The Demon Star and St. Aphrodisius
St. Aphrodisius was martyred by beheading. After losing his head, he picked it up and continued walking. Thus, he is named as a cephalophore. These are saints who were beheaded and carried their own head. St. Aphrodisius is the only one I can find with a given birth date.
Aphrodisius’ beheading is given a traditional date of 28 April 68. Right away it’s affirmed by showing a kill transit of an exact Mars oppose Saturn.
St. Aphrodisius is also given a birth date. The way to affirm it is by biwheeling it with the death date. However, a death must show in multiple charts to validate the birth date is real. I look at the prenatal chart and its progression to the death date.
The conception chart has transit Mars and Saturn in a 3’33” orb with Aphrodisius’ prenatal Mercury. “Death (Saturn) by Severed (Mars) Head (Mercury).”
Progressing the conception chart to the beheading gives us this:
Secondary progressions, you must look at the Sun placement. Sun on Uranus and aspecting Saturn and Mars and squaring Algol. Uranus shows up repeatedly in the charts. It means “division” or “seperate.” Algol (“The Demon Star”) is associated with beheading. See my post on “The Pope’s Executioner” for an affirmation of Algol with beheading.
With the birth date validated we can look at the transits on it. Rather than use Aphrodisius’ birthplace for the Johndro chart, I use his death place. I’ve found, when looking at murders, that the birth locality chart angles are more meaningful in the death place than birth where the death is violent. Here, you can see all birth locality angles conjunct a transitting planet.
St. Aphrodisius’ Uranus is conjunct Algol at a 1’57” orb (Algol is 28 Aries). Aphrodisius is undergoing a tight Uranus square at this time, meaning transitting Uranus is at a square with Algol. Uranus + Algol = “Beheaded man Walking.”
The transits are Uranus, Saturn, Mars, and Mercury all aspecting each other and Algol. “Walking (Uranus) Priest (Saturn) with Severed (Mars) Head (Mercury).”
A further affirmation of the natal chart is that the nearest eclipses on the beheading chart all align with the nearest eclipses on the birth chart:
The Beheading’s nearest prior eclipse (a hybrid eclipes) squares Aphrodisius’ eclipse while conjuncting his Neptune and opposing his Sun. The other prior eclipse (partial) is trining his other prenatal eclipse.