On 15 March 2019 BRENTON HARRISON TARRANT became part of the New Zealand historical record.
He was captured by Police that day in Christchurch. Tarrant had massacred 51 worshippers and injured a further 89 - 40 injured by gunfire at two Muslim mosques. His hostility was directed at a mainly male gathering.
Born in Australia Tarrant is believed to have chosen New Zealand on account of easy entry and ease of access to firearms and an arms licence.
Understanding his formative experiences does not in any way excuse the chosen behaviour -they simply assist in explaining them.
While much of Tarrant’s history is revealed through media and official reports no mainstream method can capture the fine detection of influences that led Tarrant to March 2019 - but astrological analysis can.
Born 27 October 1990 Tarrant’s natal array that can be analysed reveals significant clusters in the survivalist Fixed signs and the existential Cardinal signs
Data has been rounded for convenience and tight orbs applied
Fixed factors
Venus-Sun-Mercury in the range 2-6.5 Scorpio
Nodes Aquarius-Leo 2.5º
Moon early Aquarius - time not available to specify degree
Jupiter 12 Leo
Pluto 17 Scorpio
Cardinal factors
Uranus 6 Capricorn
Neptune 12 Capricorn
Saturn 19.6 Capricorn
Uranus-Neptune midpoint 9 Capricorn
Uranus-Saturn midpoint 12.5 Capricorn = Neptune
Neptune-Saturn midpoint 15.5 Capricorn
Chiron 27 Cancer
Tarrant has only one Mutable factor - this describes a mind and mental processing style:
Mars retrograde 14 Gemini
Tarrant’s dramatic life and fate are all captured in these fundamental imprints at his birth in 1990:
Mars retrograde in Gemini describes
A mind very active on the inner level - processing a lot of information that would empower him: Mars connects to Jupiter and these planets both connect to Pluto. Gemini indicates a Mutable Mars that is comparatively weak in terms of a masculine sense of self but when bolstered by Jupiter and Pluto the inner Mars can find strength power and fame/infamy/success through external means. For Tarrant this was weaponry testosterone and steroids.
Chiron in Cancer points to
experiences within the family and home - including the reported impact of his parent's separation - that delivered significant emotional trauma. Chiron 29 Cancer is angled semisquare his fragile Mars 14 Gemini.
His Aquarian Moon carrying Chiron's Cancer themes was able to create a dispassionate blank introverted and clinical personality.
1990 Pre-birth Eclipses
July and August 1990 eclipses gave prominence to his Chiron [solar eclipse] and Jupiter [lunar eclipse] While Jupiter in Leo can express as a lot of love and warmth a sunny joyful personality - the effect of Scorpio and Aquarian factors drained away that option: instead of love the Jupiter in Leo energy merged with Pluto in Scorpio to create the profile of a mass murderer with narcissistic sociopathic traits.
1991 Age 9 months
Baby Brenton was imprinted significantly with his killer drive in July 1991 when transit Jupiter and transit Pluto reached exact 90º square at 17.5º Leo-Scorpio. His natal Pluto at 17 Scorpio was directly triggered on a deep level by something in his infant world.
Two eclipses of July 1991 added further imprints: the 19 Cancer total solar eclipse opposite his natal Saturn 19 Capricorn; The 3 Aquarius lunar eclipse square his natal Venus and Sun at 2º-3º Scorpio.
Whatever happened within the family or home was highly relevant to the development of his personality and behaviour:
Abuse of power. Paternal energy. Relating dynamics. All these played out in his world in July 1991 with lasting effects. The parental relationship did not endure past his young childhood. They separated at an unconfirmed period when he was 7 -10 years old -possibly beginning under the Uranus transit of early Aquarius squaring his Venus-Sun early Scorpio in 1996 and then the Neptune early transit of Aquarius 1999-2000
Biographical and evidential material used below was sourced from the referenced Royal Commission of NZ Report
2010 Father’s suicide
In April 2010 Tarrant’s father stricken already by a serious illness notified 19 year old Brenton that he was committing suicide. The loss of his father was captured in the transit north Node 15.5 Capricorn - exact on his natal Neptune-Saturn midpoint 15.5 Capricorn and therefore signifies a life-changing event around loss and grief -constituting an existential trauma. By this time Tarrant had already had years since early teens embedded in online chat forums as well as the gaming world. His support system did not exist in the everyday world. His vulnerability to online influences was already set in place.
