The assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a Stockholm street in 1986 sent shock waves through Scandanavia. He was an outspoken critic of the USA, Russia, South Africa, Pinochet’s Chile and elsewhere, supporting Third World governments including Cuba and other South American countries. So there were no shortage of conspiracy theories about who might have been responsible for having him gunned down as he walked home with his wife from the movies at midnight without a bodyguard. A small-time criminal was found guilty of his murder later but had his conviction overturned.
Recently Swedish prosecutors made a song and dance about announcing belatedly who the real culprit was but it turned into a damp squib with the announcement that a Swedish graphic designer, who died 20 years ago, with differing political views to Palme, was most likely responsible.
Palme was born 30 January 1927 5.15 am Stockholm and had a 2nd house Sun Mercury in Aquarius with a 1st house outspoken Sagittarius Moon; a full communicative 3rd house with Venus in Aquarius opposition an idealistic Neptune, as well as Jupiter and blunt-speaking Uranus. His Sun Mercury were widely square a pro-active and determined Mars in Taurus in his entertaining 5th which in turn was sextile an influential Pluto in his 8th.
When he was killed on February 28 1986 he was on his Second Saturn Return with his Solar Arc Moon and Solar Arc Uranus both in exact aspect to his idealistic, head-in-the-clouds 9th house Neptune. Tr Pluto was also hovering around the challenging square to his Sun Mercury and in a blocked square to his Solar Arc Saturn.
The alleged killer Stig Engstrom, 26 February 1934, was a Sun Pisces with a could-be-ruthless Mars Mercury in Pisces trine Pluto in Cancer. Engstrom’s Saturn in Sagittarius was square Palme’s Sun and his Saturn in Aquarius squared Palme’s Mars and sat on top of Palme’s Venus opposition Neptune – so it wasn’t good chemistry between them. Their relationship chart had an exact hostile, power-struggling composite Pluto square Mars and Uranus.
Not exactly startling, though it’s possible he was acting on behalf of others, since there seemed to be no obvious smoking-gun motive.