That's a good way of getting people to "keep quiet"! Best take nothing for granted though, because just as frequently, those who don't know, also talk - anyhow for those interested, while we are on the subject - here's a link to Hyleg & Alcoccodon so you can decide for yourself http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46808 and Profections (Praxis) http://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47191
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JA, probably you are aware of the cases in history where famous traditional astrologers (such as Morin) publically predicted the deaths of their critics. "Silencing" works both ways, it would seem. Unfortunately these predictions were often wrong, and merely gave astrology's critics more fuel.
I think we can take it as a given that modern astrology is not up to the challenge of predicting the time and manner of death. Reasons, for the unconvinced, are available upon request. If you see a serious and well-informed modern astrologer undertaking such an effort, usually they list so many different possible "death signatures" [such as prominent quincunxes] that it is helpful to realize that you can't predict which one/s might be operative in your particular case; and that these "signatures" equally apply to people who didn't die at the moment they hit.
Traditional astrologers made much of death prediction, but their calculation methods for the hyleg were different to the point where they would yield different results. (See the summary by J. Lee Lehmann in the hyleg entry in James M. Lewis, ed.,
The Astrology Book.)
Moreover, today in the more medically advanced developed countries, women can expect to live into their early 80s, and men into their late 70s. It doesn't make sense to think that tens of millions of seniors' prorogative points somehow got bunched up into advanced ages of life just within the past few decades. Is this astronomically plausible? It doesn't make sense to think that a mass death episode like a jumbo jet crash, the Japanese tsunami of 2011 or the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 somehow hit hundreds or even thousands of people of all age cohorts whose hyleg or alcoccodons were somehow simultaneously aligned at birth.
But this isn't a thread about the (in)accuracy of death predictions in astrology, let alone the dubious ethics of trying to play God with people's lives.
It is a thread about how people imagine themselves dying. Which is different, and I think one's 8th house would have something to say about it. Sometimes people with an 8th house focus think about death a lot.
I still vote for old age, BTW!
"Only the good die young."