I found this on the internet, which I am now convinced is the most amazing place on the planet.  This image will be integrated into my tribute tattoo.  Yes, I'm serious.  Read or don't, but the fact that it exists is proof that somebody knows exactly what I'm looking for...
 
I found it at this link:
 
This Month's Profile: Kurt Vonnegut

If not for having his a natal chart, we probably be looking at Don Imus' chart, as we have all seen his career collapse over the past week. May we  watch his career and that of some others fade back into the setting sun.  We do have a chart for the recently-deceased Kurt Vonnegut, though.  His birth time is unverified and only rates a "C" on the Roddin rankings, but we have enough to work with, as long as we are careful with what we pay attention to. Here is his chart:


Some of us know or remember Vonnegut very well, others -- who are younger -- maybe not so well.  He is known as a novelist whose works were funny, imaginative, highly ironical, haunting, and an easy read.
His biography is distinguished by traumatic wartime experience.  As a soldier toward the end of the Second World War, he was captured by the Germans.  He was held in Dresden in early 1945, where he was witness to the demolition of Dresden by allied fire bombing and was forced by his captors to dispose of piles of dead bodies.  (Below we will note the astrological indicators during this time of his life.) 
These events resurfaced in American literature in 1969, when, at the height of the Vietnam War, Slaughterhouse Five was published.  This was his best-known work and stands as a searing antiwar document to this day.
First we look at Kurt Vonnegut's natal chart.  If we were confident about his birth time, we could say much about Venus conjunct Ascendant.  This configuration may have given him not good looks but personal charisma.  We could surmise about his personal charm, but it may be more important that Venus is conjunct the Mars-like fixed star Antares, the "Heart of the Scorpion" -- Venus is best expressed with fighting purpose that would manifest in his private and public life. Also interesting feature of his chart is the configuration of planets with the Sun.  Note Sun in Scorpio and what rises ahead -- Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn.   Mercury is clearly a planet of writing, Jupiter enhances it (and is rising from the Sun), and  Saturn is in exaltation and in a strong eleventh place.  The fixed star Arcturus, the pioneering star of the northern sky, culminates with Mercury, tell us more about his life's contribution. For Vonnegut's Sun, Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn are doriphoria or "spearbearers," and can be factors that can lead to eminence. (All these planets are in "sect" in a daytime chart.) What planet governs his three in Scorpio? -- don't say Pluto!   It's Mars, of course, in Aquarius in the fourth from the Ascendant 
but tenth place -- a predominating place -- from his Scorpio planets.  Also, Mars is exactly opposite his rather flamboyant Moon in Leo.  With Mars so prominent -- and also being out of sect in his day chart -- Vonnegut would have passion, anger, and outrage.
To what do we attribute his depression? We could start with the same Mars, stymied by a sense of futility and powerlessness. Using Neptune, the modern great malefic, we note that is is in partile square to Sun in Scorpio. (This is not helped by Sun being in the twelfth.) 

What do we see in the astrology of late 1944 and early 1945? Lets start modern: merely transiting Pluto in early Leo, exactly conjunct his Moon and opposing Mars.  This time for him was the most Plutonic one imaginable.  By solar arc Pluto (!) was conjunct Jupiter -- on December 31, 1944.  Highlighting the significance of this time for him was a progressed Full Moon, although that wouldn't be exact until the autumn. 
Now to ancient timekeeping. I begin with his decennials, because I  always do.  Because Sun is in the twelfth, we begin with the other luminary, the Moon. His general time lord was Saturn during his adolescence and early adulthood, and at this time it was Mars who was the specific time lord for about fifteen months.  This combination of malefics, and the specific time lord being out of sect, does not bode well for happy times. During the time he was captured and was present for the Dresden fire bombing, the fourth planet involved (using a method involving 129 days) was -- you guessed it, Saturn.  Zodiacal releasing from the Lot of Fortune puts this time in Scorpio-Scorpio (more Mars) and his zodiacal releasing from the Lot of Spirit gives us Aries-Scorpio.  Again, more Mars.
Vonnegot was 22 at his birthday before he was captured by the Germans, which is his 23rd year.  This gives him a profection of eleven places (23-12=11).  Again we see an influence of malefics -- more so if the birth time is correct and he has Sagittarius rising:  Mars profects to Venus/Ascendant, and Venus/Ascendant profects to  Saturn.  He was captured during his second monthly profections (thank you, Penelope) which brings the profection of Mars, by year to Venus/Ascendant, to Capricorn, where Mars was transiting.  The Dresden firebombing took place when the monthly profection reached into Aquarius, where natal Mars is. The ancient astrologers did not have transiting Pluto in their  toolbox, and could have not caught Pluto transiting onto Vonnegut's Moon and Mars, or his solar arc onto Jupiter.  Instead the malefics ably perform the work we might attribute to Pluto.  It is clear from this example that one could note tremendous difficulties brought on my the two malefics, especially by Mars.  No, I do not advocate eliminating Pluto -- I do advocate looking more closely at the influence of the malefics when horror occurs in the life of the individual, as it had for Kurt Vonnegut at the end of the Second World War.
A Personal Note on Vonnegut: I too read Kurt Vonnegut as a countercultural voice and I had different responses to different pieces.  My personal favorite was Breakfast of Champions, and I cannot remember why I liked it as much as I did.  This novel contained many simple cartoon drawings: one of them was a picture of a gravestone, and engraved was a name -- which I do not remember -- and a epitaph: "Not Even the Creator of the Universe Knew What This Man Was Going to Do Next."  This stuck with me and became an inspiration to me and an influence in the future.  I hope this "so it goes" may go better.