Astrology of The Louvre Heist

On October 19th, 2025 at about 9:30am, a group of at least four thieves broke into the Louvre and stole 8 pieces from the collection of French crown jewels—and so far they have gotten away with it. What do the stars have to say about this daring and nearly impossible feat? Will the bandits be caught? Will the jewels be recovered? 

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THE CAST of SIGNIFIERS

Mercury & Mars: The Bandits 

Venus: The Jewels 

The Sun: Royalty & The State

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WILL THEY GET AWAY WITH THE HEIST or GET CAUGHT? 

Ancient astrology has lots of helpful advice about the best and worst times to commit a robbery, so I often follow the stories of heists closely to see what tracks. It has always seemed incredibly useful to me to figure out if there really is some underlying pattern here—if there are times when we can slip under the net of surveillance that covers almost every inch of the world. Beyond the obvious practical value to knowing that information (whether for financial gain or purposes of liberatory insurgency), these kinds of heists also provide a very grounded and practical way of investigating the material impact of certain planetary configurations; by looking at the success or failure of a heist we can see very plainly if there are real world correlations between the planets that rule certain people, places, and things. 

The first planet we look to for anything related to thieves, robbers, and scam artists is Mercury. Mercury is the trickster god of the crossroads, patron of bandits, whose first act after birth was the robbery of Apollo’s cattle. Crime in general, and violent crime in particular, is related to Mars, the god of war and criminal activity. Just looking at these two main signifiers, the chart for the Louvre robbery is remarkable: it was committed on a day when Mercury is exactly conjunct Mars in Mars’ home sign of Scorpio—and Scorpio is the sign that is rising up over the eastern horizon in Paris at the time of the heist. 

While it wasn’t a uniquely violent robbery (no one was hurt), it did involve breaking and entering by literally cutting through the window of the museum with an angle grinder fitted with a diamond bit, and threatening the security guards with that same tool to keep them at bay as they made off with the jewels. Mars is in a uniquely powerful position in this chart, in his own domicile and on the ascendent, but also below the line of the horizon in the night part of the chart where he is most comfortable and effective. 

A key consideration when you’re looking at the success or failure of a robbery is visibility. If the planets that represent the robbers are visible, it's much more likely that they will be seen, exposed, and caught. One consistent principle across the ancient tradition is that the visibility of Mercury in the sky correlates to the visibility or invisibility of bandits, and therefore their success or failure in getting away with the crime. Very basically, successful robberies are supposed to be much more likely when Mercury is “under the beams of the sun,” meaning it is so close to the sun that the sun’s light hides Mercury from view, blinding anyone looking for the thieves and granting them a kind of temporary invisibility. 

I’ve researched lots of high profile heists, and it's uncanny how often Mercury is under the beams of the sun (or just going under or emerging from the beams) when very successful robberies occur. The degree range varies in different texts, but roughly 15-17 degrees away from the sun is the point at which a planet becomes visible again, and many of the most successful robberies in history have happened with Mercury right around this degree range (I’m going to present my research on this at some point, so this is just a rough summary for now). 

Despite how fabulous the rest of the chart is for a robbery, by this standard alone, I would guess that the bandits who committed the Louvre heist were not sufficiently hidden and some of them may ultimately be caught (Mercury is some 21 degrees from the sun and in a different sign). But as I mentioned, Mercury and Mars are also tucked under the horizon in the night part of the chart, and no other planets in the chart can “see” them by degree-based aspect, so in that sense they are hidden away, even if they don’t have the ideal cover that the light of the sun can provide. There are lots of other positive factors supporting Mercury and Mars (including a whole-sign trine from both Jupiter and Saturn). With such mixed testimony, my best prediction would be that some of the people involved may ultimately get caught and take the fall, while others will escape unscathed. 

WILL THE JEWELS BE RECOVERED? 

Dorotheus’ 1st century text Carmen Astrologicum is an incredible source for investigating a robbery, particularly book 5, chapter 6, titled “If you wanted to know the matter of a theft committed, or something lost, whether he would gain control over the object or not”

One of the investigative tools Dorotheus provides is a kind of “compass” for decoding the situation using the angles of the chart of the robbery:

[Quotes and Images from Ben Dyke's translation]

The first house indicates the stolen object 

The fourth house shows the stash where the object is hidden away 

The seventh house indicates the thieves 

The tenth house tells us about the owner 

In the Louvre heist chart, we see that Leo—the sign of royalty—is in the 10th house, and these jewels originally belonged to royalty and now belong to the French state. It's interesting that the ruler of Leo, the sun (which represents royalty and the state) and Venus (the goddess of jewels and art) are both in the 12th house of secrets and hidden enemies. This plainly shows that they would be the target of a secret plot, and could very well indicate that the jewels themselves are well hidden in a marginal and secret space. Since the ruler of the 7th house is also Venus, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone on the inside was involved with the heist—the owners of the jewels and the thieves share the same house location. It's worth mentioning that the 12th house is also the house of prison, so if there is an insider responsible, they may ultimately be locked up for the crime.

If we’re looking for where the jewels are being kept, we would want to consider both the natural signifier of jewels and jewelry (Venus) and the fourth house which Dorotheus says reveals the stash. The only planet in the 4th is Pluto in Aquarius (obviously not an ancient consideration), in a powerful grand trine with Venus in the 12th and Uranus in the 8th. All the houses involved are connected to darkness and invisibility, and the Pluto/8th house trine feels like it could point to organized crime. 

Really the only positive indicator for the return of the jewels is Jupiter’s trine to the ascendent, since Dorotheus says “if the fortunes [i.e.Jupiter and Venus] were in the Ascendent or looked at the Ascendent, then they [the ancient scholars] said that he would get control over what was lost or stolen, and it would be returned to its owners.” 

But that one consideration doesn’t seem to outweigh the dozen or more other factors Dorotheus lists that contradict the return of the stolen items. In fact, Dorotheus gives a very specific delineation for the location of the stolen items that fits the exact situation we see in this heist chart: if the fourth house is a sign “resembling the human being” (Aquarius, the water bearer, fits this description) and it has Mars in aspect (as we see in this chart) what was stolen is “in the furnace of blacksmiths.” When a delineation this specific matches the most likely and logical outcome so well, it seems only sensible to give it credibility: at least some of the jewels have already been melted down and reformed, and we’ll never see them again. 

I’m fascinated to see how all of this plays out and what it can teach us about committing successful heists (or preventing them I guess, if that’s your thing). As with so much of ancient astrology, it's never as cut and dry as it seems, and a lot depends on our intuition about which considerations to give the most weight, what trails to follow and which are red herrings. I’ll plan to do a follow up post some day when we finally learn more about the fate of the crown jewels!