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Examples of Politics - Charlotte Corday Assassinates Jean-Paul Marat
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Charlotte Corday's background
Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 - 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday , was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. - Wikipedia
What makes Charlotte Corday such a great example?
Charlotte Corday assassinated Jean-Paul Marat in his bath, believing that killing him would end the Terror and save France from further bloodshed. She made no attempt to flee and was executed just four days later, remaining strikingly composed throughout her trial and on the scaffold.
The compressed timescale between the two deaths, an assassination and an execution only four days apart, gives an unusually tight window in which to compare Charlotte Corday's birthchart against both events.
Charlotte Corday and Jean-Paul Marat

The astounding thing about Charlotte Corday's actions is how directly her own birthchart connects to Marat's, given that the two of them are only linked to one another through her single, fatal decision to travel to Paris and kill him.
The first thing is to notice what stands out in terms of direct connections between the birth charts of Charlotte Corday and Jean-Paul Marat.
- Marat's Sun sextile Corday's Sun
- Marat's Sun square Corday's Neptune

- Marat's Venus opposite Corday's Moon
- Marat's Venus sextile Corday's Neptune

- Marat's Jupiter trine Corday's Moon
- Marat's Chiron conjunct Corday's Saturn

- Marat's Neptune conjunct Corday's Saturn

- Marat's Neptune opposite Corday's Pluto

- Marat's Pluto trine Corday's Saturn

The chart shown is the birth of Charlotte Corday, set at 5:30am, with the birth of Jean-Paul Marat as transits, set at midday.
In the chart shown here, the inner chart is of the birth of Charlotte Corday, while the outer shows the birth of Jean-Paul Marat .
Corday and Marat never met before the day of the assassination, yet the density of contact points between their two birthcharts, particularly the repeated involvement of Saturn and Neptune, suggests a connection that runs far deeper than a single chance encounter.
The Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat

Charlotte Corday gained entry to Marat's lodgings by promising him a list of Girondin traitors, then stabbed him once, fatally, while he sat in the medicinal bath he worked from because of a chronic skin condition.
- Transiting Ascendant trine Corday's Mercury
- Transiting Ascendant trine Corday's Mars
- Transiting Sun trine Corday's Chiron
- Transiting Mercury loosely conjunct Corday's Ascendant
- Transiting Mars opposite Corday's Moon

- Transiting Mars sextile Corday's Uranus
- Transiting Mars sextile Corday's Neptune
- Transiting Jupiter square Corday's Mercury
- Transiting Saturn square Corday's Ascendant
- Transiting Chiron conjunct Corday's Sun
- Transiting Uranus conjunct Corday's Mercury
- Transiting Uranus trine Corday's Mars
- Transiting Pluto opposite Corday's Mercury
- Transiting Pluto sextile Corday's Mars
In the chart shown here, the inner chart is of the birth of Charlotte Corday, while the outer shows the death of Jean-Paul Marat at the hands of Charlotte Corday, set for 6pm as it is recorded that Charlotte returned in the evening to carry out the assassination.
The transits fall heavily on Charlotte Corday's Mercury and Mars, the planning and the act itself, while the ongoing opposition to her Mercury from Pluto suggests just how transformative, and irreversible, that single decision was to be for her.
The Guillotining of Charlotte Corday

- Transiting Moon square Corday's Sun
- Transiting Moon opposite Corday's Uranus
- Transiting Moon sextile Corday's Pluto
- Transiting Sun square Corday's Mars
- Transiting Mercury loosely conjunct Corday's Ascendant
- Transiting Mars sextile Corday's Uranus
- Transiting Mars opposite Corday's Pluto

- Transiting Jupiter square Corday's Mercury
- Transiting Saturn square Corday's Ascendant
- Transiting Chiron conjunct Corday's Sun
- Transiting Uranus conjunct Corday's Mercury
- Transiting Uranus trine Corday's Mars
- Transiting Pluto opposite Corday's Mercury
- Transiting Pluto sextile Corday's Mars
In the chart shown here, the inner chart is of the birth of Charlotte Corday, while the outer shows the death of Charlotte Corday by guillotine, just four days after the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, and we can see that while the long term astrological factors that helped influence Charlotte to murder were still in place, the factors that affected her more personally had become more precise by this time.
It is notable that several of the same planets, Mercury, Mars, Uranus and Pluto, that were active at the assassination itself are active again just four days later at her execution, as if the astrology of the single decision that killed Marat carried straight through to her own death as its direct consequence.
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