Matilda Rapaport, an extreme skier, has been killed in an avalanche in the Andes, having already survived another avalanche two years ago in Alaska. Freeriding skiers go onto natural (usually precipitous mountain) terrain without any obvious route down, often in unpredictable weather conditions.
Born 30 Jan 1986 in Sweden into a skiing family, she married an Alpine slalom skier three months ago.
She had a charming Aquarius Sun Venus Mercury in an intense square to Pluto in Scorpio, trine Saturn in Sagittarius so used to hardship, and sensible as well as determined. She also had Mars in even more determined Scorpio, widely conjunct Saturn and square Jupiter in Aquarius, making her attracted to danger and adventure. There’s also that odd mid Aquarius emphasis on her chart which often shows with athletes and sportspeople.
Tr Neptune was conjunct her Solar Arc Sun when she died; with Solar Arc Pluto conjunct her Saturn; and tr Pluto exactly conjunct her Sun/Uranus which Ebertin describes as ‘tragic experiences’.
She would always know the risks of her sport were off the Richter scale, but sad all the same.
” “She did not have time to release the airbag because she was so focused on outrunning the avalanche,” said her manager…”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/obituaries/matilda-rapaport-extreme-skier.html?_r=0
Is not this generation rather more reckless than others?