Triple Capricorns are a peculiar breed.

While out of action with the man flu, brought on by the current Jupiter/Saturn square afflicting my Mars, I thought I’d cheer myself up by doing some research into death.

This wasn’t so much because I was concerned whether I’d last the week, but as I’m fast approaching the three score years and ten that the Bible allots to us on this planet, I have found myself pondering ways to approach this subject from several different angles recently.

Death is predictable, more often in the charts of loved ones close to the deceased than in their own and I have used these combinations together with horary to accurately predict the passing of clients’ relatives.

Some people might say you shouldn’t do this, that it is a misuse of astrology.

For me 90% of the things that are published in the name of astrology is a misuse of the subject. In the last week I have read someone saying the house placement of the asteroid named Born is what you are meant to be doing in this life, and someone else saying the sign placement of the one called DNA will describe those things you inherit from your parents.

Finding myself unable to write a response without scathing sarcasm, I just remembered reading how astrologers of the past would keep themselves entertained by predicting the death of their rivals.

Many astrologers would say their subject evades empirical research, but I have found that this is either because they are too lazy to do it, or lack the confidence that it would back up their own theories.

For me, unless what you say is actually backed up by your own quantitative research, you are simply plagiarising something that has already been copied many times over.

How can you say that someone with a 10th house Sun for example will focus a great deal on their career unless you have seen that to be the case in a great many of the people you have come across with this placement?

So for me research is critical, we can’t seriously call ourselves astrologers without it. The only problem is what criterion to use.

This applies as much to the astrology of death as it does to any other subject.

Nowadays the astrodatabank has an extremely useful resource which allows astrologers to test their theories in minutes rather than the years it took me to trawl through every chart on their database.

There is a sector which includes long life, as in people dying over the age of 80 and born between 1900 and 1940.

Obviously if the same research was done into people born later they would be using a cut off for long life nearer 90 than 80, but that would also mean that they wouldn’t be dead yet.

In this sample there are 4866 subjects.

Here is the Sun sign distribution.

AR	430
TA	424
GE	453
CA	411
LE	421
VI	417
LI	393
SC	338
SG	346
CP	404
AQ	422
PI	407

This is quite a shock. I had expected a much more even distribution than this.

Geminis seem to live much longer than Scorpios or Sagittarians. It’s difficult to explain astrologically unless we say that the sign most associated with death seems to experience it earlier than the others.

With any kind of research, we need to know whether the results that we see are significant or not.

I’ve watched many people on astrotwitter put up “research” pieces on studies that they’ve done on their mates charts. The sample size is usually so small that any “findings” are meaningless.

With nearly 5000 subjects, this is a large sample, and it makes sense that the larger the sample, the more meaning your observations will have.

Fortunately there is a test for this, it’s called the P test and is used by scientists to work out whether any distribution has significance or not.

If the P score is less than 0.01 it can be said to be so.

The P score for the above is 0.0016, so we can definitely say there is something in this.

What about Moon signs?

AR	384
TA	418
GE	397
CA	416
LE	413
VI	434
LI	368
SC	394
SG	411
CP	417
AQ	414
PI	400

A spike in Virgo and a low in Libra might be telling us something but this distribution is nothing like as strong as the Sun sign one, as a P figure of 0.662 reveals.

So this Moon sign distribution is the kind of thing that would just come up by chance anyway.

What about the houses?

The Moon by house has a 0.513 P figure so I won’t bother to publish that. But the Sun one is absolutely astonishing.

1	470
2	434
3	429
4	370
5	354
6	358
7	351
8	372
9	350
10	449
11	457
12	470

The 1st and 12th houses have a massive figure of 470 whereas the 9th house gets only 350.

The P figure for this is a mind boggling 0.000000000290149

If we take a hemisphere emphasis, the eastern left side houses (10-3) score 2709, whereas the western right sided ones (4-9) get 2155.

The P figure for this distribution is an even more 0.00000000000000196523

So we are definitely onto something here and not even Richard Dawkins could argue with it.

