Age 52 - Live or Die?

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WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE DIE AROUND AGE 52?

As a student of Cardology for over twenty years now, I have read about this age with great interest, but it wasn’t until I went through that time-frame around ages 51-52-53 myself that I fully appreciated what this “critical year” means in one’s personal life. It is a time of massive change and an opportunity for a better life; one filled with true happiness. It is a time to choose to live or die.

Recently families, fans, friends and associates around the world mourned the passing of two Hollywood actors and asked why they died so young and still in their prime. Cardology, the study of the ancient mystical science of playing cards, tells us that we should be celebrating their lives and deaths, congratulating them both for a job well done!

In February 2019, “Young and the Restless” star Kristoff St. John was found dead in his Los Angeles home at age 52. St. John was born July 15, 1966 (Ten of Diamonds♦) in New York City and grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Los Angeles, California. His father, Christopher St. John, is a producer, actor and director, while his mother, Marie, is an entertainer.

St. John became a child star with a shining debut in the series Happy Days. He continued to act in television shows throughout his life, most notably in the long-running soap opera The Young and the Restless. From 1991 to 2019, he portrayed the role of Neil Winters, which earned him eleven Daytime Emmy Award nominations, two Emmy Awards, and ten NAACP Image Awards.

While rumors that excessive alcohol consumption, due to continuing grief over the loss of his son, Julian, in 2014, lead to his sudden and tragic death, St. John’s death was officially ruled accidental; the cause listed as hypertrophic heart failure. He was buried beside his son, who died by suicide following a lifelong battle with mental illness.

I know from previous research on the Maya civilization in writing my novel, Flying Between Heaven and Earth, that this age has some significance in the indigenous cultures too. Let’s take a closer look and imagine that each of these two calendars are like gears in a clock turning each other. (The Maya had more than one calendar.) The Tzolkin revolves and turns the Tun (prophetic and divine calendar) and in doing so imparts its meanings of the Aspects and Intentions of Creation. At 52 revolutions of the Tun calendar, when the calendars match back up again, every possible Aspect and Intention of Creation has been experienced. (This is 51 ¾ years in our Gregorian calendar. You can learn more in “The Egg Moon: Living the Question” by Von Goodwin on page 157-158 via Google Books.)

At the age of 52 Tun, every Mayan and native North American person becomes an elder in their tribe as they, too, have now experienced all Aspects and Intentions of creation. So important was the 52 Tun turns to the Maya that they would extinguish all fires. They made sure that every single spark of fire was put out, all debts were struck off and civilization started again. Maybe we could apply this concept of releasing old debts (sins) and starting our lives fresh and anew!

It seems obvious now that around Age 52 we reach a place where we have lived out much of our divine purpose and get to choose whether or not to stay on the planet. Everyone gets to ask themselves if they want to continue to live or leave this lifetime.  I have noticed in my own family and friends, and even with celebrities, that opportunities disguised as health issues or accidents happen within a year or so of this age to help provide that very choice. Do I live or leave?

Another feature of the "Live or Die Year" is the 7-Year Script was the same as the Yearly Script for Age 52.  This is also the year when everyone enters their 13-Year Saturn Planetary Stage of life. Saturn is a time when we encounter major challenges or difficulties, but it also teaches us patience and responsibility. Coincidentally, British and Welsh researchers report that the tipping point of being grumpy occurs at age 52 when people are more likely to gripe than laugh. They state that men in their 60s are 4 times grumpier than their female counterparts.

Another fun fact about Age 52 is there are also 52 cards in a deck and 52 weeks in a year. A year is complete and ends after 52 weeks. It is over and we look forward to seeing how we are going to play out the next 52 weeks. Could it be that after 52 years somehow our lives are complete, too?

Things that begin around Age 44 or 45 will typically be finished or completed in some way by Age 52. Back in 2004, I was not aware of this “critical year” and what it entailed. I did, however, move from Georgia to California around age 45 and later moved back to Georgia at age 52. Look for the magic in around those years in your life and you will find it. I certainly did!

No matter how you look at it, the number 52 is a very spiritual number (5+2=7) and plays out in unique ways throughout our lives. While this “Live or Die Year” may sound difficult, it is still a Jupiter Year, a very blessed year. It can bring magical events into the inner workings of our lives.

Here are some people who decided to exit the world’s stage in or around their “live or die” year of 52. (Note that most of these famous people had access to and/or could afford the best medical services available in their time. The names below are listed by age at the time of their passing.) 

