Degrees of death
The degrees mentioned below should be perceived with great care, having something on this degree won’t necessary mean that one will die in a violent way, but this overview could help in further study and understanding.
It’s especially prominent when the Ascendant is on one of these degrees.
When the Sun or midheaven is on such degree it also becomes more ‘significant’.
Sometimes it’s within an orb few minutes of one of these degrees (1 degree difference possible)
It’s important to consider the strength, if it’s afflicted the fatal degree could become more prominent.
The natal chart should indicate sudden/violent/unnatural/… death before making any judgements.
• Ascendant
• Midheaven
• Sun
• Most malefic planet (by sect)
It may help in forensic researches such as an event chart or natal chart of victim.
| 14° Aries | Suicide, death in a terrible way, |
| 18-19° Aries | Death by violence, fearful & miserable death, early death |
| 22° Aries | Death through danger |
| 27° Aries | Violent death (fornix) |
| 8-9° Taurus | Death by suicide, self-inflicted |
| 17° Taurus | Death in duels or brawls |
| 25° Taurus | Death of partner |
| 0° Gemini | Death by suffering or labor |
| 11° Gemini | Sudden or unpleasant death |
| 22° Gemini | Violent death (spine) |
| 25° Gemini | Death by hands of a man |
| 26° Gemini | Death of husband/wife, murder |
| 15° Cancer | Suicide |
| 28° Cancer | Death sentence, violent death |
| 7° Leo | Heroic death, murder |
| 8° Leo | Violent death, accidents (eyes, vena cava) |
| 9° Leo | Death through disaster |
| 24° Leo | Induced death, drowning, stifling |
| 25° Leo | Sudden death, drowning, poisoning, suicide, |
| 26° Leo | Violent death, bodily attack |
| 27° Leo | Sudden death by poisoning, drowning |
| 28° Leo | Death of partner or divorce |
| 29° Leo | Violent death |
| 16-17° Virgo | Death by judicial decree, violent |
| 29° Virgo | Death by judicial sentence |
| 7° Libra | Sudden death |
| 15° Libra | Suicide |
| 29° Libra | Accidental death, murder |
| 8° Scorpio | Violent or sudden death |
| 23° Scorpio | Death of friends |
| 1-2° Sagittarius | Violent death, attack |
| 21° Sagittarius | Death on dueling ground, in a scuffle, gallow |
| 23° Sagittarius | Sudden death, violent |
| 26° Sagittarius | Sudden death |
| 27° Sagittarius | Sudden death ( of someone), violent, no natural death |
| 28-29° Sagittarius | Early death |
| 6° Capricorn | Tragic death |
| 8° Capricorn | Violent death, accident, sickness (veins, knee) |
| 14-15° Capricorn | Suicide |
| 4° Aquarius | Early death |
| 7° Aquarius | Death by hunger |
| 10° Aquarius | Death sentence, death by danger or injury |
| 3° Pisces | Death penalty (nerves of the right foot) |
| 10° Pisces | Degree of death, premature death |
| 16-17° Pisces | Death by drowning (cruciate ligaments) |
| 22° Pisces | Sad death, suicide |
| 25° Pisces | Death of friends or partner |
| 28° Pisces | Death by suicide, murder |
Observations :
• A person who was murdered for drugs and money,
had a malefic planet on 6° Capricorn (tragic death)
• A person who committed suicide had the ascendant at 22° Pisces (sad death)
and MC at 26° Sagittarius (sudden death)
• A person Who was murdered had the midheaven on 7° Leo (murder)
• A person who was murdered had all angles on 29 degrees = crisis, karmic,
endings and most malefic on 27° Sagittarius (violent death)
• A person murdered by father had most malefic at 21° Sagittarius.
and MC on 18° Scorpio (18° is often misfortune).
• A person murdered at age 0 had Sun/Moon midpoint at 18° Aries (death in a terrible way)
• A person murdered by drowning (river) had ASC/MC midpoint at 17° Pisces (death by drowning)
in 12th & POF on 1° Sagittarius (violent death)
• A person who was prematurely murdered had Chiron 8° Leo (violent death) in 12th,
Sun/Moon midpoint at 29° Sagittarius (early death)
• A native with Moon on 18° tends to experience misfortune such as death or premature death.
In the solar return chart of a woman who lost her spouse through suicide :
Descendant on 17 degrees Aquarius (degree of depression and melancholy, bitterness, isolation)
Uranus (7th) on 9 degrees Taurus (death by suicide)
Saturn the most malefic in the chart (nightchart) and co-ruler of 7th, in a square aspect to Mars at 18 degrees Aries (Death by violence, fearful & miserable death, early death). Northnode was at 22 Gemini, indicating violent death and square to Venus (lover).
About 65% people who died from alcoholism had the ascendant ruler in an aspect to Neptune.
Often i see 18th and 29th degree appear. A possibility of the most malefic planet (by sect) on such degree.