I wasn’t planning to write another sports article, but here I am, and this time it’s soccer.
Michael Carrick, the former player and now manager of Manchester United, was booed by his own fans at Old Trafford on Saturday. United had a late lead against ten-man Tottenham, then gave it away in added time. That leaves them with six points from six league games, their roughest start in decades. Add the League Cup exit last month and a big match in Madrid on Tuesday night, and the whole world is asking if his job is in danger. I wanted to know what the stars say about it.
This whole situation reminded me of something I see constantly in charts. The gap between how someone is actually built and how the world decides to treat them in a bad stretch. So I had to pull up his birth chart and see for myself what holds for Michael this season and how long this noise is going to follow him.
And to be fair to the doubters, United’s shaky start is not a one-off. Six points from six games is a real problem, and I get why fans are angry and worried at the same time. The pressure is not going anywhere soon.
Is the chaos happening to him, or inside his foundation?
I’ve looked at a lot of charts of people under public pressure, and there’s a specific thing I look for first: is the chaos happening to someone, or is it happening in someone’s actual foundation? Those are very different situations, and they usually don’t feel different from the outside.
A Saturn that gets steadier under fire
With Carrick, the first thing that jumped out at me is where his Saturn sits. Saturn rules his house of rivals and daily struggle, and that same Saturn is sitting right on his own Ascendant, fused into his identity. I’ve seen this placement before in people who genuinely seem to get steadier the worse things get around them, not because they’re unbothered, but because conflict is where they actually function best. It’s not a comfortable placement to live with day to day. Saturn there rarely feels good in the moment, but it’s a resilient one.
Next to that, Saturn sits with Jupiter, doing the job of softening it further. It keeps the discipline from turning into pure pessimism. That combination alone suggests that this isn’t someone who cracks under a bad stretch. His whole career arc of starting as a player, then coach, then manager, reads like someone who kept absorbing pressure until it turned into authority. That’s not a coincidence in the chart. That’s the chart working exactly as designed.
The mind that never actually clocks out
Then there’s his career house, the 10th house. His own ruling planet, Mercury, sits in its strongest possible position, in his 10th house, together with the Moon and Mars. When you see thinking, feeling, and drive all fused into one house like that, you’re looking at someone whose mind never actually switches off from the job. Calm on the outside, calculating nonstop underneath.
That matches everything I’ve read about how Carrick actually operates: quiet, watchful, always scanning, which honestly sounds exactly like the way he used to play in midfield. But if you look at him under a different light, some can even misunderstand his calmness as passive and inactive. He’s someone who doesn’t need to show his plans on his face. Some people are just simply built to read a system and fix it. This chart is one of the clearer examples of that I’ve come across.
None of this reads as fragile to me. If anything, it’s closer to the opposite.
So where does all this backlash actually come from?
Here’s where I think a lot of the current panic is coming from, without anyone quite realizing why.
Carrick has Sun sitting together with Rahu in his house of recognition and public standing. In my own practice, I’ve learned to treat this combination carefully. Rahu doesn’t just amplify things; it distorts them. It makes reputation move faster than the ground underneath it can actually hold. Good news arrives louder than it should. So does bad news. A stretch of praise that felt disproportionate, followed by a stretch of criticism that felt equally disproportionate, and neither one actually reflecting what was really going on underneath.
That’s exactly the shape of Carrick’s last twelve months. A strong finish, a big new contract through 2028, real goodwill, and then a rocky stretch that’s suddenly being talked about like a crisis. That whiplash is very Rahu. And right now, the planet running his current period is the Sun, the same Sun that’s tied up with that Rahu, and which also happens to rule loss and background pressure in his chart.
So this stretch, through November 2026, isn’t a period where I’d expect the foundation to actually crack. It’s a period where the story about him is simply running ahead of the reality. Loud, uncomfortable, very real to everyone feeling it.
There’s actually something happening online right now that fits this reading almost too neatly. A lot of fans have started pushing back on the idea that this is entirely Carrick’s fault, pointing instead at the club’s top-level decisions related to transfers, the squad depth, etc. Sun as his 12th lord governs exactly this kind of thing; forces and decisions sitting above and behind him that are not in his direct control but still end up shaping how he’s perceived. Some of the noise landing on Carrick right now may genuinely belong somewhere else in the building.
Mapping the timeline: three periods, three different stories
I always map out the sequence of planetary periods when I’m reading something like this, because the headline “is he getting sacked” only makes sense once you know when you’re asking it.
Now through November 2026, the noisy stretch. This is the period I’ve been describing above: scrutiny, inflated reactions in both directions, but not structural danger.
November 2026 through June 2028, the consolidating stretch. This is the one I’d watch with some optimism. His house of recognition connects directly into his career house here, which is a consolidating combination, but only if he gets through the current storm. This is the stretch where the job stops being questioned and starts being genuinely his.
June 2028 through July 2029, the one to actually watch. This is when Mars enters the picture. Mars rules sudden rupture and crisis, and lands right in his career house. Out of everything in this sequence, this is the only period I’d flag as carrying real risk of an actual ending. Mars is not a planet you should take lightly.
So, is he getting sacked?
It doesn’t seem like it, at least not for the near future.
Everything is solid in this chart: Saturn fused to his own identity, Mercury commanding his career house, and Jupiter keeping the whole thing from tipping into despair. These three planets describe someone who tends to get more secure under pressure. The current situation seems like Rahu doing exactly what Rahu does, making the noise louder than the actual signal underneath it.
What I’m actually keeping an eye on is 2028, when Mars finally steps into the frame and the one real fault line in this whole chart becomes active. Everything between now and then, as far as I can tell, is lots and lots of pressure, not a collapse.
I’ll be watching just as closely as the rest of you. I just happen to be watching a different kind of scoreboard.
FAQs
Q: Is Michael Carrick going to be sacked by Manchester United?
A: Not based on his chart, no, at least not in the near future. The current dasha period, running through November 2026, is loud and stressful, but it isn’t structurally dangerous. The chart doesn’t flag real risk of a dismissal until a much later window, in 2028.
Q: Why does Michael Carrick’s chart look so different from what the headlines are saying right now?
A: Because of where Rahu sits in his chart, right alongside the Sun in his house of recognition and public standing. Rahu tends to distort reputation rather than reflect it accurately, so both praise and criticism can arrive louder and faster than the reality underneath them actually supports. What’s happening right now reads to me as exactly that kind of distortion.
Q: What planetary period is Michael Carrick in right now, and when does it change?
A: He’s currently in a Saturn-Sun period, running through November 2026. After that, he moves into a Saturn-Moon period through June 2028, which I read as a stronger, more consolidating stretch for his position at the club.
Q: Is there a period where he’s actually at risk?
A: Yes, June 2028 through July 2029, when his dasha shifts to Saturn-Mars. Mars rules sudden rupture and crisis in his chart, and it lands directly in his career house during that stretch. Out of everything in the sequence, that’s the one period I’d genuinely flag.
Q: Does this chart explain why Michael Carrick seems so calm in interviews despite all the criticism?
A: It does line up. His career house has Mercury, Moon, and Mars all fused together, which in my experience describes someone who’s constantly thinking and calculating internally, while staying outwardly composed. It can come across as passive to people who don’t know what to look for, but it usually isn’t.
