Danielle Johnson was worried about the eclipse.

The astrology influencer and “divine healer” who went by the name Danielle Ayoka online called the upcoming astronomical event “the epitome of spiritual warfare” and told people they needed to “pick a side,” in posts on X on April 4.

Less than three days later, in the early morning before the partial solar eclipse, Johnson left a trail of tragedy in her wake: her partner stabbed to death in the kitchen of the family apartment in Woodland Hills, her 8-month-old baby dead after being pushed from Johnson’s moving Porsche Cayenne on the 405, and Johnson herself dead after crashing her car on Pacific Coast Highway in Redondo Beach.

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    8 months ago

    There are 2-5 solar eclipses every year and people still went nuts and committed murder this time.

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      8 months ago

      Total solar eclipses happen every one to three years…

      Also, people go nuts and kill people every damn day

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        Yep. The sad fact is that if there was no eclipse, she would have rationalized it differently and blamed something else.

        Perhaps a storm, the full moon, the spoiled milk in her fridge, etc.

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      And on top of that, they’re predictable hundreds of years in advance. We’ve known exactly when and where this eclipse was going to happen since before her grandparents were born. But somehow it’s a bad omen.

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        We know the position of the planets know to the second. Still not a single astrologer predicted COVID except in the usual vague “There might be a challenge ahead” kind of predictions.

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      There won’t be another total eclipse in the contiguous US until 2044. Still no reason to kill someone.