What You MUST Know About Lottery Astrology

If you have arrived here to learn how to win the lottery (and other games of chance, sweepstakes, etc.) by using astrology, you will need to know how previous winners did it. If you haven't yet read the Introduction, you should probably do that now. Otherwise, proceed.



THE HOUSE SYSTEM

The majority of astrologers in the western hemisphere use the Placidus house system. It’s the system that was most widely used by publications such as Dell Horoscope and American Astrology magazines, and currently, The Mountain Astrologer, therefore, the one most of us learned as we grew up. As we progressed in our work, we incorporated other systems, such as Koch and Regiomontanus, according to the types of charts we were casting.

In the 1990’s, I didn’t yet know just how much of an honor it would be to make the acquaintance of an exceptional Australian astrologer named Dymock Brose. An astrologer for more than sixty years, he edited The Australian Astrologer’s Journal, and then produced Astrologer’s Forum, a monthly periodical that ran for 23 years. With the help of his wife Marguerite, the two produced and graded a monthly test of harmonic charts, free of charge to anyone who wanted to learn. Brose taught his students to switch to the Porphyry house system when calculating harmonics “because of its very sensitive house cusps.” The man knew what he was talking about. Don’t mix house systems like apples and oranges. You’ll get the wrong answer. It’s best to stick with the Porphyry system throughout the entire process. It’s just a mouse click away and doesn’t require us to learn anything new. The Ascendant and Midheaven will remain the same as you’re used to seeing in the Placidus system, but the other house cusps may move a few degrees. It might remove or change an interception, or move a planet over a cusp. Let it. Go with the flow.

All charts here are cast in the Porphyry system.


THE ANGLES

The angles are the first, fourth, seventh and tenth houses of a chart. The closer a planet is to either side of a cusp of an angle (that is, the Ascendant / Descendant – Midheaven / Nadir axes) the greater its influence in a matter.

The Ascendant and Midheaven have always been places of power in every chart during the entire course of astrology, and I can’t imagine a future time when that would change. The Ascendant is more than personality, the first impression we make, the way others see us, and the lens through which we filter incoming data. When working with transits, and in all forms of progressions, directions, returns, and even harmonics, conjunctions to the Ascendant indicate that the matter is personal to you, right here and right now, at this place and this time.

The Midheaven, by the same token, is more than our reputation and status (single, married, widowed, divorced, retired, a graduate, a parent, and similar milestones of life that change the way the public perceives us). It is more than an indication of our purpose in life and chosen profession, more than whether we are famous or infamous, pillars of the community or the dregs of society. Like the Ascendant, when aspected, it indicates a time of You. Here. Now. The matter becomes public. Don’t bother trying to hide things that happen when your Midheaven is aspected. It’s out there for the whole world to see.

The opposite points—the Descendant and Nadir—are also significant, only slightly less so than their counterparts, and are important for different reasons. A conjunction to the Descendant doesn’t necessarily indicate that a spouse, significant other, or co-worker has a share of the wealth, although that might be the case. It’s that these, too, are points in space to which we are especially sensitive. They’re like our own personal tuning forks. We so often relegate them to a secondary position in our minds because when reading our charts, we’re almost always more primarily concerned with what will happen with us, and secondarily concerned with our closest relationships and family. We need to think of these places as axes in our charts. Any planet that’s within five degrees or so on either side of the east / west axis, or the north / south axis, is a particularly important planet. They are strongly influential in these positions.

The ruler of the Ascendant is the chart ruler(s). It’s as important in the lottery chart as the Sun or Moon. In the case of Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aquarius, or Pisces rising, there may be two chart rulers: co-rulers and / or ancient rulers as well as modern rulers. They can all be equally important. When studying a chart, locate that planet or planets right from the start.

Next in angular importance is the ruler of the Midheaven. As with the Ascendant, there may be more than one. They are equally important.

If the angular houses hold intercepted signs, the planet or planets ruling those intercepted signs are also important.



THE MONEY HOUSES

As in all other types of charts, the 2nd house is the house of money and resources. This includes every dime you could come up with if, for instance, you had to pay a ransom. It’s the income you have earned, your paycheck, cash, bank accounts, jewels, valuable art, and any other luxurious possessions on hand that you could convert to cash if you had to. Simple enough. In spiritual astrology, there are other values associated with this house and they are good; this is lottery astrology, and it’s based on material goods, financial security, and tangible results. 

