Suicide Rates

Bongar (1991) reports that suicide rates are believed to be higher than the actual numbers recorded because many deaths that are officially recorded as accidental, such as single-auto crashes, drownings, or falls from great heights are actually suicides. Indeed, Bongar estimates that for every person who completes a suicide, eight to ten persons make the attempt.

Diekstra (1990) reports that suicide is affected by several different demographics. For example, men are more prone to complete suicide than are women; this despite the fact that women attempt suicide three times as often as men. Further, men and women are different in terms of how they suicide. Men most frequently choose firearms as the means of suicide; however, poisoning and asphyxiation via barbiturates are the preferred means for women.

It is believed that men's selection of the more violent methods of suicide is why they successfully suicide more frequently than women; their choice of methods makes it more likely that they will complete the act. Recent studies however (see: Berman & Jobes, 1991) have indi

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inherently psychological. As Arroyo (1984) puts it: Astrology...is inherently a psychology, and in my opinion, a better psychology, more accurate and, in fact, more scientific in the true sense of the word than any other psychological theory or system. It is a great descriptive language of all human functions, needs, energies, urges, archetypes, and dilemmas, rooted in real human experience and the cosmic order of life. (p.9) Regardless of whether psychologists accept or do not accept astrological influences, it is nonetheless possible to test astrological theory. This study represents a test of astrological theory regarding suicide. In astrology, there are certain mathematical relationships between the planets (as well as other astrological indicators) that are said to indicate suicide in a natal chart where the natal chart is defined as a circular map of the sky overhead at the moment of an individual's birth. It seems reasonable to suggest that if there is any validity to astrology as it relates to suicide, then the natal charts of a sample of people who commit suicide should contain more astrological indicators of suicide than the natal charts of a sample of people who die by some means other than suicide. Purpose of
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