The question is what are we onto?

Is it really the case that the nearer you are born to sunrise, the longer you will live?

This distribution does reflect the even stronger one that I discovered over a decade ago with The Capricorn Research Project

So maybe what we are seeing is the simple fact that famous people are more likely to have this left sided chart emphasis and since the Astrodatabank contains the charts of these types of people, whatever they do is going to confirm that spread.

Or maybe they live longer because they are famous and presumably have more money than the rest of us.

Perhaps there is a way to answer this by using a control group.

There is another sector on the astrodatabank research which looks at early death, anyone leaving the planet before the age of 30.

Understandably there aren’t so many, but 877 subjects is still a decent sample size to use.

Here is the distribution of the Sun by house.

1	67
2	67
3	73
4	70
5	67
6	65
7	68
8	72
9	76
10	93
11	96
12	63

Here a top score in the 11th house of 96 and a low of 65 in the 6th might be confirming the left/right side bias, but a P figure of 0.1068 suggests that it isn’t.

Of course this could mean that the chief reason for these people’s inclusion in the database is the fact that they died young, so we wouldn’t necessarily expect them to have the left side dominance..

Here is the early death Sun and Moon sign distribution.

	SO	MO
AR	73	87
TA	66	78
GE	87	83
CA	78	67
LE	73	60
VI	70	70
LI	72	67
SC	60	86
SG	73	68
CP	65	55
AQ	77	77
PI	83	79

It’s interesting that Gemini is the highest scoring sign and Capricorn the lowest.

This could be a reflection on the speed of movement of the two signs, which could make the former more likely to be in an accident and the latter more likely to carefully avoid an earlier demise.

The figure for the Sun set is 0.658 and the Moon is 0.156, so neither qualify as significant in themselves.

One house distribution is significant. It is that of Pluto.

1	56
2	83
3	49
4	60
5	64
6	67
7	83
8	106
9	68
10	74
11	82
12	85

Pluto occurs in the 8th house of death a whopping 106 times, that’s 25% higher than the next highest (12th house).

It occurs in the 8th more than twice as often as it does in the 3rd.

The P figure for this distribution is 0.000123

Unfortunately, the astrodatabank research programme does not facilitate looking at aspects, which we know are by some distance the most important part of astrology, particularly for life patterns, so in order to get a sense of this I would have to input all 887 charts and check them myself.

This is precisely the kind of work that I spent 40 years doing, but I’m obviously not prepared to do it now, because my own death would probably arrive before I ever got round to writing the article.

Instead I have looked at the first 50 charts (arranged in date of birth order) to see if there are aspect patterns.

I believe that out of these 50, 39 of them have death clearly indicated by the aspects of Pluto.

Pluto occurs in the 8th house 13 times, which is staggering when the average score is just over 4.

12 of these 50 have Pluto playing a major part of a difficult T square.

Another 12 have Pluto in challenging aspect with the Sun, 5 of them conjunctions.

11 have Pluto in difficult aspect with Mars.

So what can we surmise from this?

When we see the strong scores for the Sun in the 10th and 11th house, with the Gemini/Pisces sign distribution we might be led to believe that the greatest risk of an early death is attending too many social group classes after a busy day at work.

Certainly if a client had the Sun in Pisces in the 11th square to Pluto in Sagittarius in the 8th, they would currently be between the age of 16 and 27, so I would be suggesting they give up ashtanga yoga for a while.

I have counselled many people over the death of loved ones, some even believing that they were somehow at fault.

Whether it occurs under the age of 30 or over 80, the one thing that does become clear when looking into the astrology of death is that it was always meant to happen when it did.

Every single one of them has found great solace in knowing this simple fact and seeing the astrology behind it.

Researching into these things does bring its own karma.

I probably wouldn’t have done the research if I hadn’t been laid up and while writing about it my man flu symptoms have lifted significantly.

Posted 11 Aug 2024

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