Cocaine Bear: The True Story (2023)

It’s the stuff that legends are made of. Someone comes across a dead black bear, with a duffle bag attached to a parachute lying nearby, and the story grows from that. But the bear didn’t consume all of the cocaine (and he most certainly didn’t become a horror monster as seen in the film “Cocaine Bear”). The truth is more prosaic. In only took a couple of grams of this 95% pure cocaine to kill him.

Andrew Thornton (October 30, 1944 – September 11, 1985)

Here’s the man behind the scenes, whose life and death became the backdrop for the bear’s demise.

Andrew Thornton‘s birth chart is totally randomized, and yet it may be totally accurate because the position of Uranus (sudden event) represents age 40, when he died. You cannot make this stuff up.

This was a complicated man, with four inconjuncts. The Mercury/Mars conjunction (in the 12th House of the Unconscious, conjunct Scorpio Rising) comprises two of those inconjuncts with Uranus (his ‘sudden event’ planet). The other two link Venus with Saturn and the Moon with Jupiter. He had big ambitions, and essentially got into drug smuggling for the ‘adventure’ of it all. But then he died, while on a cocaine flight run. The death chart shows what really happened.

Notice the repeated run of the Sun, Mercury and Mars, this time in Virgo. One of those planets, Mercury, is now inconjunct with Jupiter, while the Moon is inconjunct to Neptune. That’s the mystery.

Notice that Uranus (now in Sagittarius) is on the Descendant, the stop line. In other words, this event came to a sudden stop. But only when you compare his birth and death charts do you see the Universe lining up to complete the man’s journey here on earth.

The ‘fatal’ Ascendant is conjunct Drew’s natal Uranus, and opposite his ‘fatal’ Uranus. It was as if God was saying, “You’ve had enough fun, now it’s time to go home.” I couldn’t have planned it any better.

Another one bites the dust.