Bad Luck Chart?

[pippin]

One of our buddies seems to have nothing but bad luck. I opted to have a chart run but am not sufficiently proificient an astrologer to ascertain the cause of all his misfortunes. These include a messy divorce, perpetual monetary problems, run ins with the law, DUI, ongoing custody hassles with regular court visits, and and a current relationship with a dingbat aquarian (who he purports is the absolute love of his life) with four illegitimate kids (each from a different fellow) and two pre-school grandkids--the result of teen age pregnancies of her own daughters. Buddy and girlfriend live on the edge while he continues to battle one misfortune after another--the most recent an auto accident that left him pretty battered up. Could any DUer looking at the birth data below pinpoint the cause of the disasters? His pals are pretty tired of holding our breath wondering what is going to hit him next.

Birth date: May 22, 1962
Riverside California

Planetary positions
planet sign degree house motion
Sun Gemini 01°09'14 10 direct
Moon Capricorn 09°26'04 05 direct
Mercury Gemini 19°52'50 11 direct
Venus Gemini 29°33'50 11 direct
Mars Aries 25°18'40 09 direct
Jupiter Pisces 10°09'19 08 direct
Saturn Aquarius 11°23'51 06/7 stationary (R)
Saturn is technically near the end of house 6 and is interpreted in house 7.
Uranus Leo 26°32'43 01 direct
Neptune Scorpio 11°36'08 04 retrograde
Pluto Virgo 07°31'25 02 stationary (D)
True Node Leo 11°20'35 12/1 retrograde
True Node is technically near the end of house 12 and is interpreted in house 1.

House positions (Placidus)
Ascendant Leo 13°04'01
2nd House Virgo 06°09'35
3rd House Libra 03°42'28
Imum Coeli Scorpio 06°02'54
5th House Sagittarius 10°36'14
6th House Capricorn 13°30'18
Descendant Aquarius 13°04'01
8th House Pisces 06°09'35
9th House Aries 03°42'28
Medium Coeli Taurus 06°02'54
11th House Gemini 10°36'14
12th House Cancer 13°30'18
Major aspects
Sun Square Uranus 4°37
Sun Square Pluto 6°22
Moon Sextile Jupiter 0°43
Moon Sextile Neptune 2°10
Moon Trine Pluto 1°55
Mercury Sextile Mars 5°26
Venus Sextile Mars 4°15
Venus Sextile Uranus 3°01
Mars Trine Uranus 1°14
Jupiter Trine Neptune 1°27
Jupiter Opposition Pluto 2°38
Jupiter Quincunx Ascendant 2°55
Saturn Square Neptune 0°12
Saturn Opposition Ascendant 1°40
Neptune Sextile Pluto 4°05
Neptune Square Ascendant 1°28
Numbers indicate orb (deviation from the exact aspect angle).

[Trillo]

1. At first look, I find my self wondering

if this isn't more due to a perceptual matter. Does your friend feel like he has bad luck? Or is this his friends' perceptual judgement of his luck?

First, and perhaps most simplistically, your friend has Uranus in his first house. Read up on that. He probably really does love that Aquarian girl friend, this could be related to his Uranus in first house eccentricity.

On second look:

Second, there's the Finger of God, or Yod pattern. These point to areas in one's life where things seem 'fated'. Moon is sextile Jupiter, with Saturn on the midpoint, and which in turn opposes Dragon's head, which is where the finger points. A different pattern encompassing some of the same aspects, Saturn opposes Dragon's head (north node), both square Neptune, meaning T-square. Once again, look this up in one of the old-time astrologers texts, "old time" meaning before <snip: self-censored>. Both of these patterns, the Yod and T-square have the common near ascendant/descendant axis, with Neptune near the darkest point of night.

Jupiter is traditionally associated with "luck", usually good luck, but in this chart it also conjuncts Chiron. Is his "luck" "wounded"?

There are also a lot of inconjuncts and semi-sextiles. View the chart in 12th harmonic. As well the 9th harmonic series for noviles and related such as 160 degrees, quatronovile.

Reading someone's chart is really time consuming for me. Just food for your thoughts....

Edited a few times :)

[FreedomAngel82]

2. I used to think

I was bad luck myself. But I think it just depends on what you do with what happens to you. Things are slowly turing around though. Things are still kinda icky with me but I think it all depends on how you do things. Remember we all have freewill and the will to change our life and our futures. God gave us that. I think God trust's us enough with that gift of freewill.