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The Death of DAN VADIS

If you have ever watched any of the early 'sword and sandal' movies of the late 1950s and early 1960s you may remember Dan Vadis, a tall massive hunk of masculine eye-candy who looked very much like he might be a brother of Lou Ferrigno. He was more handsome than Lou in my opinion and just as Herculean in size. In the above photo he is the man on the left. Photo from www.briansdriveintheater.com .

Born Constantine Daniel Vafiadis in Shanghai, China on January 3, 1938 according to the IMDB database, his name was changed to Dan Vadis for his movie roles. In his early 20s with curly brown hair, bluish green eyes and 225 muscular pounds packed onto a perfectly proportioned 6'4" frame he was a natural for those hero roles made famous as sword and sandal epics by the Italian movie industry. He was in good company with Steve Reeves, Reg Park, Gordon Scott, Mark Forest, Kirk Morris and Ed Fury who were also featured in these films. The plots were simple and the hero always defeated the evil emperor, queen, or monster who threatened the citizens, but only after overcoming many difficulties and seemingly insurmountable odds.

Dan's lifeless body was found in his automobile parked on the California desert near Lancaster on June 11, 1987. He was 49 years of age at the time and the coroner's report stated that he died from alcohol, heroin and morphine intoxication. We will never know if his death was a suicide or an accidental overdose but the astrobiology of his death is certainly informative since it gives us a good deal of information regarding his internal thought processing at the time. I do not know the exact moment of his death so I have set the time for noon in order to minimize to insignificance any errors in planetary positions. His heliogram is shown below.

Dan's heliogram is of the Bowl Type found in more than 50% of the population. He has two planetary patterns, a stellium composed of the Earth, Pluto and Mercury, and a T-square composed of Jupiter opposing Mercury, both planets making a square aspect to Uranus.

The planets in the left column shown by their first two initials are the planets' positions for Dan Vadis at his birth. The planets distributed across the top of the table are the transiting planets at the time of his death. The most significant relationships between the two are shown within the boxes by color for the aspect. All of the aspects shown are within a few minutes (60 minutes per degree) of perfection.

•    conjunctions = red        eg. The conjunction between natal Pluto and transiting Mars is within 24" of perfection
•    squares = green            eg. The square aspect between natal Neptune and transiting Earth is within 57" of perfection
•    135° = orange              eg. The aspect between natal Mercury and transiting Saturn is within 39" of perfection
•    45° = yellow                eg. The aspect between natal Venus and transiting Mercury is within 18" of perfection
•    30° = blue                    eg. The aspect between natal Uranus and transiting Jupiter is within 32" of perfection.

Years of research tell me that these aspects all experienced at the same time would manifest as self-destructive thought processes. This same combination of aspects happens very infrequently, approximately every 28,000 years, and so their significance at the time of his death must be considered and acknowledged.

At the time of his death Dan Vadis was married to Sharon Jessup and had a son, Nick Vadis known as Nick V.