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In those olden times, regarding the horoscope of a child, there was a great deal of concern with the (astrological) question, "Will the child be raised?", and an important part of what the astrologer would do (regarding a child's horoscope) was to attempt to answer this question FIRST and foremost: hence many techniques for doing so.  In the case of someone past 10 or 11 years of age, and of course regarding persons who were already adults, answering such a question was not necessary and the techniques used to answer the "will the child be raised?" question, would not apply; however, I think that in later times (Renaissance, Reformation times) perhaps some of these "will the child be raised" techniques were applied for longevity/death prediction purposes, which of course was not the reason these techniques were intended for, originally...