Astrology Explored

March 30, 2008

Bon Jovie’s Ritchie Sambora had a recent brush with the law.

Sambora was pulled over by police in Laguna Beach, Calif., late on Tuesday after they observed him driving erratically, according to TMZ.com. Sambora reportedly failed numerous field sobriety tests and was detained for DUI.

The musician was admitted to rehab last year following a battle with alcoholism, which, among other factors, was sparked by his deteriorating marriage to actress Heather Locklear and the ailing health of his dad.

He spent a stint at celebrity rehab facility the Cirque Lodge in Utah months after completing a detox at the UCLA Medical Center.

In the car was his 10 year old daughter, another child and another unidentified adult.

Though TMZ has posted that Sambora might be cleared of DUI since his voluntary alcohol test might show a alcohol level below the legal limit, there is some sort of problem that caused him to drive erratically and cause him to fail field sobriety tests.

Gifts as songwriter and guitarist has earned him wealth and fame, but like so many celebrities, he has had trouble controlling his substance abuse problems. He has been in and out of rehab twice. What can astrology tell us about this man and his problems with substance abuse?

Ritchie Sambora was born on July 11, 1959 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Though we do not have a birth time for him, a chart cast for 6:00 AM has so many stunning connections with his arrest chart, that one would tend to think that he was born around sunrise. This would place Sambora’s sun in the twelfth house of self undoing. Cancer is a sensitive sign, and in twelfth becomes even more so. The twelfth house is ruled by the planet of dreams and illusions, Neptune, a planet also associated with drug and alcohol abuse. His supersensitive Cancer sun is trine Jupiter, which only adds to his awareness of his own and other people’s emotions. This man is wide open to to the feelings of others, a psychic sponge. This is difficult energy to handle, for a man in doubly so. He could be self medicating because he has not learned to protect himself from the onslaught of this psychic and emotional energy. His planet of action, Mars, is in challenge aspect to Jupiter. This is a man who plays fast and loose with risks, going over the top in his behavior. Perhaps he is trying to prove to himself and others, that despite his sensitive nature he is a “real� man.

In the arrest chart, the Sun in Aries sits on top of his South Node in Aries. Aries is a sign often associated with law enforcement, and at the top of chart indicates a event that captures the attention of the public. The justice oriented Sagittarian moon of the event chart adds fuel to the fire, and a legal tussle that can will up in the courts. The three people in the car with Sambora, the girlfriend, represented by Uranus, the girlfriend’s child and Sambora’s child all sit in the Jupiter ruled ninth house, another Sagittarian association. This threesome is inconjunct Sambora’s Uranus/Mars combination in the first house, showing again the public ramifications of this incident. The Uranian connotation of the girlfriend indicates that Sambora will decide that this woman “Gives Love A Bad Name� and we will not see or hear much of her after this.

His south node of the moon sits at the top of his chart. This lifetime is a do-over of a previous lifetime where the same issues of substance abuse and risky behavior required another go round to get it right. Though this is one arrest, this arrest may the transformative catalyst needed to drive the lesson home. Transiting Saturn is sitting on his Natal Pluto, and Transiting Pluto is sitting on his Natal Saturn. If the DUI charges are substantiated, the pending child endangerment charges will drive the change. Ritchie does love his daughter dearly. See here how she is represented by Venus in Virgo in his Natal chart and again as Venus in Pisces in the arrest chart. Hopefully, Sambora recognizes that his a problem that needs to get under control so he can keep rockin’ and entertaining us for years to come.

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