victim had prior contact ith his killer from ork )Jupiter in the derived Hth*# the murder appears tied to the victim's ork environment. /he =th also has Mercury in its detriment, shoing lies and deception, and it is conjunct 6enus. (ll disposit to Jupiter in the !th, hich indicates there is a oman ho is involved )possibly a co4orker* ho knos hat happened and as possibly an accomplice, but is lying )Moon s$uare 6enus* or misleading in her account of her involvement. 2he's also probably protecting the killer, ho is knon and close to her )6enus mutually recepted ith Jupiter*. 2o there's a third party involved. /he case ill either receive a very strong lead, or be solved entirely in I!0, hen the 2un progresses into I degrees 2adge, the sign of truth )and legal matters and jury trials*, and literally sheds light on the =th house, as it ill be in the same sign. /he 2un is important in that it rules the 0th house of endings. /he Moon ill also sextile the 2un before going void4of4course, so the case ill eventually close solved. 2o keys to death interpretation in charts are :ondition of the 2un, Pluto and 2aturn
(s alays, let the chart lead you, rather than trying to apply a fixed formula of rule
2o caveats aside, let's take a look at the nuts and bolts of death charts. /his first chart is a $uestion posed a couple years ago by a young oman hose grandmother as in her death throes. +t as obvious she asn't going to last long based on the $uerent's description of the symptoms. /he $uerent cast the chart for her location to see hen )timing* and the circumstances surrounding her grandmother's imminent demise. /his is perfectly normal, acceptable, and valid. /here is no reason not to read the chart.
/he $uerent is feeling eak and poerless ith her (2: ruler )%eptune* retrograde in the !th house and in mutual reception ith ;ranus, both at dead degrees of their signs./he 2un, hich symbolically rules a person's life force, is at the end of
/here is a t4s$uare ith Pluto, 2aturn, and the ;ranus4Jupiter conjunction in cardinal signs in angular houses. /he mutable angles sho a change is afoot. %ote that in death charts, the Moon is not very relevant for timing or otherise. >or timing, use progressions or transits )this methodology is explained in detail in my book, Open Source Modern Horary Astrology *. Pluto as ruler of the $uerent's ?th house of death is in the grandmother's derived fourth house of endings. Mars is in detriment in the grandmother's derived first house, shoing lack of energy and poer. +ts conjunction to 6enus brings a merciful end. /here is a sensitive ay to discuss the situation ith a $uerent. @ere is a brief excerpt from the dialogue + had ith her QUERENT: + am living alone ith my A old grandmother, and in the last to eeks her condition has
suddenly started to go orse and orse every day. 2he is eating very little or nothing, and is calling out to dead persons all the time. But, she is a very strong (ries and the amount of energy she has is incredible. When she is not sleeping, she starts yelling and screaming and cursing, and + just dont kno hat to expect. 2he is so eak that she can't stand on her feet but she yells so loud that can be heard throughout my hole building. What to doC + am all alone ith her night and day, hat to do to help her, and ill this agony last longC DrandmotherEs condition is very bad# she doesn't kno here she is. + am doing my best to make her last days on earth easier. +t all affects me very much. + am depressed a bit, and lost in all that suffering of her soul. +n the same time, her passing aay ill bring to me a completely ne start, because so far + had to be all the time ith her# + sometimes didn't go out of home for a fe days in a ro. + am afraid of that change too. + am not used to the freedom + ill have. + am single, ithout kids, never married and + am so afraid of the future. + am also in a dilemma about practical things after it happens...like should + move to our capital city, or even go abroad, or not do anything but stay in the same apartment. +t all sounds so complicated and frightening, that + can't describe it to you. R.K. ALEXANDER: +t's going to be a @;D5 change in your life but the opportunity ill be very freeing and expansive for you )JupiterF;ranus* to finally move on ith 89;7 life and do the things you ant instead of caring for others )6irgo* and feeling so confined )MercF!th*. /he best and only thing you can do no Fyour ruler retrograde in the !th house is to finish your duty to your grandmother. (fter that is done, you can put one foot in front of the other and sloly emerge from your confined ay of life )Merc in the !th* out into the orld and freely explore. 2aturn in the derived first shos your fears about being alone in the orld and breaking old habits, but it's exalted and opportunities ill open up to you, especially next year hen Jupiter and ;ranus return to stay in (riesGne beginnings. + promise you that you'll kno hat to do hen the time comes. 2o don't fear the future# just stay focused on finishing up hat you have to do right no.
