Ted Kaczynski

Ted Kaczynski, known to the public as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician who became a domestic terrorist. A childhood prodigy, he abandoned an academic career in 1969 and retreated in 1971 to a remote Montana cabin without electricity or running water. From that isolation he waged a mail-bombing campaign between 1978 and 1995 that killed three people and injured twenty-three others, targeting individuals he associated with modern technology. He forced newspapers to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, and it was his own brother who recognised the prose and reported him. Arrested in 1996, he pleaded guilty in 1998, received eight consecutive life sentences, and died by suicide in prison in 2023.

Analytically, his chart carries the Sun in Gemini, the mercurial sign of the writer and messenger, placed in the twelfth house of isolation and the withdrawn, unknowable self. His Moon in Leo sits in the third house of communication and the written word, the channel through which his ideology was broadcast. A Gemini Ascendant repeats the restless, intellectual mask. These placements describe a temperament inclined toward words and seclusion; they neither predict nor excuse murder. The harm he inflicted was his own deliberate choice, and it was monstrous.