The natal chart certainly carries the potential of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the end of life. Mars also squares Neptune, which suggests that his death will be related to clouded perception, possibly related to mental illness since a part of Pisces (ruled by Neptune) lies in the 6th house of illness. In Morin’s system, Mars in Virgo is peregrine and expresses itself through its dispositor Mercury, which lies in the unfortunate 12th house of sorrow and self-undoing, including suicide. Saturn is particularly significant because it occupies the 4th house of the end of life. Saturn and Pluto are both natural signifiers of death. Mars is particularly afflicted because it squares both Saturn and Pluto as part of a high-energy T-square formation. Hemingway died prematurely by his own hand, so Morin’s 17th century observation certainly applies. “If the ruler of the 1st house is in the 8th house, or the ruler of the 8th is in the 1st, it indicates a premature death and the native himself is the principal cause of his own death by, wittingly or unwittingly, deliberately placing himself in danger, as for example in cases of those who attempt to stave off death by performing excessive blood letting in an immoderate effort to cure their illness” (my translation). Morin in Book 21 of Astrologia Gallica, Chapter V, says:
Mars occupies the 1st house in his natal chart, suggesting that he will play a significant role in his own death. Mars rules Aries by domicile and becomes the ruler of his 8th house of death.
The 8th house rules death and has Aries on the cusp. We begin by asking whether there are any indications of suicide in the birth chart.
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