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Perugia Verdict 3 October 2011
Amanda Knox has been freed from an Italian prison after winning an appeal against her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. So what now for the 24-year-old?For one family from Seattle, a four-year nightmare is over. The relatives and friends of Amanda Knox are preparing to welcome her home, after her murder conviction and 26-year sentence were overturned by an Italian appeal court.For them, her acquittal brings to an end a long campaign seeking her freedom and an arduous struggle to support her while behind bars. There have been countless trips across the Atlantic, scores of Saturday morning phonecalls from the kitchen of her mother's Seattle home, plus the hiring of PR consultants and independent experts in an attempt to help her case and prove her innocence.
For although four young people were at the heart of this story, it was the University of Washington student that dominated it, dividing opinion as she did so. All the mainstream American media was transfixed by the final verdict, reflecting the huge interest there has been in the US ever since the terrible events at Knox's former home, Via della Pergola 7, in the Umbrian city of Perugia. Unlike elsewhere, the American media has largely presented the case as a miscarriage of justice and Knox as the victim of an antiquated judicial system. Publications like the New York Times and Rolling Stone magazine have described how an innocent, bright but naive American had been mistakenly caught up in a terrible crime. But in a case that has divided opinion and provoked very strong feelings - the websites set up to support her release have received hate mail - many people believe Knox to be guilty. Indeed, the boos that were heard outside the courtroom after the verdict were an audible reminder of that. Natalie Hayward, who became friends with the British student in Perugia, went further and told the Sunday Telegraph she was immediately suspicious when Knox did not seem to be as shocked by the murder as other friends, and seemed to know details about the crime scene. In chaotic scenes that threatened to turn violent at times, hundreds of angry members of the public cried "shame" as news of the verdicts reached them.
Meredith Kercher's family have repeatedly warned that she has become a forgotten victim as the world's media focused on the fate of Amanda Knox. Like thousands of young Britons each year, she had set off ready for an adventure during her 12 months abroad studying. The 21-year-old from Coulsdon in Surrey was reading European Studies at Leeds University and was due to spend a year in Italy as part an EU-wide scheme which lets students take part of their degree in another country.But on November 2 2007, she was found dead in her room. Her throat had been slit and her semi-naked corpse was covered by a duvet. Chief prosecutor Giuliano Mignini told the court during the murder trial: "This was a murder accompanied by sexual violence for futile motives. "A 21-year-old girl who a few days later should have gone back to London to see her ill mother who she was close to and who she should have embraced along with her father, sister and two brothers.
"But she was not able to return and embrace her family. She was killed in an appalling manner. On the left is a bi-wheel of Amanda Knox (inner wheel) and Raffaele Sollecito (outer wheel).Their natal charts have already been looked at in the Perugia MurderTrial so lets take a look and see what transits were affecting their natal charts when the judge gave his verdict clearing them of the murder of Meredith Kercher and ordered their immediate release from prison. The verdict was spoken yesterday evening at about 20.45 BST.Firstly, transiting Jupiter was on the cusp of Amanda Knox's 12th house Taurus, indicating expansion and freedom connected to all that has been hidden. And opposite Pluto, may involve large sums of money. At the same time it makes a sextile aspect to natal Mercury in Cancer indicating freedom of movement and being able to communicate freely with her family members. And transiting Pluto is making a final opposition to her natal Venus and is coming up to conjunct natal Neptune, indicating the intensity of this trial, which has deeply questioned her innocence and her (deceptive) ideology.
Sollecito's chart shows the Sun at 5 degrees of Aries making a square aspect to the Neptune/Jupiter midpoint in Capricorn and Pluto transiting that point. Like Amanda, it shows the intensity surrounding this trial and the questions surrounding his naivity (or self-deception) regarding his expression of innocence. Transiting Jupiter was on his Pluto/Saturn midpoint and indicates freedom from oppression and restriction. L.S.
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