Wintle: David Hyland
his skin and made him unsure who he was or what was happening to him. It is now very hard for him to remember this whole period clearly and consecutively. The relevant solar returns begin with the 1987 one (Figure 9), which covers the time when he first met the Golden Dawn people in early 1988. He was still working in the State Theatre then. i is just 1º above the Ascendant in c (Figure 9), F y in the 5th house. Initially it felt like a new revelation in his life, bringing release and widening his horizons. But look at the ^ in the 2nd house, opposing the q and r, both in the 8th. There was a price to be paid—a sexual price and eventually one that would affect his job as well. u in the 12th is exactly F t in the 8th, bringing a sense of subliminal release through sex, but u is also square to the w in the 9th house, near the Midheaven, so the release soon revealed itself to be destructive to his inner emotional well being, as well as to his whole status in life. The 1988 solar return (Figure 10) covers the time when David distanced himself from the Golden Dawn in June 1989 and was cursed in consequence. He was still employed in the State Theatre but beginning to feel an interior tension. He believes the schizophrenia began then though it was not formally diagnosed till late 1989 and he was hospitalized in early 1990. In late 1988 or early 1989 David also had the UFO experience to which he alluded briefly when I first met him at the Welcome Club. He and ten other people were abducted in a semi-hypnotized condition by occupants of a UFO that late one evening landed near the building where they were. All were subjected to a physical examination (naked) and also underwent a sort of brainwashing process. The experience changed David’s whole attitude to life, though I have never been able to get him to open up in more detail about this. He says it was a traumatic experience that he doesn’t like to dwell on too much—in particular because his schizophrenia began almost immediately after it. He just knows now that UFOs do exist and that their occupants visit and communicate with the people of Earth. At some time in the future he might talk more about it. The 1988 solar return actually makes a somewhat diffuse impression. It is a Splash-type chart, according to the Marc Edmund Jones classification, with the planets scattered here and there all over the figure instead of being focused on specific areas or houses. The ruler o is close to the 11th cusp, squared by t in the 1st and G “ at cusp 9. No doubt it took David some considerable time to come to a definite decision concerning how he felt about the Golden Dawn. The q’s trine to the 1st house t but opposition to the w in the 11th strengthens this impression. But r in the 4th opposes u A i so in the end he had no doubts—he needed to be out, but they would use all their weight to crush him as a result. The 1989 solar return (Figure 11) shows this happening. y (freedom) is in the 2nd house in close dissociate opposition to i in the 8th. His op-
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