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Deathin AstrologybyRon Bippus, Canada.Copy Editor: Lorin Cerina, CroatiaR on Bippus is a professional Astrologerwith 35 years experience. Ron has re-typedall of William Lilly's "Christian Astrology"and it is now available in modern English.This is the most informative book everwritten on the art of horary astrology. Aswell, Ron has turned Lilly’s horary astrologyinformation into a modern horary textbookentitled appropriately enough the “HoraryHandbook”. He lives and practices inToronto, Canada. He can be contacted onronbippus@rogers.comNo rational person would deny thatbirth and death are the mostimportant events in life. Theseevents mark the beginning and the ending,the alpha and omega. Therefore, deathevents should be clearly shown in the chartby dynamic planetary aspects. Any chartthat shows no such activity at the time ofdeath is simply not correct. Unlike ancientastrologers who used complex rules ofanalysis to successfully predict death,modern western astrologers avoid thisdifficult issue and some even insist that itis unethical to predict. In fact, predictionin modern astrology has become unreliablesince the late 19th century when Alan Leoeliminated many of the classical rules inorder to make astrology easier tounderstand.Some modern western astrologers thinkthat death occurs at the time of a heavytransit from the outer planets - Saturn,Uranus, Neptune or Pluto. That issometimes true, but not very often.Mostly, people die under a progressed ordirected aspect to an angle, especially theMC/IC axis. Any planet, even beneficslike Jupiter or minor planets such asprogressed Venus or Mercury can act as140