The opposite house is the 8th house. I see fledgling astrologers frowning and scratching their heads now. Isn’t that the house of sex, surgery, death and transformation? Yes, of course, but astrology is a many splendored thing. Being the second house from the 7th house of the spouse, significant other and business partner, it represents their money and resources, as well as community property and any funds in which we have a stake, such as 401Ks, pensions, social security, taxes, inheritances, insurance and alimony. It is the house of shared resources. When we think of the houses as axes, we can see that the 1st house represents us, and the opposite house, the 7th, is the house of not us. If it’s not us, then it’s someone else, including the public at large. So the 2nd house is the house of our money, and the opposite, the 8th house, is the money of someone else. Maybe we’re not married. Maybe we don’t have a business partner. Maybe we’re never going to inherit anything from anyone. Remember the key words: shared resources. We might think of it as the house of socialism or even communism, because it represents money that is collected from the many and redistributed to the few. Take a moment to think about how insurance, social security, taxes, welfare, lotteries, raffles, and even football pools really work: a lot of people contribute, but comparatively few people collect. For our purposes, we can tag the 8th as a simple “house of lotteries.”



THE RISK HOUSES

The 5th house is not just the house of children and creativity. It’s also the house of playing, recreation, entertainment, dalliances, games, sports, and chance. We put ourselves out there with the hope that it will pay off: that those we love will love us in return, that our children will make us proud, that our invention will be original, our novel will be published, our acting will earn an Oscar, our movie will be a blockbuster. We hope that we will solve the puzzle, finish the race, and win the game. It is where we take risks and gambles.

The opposite house, the 11th, is the house of friends, groups and associations. I can’t tell you for how many years as a fledgling astrologer I thought those three things comprised the entirety of the 11th house. How many great opportunities I missed through my ignorance. If you’re one of the majority of astrology students studying on your own and relying on cookbooks to learn, I’m not going to let that happen to you. This is the house of Aquarius, ruled primarily by Uranus, and secondarily by Saturn. This is the house of plot twists in life, bolts from the blue, twists of fate, unexpected changes of fortune and mind-boggling events that could never have been predicted (unless you’re an astrologer, of course). Surprise, surprise, surprise. Whether those twists and oddities are happy events or disasters depends on the planets and aspects involved.



THE LUCKY PLANETS

In winning charts, any planet that rules a winning house is a lucky planet, including those old bugaboos Saturn and Neptune.

Any planet that occupies one of the winning houses is a lucky planet, including Saturn and Neptune.

The chart ruler is a lucky planet. If you aren’t yet familiar with the chart ruler, it is the planet or planets that rule the Ascendant. The ruler of the Midheaven is also a lucky planet.

If any angle or winning house contains an intercepted sign, the rulers of that sign are lucky planets. Angles are the cusps of the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th houses, and an orb of about five degrees on either side of them. These house cusps are, respectively, the Ascendant, Nadir, Descendant, and Midheaven.

If any of the above has more than one ruler, or has both an ancient and modern ruler, they are all lucky.


THE LIGHTS

We have continued to refer to the Sun and Moon as “planets,” although we understand that one is our closest star and the other is a satellite that orbits Earth. It’s a rare chart where these two are not the most important symbols in it. The Sun is the most important in a solar return, but less important than the Moon in a lunar return. Either may have less significance in some harmonic charts than the planets involved in the most important aspect. With those exceptions, these two are vital. Their importance is so momentous that it is enough that they shine, and unnecessary for them to occupy or rule an angle or winning house to be effective. However, their consequence is even greater when they do.



JUPITER AND URANUS

Jupiter and Uranus top the list of the greatest luck-producing planets. Ebertin called this blending the “Thank the Lord” combination because people often exclaimed those words when suddenly released of the strain or tension from which they had been suffering. They bring sudden changes in destiny and fortunate changes in life. They are major players in nearly every win, and are most helpful when working together in conjunction or trine. Neither has to rule or occupy a winning house to be effective, but they are even more supportive when they do.

All astrologers are familiar with Jupiter’s reputation as the Greater Benefic, the Santa Claus of the zodiac, planet of bigger, better and more. This is the giant planet that expands everything it touches from our egos and fame, to our waistlines and bank accounts.

