Timeline and Analysis of a Mass Killer

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

AUSTRIA School Massacre: ARTUR A the Ticking Time Bomb

 A young man committed suicide after entering a school northwest of Graz, Austria in the morning of 10 June 2025.

He was in possession of two firearms and had used them to unleash a massacre of mostly teen aged students and at least one adult - and mostly females.

Whether those choices of target were deliberate or circumstantial is as yet unknown.

The perpetrator identified has been referred to as Artur A -described as quiet socially isolated withdrawn and bullied at school.

A range of factors evident in 2025 suggest strongly he was the proverbial ticking time bomb set to be activated and overwhelmed in this year and approaching his birthday.

Tragically this meant the loss of many lives including his own and widespread shock for families friends community and a nation. His karmic legacy will be a very heavy enduring burden.

The following notes speculate on his date of birth information relevant to a Heute news report 11 June 2025 which stated Artur was due to turn 22 in less than 2 weeks.

(No reference to natal chart midpoints)

A significant number of people born 2000-2020 will be vulnerable to destructive psychological distress - including self harm suicide or reactive homicide.

The imprints crossover from late Gen Z (Gen Z identified by generation researchers Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt as 1995 -2012 and the Alpha generation extending to the mid 2020s. This means Gen Z born within 2000 to around 2012 and Alphas born around 2012 to end of 2020 are most vulnerable)

Even without a 100% confirmed date of birth through media sources Artur belongs to Jonathan Haidt's Anxious Generation -GenZ. That work is well worth reading for a broader sociological appraisal of this group.

Proposed generation dates from researchers are somewhat imprecise but gain collective agreement eventually in this novel science.

What is clear to research astrologers is that major patterns and cycles are capable of imprinting upon sectors of a generational group and it is these solar system factors that give traits to generational natives.

How Neptune helps Saturn Manifest

 A mind-blowing concept being repeated in the current era serves as the ultimate source of empowerment and font of all creative manifestation:

The statement [one source being Eckhart Tolle] 

THERE IS NO EXTERNAL REALITY

This means

What we experience is totally an internal experience.

That the world of form is just a personal individualised/customised mental construct.

This means we do not have a physical body and nothing is truly existing in a form state.

We are just a creative consciousness dreaming up those appearances and qualities of solidity.

In this context the Saturn-Neptune dynamic can be understood as consciousness [Neptune] being utilised to structure [Saturn] the illusion [Neptune] of form [Saturn]

This is the game we play in the process of evolving our consciousness

Every person every relationship we experience

All world events

All personal life experiences

Every sensory experience

ALL of it is a unique individual and personally constructed creation derived from our state of consciousness - and what we need to experience in order to learn.

Our life and all lives lived are more equivalent to a play or movie or story in a book that we personally have written and where we act out roles and have experiences.

We manifest challenges and situations that encourage the learning of important lessons about goodness. [Buddhists call this right thought right action ]

We each get to live a variety lives that offer many different perspectives -male female rich poor powerful weak white black happy sad well sick…every possibility a source of gold to mine for meaning and learning

Why?

So we can through ethical choices evolve spiritually.

This concept of reality means none of my family or friends or neighbours or movie stars or singers or politicians in my life experience have an independent existence. 

Everyone I have experienced is a character designed by me for me. 

Whenever any of my creations interact or communicate with me it is based on the script I have written.

We have immense manifesting powers when embedded in this reality. The only obstacle is not knowing we have that capacity.

And the hardest aspect is wondering why we choose to create people we will struggle to love. People who offend or abuse us or simply annoy us. 

Why? 

So we can confront our simplistic judgements and accept that the bigger story in the human experience is one of working to evolve and rise above each challenge - keeping in mind that we are all flawed. 

The process of a change in consciousness begins with self forgiveness as our accumulated lives hold the good the bad and the ugly - much of which is repressed - but hints of behaviours that hold shame or regret do leak through - sometimes projected onto others with a strong negative emotional weight - such as anger towards those who cheat or kill or abuse their power. The amount of anger in the reaction towards certain types of harmful actions is a likely clue to the hidden personal resonance around such behaviour. 

So we have to dig into our own psyche and find those moral flaws instead of focussing on rejecting external examples.

The 3 step process in preparation for spiritual progress involves:

1. Self integration - embracing all the life characters we are made of - all those who have made errors - accepting the mistakes made as part of learning. Welcoming all parts of us into our whole with love and grace.
2. Recognising self integration as an act of Redemption.
3. Recognising self integration and redemption as the foundation of Freedom.

In this context channel Anne Tucker points to integration as a signifier that personal karma is resolved. 

LOST IN MIND: Saturn and Neptune in Pisces

additional content added 20 May 2025

From early 2025-early 2026 Saturn & Neptune are transitioning out of Pisces. Neptune's Pisces effect began 2011 and Saturn's impact began early 2023. This sign-planet combination has majorly challenged our experience of "reality"

Lost in Mind

can be countered by

Found in Space

The mutable signs Pisces Gemini Virgo Sagittarius all share the theme of Mind.

 Pisces and Sagittarius are aligned in certain respects. 

Both signs are disposed towards expansion and exploration of territory beyond the everyday preoccupations of the mind

Gemini and Virgo are also paired. These signs are oriented to information and detail. They are most oriented to the everyday minutiae of facts figures data trivia quizzes puzzles.

All four of the mutable signs are capable of crossover if their basic orientation is contrasted with another mutable theme in the birth chart  - such as a Gemini planet in the 9th house adding a Sagittarian influence or Mercury located in Pisces - combining to express through Gemini Virgo and Pisces.

LOST IN MIND can refer to the mental clutter of Gemini and Virgo. The gorging on information and detail to the point of mental exhaustion - and whether expressed vocally through verbal diarrhoea or through copious written material.

