Messi was born in the town of Rosario about 180 miles northwest of Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina. His father worked at a steel plant outside town. As a boy he was gifted athletically, but ill. He was diagnosed with a growth-hormone deficiency that required daily injections, and a costly treatment of $900-per-month which was out of reach for his poor father. His disease was diagnosed when he was 11 years of age.
{Note: This article of mine has been published in the November 2016 issue of The Planets and Forecast Magazine. The same has been reproduce here for the readers of my blog }
Now see this horoscope of Lionel Messi which is cast as per the time given in his biography ‘Magic Messi’ , as per the information given on the astro-data bank web site of Lois Rodden.
Lionel Messi was born on 24 June 1987, 05:55 hrs, Rosario (Santa Fe) , Argentina ( 60 W 39, 32 S 57 ). In the Vrishaba (Taurus) lagna chart of Messi Rahu is placed in the eleventh house which, as per a research of my teacher Shri Shiv Raj Sharma , published in his book ‘Mystery of Rahu in a horoscope’ , can give any one of the following results.
- One would be the eldest in the family, or
- Youngest, or
- Eldest in the same sex, or
- Youngest in the same sex.”
Lionel Messi has two elder brothers Rodrigo and Matias and one younger sister Maria Sol. So Messi is the youngest in his own sex among the siblings.
Balance of dasha in Vimshottari : Moon 3 years 11 months 27 days.
Mars June 1991 to June 1998 , Rahu June 1998 to June 2016 , Jupiter June 2016 to June 2032
The sequence of Chara dasha will be:-
| Dasha Rashi | From | To |
| Taurus | June 1987 | June 1999 |
| Aries | June 1999 | June 2001 |
| Pisces | June 2001 | June 2012 |
| Aquarius | June 2012 | June 2015 |
| Capricorn | June 2015 | June 2017 |
| Sagittarius | June 2017 | June 2021 |
At the age of 11 in year 1998 , when his Rahu dasha was about to begin, he was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency. His treatment cost $900 per month which was out of reach for his poor father. In the Taurus ascendant of Messi the degree of lagna is in ‘Mrityu bhag’. The lagna and the Moon are also under the aspect of a retrograde malefic which Saturn is here. Mars the maha dasha lord is the ‘Maraka’ planet for Taurus lagna. However, since the lagna lord Venus is in the lagna itself, so that proved to be a saving grace for him.
Now see the role of destiny the sporting director of FC Barcelona Carles Rexach, had been made aware of his talent as Messi had relatives in Spain , and Messi and his father were able to arrange a trial with the team. Rexach, with no other paper at hand, offered Messi a contract written on a paper napkin. Barcelona offered to pay for Messi’s medical bills if he was willing to move to Spain. Messi and his father moved to Barcelona where Messi enrolled in the club’s youth academy. From there, he advanced a status where he is widely regarded as best football player of the world. All this happened during the Vimshottari maha dasha of Rahu placed excellently in the eleventh house of gains. The depositor of Rahu is Jupiter which is placed in the twelfth house of foreign land. Rahu is in the ninth house in Navamsha and in Dashamsha it is in the twelfth house (foreign) with the lagna lord Mars.
Messi played most of his football in Spain out of his home country. In the Rashi chart fourth lord Sun is conjoined with twelfth lord is a combination of foreign settlement. The fourth house is also under the aspect of ninth lord Saturn which is placed in the seventh house of foreign residence. In Chathurthamsha the maha dasha lord Rahu is in the eleventh house under the aspect of fourth and ninth lord Mars showing the gain of residence in the foreign land. In Chathurthamsha chart the Moon as the twelfth lord placed in the fourth house is a combination of foreign settlement.
The Vimshottari dasha of Rahu in the eleventh house of achievements in the Rashi chart gave Messi dazzling heights in his career. He become the first footballer in the history to win four FIFA/Ballons d’Or, all of which he won consecutively, and the first to win three European Golden Shoe award. All this happened during the Vimshottari dasha of Rahu.He is the most celebrated footballer of European league winning record championship for his club Barcelona and scoring record number of goals.
In Chara dasha the period of Pisces (Meena) from June 2001 to June 2012 was running when he achieved these titles and become one of the best footballer, and rated by some in sports as the greatest of all time, on planet in our generation. Notice the influence of Jaimini Karakas from the tenth and eleventh houses from Pisces. The eleventh house from Pisces is under the aspect of Amatayakaraka Saturn , Putrakaraka Moon and strong Venus which is a great Jaimini Raj Yoga explaining it amply.
Messi is also often criticized at home because he moved to Spain at the age of 11 to join Barcelona’s academy system, and he was perceived as not being as committed to the national team as he should have been.
Messi, however, could never shake his nationality. A dual citizen, he could have played for Spain’s national football team. But he didn’t. He chose Argentina and since 2005 he has been capped in 93 games for his country scoring 42 goals. He is at present the captain of the Argentina national football team. His style of play was always been Argentine, he said , not Spanish. “ Despite the fact that I have grown (in Spain) and learned a lot in Spain, I never changed the way I play, the way I have done since I was very small”, he once said.
