Killer Cosmos

John Wayne Gacy Part II
Kyle Pierce Kyle Pierce

John Wayne Gacy Part II

In an age where light is only the flick of a switch away, it's easy to take for granted just how much life as we know it depends on the sun, ever rising and setting exactly on schedule, day after day, year after year. But for most of human history, syncing life to the rhythm of the Sun was not as optional as it is today. Consider perhaps how disruptive a sudden power outage is to your day. Then contemplate what would happen if it never came back on, you may start to get a sense of what it was like on those rare occasions when the midday sun seemed to vanish behind a black veil, abandoning the world to darkness, if only for a brief moment. Cultures throughout human history, seemingly unconnected by geography or time, looked to this brief overturning of the natural order with fear, portending all manner of ill fortunes, from the death of Kings, to the calamitous end of life on Earth. In some cases, the only way to forestall the Doom signified by the Sun, seemingly being devoured in the sky, was human sacrifice, an offering of blood to appease the dark forces being unleashed. While today, science offers us a sort of shield from what may seem like silly superstitions, they're still lives in us all a primordial nature shared by 10,000 generations of humanity that looks up at a solar eclipse and sees death.

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John Wayne Gacy: Part I
Kyle Pierce Kyle Pierce

John Wayne Gacy: Part I

Clowns. Like their archetypal cousins, the Fool, the Trickster and the Jester, the Clown is a sacred dissident, if you will, an honored and seemingly benign transgressor, playfully defying our conceptions of appropriate behavior. The clown invites you to relax your grip on the socially constructed self, and embrace the chaos that lies beyond the carefully maintained predictability of your life. It is the clown's presumable ignorance of his own power to dissolve boundaries that once made him such a beguiling and innocuous figure. And while there are still those today who remember and try to preserve the special magic of the clown, Recent decades have seen a more disturbing image take hold in the popular imagination. For all too many of us, the superimposed smile painted on his face belies a potentially more sinister set of intensions lurking behind his jovial appearance. While depictions of evil clowns can be found dating back centuries, there is one real-life person who can be credited more than any other with the clowns fall into disrepute, and his name is John Wayne Gacy.

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The Astrology of Ted Bundy
Kyle Pierce Kyle Pierce

The Astrology of Ted Bundy

…in Bundys case, we have Saturn in the first house, in a night chart. In a night chart, Saturn is what is traditionally referred to as the out of sect malefic. It's not very friendly at night, and it's especially not super friendly, when it's in Leo. Saturn is considered to be in its detriment in Leo, so we immediately know that there may be something wrong, some kind of difficulty with the body, or the mind of the individual in question. So what kind of problems would those be? Well, often with Saturn in Leo, we get narcissism, not every Saturday in Leo, but it's one of the things that does seem to show up. Saturn is confused in the sign of Leo. With this placement, you might see somebody who's confused about who they are, or has difficulty differentiating properly, the distinction between itself and other people, which is often the problem with narcissists. They see other people as extensions of themselves in some way.

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