Jose’s troubles

Дмитрий Голубович [CC BY-SA 3.0 GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons

Jose Mourinho is one of the best football (soccer, for US readers) coaches in the last 15 years or so. He won several UEFA Champions League and Coach Of The Year awards. He is known for his brash mentality and his conflicting nature towards opponents and his own players.

He is a strong Yin Earth Master Element, born in the Ox month when the Earth Element is strong. This Yin Earth is surrounded by a fair amount of Fire, which provides support. This tells us that he has a good capacity to handle the creative and controlling process. The key combination in his BaZi Chart is cooperation between Fire and Metal, which, for a Yin Earth person, represents intelligence, creativity, and the ability to learn. This is a pretty perfect setup for a coach; therefore, we are not surprised to see that he is such an excellent strategist, and he has proved it many times on the football pitch.

He also has a striving Pioneer Talent, which means that he is very innovative, able to experiment with and implement new ideas. Pioneer also gives him this fast, energetic mentality, so it’s never dull with Jose Mourinho, due to this unpredictable character trait.

A solid Water, controlled by Fire and Earth, means that his money luck is excellent as well. Altogether, this is an outstanding Chart; all components are active and playing their roles, almost perfectly.

Dynamic Luck changes

Until 2015, Mourinho had a very fruitful career, culminating in his last title with Chelsea. After that, his team began to show weaknesses, and after a bad season in 2016, he was fired. He went to Manchester United, but even there, he wasn’t very successful, despite having an almost endless budget for players, so he got fired again.

In the last few years, teams under his management were not playing well, and he was in conflict with almost everyone, from players to club owners and fans. He was very nervous, and something was definitely off in his case.

We looked into his Dynamic Chart, to find clues for this sudden change in his efficiency and overall success. What we found wasn’t pretty.

Since 2016, Mourinho has been in a Dynamic period of Yin Earth Goat. This pillar completely clashed with his most important pillar, Yin Water Ox, breaking the most crucial combination between Fire and Metal, and disturbing his Pioneer Talent. His entire Chart has been compromised, significantly affecting his career.

He keeps getting new contracts and offers because clubs are trying to buy the old Mourinho and his magic touch, but that Mourinho isn’t there at the moment.

Can he recover from this Chart disturbance?

His Chart is an excellent example of how a Dynamic Chart can ruin a perfect Static Chart, wreaking havoc in a person’s career. The difficult period will last for at least seven more years, but in some years it might be less damaging, in some years more, so his career will fluctuate. It will be interesting to see how he handles this sudden discrepancy, since he is (most likely) not aware of the problem, so he will keep looking for excuses and continue throwing blame on everybody else, except himself.

If he were aware of this issue, the impact would be far less damaging. Just with our understanding of the situation, we can melt big problems into minor problems, and eventually small problems, into no problem at all. If we are unaware of the issue, we react blindly and may even cause more damage.