Could you believe Josef Mengele, aka ‘The Angel of Death’ in Auschwitz, a doctor who performed terrible medical experiments on inmates, had the sweetest placements?

He was a Cancer Rising with a Libra Moon (Oh my God, like me!) and a Pisces Sun.

And he had a great water trine involving the Sun, Neptune and Jupiter. You would want to find this in the chart of a mystic saint or an inspired artist. Or a psychic medium…

A torture instrument wrapped up in velvet remains a torture instrument: this is one way to explain the embarrassing facts away. He definitely had much harsher placements. I’ll comment on them in a minute.

Another way to come to terms with finding a central Pisces, Cancer and Libra bundle in the chart of a huge scale tormentor is to understand the signs better.

I have no doubt that they often manifest in very soft ways. Give me a Pisces-Cancer-Libra shoulder to cry on, their arms to feel wrapped up in love and their lips to whisper in my ears…

Don’t dip such a sponge into poison though. Their nature is to absorb.

Especially the Water signs. Especially a Pisces Sun trine Neptune, with a Cancer Rising conjunct Neptune, and a Libra Moon square Neptune.

Cancer is the sign of the vulnerable, of children and mothers, and by extension of family and tribes, and by extension, of motherlands. Of where you belong. Along these lines, how about a superior race with the best genes?

Cancer can also focus on the only vulnerable one who matters, like a baby: oneself. And beat it up to make it stronger, for safety.

Harmony loving Libra, all focused on balancing opposite poles, doesn’t have to be heart centered. All you need to do Libra are two sides and a balance of power to seek. It’s a good sign for love but not only.

Mengele could appear outwardly polite or even charming while committing atrocities.

As for Pisces, as wonderfully sensitive as it may be, at times, it’s also a malleable energy. Like playdough, it can be anything. Prince, monster, whatever. The Water element takes the shape of what contains it.

Neptunians, beware what you absorb and who you’re spending time with.

Also, the more sensitive you are, the lower the threshold of disconnection from your sensitivity is.

Can you imagine a highly sensitive boy, at the time of the first world war, hearing and feeling: ‘Don’t be a girl’. ‘Don’t be a sissy’. ‘Boys don’t cry’ ‘Do you have anything in your pants?’ He understands very quickly that he is exactly what he should not be. The ideal of the male warrior was at its peak at the time. He was three years old in 1914.

He would become a decorated war hero, before being assigned to Auschwitz.

We can then wonder. If the placements suggest psychic openness and the potential for mediumship, once dissociated, what comes in?

Still, the caring sensitivity of Cancer-Pisces and the Venusian sweetness of Libra showed up.

A former Auschwitz inmate doctor said of Mengele:

‘He was capable of being so kind to the children, to have them become fond of him, to bring them sugar, to think of small details in their daily lives, and to do things we would genuinely admire ... And then, next to that…’ (Source Wikipedia)

Does it make him worse? Was it fake? Were these moments of truth? A psychopath playing at acting out what he could have been?

Let’s have a look at the more obviously dark placements - without forgetting to give astrological placements the benefit of the doubt: free will may exist, and may have led to a different outcome.

He had a tight Sun-Pluto square. Only this makes the Dark Lord of the Underworld a major player. But it’s just the beginning.

Pluto is in the 12th house of institutions, prisons, hospitals, laboratories… concentration camps…

This 12th house being in Gemini, it is ruled by Mercury.

Mercury conjuncts both the Sun and the MC. This makes Mercury a highly dominant energy.

This emphasises again the importance of the 12th house in the chart.

He had a special interest for twins.

Then, look, there is more: Mercury, ruler of the 12th house, squares Pluto in the 12th.

When the ruler of a house squares a planet in the house, it’s especially tense.

(Same logic in sign, Mercury rules and squares Pluto in Gemini)

He was a doctor. He was conducting scientific experiments. And he enjoyed it. Sometimes he was just being sadistic.

As if it wasn’t enough, another important placement emphasises the importance of Pluto: the South Node is in Scorpio. Nodes are important, you know.

Pluto is considered Scorpio’s modern ruler. The traditional one is Mars.

From an evolutionary perspective, both Pluto and Mars tell us more about this Scorpio South Node, and if you believe in past lives, about the energies brought from them into this one.

With Mars… Here is another difficult one. Mars squares Saturn, tightly.

Difficult Mars Saturn contacts have been associated with sadism.

If you have them in your chart, it doesn’t necessarily imply cruelty. It may also lead to a great mastery of one’s power.

Not well mastered but somehow controlled, Mars-Saturn difficult aspects may turn into auto destructive behaviours.

Or into not living the energies at all, and meeting them as other people in the outside world. Serious alchemy is needed for sure.

Imagine the energy of an enraged dog on a short leash in human form. It may become cold rage. It may become an ice calm desire to inflict pain.

I believe this is a way to say: ‘Feel how I feel’.

‘Feel how I would feel, if it wasn’t making you feel it for me’.

(This is not a conscious attitude)

There is more. Mars is conjunct with the explosive Uranus. Gosh. Both in the 8th house.

(Uranus is tightly conjunct the 8th house cusp, it counts in it)

Which is more dreadful, the 12th or the 8th?

And behold.

Saturn rules the 8th house and squares the Mars-Uranus conjunction in it.

Ruler of the house squaring planets in the house.

Same pattern we’ve just seen with the 12th house.

And the icing on the cake, if i may: Mercury and Saturn form a semi-square aspect.

Ruler of 12th square planet in 12th and semi-square ruler of 8th square planets in 8th. Featuring Pluto, Mars, Uranus, Saturn and Mercury.

Really, that’s gothic architecture at its finest.

It’s not finished. The Mercury-Sun conjunction in Pisces is ruled by Jupiter (traditional ruler) which takes us back to Scorpio and the South Node. We’ve come full circle.

Two planets are excluded from this architecture: the Moon and Venus.

The Moon rules the Ascendant… and squares it. This pattern again. But there is more, and this is fascinating: the Moon is unaspected.

Unaspected can be understood as ‘no major aspects with personal planets’ or with a more demanding definition ‘no aspects with any of the seven traditional planets’.

Mengele’s Moon has only a loose semi-sextile with Jupiter. Other than that, the square with Neptune. This is an element of disconnection.

Liz Greene explains unaspected planets with the metaphor of people living together in a house, with someone they ignore in the basement. Sometimes this unknown stranger comes out and surprises everybody.

He could be at times kind with the children, and later perform horrible experiments on them.

The other feminine planet, Venus, is also unaspected and squared by Neptune.

Both Neptune and the 12th house suggest a psychic sensitivity to collective trends.

Collective trends find the more suited individuals for their expression.

Pluto knows.

The lack of empathy and guilt shown in his memoirs are typical of psychopaths.

Yet according to Helmut Galle, a professor of literature at the University of São Paulo (USP) and author of a study on Mengele’s writings:

‘At Auschwitz, he was sentimental on the inside and at one point rebelled against his cruel ‘work.’ But this voice was extinguished by the emergence of the cold persona’ *

Interesting, isn’t it?

Jean-Marc Pierson

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