Aaron Kosminski

Aaron Kosminski is remembered not for a life but for a suspicion: a Polish Jewish barber who left Congress Poland for London in the 1880s and cut hair in Whitechapel, the same East End streets where the killings ascribed to "Jack the Ripper" occurred in 1888. Named by contemporary police as a suspect, though the evidence tying him to the crimes remains thin and contested, he was institutionalised from 1891 after threatening his sister with a knife, held first at Colney Hatch and then at Leavesden, where he died in 1919.

His Sun sits in Virgo, the sign of the skilled hand and the analytical, detail-hungry mind, an intelligence that ordinarily finds itself through work and service. His Moon in Gemini is mental and restless, an emotional nature that lives in words and facts rather than depth, quick to react and prone to detachment. These placements describe a temperament, a certain wiring of intellect and unrest. They do not, and cannot, explain or excuse violence. Whatever the truth of the accusations against him, a chart maps disposition; the harm a person does is theirs alone. Kosminski's name endures wrapped in unresolved dread.