Frank ZAPPA

Frank ZAPPA

(December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and film-maker. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity, and satire of American culture. In 1990, Zappa was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer. The disease had been developing unnoticed for ten years and was considered inoperable.

In this chart, we observe a conjunction JU-SA, the two planets being peregrines. They are located in TAU, VE being also peregrine. Moreover, JU and SA are retrograde. The domitude rays (which are more precise than those in longitude in this chart) also shows a square VE-MO, VE and MO being cadent. The ASC is SAG (ruler JU) and SU in I.

Observe that VE and MA are in Via Combusta.Lilly regarded the Via Combusta as the section of the zodiac from 15° Libra to 15° Scorpio. In Latin, Via Combusta means “the burned path” or “the fiery way.” In ancient times the Via Combusta corresponded to the path of the Sun containing the constellation Scorpio and malefic fixed stars of the nature of Mars (fire) and Saturn (hindrance). Because of precession, these fixed stars have now advanced about thirty degrees in the tropical zodiac from the time of Ptolemy : this area corresponds to a region now located in the second half of Scorpio; it coincides with the presidents two stars considered very dangerous: Acrab and Zubenelgenubi II.

'The Astrologer Al Biruni wrote of it: “The Combust Way is the last part of Libra and the first of Scorpio. These two signs are not congenial to the Sun and the Moon on account of the obscurity and ill-luck connected with them and because each of them is the fall of one of the luminaries. They also contain the two malefics, the one by exaltation (Libra, Saturn) the other by house (Scorpio, Mars).”
[Deborah Houlding]

In Zappa's chart, VE is conjunct with Acrab (alpha-LIB) and MA is near Zubenelgenubi (beta-SCO). 

ALMUTEN score

Almuten is ME.

HYLEG score

HYLEG is SU and MA, the ALCHOCODEN.

ALCHOCODEN score : we count 15 Y (lesser) for MA, as it is cadent. We add 12 Y for the conjunction POF-MA (with JU for POF term) and we add 25 Y for SEX MO-MA. So :

Yt = 15 + 12 + 25 = 52 Y (Zappa is dead at 53 years). But consider that the long illness had started 10 years ago.

Primary directions

1983 : the hypothetical start of illness

- opp MO conj SA (near of Zubenelgenubi II 224°15' LIB).

So, observe that the direction is formed in full Via combusta (with the  so-called 'sidereal' tropical zodiac. 

Furthermore, we have SA opp ASC. D = |OA ASC - OA SA| = |49.15-273.77| = 44.6 Y.

1993 : death

- SA opp MO

- MO conj MA

Result without own motion of MO, because it is significator. Long MO is with parallax.