By now, everyone has heard how Kanye West was able to unite the country around the idea that it is rude and uncool to get up in the middle of a nice young woman’s award and go off disrupting it and ruining her moment.  Even the President called him a jackass, and no one really disagreed.

So what can we learn from Kanye and his chart?

Lesson #1: If you’ve got Saturn in Leo, keep your ego in check. Saturn in Leo can mean all kinds of things, but one of the things it can mean is you gotta keep that ego in check. Because Saturn in the sign that rules the egomaniac in all of us indicates that the ego can become a burden, a hindrance, an obstacle and a general source of bad moodness all around if it’s not turned into discipline and self-control.That’s partly because West having Saturn in this sign indicates it’s not exactly ego in the positive sense of self-confidence, but an ego born out of Saturn’s specialties: fear, insecurity, and a driving sense of need. And that just doesn’t work all that well, as things so frequently don’t when Saturn’s got the reins.

Lesson #2: If your Jupiter and sun in Gemini are opposite your Neptune in Sagittarius, somehow you gotta teach yourself how to keep your lips zipped sometimes. It’s great to have Jupiter conjunct sun usually, although it does have a tendency to inflate the sense of self. But when you’ve got a blabbermouth sun and a blabbermouth Jupiter opposing a blabbermouth Neptune, things can occasionally get out of control. Sagittarius is known for its blunt willingness to speak its mind, even when other people wish it wouldn’t. It’s an impulsive sign as well. This honesty can be all well and good, or at least useful on occasion. But Neptune is also the planet that will get itself all tangled up in delusions, and Neptune in Sagittarius will happily spout those delusions given an eighth of a chance.  In general, this configuration suggests that Mr. West can delude himself with alarming frequency and spout off with hurtful things, even when he didn’t mean to. It also makes him idealistic and prone to thinking he is doing this on behalf of justice or a Noble Cause.

Lesson #3: When your moon is in Pisces square your sun, Jupiter, and Neptune, protect your heart. Kanye has a big open-hearted Pisces moon, making him a sincerely emotional person who does, as he avers, want to help people. This sincere emotionality is a gift, including an artistic gift. But it’s at odds with those aforementioned blabbermouth placements. It’s not enough that he goes off periodically, but those public meltdowns hurt the feelings of his big moon. It’s a volatile combination. Somehow or another, when you have this kind of a moon, you need to develop enough of a protective mechanism to keep yourself a bit less open, even silent at times. It’s easy to get taken advantage of with this combination, but even worse when you take advantage of yourself and your own vulnerabilities.

Lesson #4: When you’ve got Venus and Mars conjunct Chiron, figure out how not to wound yourself. This configuration suggests a sense of drive coming from a sense of being wounded by society, as well as a strong ability to channel this perception artistically. The artistic bit is good. What’s probably not so much fun is wounding yourself accidentally, over and over again, perhaps to tap into this drive. There are enough real problems in the world to get all worked up over; it’s probably not necessary to be motivated by the stuff you do to yourself.

None of the above configurations are fatal, or even all that bad, if a person can figure out how to work with them. It takes everyone (well, at least most people) a while to learn how to drive their chart, instead of having the chart drive them. Some of us never figure it out. But there are gifts in the challenges, if we can just figure out how the heck to unwrap them, and get out of our own way.