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Ex-BBC journalist found hanged in Turkish airport




A former BBC journalist found hanged in a toilet cubicle at a Turkish airport had spoken about suffering from post-traumatic stress after being arrested for being an alleged spy in Africa.

Jacky Sutton was found dead at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport after missing a connecting flight to Erbil in Iraq from London Heathrow. She then appeared distressed after being told by airline staff that she would have to buy a new ticket and was later found in the toilets by three Russian passengers, according to local media. The 50-year-old held various positions over the years with humanitarian organisations and the United Nations as well as working as a producer for the BBC, often in war-torn countries. She had also spoken in June of her fears that she may be targeted by the Islamic State while working in the Iraqi city of Erbil, reportedly as acting Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Her death cames just five months after her predecessor at the organisation was killed in a car bomb attack in Baghdad.  Paying tribute to Ms Sutton, friend Amanda Whitely, posted a blog today on the website Her Canberra which included an autobiographical account of the former United Nations worker's life. Oct.19





Exactly a week back, the Sun and Uranus formed an exact opposition which loosely aligned with the horizon axis at Istanbul. On Oct. 19, the date of the news, the alignment with the progressed horizon  became exact. So  how does this configuration explain the news?







On the Ascendant are the stars of the Crow, the Virgin and Bootes. Bootes was an armed herdsman, sometimes depicted with a spear rather than a shepherd’s crook, and in China Lambda Bootis [7li] was part of Tchao-Yao, “The Brandishing of Arms”.  The Crow  is a talking bird, and many journalists, newsmen and media people are born under these stars.  Here the stars of the Virgin which longs for peace  are in conflict with the stars of Bootes which draw many towards war.  Reportedly  she was  acting Iraq director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.


And as we have seen before the Uranus-Pluto square represents the actions of courageous individuals  working on behalf of the people's liberties (Uranus in Aries) against institutional structures facing threats to their authority (Pluto in Capricorn).  Finally,  Saturn [2sa]which  forms hard aspects to the Sun-Uranus opposition is conjunct the asteroid Orpheus that is linked to death so that we have all elements which point to the tragic death of a journalist or media person.

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