The Astrology of the Underworld Podcast

Episode 12: Alex Murdaugh: The Fallen Heir

In this episode of The Astrology of the Underworld, we break down the chart of Alex Murdaugh, the fallen heir to a legal dynasty whose life unraveled into fraud, addiction, corruption, and the murder of his wife and son. We look at some of the most disturbing signatures in the chart, including a Gemini stellium, Sun conjunct Moon, Mercury conjunct Mars, Venus conjunct Lilith in Taurus, Neptune in Scorpio, and powerful patterns of excess, deceit, rage, and inflation. Throughout the episode, we explore how these placements can reflect charm, duplicity, hidden violence, entitlement, and a shadow life that thrived beneath the surface of respectability. This episode examines the shadow directly, tracing the archetypal patterns moving beneath the mask of the pillar of the community, the husband, the father, and the keeper of a crumbling family empire. We also talk about the financial fraud, the opioid addiction, the abuse of power, the suspicious deaths orbiting the family, and the terrifying lengths someone will go to in order to preserve status, image, and control.

Episode 11: Brian Kohberger: The Scholar of Death

New episode out today. Episode 11 of The Astrology of the Underworld takes on Bryan Kohberger, the man convicted of murdering four University of Idaho students in 2022. In this episode, we look at a chart saturated with Scorpio, including a massive stellium of Sun, Pluto, Jupiter, Mercury, the North Node, and Venus, along with a grand trine and a volatile Jupiter-Mars square that points to hidden rage, obsession, psychic pressure, and the potential for violent escalation. We talk about the concentrated force of all that Scorpio energy, the emotional intensity of a Cancer Moon, the perfectionism and wounding suggested by Chiron in Virgo, and the way his chart seems to reflect secrecy, fixation, alienation, and a deep instability around power, rejection, and control. We also get into the stalking, the institutional obsession, the strange sterility of his presentation, and the disturbing possibility that his studies in criminology became tangled up with his own compulsions. This episode explores what happens when enormous psychic intensity hardens into obsession, when wounds calcify into rage, and when a person begins organizing their life around domination, surveillance, and violence.

Episode 10: John Meehan: Dirty John

In this episode of The Astrology of the Underworld, we break down the chart of John Meehan, the con artist, serial abuser, and manipulator better known as Dirty John. We look at some of the most disturbing signatures in the chart, including a Mercury square Neptune aspect that speaks to deception, distortion, and the manufacturing of false realities, along with Venus in Pisces opposing Pluto in Virgo, which can point to manipulation, emotional confusion, and power struggles in relationships. We also explore the possibility of Scorpio rising, which would place Jupiter and Neptune in the first house and add another layer to the charm, projection, and psychological fog that seemed to follow him everywhere. Throughout the episode, we examine how these placements can reflect themes of coercion, fraud, narcissistic injury, control, rage, and the weaponization of vulnerability. We also talk about the family system that shaped him, especially the role of his father, and how early conditioning around deceit, bodily harm, and exploitation may have hardened into a life organized around domination. This conversation is an inquiry into how archetypal patterns can manifest in profoundly destructive ways when they move through an unconscious, unethical, and predatory personality structure. We also spend time with the women at the center of this story, especially Debra and Tara Newell, whose intuition, endurance, and fight for survival shape the emotional core of the episode.

Episode 9: Chris Watts The Hollow Man

In this episode of The Astrology of the Underworld, we break down the chart of Chris Watts, the man who murdered his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two young daughters in one of the most horrifying family annihilation cases in recent memory. We look at some of the most disturbing signatures in the chart, including Mars conjunct Chiron in Gemini, Moon conjunct Lilith in Aries, Mercury in Taurus trine Neptune, and strong Scorpio-Pluto themes. Throughout the episode, we explore how these placements can reflect repression, hidden rage, emotional shutdown, distorted communication, and violence festering beneath an outwardly quiet exterior. This episode examines the shadow directly, tracing the archetypal patterns moving beneath the mask of the “good guy,” the family man, and the devoted husband. We also talk about the psychological dynamics at the heart of this case: emotional suppression, covert resentment, infidelity, image management, and the terrifying banality of someone who appeared ordinary while carrying something devastating just under the surface. If you are interested in true crime, criminal psychology, and archetypal astrology, this episode is for you. Listen now and let us know what you think in the comments.

Episode 8: Keith Raniere:The NXIVM Cult Leader

In this episode of The Astrology of the Underworld, we break down the chart of Keith Raniere, the founder of NXIVM, the so-called self-improvement organization that was, in reality, a system of manipulation, coercion, abuse, and sex trafficking. We look at some of the most disturbing signatures in the chart, including Sun conjunct Pluto in Virgo, Mercury conjunct Uranus in Leo, Jupiter in Sagittarius square Venus, and an especially troubling unaspected Mars in Gemini. Throughout the episode, we explore how these placements can reflect themes of power, domination, ideological inflation, deception, grandiosity, and aggression without brakes. This conversation is not about excusing harm. It is about looking directly at the shadow and naming the archetypal patterns at work beneath the mask of the “guru,” the humanitarian, and the healer. We also talk about the psychological manipulation at the heart of NXIVM: the coercion, the branding, the starvation, the isolation, and the way spiritual language was used to control women and disguise violence as growth. If you are interested in true crime, cult psychology, and archetypal astrology, this episode is for you. Listen now and let us know what you think in the comments.