Astrological Predisposition to Suicide

ASTROLOGICAL PREDISPOSITION TO SUICIDE

According to Williams and Williams (1998), suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States with over 30,000 Americans killing dying by their own hands every year. The seriousness and scope of the problem has served as the impetus for literally thousands of studies of suicide and related factors, and some of this research has been astrological in nature.

In one astrological study of suicide conducted by Timins (1996), it was found that suicidal indicators occurred more frequently in the natal charts of people who died through suicide than in the natal charts of those who died nonsuicidal deaths. Clearly, Timins (1996) findings support the notion that planetary placement may allow for a description of those most likely to commit suicide, thereby serving a predictive function in psychological research.

Although Timins' (1996) findings strengthen the knowledge base in the area of astrological indicators and suicide, it must be recognized that there is strong skepticism surrounding the entire field of astrology (Strohmer & Knutson, 1998). Further, it must also be noted that replication is one of the primary criteria of the scientific method (Carey, 1977).

Given the foregoing facts, it seems reasonable to suggest that Timins (1996) research should be replicated in order to establish the extent to which confidence can be placed in the validity of the

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her than suicide. Findings observed for the analysis are presented in Table 1. As can be seen from examination of this table, findings were significant (F = 16.83; df(1,198); p<.0001). Cell means revealed Table 1 Findings Observed For the Analysis of Variance Conducted on Suicide Indicator Data _________________________________________________________________ GROUPS Suicides Controls Means -22.10 6.05 S.D. 52.89 43.72 _________________________________________________________________ SOURCE df SS MS F p ----------------------------------------------------------------- Between-Groups 1 3962.09 3962.09 16.83 <.0001 Error 198 466222.70 2354.66 -----------------------------------------------------------------Total 199 505843.90 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the nature of the observed findings. Specifically, it was found that the Suicide group (Mean = -22.10) had significantly more astrological indicators of s
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