You’ll find conjunctions of Jupiter and Uranus in the charts of Spencer Tracy, Richie Valens, Kevin Costner, Steffi Graf, Annie Lenox, Angus Young, Denzel Washington, Jennifer Anniston, and the complicated, complex Debra Winger, with the fascinating voice, whose chart also contains two yods, a mystic rectangle, a grand trine and a kite, just for starters.

The trine between Jupiter and Uranus can be found in the chart of Timothy Hutton, Winger’s husband. Also enjoying the fame and fortune of the trine are / were Donald Trump, Richard Branson, George W. Bush, Aaron Spelling, Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, Nostradamus, Pope Francis, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Cher, Jay Leno, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Harrison Ford was lucky the trine was in effect on March 5, 2015, the day he survived a plane crash.

Astrologers Ed Steinbrecher, Alan Leo and Grant Lewi had sextiles between Jupiter and Uranus. Gina Bellman, co-star with Timothy Hutton in the TV series Leverage, and actor Liam Neeson have them, too. Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Robert Kennedy had it in common, as well as Mick Jagger and Curt Cobain.

Unpredictable Uranus in a natal chart can be independent, rebellious, eccentric, bohemian, and even accident-prone. In transits, progressions, solar arc directions, and solar and lunar returns, it can be the planet that flies in like a tornado, huffs and puffs and blows our house down, flips our lives completely around, creates chaos and havoc wherever it goes, and disappears as suddenly as it arrives. It has often been said that with Uranus, we never know what we’re going to get because this is the planet of upheaval, surprises, and changes in fortune. Whatever we expect, it is sure to do something different. In lottery charts, it represents the freedom, independence and surprising changes that sudden wealth can provide. This is the planet of lucky breaks, of being in the right place at the right time, and holding the ticket with the right numbers.



MARS AND JUPITER

Good aspects between Mars and Jupiter are the second most-renown “lucky combination.” Mars is a high-energy planet, and Jupiter is expansive and buoyant. Together, they create a feel-good exuberant confidence that leads to success. It tends to favor good results from taking chances.

Mars energy keeps on going and going and going when combined with Jupiter. I don’t know when the Energizer Bunny was created, but I’m willing to bet he has this duo angular in his chart. A good keyword for it is wherewithal. Everything we need to accomplish our goals is at our disposal. Olympic gold medalist in track and field, Florence Griffith-Joyner, still considered the fastest woman in the world, not only had Jupiter trine Uranus, but also Mars conjunct Jupiter. Billionaires John D. Rockefeller (Sr.) and John D. Rockefeller III had Mars conjunct Jupiter. Queen Elizabeth and Prince George of Cambridge have it, and Prince William and Duchess Kate married under its influence. Joseph Kennedy Sr., patriarch of the Kennedy clan, had the combination (along with Chiron and Transpluto) conjunct the midheaven and passed it along to his son, John F. Kennedy. Hollywood triple-threat, multi-Oscar winner, screenwriter-director-producer Oliver Stone has it rising along with Chiron. Rocker John Bon Jovi (whose name loosely translates to John “Good Jupiter”) has the conjunction on the cusp of his 5th house of creativity and entertainment. Angelina Jolie has Jupiter, Mars and the Moon (her chart ruler, as well as planet of motherhood) conjunct the midheaven from the 9th house of foreign places, all trine Neptune conjunct the Vertex date with destiny in the 5th house of children. Actress Mia Farrow has Mars at the midheaven in trine to Jupiter in the 5th house of children. And finally, a courageous pioneer in flight, Aquarian Amelia Earhart had Mars and Jupiter only seven minutes apart in her 5th house of risks and gambles.

Speaking of flight, Harrison Ford was doubly lucky on the day his plane crashed because not only did Uranus (ruler of aviation) trine Jupiter, but Mars, which conjoined Uranus (a classic accident prone aspect), also trined it, providing the ability to keep going. Some very prolific and wealthy authors have used this combination to keep their butts in the chair and persist, an essential ingredient in writing. Stephen King and J. K. Rowling share this trait for success. Millionaire politician John McCain also has Mars at the midheaven, and his Jupiter is at the cusp of the 2nd house of money.

SATURN AND URANUS 

This is another combination seen often in winning charts, and representative of polar opposite energies. Depending on the aspect between them, it can bring release of tension, radical changes to the status quo, and interventions in destiny. It’s also associated with Herculean efforts, sudden breaks in oppressive situations, and the sudden overcoming of difficulties.