>our days after the horary $uestion as asked, the $uerent's grandmother died. /he fundamentals of death charts are the same for non4human deaths, provided you place the $uesited in the proper house. /his example is for a $uerent ho anted to kno the timing of hen her cat ith 2tage 0 kidney failure ould die
:ats )and other small animals* are ruled by the Hth house. "eriving the chart to put the Hth house on the (2:, %eptune is the cat's ruler. +t is again at dead degrees along ith it's mutually recepted dispositor, ;ranus. +t is also in the !th house, the symbolic last house and ith a stellium of planets at the end of the &odiac-ultimately symbolic of the end of life. /he derived eighth house has exalted 2aturn retrograde in
/he fixed and mutable siginficators )Moon, %eptune, (2:* and the Jupiter4 ;ranus conjunction in the cat's first house shoed death asn't imminent, and that the ups and dons ould continue unabated. Jupiter's partile s$uare to Pluto ould continue to exacerbate the sings. /he derived 0th house of endings has Demini on the cusp, ruled by Mercury in detriment in Pisces and combust the 2un in the derived !th and besieged beteen :hiron and the 2un. Mercury is also disposited by the %eptune4;ranus mutual reception at dead degrees. (gain, there's no healing possible here-the situation is terminal and the prognosis negative, affirmed by the 2outh %ode in the derived 0th house at a critical degree and opposing Pluto. 2ince the $uestion as about the timing of the death specifically, avoid the impulse to use the Moon for timing in death charts as you ould for most other horary or event matters. ;se transits and progressions instead. 2ince %eptune as so prominent in the cat's situation, it as progressed to hen it ould partile conjunct Mars, )%eptune's next aspect by progression*, ith Mars also in the cat's derived !th indicating a severance and ending being in the !th and in Pisces at I degrees )beginning of the end, literally*. (lmost one full year after the $uestion, the cat as euthani&ed due to his condition he had stopped eating )Pluto s$uare :eres* and eighed three pounds. Belo is the chart for the time of death# note %eptune is at I Pis IA, and that Mars in the chart of the horary above as at I Pis I=.
2aturn, ruling the Hth house of the cat and his health, is at the dead degree of inally, the 2un and Mercury are combust in the cat's derived Hth house, ith 6irgo intercepted in the first. +f you are asking a death horary for someone you are unrelated to or unaffiliated ith, you can use the first house to represent the person you are in$uiring about. /his goes for historical or past deaths, as ell as deaths yet to occur. +n this example, a young man as brutally murdered hile alking home from ork one dark evening in %ovember I!!. /o years later, the case is still unsolved. ;nderstand that this is dangerous territory for an astrologer to tread in in light of the recent examples of 2ylvia Brone's abject failures in her psychic murder predictions, and the re$uisite public bloback. 2o don't do something stupid like run horary or event charts for every unsolved murder on the books, and then phone up the local police department)s* and tell them you have cracked
Predicting Death With Horary Astrology Astrology With Jupiter applying to oppose Pluto, it's a good time to explore using horary astrology to predict death. Most astrologers unneccessarily make a philosophical and ethical issue over the subject, but the reality is that such a mentality is patently absurd for four major reasons !. "eath is a natural natural part of of life# as such it is eminently predictable predictable and a perfectly valid $uestion, just as birth or pregnancy $uestions are. %o human being has ever escaped death, as such, death $uestions are valid to in$uire and analy&e astrologically. . ( horary chart chart )or any any other other astrology astrology chart or horoscope* horoscope* is nothing more than a current transit chart applied to a $uestion. +t possesses no inherent poer to make anything happen or magical $ualities. +t's a snapshot of the sky at a specific point in time-nothing else. . Planets don't care care hat humans think, think, or orry orry about about astrological astrological theory theory or social conventions. /hey do hat they do )orbit the solar system* regardless. 0. +f astrology astrology can't predict predict death, death, it can't can't predict predict anything anything else, else, either. either. /he /he planetary orbits don't shut don or stop orking because they 1kno1 a person is asking a $uestion about death. )2ee 3 above*. /he chart also on't 1self4protect1 by turning up 1non4radical1 or 1not fit to be judged1 charts, hich don't actually exist. )/here is no such thing as an 1unradical1 or 1invalid1 horary chart or $uestion# those are nonsense by4products of an astrologer's on limitations, dogmas, or lack of interpretive skill.* What you wouldn't do do is interpret a chart for someone ith serious issues, or a candidate for suicide. /hose people you ould refer out to a mental health specialist, because astrology has its limits. (strology %5657 supersedes reality, and if someone is a threat to themselves, you'd do hat any sane and reasonable non4astrological person ould do in the same situation you'd move heaven and earth to get them help via a mental health expert or medical attention. 8ou don't ant to push someone teetering over the edge. /he $uerent ill hear hat they ant to hear, hether you actually said it or not, and you ill end up responsible and ith a heavy load of fallout for something that could easily have been avoided. 9ne very famous astrologer had a client commit suicide not long after a session# it deeply affected him and he reali&ed he needed a psychology background to better serve his clients. /he incident, and his subse$uent degree in psychology, helped to make him one of the best astrologers alive. +t's unfortunate that because he couldn't read the mundane signs and symptoms of a candidate for suicide, it took a tragedy for him to attain his level of astrological excellence through psychology.
2o caveats aside, let's take a look at the nuts and bolts of death charts. /his first chart is a $uestion posed a couple years ago by a young oman hose grandmother as in her death throes. +t as obvious she asn't going to last long based on the $uerent's description of the symptoms. /he $uerent cast the chart for her location to see hen )timing* and the circumstances surrounding her grandmother's imminent demise. /his is perfectly normal, acceptable, and valid. /here is no reason not to read the chart.
/he $uerent is feeling eak and poerless ith her (2: ruler )%eptune* retrograde in the !th house and in mutual reception ith ;ranus, both at dead degrees of their signs./he 2un, hich symbolically rules a person's life force, is at the end of
