See my original article here, and the first update here. David Carradine's third wife, Gail Jensen, has revealed to the National Enquirer that she rescued Carradine in 1984 from an autoerotic asphyxiation episode after finding him "hanging unconscious from a beam with a belt around his neck." Another interview with Ms. Jensen revealed that Carradine had experimented with drowning himself in their pool.
In my earlier articles I connected Carradine's evident fascination with the darker side of sexuality to an opposition from Pluto (death and compulsive behavior) to Venus (relating to others) in his astrological chart. Looking back to this 1984 period, transiting Pluto was in a challenging square formation to that natal dynamic, creating a tendency for more extreme behavior and a desire to explore these darker undercurrents and experiences.
Not everyone with Pluto/Venus contacts in their chart (I myself have something similar) go to this kind of extreme or react with this kind of compulsion. There is, though, a fascination with death and perhaps this became a kind of a game for Carradine in which he outwitted Death over and over. After this kind of extreme life-or-death sexual experience, ordinary human relationships would have paled by comparison driving Carradine to take greater and greater risks.
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I find your article on David Carradine to be extremely puzzling, since the recent corener's report came back ruling out suicide for the cause of death. I honestly think at one time perhaps some of what his 3rd wife might have been true back when I was a baby. Even David himself said prior to gaining the original role in Kung Fu he was lost & on the road to death, but enlightenment changed him. He dedicated his life to a higher power of devotion than I think his 3rd wife will ever understand. Yes he was an amazing actor that we will all miss greatly. One of which we all might have over looked had it not been for the brillance from the mind of the late Bruce Lee coming up with the idea for the Kung Fu series that unfortunately was stolen from him by the studios. This series, by David's own words, brought him out of a path of death & destruction to a higher calling & enlightenment. Even after the series ended David continued on with the studies of Shaolin Priest, their philosophy and the practice of Shaolin Do (the mother of all martial arts) or as some of you call it Kung Fu. Like I said the autopsy report came back ruling out suicide, stating there are grounds to imply murder, thus the reason the investigation continues into his death. The media needs to keep in mind that even though David lived his life in the spotlight through his movies & charitable functions he does still have a family out there that is feeling the enourmous pain of his passing more so than any fan could ever. I read right after his death that his niece stated that he was the rock that held their family together & that she didn't know how the family would survive without him. I believe instead of his 3rd wife & the media spreading gossip & spectulations around about his alleged sexual desires, they should instead send out positive energy & prayers to his family in hopes they too can find peace & enlightenment to carry on with their lives & give them comfort just as "Uncle David" did that changed his life forever. May each and every person that reads this post find peace & enlightenment as well. And those of you in the media & this particular author of this article.....The world today is such a harsh place to live in with all the war, greed, chaos and so forth, you really don't need to be making up things to sale papers or draw viewing circulations to websites. David's 3rd wife was seeking her 15 minutes of fame & now she has it. Leave the man to RIP and let his family heal as well. If you wish to continue the stories then wait a year & ask the family for a follow up interview to see how they are doing & to let them know so many still care about them as well as David. I offer my deepest heartfelt sympathies to his family.
A friend of mine once described to me how she and her uncle cleaned the floor after her father’s suicide. “I got so turned on watching my uncle’s hands,” she anguished. “Isn’t that sick?”
“No,” I told her. “The presence of death makes us want to create more life. Sex and death are as closely connected as sex and life. And your attraction to his brother was a deep desire to resurrect you father. Not only is it not sick, it’s not even weird.”
I wouldn’t personally engage in such degrees of autoeroticism as Carradine may—or may not—have, but sex is never really plain vanilla. Or I should say the more plain vanilla the top scoop, the more likely the scoop underneath to be an exotic flavor. Shock, titillation, or disgust about the extremes of the bell curve of sexuality says more about the conservatism of the beholder than about the morality of the doer. If the allegations are true, they don’t make me think less of Carradine.
I’m with MarAli on this one. Thomas Merton died when an electrical appliance fell into his bathtub. I said, “I guess he died enlightened.”
Speaking of enough, enough with the dead celebrity adulation. Yet another one of his wives has attested to his predilictions. When you play Russian Roulette, sometimes you get the bullet.
Simple stated, it is as it is. No More. No Less.
I did forget to mention that his hands were tied when they found him hanging in the closet. Apparently, he had some help that may have gone terribly wrong. This is a common death though as it happened to a high school friend of my wife. Whoever may have been his accomplice bugged out after the accident.
Also, I'm in agreement about the prostheletizing of actors/actresses. It never ceases to amaze me how people grieve over their heroes....dropping off bushels of flowers, and midnight candel vigels as if they personally knew them. How pathetic.
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