In year 2009 Messi made public that he is in relationship with a girl living in Argentina. On 2 November 2012, his girlfriend Antonella Roccuzzo gave birth to their son Thiago .. The Vimshottari dasha was Rahu-Venus-Mercury. In the Rashi chart Rahu is along the 5/11 axis. Venus is the lagna lord under the aspect of ninth lord Saturn from the seventh house. And the sub-sub period lord Mercury is the fifth lord himself.
In Saptamasha Rahu is in twelfth house but under the aspect of Jupiter the natural Putrakaraka. Venus is the fifth lord of Saptamasha and Mercury, placed in the eleventh house, is giving aspect to the fifth house of Saptamasha.
The Chara dasha at the time of child birth in Messi’s chart was Aquarius-Aries-Libra running. Although the Putrakaraka Moon from Taurus is neither influencing the Aquarius-Aries rashis nor the fifth house from these rashi’s but Jupiter the natural Karaka of child birth is in Aries, influencing these dasha rashis and amply explaining the birth of baby boy during their periods.
During the FIFA world cup 2014 in Brazil the Rahu-Moon-Jupiter was running in Messi’s horoscope from 11 May 2014 to 23 July 2014. Moon the anter dasha lord is in excellent Raj Yoga in the Rashi chart. Moon is the exalted third lord (the house of sports and velour) in the lagan with the lagna and sixth lord Venus. Both Moon and Venus are under the aspect of ninth and tenth lord Saturn. So it is an excellent PAC (Position, Aspect and Conjunction) relation of 3rd , 6th , 10th and 11th houses lords, which is a great combination for achieving glory in sports. In Dashamasha Moon is in excellent Gaja Kesari Yoga and is in mutual aspect with third and sixth lord Mercury showing a great success in sports. But the sub-sub period lord Jupiter, although Vargottama and well placed in Navamsha and Dashamsha, placed in the twelfth house deprived him from the ultimate achievement of winning the world cup for his country.
In Chara dasha it was the period of Aquarius-Scorpio running during the FIFA world cup. Amatayakaraka Saturn is in the tenth house from Aquarius in the Scorpio, which is also the anter dasha rashi. At the times of finals of the FIFA world cup on 13 July 2014 the sub-sub period of Leo was in operation. The 10th Pada is in Leo which is regarded as the rashi of rise. Leo is under the Jaimini aspect of Jupiter a benefic planet. The 10th and 11th house from Leo is very strong as its lords are placed in their own sign. But at the fourth level of the Chara dasha, which tells the story, the period of Aries was running on the day of final of the FIFA world cup on the 13th of July. Now see the Amatayakaraka Saturn falling in the eighth house from Aries showing the disappointment and defeat in most surprising manner during the last moments of the game.
The transit of planets was excellent for Messi as an exalted third and eleventh lord Jupiter was transiting from the third house and Saturn the tenth lord was moving from the sixth house both indicating achievements in sports. He got the Golden Ball award for being the best player of the tournament. Earlier Lionel Messi had won the man of the match award in all the four games Argentina had played before they reached at the quarter-final. He had scored 4 goals in the matches of group stages and in the knock-out game against Switzerland, which went into the extra time, he assisted in the winning goal scored by Argentina.
But it was during the semi-finals and the finals he was neither able to score for his team nor able to assist in scoring any goal. Argentina had reached into the finals after defeating Holland by 4-2 on penalties. I had briefly discussed the horoscope of Lionel Messi in my article, ‘Hindu Astrology and FIFA world cup 2014’ published in the ‘ALL RIGHTS’ Magazine’s June edition. In that article I had predicted the sports glory for Argentina and Messi. My predictions about Messi came out almost correct as he had now won the Golden Ball award in FIFA world cup, though controversially as Maradona has said that ‘marketing’ people has given him this award, but Argentina missed the opportunity for winning the world cup after 28 years.
Now if we look at the upcoming dashas in the chart of Lionel Messi in terms of his future prospect to win the last elusive achievement of getting a world cup for Argentina, like Maradona in 1986, we find that there is no chance for him to achieve this glory in year 2018, when he will be 31 years of age, in Russia where the next edition of FIFA world cup is scheduled to take place from 8 June to 8 July. At that time the maha dasha of Jupiter, which is a functional malefic for the Taurus lagan chart of Messi, would have just started in the horoscope of Lionel Messi. Jupiter in the twelfth house of Rashi chart indicates retirement after some disappointment. In Chara dasha the period of Sagittarius (Dhanu the rashi of fall) would have started than from where the Amatayakaraka Saturn falling in the twelfth house also gives the same indication. In transit the Saturn will be in Sagittarius in 2018, which is the eighth house from the lagna and Moon of Messi showing the time of discontent. So it can be concluded astrologically that Messi, despite being rated as best player of our generation, will not be able to achieve the ultimate glory of winning the world cup for his country in the next edition of this tournament and he will have to retire from the game with his unfulfilled dream of being the greatest player of all time like his compatriot Diago Maradona and Pele of Brazil.