On July 31, 2022, at approximately 5:35 a.m. in Strongsville, Ohio, a devastating vehicle crash claimed the lives of Dominic Russo and Davion Flanagan. The driver, Mackenzie Shirilla, survived. The case quickly spread across news outlets, social media, and a new Netflix documentary sparking widespread debate about intent, emotional instability, recklessness, and responsibility.

I live in Northern Ohio and just watched the Netflix documentary, Crash, about this incident. It was both eerie and frustrating to watch. Mackenzie’s memory loss was especially frustrating. The documentary left me with such a powerful intuitive knowing about what happened, I had to cast a chart for the event to see if my read on that night was similar to the patterns in the stars. Given the high-profile nature of this case, the date, time, and place were easy to locate.

For astrologers, charts connected to major public events often reveal symbolic patterns that reflect the emotional and psychological atmosphere surrounding the incident. This article explores the astrology of the crash itself, not as legal proof, but as a symbolic lens through which to examine the themes present in the moment.

Astrology cannot determine guilt in a court of law, only the judge and jury can do that. It cannot replace forensic evidence, testimony, or legal procedure. What it can do is reveal the energetic tone of an event: tension, impulsivity, emotional collapse, volatility, and the collective impact left behind.

This chart is one of the most intense event charts I have ever studied, and honestly, this chart is disturbing.

A Chart of Violence and Shock

To begin, the crash chart has Cancer rising, making the Moon the ruler of the event.

The Moon sits in Virgo in the 3rd house, which is strikingly literal because the 3rd house rules things like transportation/vehicles, short trips, and roads. The chart ruler being placed in the house of driving immediately centers the event around movement and transit.

The moon, however, is not calm. It is caught between Uranus and Neptune, two planets deeply associated with instability and altered perception.

The Moon separates from a trine to Uranus in Taurus while moving toward opposition with Neptune in Pisces.

Astrologically, this combination can symbolize someone that isn’t emotionally stable, an impulsive action, dissociation, confusion, and a person who is overwhelmed psychologically.

Uranus is especially important in crash charts because it rules shock, rupture, speed, chaos, and sudden impact.

The symbolism here feels like a catastrophic emotional break instead of a careless driver who made a tragic mistake.

Mars Conjunct Uranus: Explosive Momentum

One of the most alarming signatures in the chart is Mars conjunct Uranus in Taurus. This is one of astrology’s classic indicators for violent accidents, explosions, recklessness, impulsive behavior, and destruction.

In mundane astrology, Mars-Uranus combinations frequently appear in charts connected to crashes, machinery failures, and shocking public events.

The fact that this conjunction occurs in Taurus matters greatly.

Taurus is a fixed sign. Fixed signs hold momentum and resist interruption. Once activated, they often continue forward with immense force. That symbolism is difficult to ignore in a high-speed collision, especially one where the driver never removed her foot from the gas.

The 11th House

Even more haunting is the placement of the Mars-Uranus conjunction in the 11th house, the house associated with friend groups, social circles, and community.

Two young men died in the vehicle driven by their friend/girlfriend after they left a party where their friend group was hanging out. The chart reflects that tragic entanglement between friendship, social dynamics, and catastrophe.

An extremely heartbreaking dimension of the story is the loss of Davion Flanagan, who many feel was caught inside circumstances that may not have fully belonged to him.

The 11th house emphasis in the chart reflects how peer relationships and social entanglements became intertwined with irreversible tragedy.

In astrology, some charts reveal how one emotionally charged moment can pull multiple lives into the same destructive current. This chart reflects that painfully well.

Pluto on the Descendant

Pluto sits near the Descendant in Capricorn, making it one of the most angular and powerful planets in the chart. An angular Pluto often intensifies themes of destruction, death, obsession, and irreversible transformation. In astrology, the Descendant represents “the other,” meaning the people directly opposite the self.

In this context, Pluto’s placement suggests a moment where another person became the focal point of destruction and irreversible consequence. I wouldn’t read that as an accident. It’s much more extreme and focused. Perhaps not premeditated, but something emotionally extreme, like a mental breakdown.

Saturn in the 8th House

Among other things, the 8th house governs death, trauma, endings, and transformation. Saturn in the 8th often appears in charts involving fatality, grief, karma, and harsh consequences for actions.

Placed in Aquarius (ruled by Saturn), Saturn also introduces a detached or emotionally severed quality to the chart. There is something chilling about the emotional tone here, as though the event unfolded inside a state of disconnection from reality itself.

Amnesia has been Mackenzie’s main barrier to remember what happened in the moments before the crash. Whether this is being faked or not, something happened that made reality disconnect for a time. Grief and shock do this to people. So do drugs.

Public Obsession and the Role of Neptune

This case became nationally discussed, dissected, and emotionally charged online. After the Netflix documentary dropped, the story has gained even more momentum. Jupiter at the Midheaven reflects the public visibility of the event, but Neptune may explain why the narrative became so emotionally polarized.

Neptune is the planet of confusion and illusion. Things can be distorted when Neptune is at play. People viewing the case often split into these opposing factions:

• monster or mentally unwell?
• intentional or reckless?
• murderer or emotionally unstable teenager?

Neptune tends to blur certainty. It creates emotional fog around public events, especially tragedies involving young people.

Was the Crash Intentional?

Astrology cannot conclusively answer that question.

However, this chart does not resemble the symbolism of a simple driving mistake. The overwhelming fixed-sign emphasis, combined with Mars-Uranus volatility and angular Pluto, seems to suggest an emotionally extreme energy where the destructive momentum could not be de-escalated as someone with a reckless disregard for consequences went absolutely crazy.

There is also something emotionally disconnected about the chart that bothers me more than raw anger would. It doesn’t feel like someone who was so angry they snapped, but someone who disconnected from any form of human emotion. Scary.

I must note that astrology does not necessarily show planning as far as I can tell. The chart feels psychologically overwhelmed in the moment. This is different than calculating a larger crime. There is a difference between a tragic accident, reckless indifference to life, and deliberate premeditated murder.

Astrologically, however, this chart leans far away from ordinary negligence. There is a lot of gray area.

Final Observations

The Sun in Leo in the 2nd house opposite Saturn by sign creates a theme of ego, validation, pride, humiliation, or self-worth colliding with harsh reality and consequence.

A lot of destructive acts committed by young people occur in moments where identity collapses and emotional humiliation become unbearable internally. We’ve all felt those moments in our youth, but chose to cry, scream, break something in our bedrooms, or punch a pillow. We didn’t wreck our cars going 100-mph with two human beings inside.

This chart feels psychologically overwhelmed, dissociated, and extreme rather than coldly strategic in the way a carefully planned murder chart might appear, but it absolutely does not feel astrologically innocent or accidental in the ordinary sense.

Regardless of where one stands on the legal outcome, the astrology reflects a moment that permanently altered many lives at once. Two young men lost their futures. Families were devastated and their grief will live with them for a lifetime. The collective trauma will remain in the community and around the area of the crash.

This one emotionally charged moment became a permanent tragedy.

This is a very heavy chart.

Please comment if you feel like I missed something or my interpretations could be improved upon.