* Captain Laurie "Titus" Oates had the last degree of self-sacrificing Pisces ― and final degree of the icy and deadly Scorpio decan ― on his Ascendant. Oates is famous for his honourable suicide in Antarctica in 1912: afflicted with gangrene and frostbite, and aware his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival, he chose certain death, supposedly telling them, "I am just going outside and may be some time," before walking out into a blizzard amid −40°C/F temperatures.
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace ("Titus") Oates (17 March 1880 – 17 March 1912) was an English Cavalry officer with the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, and later on in his life an Antarctic explorer, who died during the Terra Nova Expedition. Oates, afflicted with gangrene and frostbite, walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when, aware his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival, he chose certain death.
Read more from his Wikipedia biography.
Photo Credit: Herbert Ponting, Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates during the British Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1913, ca 1911, Reference Number: PA1-f-067-069-1, Silver gelatin print, Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library
NATAL DATA and ASTROLOGY CHART
BIRTH DATA: Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, 17 March 1880, 06:20 (6:20 a.m.) GMT (+0), Putney, London, England (51n28, 00w13). ASC: 29 Pisces. RR: B (from biography). SOURCE: Sy Scholfield (c) quotes Michael Smith, I Am Just Going Outside: Captain Oates - Antarctic Tragedy (Wilton, Cork: Collins, 2002), p. 17: "Laurie Oates was born at 3 Acacia Villas, Putney, south-west London, in a comfortable, unpretentious boarding house specially rented for the purpose of Caroline Oates' confinement in the spring of 1880. . . . The eldest son was born at 6.20 am on 17 March 1880 and named Lawrence Edward Grace Oates.
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