Austrian Felix Baumgartner, the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound in 2012 after jumping out of a balloon 24 miles (39 kms) up in the air over New Mexico and smashing the record for the highest ever freefall, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy. According to media reports, he suffered a cardiac arrest while still in the air.
Born 20 April 1969 in Salzburg, Austria, he had an Aries/Taurus Sun conjunct Saturn in Aries on the focal point of a yod inconjunct Neptune sextile Uranus, South Node, Jupiter (Pluto) – super-confident from Jupiter Pluto and adventurous from Jupiter Uranus, self-willed and self-reliant with a focal point Sun and Saturn. His Mars was in a danger-attracting square to Pluto. He found his singular path in life when he started skydiving in the military at 16. He said: ‘The air is where I am at home’, and has “born to fly” tattooed on his arm. At that point tr Pluto just into Scorpio was opposing his Sun and triggering his yod apex.
Over the course of his career he set 14 world records, becoming the first person to jump from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, the Millau Viaduct in France, the Turning Torso skyscraper in Sweden and Taiwan’s Taipei 101. He also became the first man to fly across the English Channel in a wingsuit in 2003.
His chart has been stressed in recent times with tr Neptune Saturn opposing his Uranus with tr Pluto trine; and the past two years tr Pluto square his Sun. So he had come a full Pluto quarter cycle from his teenage revelation about his life’s direction. Tragic but oddly fitting.
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