Sandra Cantu's Suspected Killer in Jail

Yesterday I looked as closely as I could to charts relating to slain 8 year old Sandra Cantu. Sandra is a little girl who was last seen around 4pm on Friday, Mar. 27, 2009 in the trailer park where she lived with her Mother and Grandparents in Tracy, California. As it was understood that she was playing at a friend's house in the park she wasn't reported as missing until 8:15pm that night. The search for Cantu was nowhere until Apr. 7 when her body was found crammed into a suitcase in a ditch. On April 6 some farmworkers had drained an irrigation ditch into which the suitcase with Cantu in it had been tossed.

Yesterday when I was looking at the charts with all this information I assumed that some old guy had molested Cantu and had killed her. Perhaps even her Father who has never been in her life reappeared. As Saturn was in the 1st House of the event chart after Sandra was last seen and it was opposing Mars, another masculine planet, I assumed that her disappearance was related to another predator man.

The chart, otherwise, wasn't making a whole lot of sense and I put off making any decisions. Venus was a very prominent part of the whole story as was the Moon. This indicates women and was completely throwing me off. No matter how much I tell myself I won't pre-judge a situation and stick to keywords I just can't seem to do it. But, the situation is complicated because "The Moon" in Astrology indicates the Mother and I wasn't going to accuse the Mother of having killed her daughter in this case. It just wasn't possible. What was possible is that another Mother is now suspected. Her best friend's Mother, is now in custody for the murder. I'm going to study the chart just to analyze all the stuff in hindsight. Everything that was confusing me yesterday is now clear with this extra knowledge.

Beth Turnage at AstrologyExplored comes up with some very good insights very early on in the case here: http://www.astrologyexplored.com/the-astrology-of-missing-persons-sandra-cantu/.

Sandra Cantu
b. Mar. 8, 2001, place unknown

Sun 19 Pisces; Moon Leo or Virgo; NN 13 Cancer

Sandra's Disappearance
Mar. 27, 2009 4:15 pm Tracy, California

Sun 8 Aries; Moon 24 Aries; NN 7 Aquarius

Venus is very strong in these charts. I've been following the ages of children when trauma happens to them as a key entrance into interpretation of their charts. As the Sun and Venus follow an 8 year conjunction cycle I was immediately planning on looking at that since Sandra was 8 years old. In the transit, the Sun was conjunct Venus Rx to the degree on the day of Sandra's disappearance. Sun-Venus is squaring Pluto which amplifies emotionality, resentments, jealousies, and perhaps difficulties in dealings with women.

Sandra's chart repeats a Venus theme. Venus is a singleton in Cardinal which shows that things represented by Venus (Money, Women, Love, Peace, Balance, etc.) would somehow be high-lighted over all else in her life. Venus in Sandra's chart is in Aries and trines a natal Mars-Pluto conjunction in Sagittarius. The Mars-Pluto conjunction in Sandra's chart is conjunct to the degree at 11 Sagittarius. This is a very firey combination which echoes the transiting Venus Rx in Aries squaring Pluto. She would naturally have had to learn to be cautious in dealing with the feelings of others as she would have had great magnetism and the ability to draw out very deep feelings in people which might be considered taboo. Mars/Pluto is very violent. Because of how women are raised this energy can often internalize and attract the violence through a willfulness or other extreme energy.

Sandra was having a long Venus Return transit as Venus was at 8 Aries on the day that she was apparently murdered. As she had just celebrated her 8th Birthday she had just had a Solar Return. Venus had gone Rx the day before her Birthday at 16 Aries which is 2 degrees away from an exact Venus Return. The whole time it has been setting off the natal Mars-Pluto conjunction.

The Solar Return also shows the Sun in conjunction to Uranus opposition Saturn which would indicate some outer planet, things happening beyond one's control type of activity. Problems with Authority.

At 4:15, Leo was Rising at 28 degrees in the chart set for Tracy, California so the Sun was ruling the chart at that time. Saturn was in the 1st House and opposing Mars in the 7th. This really looked like a male influence. Perhaps a rebellion against authority or an argument about boundaries (walls). If Sandra were killed around this time or within 2 hours after it would appear that a man was involved.

The New Moon was just separating in Aries. This can show a strong tendency to be impulsive and rash which is normal for Springtime, but also can be dangerous. The Sun was in the 8th House and the Moon was about to follow and the house was otherwise loaded with Mercury (neighbors), Venus (women) and Uranus(Friends). 8th House rules Murder, among other things.

It's interesting that Venus rules the 3d House (neighbors) and the 10th House (parents). Since the 11th house rules friends and Sandra was perhaps killed by her friend's parent I looked at the 11th House also. It is empty and has Gemini on the cusp. As already noted, Mercury and Uranus were both in the 8th House of Murder. This is echoed in Sandra's natal chart by her natal conjunction of Mercury to Uranus which squares Saturn. She would have been highly intelligent and interested in the truth, but perhaps could be a bit cruel with words. She may have set something off in her friend's Mom. Of course, little kids do this all the time.

Also interesting is that the transiting Moon was passing over Sandra's Venus at the moment of her disappearance.

And also her natal Moon would have been close to have been passing over the Ascendant between the signs of Leo and Virgo the last time she was seen. Yesterday I assumed that just meant that this was the last time her Mother saw her.

AT 5:00 pm 9 Virgo ASC, Saturn (H1), DESC conjunct Mars 11 Pisces, Uranus 24 Pisces unaspected (H7), Pluto (H4). This could have been closer to the moment of the murder as it shows unbridled rage and sudden, shocking behaviors.

6pm: 22 Virgo ASC. Saturn H12 but still conjunct ASC, Pluto H4

7pm: 4 Libra ASC involved in a Grand Square with MC to Pluto/IC both at 4 Capricorn SQUARING Descendant/Mercury/Venus/Sun. Pluto and IC and Suitcases go together. Sandra's Nodal Axis would have been squaring the ASC/DESC axis around 7:45-8:00pm.

8:15pm: 19 Libra ASC sort of opposing the Sun-Moon midpoint. This is when the police were called.

Source:

According to: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82126

Sandra was born Mar. 8, 2001, I'm not sure where.