinks there is more to it than I'm seeing.