NEPTUNE

I could begin a simple list of things that Neptune represents in our lives, and it would take up several paragraphs. These posts aren't intended to teach astrology, only to show those who already understand the basics how to use it to win the lottery. Among the seemingly endless list of things attributed to Neptune overall, it’s the planet of intangibles, of things that are real, but can’t be held in the hand. It’s our sixth sense, inspiration, hunches, intuition, extraordinary knowing, extrasensory perception, psychic ability, faith, spirit guides and communication with other realms. We experience things that are unexplainable or seemingly unbelievable and ask, “Is this real, or am I dreaming?” You’ll find it playing only a bit part in secondary progressions, but starring in major roles in solar arc directions.



PLUTO

Pluto has a nasty reputation for bringing death and destruction and being rather temperamental—a volcano or atom bomb always set to blow. But in lottery charts, the lord of the underworld represents some important things: power, plutocracy, enormous odds, great wealth and complete transformation. If someone already super wealthy wins the lottery, Pluto might play a lesser role in the chart. But for someone whose life will never be the same again, we can expect Pluto to make a close aspect to the Ascendant, Midheaven, Sun, Moon, chart ruler, or maybe the ruler of the 2nd house of money or 8th house of lotteries. The Rockefellers, mentioned previously, are examples of plutocracy; one had Pluto conjunct the Midheaven; the other had Pluto conjunct the Ascendant (a recurring pattern in the Rockefeller family). John Jacob Astor IV had Pluto opposed to Jupiter. Billionaires Bill Gates and Mick Jagger have Pluto conjunct Jupiter. John F. Kennedy Jr., born into a wealthy family, had Pluto trine Jupiter. Howard Hughes and Aristotle Onassis had Pluto conjunct the Midheaven, and Richard Branson and Ross Perot have it conjunct their Ascendants.



THE MOON’S NODES

Completely opposite from what we’ve been taught to expect from the South Node in other charts, in winning lottery charts, the South Node is our friend. Not just a Facebook acquaintance, but a real BFF. The North Node does no harm, but the South Node turns up in conjunction with the Ascendant, Midheaven or chart ruler time and time again. The Nodes represent turning points and milestones in our lives.


THE CHILDREN ON THE STREETS

In Los Angeles in the ‘80’s, I had the good fortune to live next door to Sheri and Jerry Hopkins, who became two of my favorite friends in life. Every weekend, all weekend for two years, we communed around their dinette table to play Spades. In this card game, the high cards, of course, were trump, and playing all the low cards first was called “sweeping the children off the streets.”  It always made me think of ragtag waifs begging for coins. If they worked together and shared their funds, they could improve their lot. In a way, the following objects seem an unlikely band of misfits – a hypothetical planet beyond the orbit of Pluto, measurements in space time, Arabic Parts, asteroids – and alone, their effects are minor, but in winning charts, we see them supporting each other almost all the time.



CHIRON

In most charts, Chiron gives me fits. I often believe it may be the true ruler of Virgo, because in some charts, it so obviously represents health and nutrition, or perhaps naturopathy, osteopathy, and herbal or energy healing, and in others it clearly appears as service, duty and obligation. But the whole wounding and healing theory is a wash for me. I have seen it conjunct the Midheaven by progression in wedding charts, but found it nowhere in sight when a family member or beloved pet passed away. As either wounded or healing, it’s inconsistent at best. However, at the end of Chiron’s life, as a reward for a job well done, he was cast into the heavens to live and shine among the stars. As the result of a small sample of this theory, we find that:

• It trined the Ascendant of Stevie Nicks when she joined Fleetwood Mac.

• It trined the chart ruler of Stevie Nicks when she won a Grammy for Album of the Year, along with other band members, for Rumours.

• Conjoined the chart ruler of Wallis Simpson when the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne for her.

• Conjoined the East Point of George Lucas when he released the first Star Wars.

• Conjoined the Ascendant of Michael Douglas when he won the Genesis Peace Prize.

• Trined the natal Sun, while the transiting Sun conjoined natal Chiron, when Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for Gone With the Wind.

• Conjoined natal Jupiter at the same time that transiting Venus conjoined natal Chiron when Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for Streetcar Named Desire.

• Appropriately conjoined the Moon, exalted dispositor of her natal Sun, when Meryl Streep won her first Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer.

• Conjoined the 11th house cusp (a winning house) when Meryl Streep won her second Oscar for Sophie’s Choice.