Died at Age 51:

Menander, Napoleon Bonaparte, Wallace Delois Wattles, Brian Maxwell, Buddy Adler, Charles M. Hall, Bill Evans, Tony Canzoneri, Pedro Armendariz, Andrea Pininfarina, Carl Wilson, Walter Reed, Walter Woodbury, Calamity Jane, Amy Lowell, Édouard Manet, Ken Boyer, Jack Swigert, King William III, Stanley Milgram, Marcel Proust, Tommy Burns, Billy Carter, Alois Alzheimer, Susan Butcher, Billy Kyle, Ronald Williamson, Homer Haynes, John Gorrie,  Max Baer, George Morgan, Dr. Eric Rofes, Wayne Stewart, Letitia Tyler, Edward Miller, Randy Starkman, Nicolette Goulet, Wendy O. Williams, Michael Weiner, Tommy Dorsey, Randy Castillo, Brad Armstrong, Michael France, Alan Kirschenbaum, Joe Voci, Steve Appleton, John Peale Bishop, Bobby Moore, Christine Cavanaugh, Cornell Gunter, Max Brand, Michelle Sima Yan, Roger Maris, Simon Marius, Eleanor Mondale, Bernie Mac, Kara Kennedy, Richard Machowicz, Jill Saward, Henry Badenhorst, Sean Hughes, Pam Warren, Greg Smyth, Vladimir Voevodsky, Richard Cross, Anthony Young, Guru Josh, James Gandolfini, and Dianne Oxberry

Died at Age 52:

 Ezekiel, Samuel, King Henry 1, King Henry VII, Peter the Great, William Shakespeare, Harry Houdini, Admiral Gunther Lütjens, John O’Donohue, Margaret Tudor, Christian Dior, Velma Barfield, Grace Kelly, Sir C. Wyville Thomson, H. John Heinz III, David Schramm, G. David Low, Emperor Fushimi, Kevin DuBrow, Deborah Palfrey, Harry Nilsson, Robert W. Nudelman, John Woolman, Roark Bradford, John Ogdon, Emin Pasha, Daniel Judson Callaghan, June Pointer, Abbie Hoffman, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Elizabeth of Russia, Enos Mills, Jason Shinder, Louis Adamic, Katherine Swynford, Robert Morrison, Lord John Philip Sackville, James Wright, Dave Stevens, Roy Orbison, Wendell Willkie, Tony Adams, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Francois Truffaut, John Wayne Gacy, Doug Henning, Todd Cruz, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marcus Garvey, Shelby Storck, Hiram Bullock, Fred Berry, Erwin Rommel, Kurt von Schleicher, John Slade, Lew DeWitt, Frank Zappa, Eddie Kendrick, Laurie Bambi Bembenek, Dan Callahan, Melvin Franklin, Mick Imlah, John Pinette, Mark Gil, Dennis Johnson, Bob Crow, Robert F. Chew, Dave Stevens, Carlos Monzon, Jim Fixx, Dr. Kathleen Frances Marshall, Orlando Woolridge, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Lolo Soetoro, Ken Uston, Delmore Schwartz, Campbell McComas, Eric Malling, Axl Rose, Christopher Reeve, Willie Huber, Kevin DuBrow, Mary Kennedy, Ken Ober, Bernie Nolan, Christine Maggiore, Danny Gans, Stephen Murray, Dan Borislow, John Bachar, Elizabeth Garrett, Jerome Kersey, Tim Wilson, Valerie Stevenson, Robert Gallagher, John Fasano, Suzanne Crough, Paul Christian Gordon, Dwayne “Pearl” Washington, Dr. Ronald Gilbert, Alex Giannini, Tommy Ford, Nicole Bass, Lisa Lynn Masters, John Berry, Jay Bontatibus, Chris Cornell, Lari White, Pamela Gidley, Big-T, Jo Min-ki, Alex Brown,  Shirley Hemphill, Andrew McGahan, Kristoff St. John, Luke Perry, Tajshree Thapa, Dimitri Diatchenko, and Maggie Murdaugh

Died at Age 53:

Robert Edward Turner II, Jerry Garcia, Maurice Gibb, Emmy Noether, Gene Siskel, Jacqueline Susann, Tony Snow, John von Neumann, Sandy Allen, Enrico Fermi, Leroy Sievers, Theodor Escherich, Kenneth Tynan, Stefan Banach, Spike Jones, Jack Wild, Queen Margaret, Joseph E. Fields, Peter Tchaikovsky, Babe Ruth, Vivian Leigh, Philip Barry, Danny Joe Brown, Ivan the Terrible, James Polk, Jim Henson, Veronica Lake, Ma Rainey, Scott Miller, General George Thomas, Paul Ehrenfest, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Robinson, Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Hermann William Goering, Ulíses Heureaux, Mikey Dread, John Denver, Maria Callas, René Descartes, Carl Watts, Lex Barker, Dian Fossey, Aimee Semple McPherson, Jay Adams, Kidd Kraddick, Veronica Lake, David Caruso, Terry Keenan, Charles Nolan, Richard ‘Night Stalker’ Ramirez, Chrissy Amphlett, Philip K. Dick, Miss Cleo (Youree Dell Harris), Lee Bracker , George Michael, John Major Jenkins, Anne Dufourmantelle, Melissa Bell, Gord Downie, Wendy Pepper, Jim Johannson, Matthew Mellon, Emma Chambers, Jim Dietz, Matt Rose, Francesco Cali, and Anne Heche