A Time to Die – Death Charts as Cosmic Obituaries: Single Lecture

As astrologers we agree that the moment of birth reveals the character and destiny of that which is born, be it a person, a nation, an organization, or even an idea. For the most part we study the lives of people, and the moment of birth is the root from which all our investigations proceed. We may disagree on many things as astrologers, but the vital significance of the moment of birth is the one thing about which there is no dispute.

But what of the moment of death? In this presentation Richard Alwin Fidler postulates that this moment, too, is pregnant with meaning regarding that which has died and the life that has been lived? Could it be that we have neglected to study this important and inevitable end-moment of every incarnation precisely because it is so shrouded in mystery? After all, we don’t know with any certainty where or what exactly death leads us to. We fear death, prefer not to think about it, since it is the antithesis of our very existence as living beings. We’re in perpetual denial of our mortality.

It is true that death has indeed been the subject of astrological scrutiny and speculation over the centuries, but this has almost invariably been limited to an attempt to gauge approximate longevity, and somewhat controversially, also to predict the precise date of demise. But what if the moment of death reveals what a life has actually achieved? Could it be that the death chart is indeed a kind of Cosmic Obituary?