Death of a stuntman

A stuntman has died in a world record attempt to cross a river by zip-wire attached only by his hair. Sailendra Nath Roy, 50, was halfway across when his ponytail got stuck.  After hanging in mid-air for half an hour, it is believed he then suffered a cardiac arrest and died. A crowd of around 1,000 witnessed the tragedy as Mr Roy, an officer with West Bengal police home guard, made his record attempt over the Teesta River in Darjeeling.

Readers will see in this example of how the map of the lunar eclipse of November 28, 2012 reveals surprising details of this tragedy. The first thing to notice is the Sun’s [6sa47] placement in the fifth house of  sports and amusements. It is conjunct the stars 29,53 Hercules[4sa24; 5sa40].

Manilius associates Hercules with tightrope walking (funambulism):

"Hercules, the figure on bended knee and called by the Greek name of Engonasin, about whose origin no certainty prevails. Of this constellation is begotten the desertion, craftiness, and deceit characteristic of its children, and from it comes the thug who terrorizes the heart of the city. If perchance his mind is moved to consider a profession, Engonasin [a Greek title for constellation Hercules meaning Kneeler] will inspire him with enthusiasm for risky callings, with danger the price, for which he will sell his talents: daring narrow steps on a path without thickness, he will plant firm feet on a horizontal tightrope; then, as he attempts an upward route to heaven, (on a sloping tightrope) he will all but lose his footing and, suspended in mid-air, he will keep a multitude in suspense upon himself" [Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century, AD, p.353.]

The second thing to notice is Neptune [0pi27] in the 8^th house of death. But the death being referred to is not just anywhere. The star Procyon on the Ascendant  was  known to the Mesopotamians as 'The Star of the Crossing of the River of Heaven’. To this Elsbeth Ebertin  adds a warning, “the native, in order to avoid a fiasco, has always to take care not to be imprudent. People who "want to go through the wall with their head" only cause injury to themselves”.

Finally progressing the eclipse map to April 28, the date of the tragic incident brings the luminaries of the eclipse  chart [6sa47 – 6ge47] to the horizon axis triggering the unfortunate event.

The IC [15pi07] of the progressed chart is conjunct the star Achernar [15pi19].  About stars in this area Diana Rosenberg [1] reports:

Jupiter was here in 1974 when performance artist Phillippe Petit performed his astonishing tightrope dance, a quarter mile in the sky, on  a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre. Among athletes, there is the high wire walker Karl Wallenda here.

[1] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.2, p.738)