Bad Luck - when fate kills
- Sven Carlsson
- Aug 2, 2025
- 5 min read
A bad marriage chart can hasten your demise
The astrology of Tom and Eileen Lonergan
The tragic case that spawned the making of the film Open Water came up on my YouTube feed and I thought this would be "a good opportunity to explain bad luck" - but even as I knew I'd soon pick out the astrological background to this, I was surprised by what I found in the astrology of the couple.
For something really bad to happen to "an entity," such as a person, a couple or a spaceship, all associated charts have to have something bad going on in them at the time of tragedy - this usually involves Saturn, but can also feature other "planets" including Xanthus, Lilith and Sedna. For instance, ALL astronauts aboard the Columbia space shuttle had multiple bad Saturn transits (working in several dimensions) during that tragedy.
A Fateful Marriage Chart
This is a horrible story about a US couple who got left by a diving boat at the Barrier Reef off Australia many years ago and they were never found.
When I saw they were married, I knew the marriage chart would be bad.
One of the worst things you can do is getting married on a day when Chiron clashes with Saturn, because this means Marriage (Chiron) of Restriction or Tragedy (Saturn).
Unfortunately, Tom and Eileen got married on a day when Saturn opposed Chiron.
We have a tragic (Saturn) marriage (Chiron) that is also destined to become famous (Uranus) - which is then stressfully (squares) boosted by Ceres.
Ceres is an interesting "planet" - it can either refer to commercialization or act as an "indiscriminate booster". Here, it has acted as a booster because everybody who has heard about this tragic story (Saturn) of a married couple (Chiron) through mass media (Uranus) have been appalled (Saturn-Uranus boosted by Ceres).
The cruel thing is, of course, that the couple would not have known this was the case - as they wouldn't have know about the importance of advanced, multi-dimensional astrology.
The first book about this type of astrology was released 1995 and it was not until 1999 that the Magi Society released the book that reveals that Chiron rules marriage.
It is so cruel that what can be deciphered today, but was unknown at the time of their disappearance, affected them in this manner.
Risk of Destruction at Sea
The Lonergan's marriage chart contains another alignment that, although generational in nature, is of concern. Sedna is opposing Pluto and trine Neptune - and this translates as: risk (Pluto) of destruction (Sedna) at sea (Neptune).
The transiting Sun/Uranus midpoint (day of tragedy) was triggering both Sedna and Pluto of the marriage chart to WITHIN ONE DAY at the time of the tragedy, and Neptune to within two days. Transiting Uranus was clashing with the Sedna-Pluto opposition, threatening to release the polarized violent, tragic and destructive energy contained herein.
The Dark Feminine and Bad Tidings
This section of the story ventures outside Magi Astrology as I know it and adds in additional factors of the Lilith story. In Magi Astrology, the asteroid Lilith is understood to represent "demonic behavior" - but there are two additional Liliths used by karmic astrologers when working with this mythology.
Here, we will use one of those, the Black Moon Lilith, which isn't a physical celestial body, but the empty focal point of the Moon's elliptical orbit around the Earth.
I will not go into details of the Lilith story, but if you think of it as a blame game between male and female aspects of divinity you'll have a good starting point. Many iterations of this are re-enacted in divorce proceedings around the world, where we have polarized positions that virtually demonize the other.
One side's right and freedom is seen as demonic by the other - and vice versa.
If an aspect of our humanity or divinity is not allowed expression, but remains locked inside a cupboard for a long time - this could be our anger, our sexuality, our intelligence - instead of being allowed to interact and expand, then this energy could turn "weird".
So when the cupboard is opened and the energy is let out, it's unlikely to be "nice'.
Here, we are specifically looking at these types of problematic manifestations as represented by the asteroid Lilith and the Black Moon Lilith.
The reason we are focusing on the problematic manifestations is we are looking at a tragedy and death - if you were an astrological therapist working with empowering women, you would instead use the asteroid Lilith and the Black Moon Lilith in the natal chart to find where you could support the client and perhaps develop dormant skills and interests.
Lilith timings in the Disappearance of the Lonergan couple
The astrological timing that we will look at now is hair-raising.
Transiting Sun to marriage Lilith is to within one day; transiting Lilith to marriage Lilith is to within one day; transiting Sun to marriage Sun is to within one day, and transiting Lilith to marriage Sun is to within six days.
And the same applies to the transiting Sun and BML against the marriage chart Sun and BML - below... (here I use Solar Fire as I do not have BML in the other software.)
Bad Luck - Tom's Lilith and Xanthus
In Tom's chart we see extreme danger associated with physical activity (Mars) of the day as transiting Mars is wedged between natal Saturn and Lilith - and transiting Xanthus is connecting with natal Xanthus, Mars and Varuna. Most aspects are exact to the day, but two are within two days.
Eileen Lilith and Xanthus
Finally, we have the transits of the day of disappearance against Eileen's chart - and they are just as precise, even if we are dealing with Lilith, Xanthus and the Sun this time.
The aspects of the transiting Sun to natal Lilith and Xanthus are to within one day. The aspects of transiting Lilith to natal Lilith and natal Xanthus are around one day each.
What does this mean?
The implications of this are scary, even if nowhere as horrific as what happened to this poor couple. There are discernable energies out there that affect us, even if we are unaware of them and some of them may not even have been understood yet.
While it has been fairly easy for me to pick up on these energies after the fact, with the support of Magi Astrology and my long-term experience, it's highly questionable that I would have seen these Lilith, BML and Xanthus movements in advance.
What is certain, however, is I would never have supported anybody to get married on a day that has Saturn opposing Chiron.
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