“Doc” Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887)

Following on from my posts about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, I thought it might be informative to take a look at that Old West enigma called “Doc” Holliday. His nickname comes from the fact that he was a qualified dentist, but then being diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis, the same disease that killed his mother and his sister. In fact, his mother’s death, when he was 15, gives me a timing link for the rectification of his birth chart, namely the position of the Moon in the 6th House.

The (almost) exact conjunction of Saturn and Uranus may have given him his ability to shoot so quickly and accurately. The conjunction of Pluto within 4° of those planets was a deadly combination, for sure.

The Yod (Finger of God) pointing at the Moon, formed from inconjuncts to the Sun and Jupiter, may have made him fearless. The only other inconjunct links Venus with Neptune, making him a beloved legend of the Old West.

His time of death was reported by the woman who was nursing him. Effectively he died laughing about his being barefoot. Neptune and Pluto are conjunct, both in opposition to Mercury, trine to Venus.

Interestingly, the interactive inconjuncts from Mercury and Venus in his ‘fatal’ chart are forming a triple Yod to his natal conjunction of Saturn, Uranus and Pluto. He really didn’t expect to die in bed. He always thought he’d die in a gunfight. Fate had a different ending, so the last laugh really was on him.