Updated October 2026 — refreshed and expanded for Halloween.
“I’m no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink.”
Those were the last words of Sarah Good, spoken from the gallows on July 19, 1692. Legend says her curse came true. Sarah was one of the first three people accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, and hers is one of the darkest stories of the trials. In the spirit of the season, I want to revisit her untimed natal chart and compare it to the transits and solar arcs on the day of her arrest.
Sarah Good’s Story
Sarah (née Solart) was born in 1653 to John Solart, a prosperous innkeeper in Wenham, Massachusetts. When Sarah was 17, her father died by suicide. Her mother quickly remarried, and her new stepfather took control of the estate — Sarah and her sisters never received the inheritance that should have been theirs.
Her first husband, Daniel Poole, died and left her buried in debt. She married again, to William Good, but the debts followed, and the couple were reduced to begging door to door for food, work, and shelter.
On March 1, 1692, Sarah was arrested as one of the first three accused witches of Salem, alongside Tituba and Sarah Osborne. She was pregnant at the time. She gave birth in her prison cell, and the baby did not live long. Her four-year-old daughter Dorothy was jailed as well — and under pressure, the little girl implicated her own mother. Dorothy spent months behind bars before her father managed to free her.
Sarah never confessed. On July 19, 1692, she was hanged.
The Astrology of Her Arrest
The first two things I noticed in Sarah’s natal chart were the Jupiter–Saturn opposition and the tight square between Pluto and the nodes.
Jupiter in harsh aspect to Saturn can indicate trouble with clergymen, politicians, and government officials — and a loss of prosperity at some point in life. Both played out brutally in Sarah’s story.
Pluto with the nodes, in its basic description, shares a common destiny with a large mass of people — and that destiny is said to be a tragic one. Pluto and the nodes are also in contact with the trans-Neptunian point Apollon. When Pluto and Apollon come together, they signify the potential for major events with gigantic consequences, and with the node involved, those consequences run through her connections and relationships.
At the time of her arrest, her solar-arced Jupiter–Saturn opposition was in contact with natal Neptune. Transit Mars opposed natal Neptune, and transit Hades was sesquiquadrate to it. When Mars and Hades are in aspect, vulgar acts can take place, and deaths of an unusual nature can occur. With Neptune involved, treachery can occur that results in death.
Jupiter implies capital punishment — which is what eventually came. Saturn is said to bring death by murder. The whole cluster lands on the Hades|Pluto midpoint: dishonesty, downfall, and evil changes to come. With Neptune, we can see she had been put into an evil situation, a crisis. Mars points to a corrupt and manipulative plan of action. The Mercury|Poseidon midpoint is hit as well, which with Mars can bring arguments over morality — over what is and isn’t moral behavior.
I also noticed that the transit Node was hitting the evilest midpoint in Uranian astrology at the time. That midpoint brings the need to face danger directly and to be harassed — it is said to bring capital punishment, and even possibly murder.
A Halloween Reflection
More than three hundred years later, Sarah Good’s story still chills the blood — a woman destroyed not by witchcraft, but by poverty, gossip, and the machinery of a frightened town. As Halloween approaches, her chart remains a stark reminder of what the planets can describe when the worst of human nature is unleashed. And her final curse still echoes down the centuries: be careful who you condemn.
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