The Unabomber and His Big Brother

Today on NPR I heard a smidgin of an interview with Ted Kaczynski's brother David. I had to turn it off it was so disturbing. Ted Kaczynski, of course, is the Unabomber and he is serving a life sentence in jail for killing and terrorizing people for years mostly by sending bombs in the mail. (He's a Gemini).

Ted Kaczynski's brother ended up turning him in. That would be a very difficult thing to do and he seems to really be struggling with his actions (David is, don't know about Ted). I was struck by this interview because David Kaczynski was being interviewed along with one of his brother's victims. They are now so close they are almost consider themselves to be like brothers. This sort of creeped me out. I started to wonder what kind of passive games this guy had played on his younger brother growing up which could have contributed to Ted Kaczynski's frail mental status. Perhaps because I have an older brother myself I was just really disturbed by the power tripping.

After a listener called in saying that he had been one of Ted's victims and he was wondering what David Kaczynski had done with the 1 Million Dollar Reward for turning his brother in. Wikipedia says that he has given some away to some of the victims and that the amount was only $500,000. David K. didn't really have an honest or clear answer about where the money had gone. That's when I turned the show off.

I seem to remember that multitudes of articles were written by Astrologers about the Unabomber back in the 90s so I'm probably not figuring out anything new here, I'm just seeing it in my own time and through my own warped personal experiences with siblings. David Kaczynski has the same birthday as my ex-step-sister who played some weird power trippy games of her own so he is automatically suspect in my head. I just think it's so weird the lack of awareness he shows for his brother. There is absolutely no caring which is probably not that odd for being related to a difficult person. But David doesn't seem to let go of his brother's problems either. He also never tells us anything about how Ted is doing now, maybe they got around to that after I switched off the show. Now he's using celebrity to show off his replacement brother who is one of the victims? Yuck.

Theodore "Ted" John Kaczynski (The Unabomber)
May 22, 1942 Chicago, Il

Sun 1 Gemini; Moon Leo?; NN 10 Virgo

David Kaczynski (Brother)
Oct. 3, 1949 Chicago, IL?

Sun 11 Libra; Moon Aquarius or Pisces; NN 17 Aries

Everything about Ted seems Geminian. Mathematician, Brainiac, Schizophrenic, Mail Bomber, Older Brother who wants his limelight. He's got a real heavy duty load of planets in that sign and they all disposit to that sign's ruler, Mercury:

• Sun is conjunct both Uranus and Saturn in a very tight 1 degree conjunction on the first two degrees of Gemini.
  
• Mercury is conjunct Jupiter in Gemini at the end of Gemini.
• And all of these planets are in major aspect to Neptune in Virgo, also ruled by Mercury.
• Mercury is in its own sign of Gemini and it's out-of-bounds at 25 degrees and 05 seconds which makes the Gemini influence super strong.
  

According to the Wikipedia article Kaczynski seemed normal until he was skipped through 6th grade and he couldn't relate to the older kids in the 7th grade. By coincidence, his progressed Mercury had gone Retrograde right around his 10th birthday (May 7-8, 1951) which would have been 1 or 2 years before. This may indicate a difficult experience through early education when it happens to children at that age, I talked about it in a different way in Oliver Sacks' chart a couple of months ago.

Kazynski has a total of 3 out-of-bound planets in his chart. In addition to Mercury, Mars and Pluto are also at high declinations. Mars in this chart placed in the sign of Cancer a naturally difficult and volatile placement that combines aggression and emotions. Pluto is in Leo, emphasizing theatricality and a desire to take the lead. The Unabomber attacks began right after Kazcynski's progressed Mars had passed over natal Pluto. This would have happened at 5 Leo about September, 1972. Kacczynski seems to have become more and more isolated which can be a Mars-Pluto aspect.

What's interesting here is that older brother David has the Mars-Pluto conjunction in Leo in his natal chart. It is sextile in David's chart to natal Sun-Mercury Rx-Neptune-south Node in Libra. He seems to be, in my opinion, projecting (Libra) way too much of his own aggressions onto the misdeeds of his brother. The connection with the South Node shows that he really identifies with this as part of his life destiny. I do remember Komilla Sutton saying that Sun-South Node conjunctions are among the most difficult Nodal contacts. It combines one's Ego/Creative Will with the qualities that one may most need to keep under control (I'm probably not quoting her properly, read her book or buy her CDs from UAC, she's wonderful). What bothers me is that he shows much more compassion to his brother's victims than to his brother.

David Kaczynski seems to have an unnatural connection between his Ego (Sun), his Mentally Ill brother (Merc. Rx c. Neptune) and Victims (Neptune). He has replaced his defective brother, a criminal who is in jail, with a brother replacement, one of his brother's victims. His Mars-Pluto in Leo conjunction squares his Venus in Scorpio which sort of could indicate that he really is vengeful over jealousies about his brilliant brother. One can also read this as meaning that he was the "heavy" the "Transformer" who had to take on the huge karmic act of turning in his own brother. It's just odd that he's turning the screws in his brother's back the way he is. He turned his brother in and received the award for doing so just as his progressed Sun & Mercury was passing over Venus in Scorpio and squaring Mars-Pluto. It's interesting that his Progressed Sun has been in conjunction with his progressed Mercury (siblings) through all of this.

Also interesting to watch is Ted Kaczynski's Venus. Natally it is as 19 Aries. In 1996 when he was arrested, his progressed Venus was conjunct his natal Mercury. Again, Mercury rules siblings and Venus is the ruler of Libra, his brother's sign.