Death Charts: An Astrological Tool for the Bereaved
This book began with the loss of my identical twin, Lou Ann, in 2005. It grew through a decade of personal healing and client work. And it is offered now — to every astrologer who has ever sat with someone in the hardest moment of their life, and to everyone who has lost someone they love and is searching for meaning.
When a loved one dies, time bends. The phone calls happen, the arrangements get made, and somewhere underneath all of it the heart begins asking the questions that don’t have easy answers. Why now? What was their soul finishing? What am I supposed to do with what they left behind?
Death Charts: An Astrological Tool for the Bereaved offers a way of listening for answers. Just as a natal chart maps the moment of a birth, a death chart maps the moment a soul leaves the body. And like a natal chart, it has its own story to tell — a story about endings, integration, and the long thread of meaning that connects the one who died to the ones who are still here.
This is a book about the meeting point between astrology and grief. Co-written by astrologer Linda “Moonrabbit” Zlotnick — drawing on five decades of practice — and her oldest child and longtime protégé, Della Kurzer-Zlotnick, it is a clear, careful guide to casting and reading a death chart, written for both astrologers and beginners, for the bereaved and for the
practitioners who support them. It is also, quietly, a book about love. Drawing on decades of client work, Greek myth, and the authors’ own passages through loss, it treats the chart not as a diagnosis but as a contemplative companion: a place to bring grief, a frame for the ongoing relationship with the dead, a steadying hand in the months and years after a death.
You don’t need to be an experienced astrologer to use this book. You only need to suspect that the cosmos was paying attention when your person died — and to want help reading what it had to say.
What You'll Find Inside
- A clear method for casting a death chart and an explanation of how it differs from a natal
chart - How to read the moment of passing through the planets, signs, houses, and aspects
- How to compare the death chart with the deceased’s natal chart for deeper insight
- How to work with a death chart as a tool for grief, meditation, and ongoing connection
- Guidance for astrologers, counselors, chaplains, and bereavement professionals on integrating death charts into client work
- Real chart examples, drawn from years of practice, that show the method at work
For anyone who senses there is more to a death than its date — and wants help finding it.
Moon Zlotnick’s Death Charts opens a profound new doorway into understanding the meaning of death through an astrological lens. Rather than predicting loss, this book illuminates the deeper purpose and soul context of a beloved’s passing, offering comfort and clarity to those navigating grief.
Written for professional astrologers who support clients through life’s hardest moments, it is also accessible and deeply insightful for anyone seeking to understand their own losses. Moon’s gentle, compassionate guidance through the stages of grief—paired with her wise, sensitive chart interpretation—makes this an essential resource for both healing and practice.
About Moonrabbit
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Linda “Moonrabbit” Zlotnick has practiced astrology professionally since 1978 and serves as Director of Certification for the Organization for Professional Astrology (OPA). She is the author of Star Sisters: An Astrologer’s Memoir of Twin Loss and teaches the Master Class in Death Charts at Kepler College. She brings an empathetic, practical, and perceptive ability to each astrology session, and accepts all clients regardless of race, color, religion, citizenship status, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, dis/ability, marital status, or sexual orientation. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her wife.
About Della
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As a second-generation queer astrologer, I’ve had a relationship with the stars since a young age. I use astrology as a healing tool first and foremost. I enter each reading with the intention of bringing clarity, guidance, and intuition to my clients. My practice is based in queerness, disability, and anti-racism. My purpose in this work is to facilitate healing and growth with help from the stars.
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Drawing on nearly five decades of professional astrology — and her own long passage
through the loss of her identical twin—Zlotnick guides astrologers and death workers in a new
dimension of soul-centered practice.