Taking a look at Heath Ledgers chart (4-4-1979, Perth, Australia, no birthtime available, using Vedic Moon-rising Chandra lagna chart) there is a strong Piscean accentuation, which is clearly an advantage for an actor who must embody the appearances of various characters, but also their more invisible aspects.  Ledger was known for his dedication to his craft. 

The Pisces accentuation (more than three planets) would also corroborate a potential weakness for drugs or forming codependent behaviors with substances. Pisceans can have a regressive tendency for escapist dissipation and self-pity.  Ledger lately was saying that he was getting no more that two hours sleep a night, even with sleeping pills.  He was known as a partier on the New York scene. 

At this time Ledger was also undergoing his first Saturn return.  Obviously he was going through an important time in his life with all its attendant stresses on his psyche.  He had just broken up with his daughter’s mother, and he was on the verge of greater success in his life.  So there was a lot going on, and he was at a very critical time of his life. 

The reasons we are taken out of life can be varied. Sometimes we burn the candle at both ends.  Other times death is life’s giving us an escape from increasingly bad situations.  Sometimes we are unjustly cut down my malevolent forces.  Sometimes the thread runs out, as it were, and we’re fated to have a short life….only to live on in some sort of a legendary manner like James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, or Princess Diana. 

We you “exit” you get a life-review, as it were.  Jerry Falwell was a man whom many people trusted to deliver the unvarnished spiritual truth that would be for the salvation of their souls.  But basically his message was one of....