His Ascendant has trines from Mercury (communications) and Neptune (imagination, dreams, illusions) making him good at painting beautiful pictures with words. Plenty of trouble indicated by that poor Venus of his, which makes squares (problems to be overcome) to Saturn (trouble accepting happiness), Pluto (extreme, obsessive reactions, death), and Jupiter (makes things larger). Neptune is the only Singleton, is in a Mutable Sign (Virgo) and it draws the “energy” of the chart to the 8th house (sex, death, rehabilitation).