Why can't astrologers calculate the date of someone's death?

[Seeker_Kieffer]

It's quite common to see astrologers preparing natal charts for recently deceased celebrities and saying something like "the chart wasn't conducive to travel" about someone who died in a car or plane accident. I believe astrology serves to read the energy flow of the moment and the person, but without pre-determining things like their death. Seeking any kind of prediction for specific dates is setting yourself up as a potential victim of scammers.

I've had similar results with tarot, and obviously I didn't tell the person when I read about their sick father. Three months later, the father passed away, unfortunately. But I didn't know when it would happen, only the most likely outcome.

I've personally seen people have visions of a future event that came to fruition, but the person couldn't control it, and it was the action of spiritual entities outside of the person. In other words: Astrology, tarot, other divinatory methods, and magic aren't about exact dates. You'll only be disappointed.

 

[Primal]

As Marion March and Joan McEvers said in their book The Best Way to Learn Astrology, part 4, it is impossible to predict death with certainty because the symbolism is a broad category. The 8th house means death, but it also means transformation, sex, inheritance, spouse's money... It can be indicated in the chart, but not said with certainty.

 

[Sakura]

The reason why astrologers can't predict death is because most of the modern astrologers are more focused on astrology as a subset of psychology IE as a map to describe idividual personality, instead of a predictive engine. this creates a situation where they claim that something is impossible, while in truth it is possible but outside of the scope of their abilities.

A similar process is what lead modern astrology to be a bad describer of personality : they take the position of the sun as the indicator of the general behavior of a person, while in truth it is supposed to be read from their temperament : are they sanguine, choleric, melancholic or phlegmatic ?

Long stroy short : in truth, yes death can be read from a natal chart, but not from house 08, rather from something called the Hyleg. That's too deep of a subject to be discussed in an informal non-teacher-to-student way, but i've already said enough to answer your question, and my own training is not done yet.