Pisces and Sagittarius - the signs most likely to be attracted to drugs and escapism can also seek to be lost in mind due to their planetary links to Neptune and Jupiter that both seek to go beyond boundaries and explore exciting creative imaginative or new mental experiences that offer release/relief or freedom from the frustrations and petty details of mundane life. Both signs can be prone to excesses and addictions. Pisces prefers mind-altering chemistry if the lure of drugs surpasses creative imaginative options. 

Sagittarians readily pursue their highs through high adrenalin adventure and sport if not oriented towards knowledge and wisdom - all these options can create obsessive attachments - the fervour of sports fans is evident. The growing sports betting trend is seen as problematic. The academic devoted wholly to research at the expense of a balanced life. All are lost in mind.

A large swathe of people will have a significant mutable sign orientation - whether directly by one of the four signs referenced above or due to the influence of their related planetary influence - Mercury for Gemini and Virgo Jupiter for Sagittarius and Neptune for Pisces. So this is an issue for humanity and for the human collective mindstream.

The transits of Neptune and Saturn through Pisces have resulted in many people making a deeper connection to their spiritual essence - wanting to find themself - but also many people wanting to lose themself. 

This split within humanity is being recognised and it is a polarisation needing to be healed.

Shifting from Lost in Mind to Found in Space is a challenge in a world driven by information data chattering voices over-thinking perpetual movement and noise.

There is little incentive to jump of the high speed bullet train and trust you will land safely. But you will. You just have to choose it. 

Choosing Found in Space

In 1966 Timothy Leary [born 1920]  proposed to his hippy followers to "turn on tune in drop out" suggesting they abandon mainstream society and pursue and inner guided life. But drugs were a big part of that journey. 

The 60s are very relevant to the current era - both on account of the divinatory 60 year cycle [China] and planetary cycles. But we can evolve what Leary proposed and find space without drugs because inner spaciousness is something that exists within our DNA  - our celestial formless origins. We just have to remove the clutter. Turn down the volume of everyday life and return to the subtleties of the natural world the swaying of trees in the wind the flight of birds the rising and setting sun the glow of the moon the touch of raindrops and explore the life held beyond our human prison. 

Entering the entrancement of pure life is how to be found in space

Gestation into the World

Pisces mirrors the third trimester state of consciousness in the womb - the 3 month period before birth when we know fully our essence is formless.

The astrological correspondence is the 12th house - the realm of experience that contains the storage of our personal unconscious but also that of humanity as a collective. Our personal vault holds all the imprints from prior lives lived in physical form so every incarnation whether male female and possibly other species and our behaviours thoughts feelings in those lives are perpetual - with periods of leakage and overlay within the present life.

Life as we experience it is not a truly physical experience - it is based in projections from our internal consciousness 

And we cannot truly call our various lives "incarnations" or "past" as there is no form no past no future no linear time aside from the human constructs we create for practical purposes. 

Anything we have ever been or felt and will be is able to leak through into any present moment. Truly we have multiple versions of ourself that can express. For this reason alone our psychological status can vary dramatically depending on what imprint comes into the present. From this level of complexity a lot of functional imbalance can arise. The Covid pandemic era  [ contagion is a Pisces event ] has given rise to a world heavily permeated by reality-challenging material and reality-distorted ideas and beliefs - sustained and intensifying even 5 years after lockdowns [Saturn]

With the collective mind-field being so impacted many have struggled with the amount of agitation activated in the unconscious level of mind. This reflects a dominance of negatively expressed Neptune over positive Saturn - an inability to find the ground.

In Pisces eras there is a collective urge to find ways of transcending physical reality. This arises due to the stark contrast between two very different worlds: the challenges and distress experienced during our physical life lessons compared to the comfort when existing purely as consciousness when not incarnated. Transcending is different from trying to escape.

Trying to balance out these two known states - physical and non-physical  - is humanity's greatest collective challenge due to the amnesia that takes hold once fully physical life unfolds after birth. The challenge is evident in all the methods people use to try and escape our unconscious feelings of imprisonment in the world of material form. 

Escapism is a defective option because it is an attempt to suppress psychological stress. The only workable way to live in physical reality is to keep anchored in the heaven that exists on Earth: the life forms and patterns that are not based in mental disorder - trees plants birds animals; the cycles of each day and season ;  the flows of wind and water. 

Humans are now more than ever lost in mind and it is a mind distorted by conditioning in the physical world. This is why teachers urge us to empty the mind. To gaze and enter direct experience and turn off the commentary. Practices like meditation or mantra are able to encourage mental space by means of developing a frequency shift in your level of consciousness. This opens a pathway to heightened awareness about our true essence: the awareness we carry as a connected aspect of the larger spiritual consciousness that is embedded in all of life at every level.

Only on Earth in an illusion of separate form can we feel alone but while here we can also nullify that misperception through conscious acts of connection within a state of presence - sustained focus without thought.

This type of development is urged under Saturn and Neptune in Pisces. We are challenged to strip away our addiction to a fully physical life and our immersion in endless mental chatter. Both states of unease reflect a lack of groundedness.

The paradox is that we need to be earthed - very present - in order to transcend our distress experienced in living in the 3rd dimensional physical state.

Clearly city life is the most adverse environment for achieving such balance.

The exit of Neptune and Saturn - leaving Pisces for Aries - does not end the need for spiritual evolution while embodied. The cycles overlay and Pisces themes will endure in the context of the Aries periods - 2025-2028 for Saturn and 2025-2039 for Neptune when even more people will choose to dissolve their Ego and its selfish demands and seek peace and harmony with others.

 

The underlying truth will permeate collective consciousness: we are not separate beings any more than a branch is separate from its tree.

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