posted February 19, 2010 09:22 AM         

I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to do a reading for my good friend's chart. The friend in question has been struggling through a really tough time over the last few months. He is only nineteen, but he is a very complex character. One of those people who some just cannot stand, because at first he can come across as quite egocentrical and abrasive. But in reality there is a really sweetness to him. He is very caring, intelligent and highly, highly emotional. He tells me that he has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and while sometimes I'm not entirely sure to believe things he tells me 1000%, I can certainly believe that it would be possible with him.

This bad patch started when his girlfriend of a year broke up with him for (really) no good reason. But she is young, and naive, and probably meant no harm, but still it hurt him so, so much. He is very insecure and seems to be constantly searching for love and beauty. He has tried to kill himself numerous times, he tells me, and I am inclined to believe that there will definitely be some truth in that.

I am a very emotional person myself and I care about him so much. I've tried to help him through this. But he seems completely stuck in the raw, swinging from denial to rage stage of getting over his break up. No where near acceptance.

Can anyone shed any light or help in what they see in his chart? I really want to be able to understand him more and hopefully find some sort of path into happiness for him.

Would be greatly appreciated.

posted February 22, 2010 10:14 AM         

** because at first he can come across as quite egocentrical and abrasive. **
note the Aries Asc and aspects to it ..
note aspects to his moon as well as t.pluto will also effect them ..

and the 'Pluto opposite Sun ' aspect ..
( ie. a pluto transit will 'wind up' pluto aspects within the chart .. according to the late Howard Sasportas )
might be an idea to get his chart read by a pro. astrolger .. or a chart interp from astro.com ..
at least he will be made to realise the chart aspects are parameters he has to deal with .. like it or not ..
and .. there's a fair amount of aspects from the 'outer planets there ..

one thing about taurus sun .. they can take many many moons ( and as much 'mooing' ) to get over a lost love ..

he also has a Saturn ( now retrograde ) transit on .. it's squaring his MC

i guess you could research what the outer planets including Chiron are aspects via transit ..
research their meaning and let him know what you've found ..

whatever the case .. with the Pluto transit he will have to deal with very intense emotions ..
rage and feelings of insecurity are common under a pluto transit .. often connected to childhood memories
( i know pluto opposing my natal moon sent me intense rage at one point
( i've leo pluto squaring taurean sun nataly .. plus a bunch of other pluto aspects to personal placements
( can sort of empathise with what he might be going thru ..

maybe get to follow his transits via astro.com .. sooner or later he will put 2 and 2 together ..
thinking down that line as his Aries Asc will give Mars for a chart ruler ..
get him to follow his mars transits .. he'll figure sooner or later that they co-incide with how tempermental he might feel on occassion ..

a taurean under a pluto transit who's hurt via lost love .. he has my sympathy ..
taurean sun - aries asc .. both have a tendency to charge head down .. aries a bit more impulsive that taurus ..