Thursday, July 6, 2006 | The Kenny Charts PEOPLE all over the Internet are writing in screaming, "They killed Kenny!" with images of the salt truck and the microwave oven in the operating room scene flashing through my mind. Yesterday I pronounced Kenny Lay alive, but I do like the .alt theories: nearly all of which suggest that his death was very convenient for the Bush crime family. Potential secrets about Sept. 11 and the Uzbekistan oil pipeline and the Arnie election and Kenny only knows what else have all now disappeared from the radar. Also, it's entirely plausible that he just had a massive. These things do happen, and the timing, if convenient for everyone involved, makes sense. I mean, if you were Kenny Lay, wouldn't you consider checking out? Some good astrologers have written in and said that there is heart disease all over the chart. But I will say that whether you're really dead or just pretending, it amounts to about the same thing. You're not going to be testifying or having any meetings with Patrick Fitzgerald. You're not going to be brought back to life -- that would fuck up things for all the other undead folks out there, and the people who make them that way. It would be worse than CNN finally running the UFO story they've been sitting on for 15 years. Here is my horary chart for the question -- the time I became aware of the question and decided to investigate (same moment). For my interpretation of this chart, see edition below. http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=is_kenny_dead Now for the chart of the death certificate time, the "official" time -- not the actual time of the event, which is not timed to the minute: http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=lay_pronounced_dead The first thing I usually look at is the ascendant, which in this case is Gemini, and therefore Kenny is represented by Mercury retrograde in Leo, 3rd house. This feels tricksterish; like there are two stories (Gemini), and that Mercury is like a little elf or thief running off with the gold. The next thing I notice is that Mars is about to oppose Neptune, Look at that opposition -- Mars is the red Guy symbol and Neptune is the blue Trident up top. They are exact to 6 minutes of arc. In this chart Mars rules two signs/houses: the 12th house of the unknown; and the 6th house (intercepted) of health matters. My judgment is that no matter how you look at that Mars, you're not going to get a straight story. The 8th house (nature and cause of death) is Sagittarius. We have Pluto right there, the natural ruler of death, but Pluto is retrograde, as if retreating from the edge of the cusp. The Moon and Jupiter in this house form a complex configuration with Chiron and Saturn; the Moon is about to get mixed up in that T-square: soon to make a conjunction to Jupiter and square Chiron and Mars. The Moon has just made a square to Mercury -- that's the last thing it did -- so we see some contact between the Moon and the subject of the question (important for a working chart). But a lot happens in the future, for a dead guy. The Moon is only in the 3rd degree of Scorpio, so it has a long way to go, and a lot of planets to aspect. The real question is: do we see contact between the significator for Lay, which is Mercury, and the significator for the lord of death, which is Jupiter. This would suggest that the person involved actually had an encounter with the "nature and cause of death" suggested by Jupiter. Mercury and Jupiter are in a square aspect, but Mercury is retrograde, retreating away from Jupiter. They never actually made a square. The Moon squares Mercury and brings the light of Mercury to Jupiter, but that's rather indirect and it's something that happens in the future. When you're dead, that's already supposed to have happened. I will stick to my original theory that Kenny Boy is alive and well. Ken Lay's natal chart and data: http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=kenny_lay Ken Lay's progressions to yesterday: http://planetwaves.net/chart.php?c=ken_lay_progr CNN article on Lay's Wikipedia entry, sort of ridiculous http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/07/05/lay.wikipedia.reut/index.html The Wiki Entry, sort of basic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lay