• Appropriately conjoined Mars, ruler of her Midheaven, when Meryl Streep won her third Oscar for The Iron Lady.

• A Lunar Eclipse conjoined Chiron in the natal chart of J. K. Rowling when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released.

With the right aspects, it seems likely that Chiron has a lot to do with rewards or once-in-a-lifetime events, and symbolically being cast into the heavens to shine among the stars. Our names are carved in the annals of history, and we become associated with a crowning achievement. Or, in the unique case of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, an uncrowning achievement. In lottery astrology, Chiron of triumphant ascendancy simply wins.


TRANSPLUTO

Transpluto is not transiting Pluto. It is a hypothetical planet that may exist beyond the orbit of Pluto—thus the use of the prefix "trans." Its glyph looks like Mars wearing a belt. It is one in a stable of other hypothetical planets used by Uranian astrologers. I am not a Uranian astrologer and it would be incredibly hypocritical of me to knock something I know nothing about. That's what cynics do when the subject of astrology is brought up, so I tried to find information on it, much of which was contradictory and made no sense to me. So I looked further. I found some spiritual speculation online that is all sound and fury, along with predictions so many hundreds and thousands of years into the future that none of us will survive to know if they ever occur or not. I’m not knocking spiritual astrology, and I’m a huge admirer of Jeffrey Wolf Green, who wrote the definitive book on Evolutionary Astrology, [1] but I want to be able to validate a planet or point’s effect in my life in the present.

The most useful application for Transpluto that I have found was in an eight-page publication (seven, if you don't count the title page) called What Are Winning Transits? written by astrologer Joyce Wehrman [2]

I am an experienced astrologer, but I would have trouble following the graphs that indicate when to leave the house to gamble, when to enter the casino, when to roll the dice or spin the wheel, when to walk away...it looks like a very complicated system and truthfully, I’ve never tried it. It may work, for all I know. But one thing that caught my attention was that Ms. Wehrman advocated using Transpluto in gambling equations, and referred back to a previous publication written by John Hawkins, titled Transpluto: Or Should We Call Him Bacchus, the Ruler of Taurus? [3] After experimenting with Transpluto for several years, Wehrman claimed that it was relevant in major wins. So I studied it in the charts of lottery winners, and I must say that she was onto something. Whatever Transpluto may mean to Uranian astrologers, in lottery astrology, it means payoffs.


[1] Green, Jeff. Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul, Llewellyn Publications, 1988.

[2] Wehrman, Joyce. What Are Winning Transits? Astro Computing Services, no copyright date printed. Pp.4.

[3] Hawkins, John. Transpluto: Or Should We Call Him Bacchus, the Ruler of Taurus? No copyright or publishing information was referenced or found.


EAST POINT

The Ascendant in a chart is the degree and sign that is rising on the local horizon at the time of our birth. The East Point is the degree and sign rising on the equator at the time of our birth. Sometimes it is called the equatorial ascendant. Among other things, it is said to represent our ideal selves, the Ascendant we would prefer to have had, which contradicts the spiritual astrological theory that we did choose everything about our current life before we were born into it. I’ll leave the study of that to you. For now, we'll limit the definition to personal matters which take place in public, or which gain public notice, or capture the public’s imagination. It’s almost a melding together of the Ascendant and Midheaven.


VERTEX

The Vertex is an auxiliary Descendant known as a point of fate. It is associated with both fated encounters and fated experiences over which we have little or no control. It represents dates with destiny and the ability to penetrate alternate realities and other realms. With the exception of harmonics, the anti-Vertex is always opposite the Vertex, and has the same qualities, but may be slightly less dominant.


PART OF FORTUNE

The Part of Fortune is the most common and popular Arabic Part. Calculated differently for day births and night births, it represents a change of fortune. When it’s well aspected, it predicts good fortune, or ease to the end. If aspected by malefics, it becomes the Part of Misfortune with many difficulties to overcome. If it receives both fortunate and unfortunate aspects simultaneously, then things will go both ways, in accordance to the planets and house rulership involved.

ASTEROIDS

I usually only use asteroids in my work when I am trying to wring every tiny bit of information I can from a chart. However, there are a few that have proven to be amazingly helpful in big wins, such as Varuna and 1996 TL66. I urge you to find them in your natal and lottery charts.

© Lesia Valentine 2018