2010-2013
During this period Jupiter in Aries Saturn in Libra Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn all made contact at particular points in time with his Uranus 6 Capricorn. The loss of his father was a further diminishment of his sense of manhood and those transiting influences would have severely impacted his ability to relate in a healthy way.
2014-2016
Within this period Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn made contact with his Neptune in Capricorn. This may signify the development of aggressive or revenge drives fuelled by online/gaming scenarios or online discussions - to compensate for the death of his father.
Saturn reaching 14 Sagittarius in 2026 impacted his fragile retrograde Mars 14 Gemini. Reports of his access to “far right extremism say this began in 2014.
2017-2019
Transit Neptune reached 14 Pisces - again a challenge to his Mars. It is likely that Neptune’s influence in gaming fantasy and delusion led him to panic about his weakened inner state and resort to the reported abuse of steroids and testosterone -along with a sustained body-building programme and the purchase of multiple high grade firearms -most of which were purchased in December 2017.
In March-May 2017 Pluto came very close to natal Saturn 19.5 Capricorn and was exact conjunct in January 2018
Tarrant had arrived in Auckland in August 2017. His plan had already been formulated within 2 years in advance of enactment. Getting the firearms the licence a vehicle a rental home in Dunedin and every accessory needed - as well as several trips overseas to eastern Europe — posed no financial impediment. He had inherited a large sum from his father.
Uranus since 2017 at 27-29 Aries had pressured his natal Chiron 27 Cancer and reached a square to his prenatal total solar eclipse 29 Cancer. It is likely that the childhood and suppressed family trauma was triggered right up to his enacted attack. Online ideology around Knights Templar and the era of the Crusades has been referenced in seeing the link to his chosen homicidal mission against Muslim domination.
The Massacre March 2019
Effectively on March 15 2019 Tarrant was at his Saturn Return.
This milestone for everyone poses a time of choosing paths - follow an adult route or remain in a state of delayed development until the next choice point around the mid 30s. For Tarrant this is April 2027.
He was in his 29th year in 2019 and Saturn on the date of the massacre was 18’50 Capricorn within a whisker of his 19’40 natal Saturn: he experienced the exact return within a prison cell.
Clearly he had not functioned as an adult in creating and enacting his plan.
Chiron was 0º Aries sesquisquare his natal Jupiter 14 Leo - his freedom sacrificed to his violent impulses. Uranus was 0º Taurus and soon to oppose his Venus-Sun -a process underway since 2018 : sudden changes in his power influence and connections - right up -boosted by indulgence in all his lethal devices and chemical fuel - then right down - all taken away. His no parole life sentence in New Zealand was the first on record.
Brenton Tarrant made choices consistent with the imprints held within his subconscious and related to the personality disorder that he evolved as a survival mechanism.
We don’t enter life with a clean slate: our ancestral imprints are also carried through the parental lineage.
Past life experiences distinct from bloodline lineage are a further source of imprints that have been documented as significantly influential on life choices and behaviours.
References:
Royal Commission NZ Report in-depth content completed 2020
Court Appearance March 2020 a noticeably slimmed down Tarrant pleads guilty to all charges
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Relevant Background:
The author has had several years experience working within the criminal justice system providing case management and writing reports on offender’s history; was employed in several welfare institutions and the education sector holding a Bachelor’s degree in social sciences: Psychology Sociology and Anthropology
Astrological studies commenced in 1977
