Nick Oliveri says in an interview that Josh Homme was always seen by the desert rock scene as “Mr. Lucky”. In astrology language, lucky comes with structural good fortune, a natal configuration that favours protection, support, grace, and a recurring capacity to land on one’s feet after falls. Let’s see if it matches.
Good fortune is associated with the 11th House, called the Good Daimon. It is the house of Divine grace, blessings, unexpected help, fulfilled hopes, sustaining friends, and dreams. It is related to Jupiter, the greater benefic, planet of expansion, faith, trust in life. Jupiter also corresponds to Tarot Arcana X, the Wheel of Fortune, symbol of the cyclical movement between elevation and decline, the well-known peaks and valleys of existence, the helping hand that pushes us upwards again. Jupiter has its joy in the 11th, of course. This means that it works with special efficacy in this place of the chart. When the 11th House is strong or well signified, there is often a feeling that the world, despite everything, cooperates.
In Josh Homme’s chart, the cusp of the 11th House falls in Cancer. The house is empty, which shifts the entire responsibility of signification to its ruler, the Moon. The Moon becomes the main significator of good fortune, friends, hopes, and grace.
The Moon is in Sagittarius and in the immediate proximity of the 4th House cusp. Although still in the 3rd, being only two degrees from the cusp of the 4th, it should be treated as angular and strong at it. Angularity confers strength, presence, and manifestation. This Moon is strong by position.
The 4th House is roots, family, origin, inheritance, emotional foundation, that which is received at birth. When the ruler of the 11th House is angular in the 4th, a direct bridge is formed between friends and family. Fortune comes from the cradle. Protection is born from the roots. Friends become family and family is a true body of allies.
The Moon in Sagittarius is hot and dry. Choleric temperament describes his family and friends. People with drive, courage, capacity for action, idealism, philosophy. Friends and relatives with this temperament tend to be motivating, visionary, often related to foreign lands or to wide visions of life.
This data fits with known information from Homme’s biography. He has Norwegian ancestry. His grandfather was a respected rancher in the Palm Springs area. Josh tattooed his grandparents’ names on his hands, a gesture that underlines the importance of lineage.
Let’s move to Jupiter, the natural significator of fortune when it comes to planets. Jupiter is in Aquarius, in the 6th House. It has dignity by Air triplicity, which gives it some essential quality. But the 6th House is cadent. Cadent houses reduce the capacity for direct action of the planets placed in them. Jupiter here is not an obvious source of external prosperity.
The 6th House signifies illness, wear, effort, heavy routine, servitude, that which grinds down daily life. A Jupiter in this house acts as an ally in periods of illness, physical crisis, or prolonged exhaustion. It does not eliminate difficulty, but it provides capacity for recovery, hope, faith, and endurance. We can recall the recurrent health crises Josh has been through and how he can recover even when the scenario is dark. This Jupiter suggests that, in the face of physical collapse, addictions, excesses, or burnout, there is a recurring tendency towards survival and return.
Jupiter rules Sagittarius, the cusp of the 4th House, and rules Pisces, the cusp of the 7th House. Jupiter connects family (4th), relationships (7th), and daily strain (6th). This triangulation indicates that family and relationships simultaneously sources of support and sources of tension.
When the whole is observed, Josh Homme’s good fortune is not superficial luck. It comes from a natal structure that favours protection through roots, solid human networks, and a persistent capacity for regeneration before wear, illness, and crisis. Mr. Lucky means someone who, even when he falls, always finds a hand, a ground, or an inner force that allows him to rise again.
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