The Astrology of Sports: 2022 NFL Season Kickoff

Hey everyone, this is Acyuta-bhava from Nightlight Astrology, and today I am joined by two of my buddies to take a look at this upcoming Mars Retrograde in light of professional sports. Two of my friends that are joining me today, Kip and Spencer, I'm gonna be calling up onto the feed in just a second. We are all, you know, closet, astrology sports nerds, which means that we like to look at how the astrology is impacting our favorite sports teams, athletes that we follow, and stuff like that.

And a couple of years ago, the three of us were talking about doing something like this, and then COVID happened, and lives were pretty busy. I think it was Mars conjoining Uranus over the summer, and was like, hey, should we try this again. And let's get together and just make a fun bonus episode here. And they're looking at the astrology of sports, being we're looking at the transits, and but how they may apply in particular to the charts of famous athletes and so on. So today, this is kind of a, you know, a kind of a pioneering episode, if you will, sort of a bonus episode.

I hope you guys will enjoy it. I think 84% of my YouTube, my analytics on YouTube tells me that 84% of my audience is women, so and you know, I would say there's a lot of women who are fans of sports, but if you are like not so into sports, another thought I had was like, hey, you know what, you're listening to astrology channel, maybe your husband, maybe your boyfriend, maybe, you know, maybe your brother, maybe someone you know will be, you know, super interested in it. And this is also maybe a fun way of building some bridges to more of the male audience out there.

I would love to see more men getting into astrology. And so I thought, hey, you know, this might be a way of reaching a little different audience as well, which, you know, maybe it'll be interesting to people out there. Secretly I'm hoping that Tom Brady watches this and then decides to come on the show, but you never know; Mars is about to go retrograde. Crazier things have happened. Before we get into it, don't forget to like and subscribe. Share your comments in the comment section, and click the notification bell for updates. You can always find a transcript of my daily talks on the website nightlightastrology.com. Where right now, you can also check out my new program, Ancient Astrology for the Modern Mystic, which begins on November 12, a new program, a new enrollment period. There are need-based tuition scholarships if you need to need as a way of making the class affordable for you. So be sure to check that out early so that you can take advantage of it. We have a limited number of those that we give out every year. So you know, if you are interested, apply right away. Make sure you take advantage of that while it's still there.

All right. Well, without further ado, I'm going to call on to feed my buddies Kipp and Spencer Michaud. Spencer is an astrologer. Kipp is also an astrologer has done podcasts work; on Kipp's podcast, the Basement Astrologers, It was back in, like, was it 2016 or 17? Or? I don't remember.

Kipp 2:49
It might have been 17. If you're talking about the election.

Acyuta-bhava 2:53
Yeah, we were; I think we were looking at the election, election astrology, or something like that. Yeah. And then Spencer has been; you guys have seen Spencer come on my YouTube channel multiple times before, and I've done work on his channel. So it's good to have both of you here today. Thanks for coming to talk about the astrology of sports.

Kipp/Spencer 3:10
Thanks for having us. It's a pleasure. Thank you.

Acyuta-bhava 3:13
So I feel like the place to start. And I was telling you guys this before we got in here was like, let's start with, we have a big long Mars Retrograde this year into 2023. In fact, Mars enters Gemini in August of 2022. It's going to stay there until March. There's a long retrograde from about Halloween through the middle of January. I think the general question I wanted to start with is what does a Mars Retrograde I mean, we've covered the significations archetypal significations of Mars Retrograde, you know, for just the average person, but what does it mean for the, you know, professional sports industry for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, Olympians, whatever the case might be, is it you know, I've heard this stereotype out there. It's like; it's Oh, it must just mean that people are going to have a really off year or that, you know, really bad things are going to happen for people, especially those athletes who are Geminis or something like that Mars is gonna be retrograde in Gemini. I don't think it's that simple. I know you guys don't think it's that simple. So, maybe we could just start by trying to provide some gradation here. What kinds of things could Mars Retrograde signify for professional athletes or for the professional sports world in general? Outside of just things will suck.

Kipp 4:31
You know, my initial thought when I think of Mars Retrograde, is more. I think the classic example is the painting of Guernica; the slaughter during World War Two during a battle and a bombing in an Italian city. And the notion isn't that battles and slaughters don't happen during war events. It was so horrific that it was really kind of a tent pole of atrocities committed during the war. And in that light, what I think we're going to see is, if it's a place where we're going to see a scrap at the end of the game or during a game, it's going to not be two guys. It's going to be six guys. If there are folks who are verbose on the field and maybe like to express themselves and get under other guys' skins, I think we're gonna see more of that. You know, but on the flip side, I think a lot of these professional athletes, especially in contact sports, kind of as racecars. And if there's a Mars Retrograde theme, I think if it's hitting personal planets, they can kind of signify individuals. I think oftentimes, the theme I get is racecars. And it's not necessarily a bad thing. You're just revving the engine hotter.

Acyuta-bhava 5:52
That's a nice way of looking at it; it says it has, like, it gives some exclamation point to the athlete when it's hitting a personal planet.

Spencer 6:01
I think that Mars is going to be drawing upon the resources of Mercury to use as weapons of war. And Mercury is all about commerce. It's all about communication. It's all about options, I think, and ambiguity, questions. I think that I was thinking that, you know, I agree with Kipp that I think people are going to use their words as weapons. You might see a lot more people voicing their displeasure in the media and creating more challenging, like controversy in that way. I think contract negotiations could get really ugly, potentially, between organizations and the players. I think that Mars in Gemini, for me also represents a proliferation of options. And it's asking some of these athletes and everyone, in general, to cut away and make a choice and say once eliminate some of these choices. So there may be some challenges with trying to eliminate choice.

I also think if we think about it just in traditional dignity, we do have to look at like people who have prominent placements in Gemini, like Gemini suns like Josh Allen is someone that comes to mind that has a Gemini sun; that's a pretty prominent NFL quarterback. We've got people like Aries and Scorpio folks that may be feeling this quite a bit as well because that is the ruler of their sun and how they shine their lights. So we've got Scorpio, quarterbacks, we've got a Jimmy Garoppolo out there. That's the first person that comes to mind. So those are just two names that popped into my head about figuring out who could be dealing with this. Um, Brady has a Mars in Gemini. So I think that there's something that could be happening with this as well.

Acyuta-bhava 7:58
Yeah, that's interesting. Like, you know, I mean, just before we get really into the weeds here, I was thinking about Jimmy Garoppolo as I was looking at some of the charts, and Spencer actually made a spreadsheet for us prior to the show, which had like, all of the quarterbacks in the NFL, their birth information that was available, if not, you know, whatever was available along with their perfection years, it was like, I was nerding out so hardcore. It was like Christmas when that arrived in my inbox. And so that was like the coolest thing ever. But I was like thinking about it. And you know, for example, that the 49ers are going with their new rookie quarterback, Trey Lance, and you know, he's a Minnesota kid. If I maybe it's North Dakota. No, he played in North Dakota. I think he's from Minnesota, Marshall. Yeah, Marshall, Minnesota, right. So, you know, he's supposed to be starting for the 49ers, but they end up signing Garoppolo as a very expensive backup, which is kind of like an insurance policy. Well, he's gonna get; he's a Scorpio, the eclipse at the end of October, October 25, is a new moon. You know, a solar eclipse in Scorpio followed shortly after that by the dispositor Mars turning retrograde. Could that not signify a return to the starting position?

That was one of the things that I thought of, you know, kind of like, there's so many little things like that, where you can't just look at Mars Retrograde and say, Oh, that's gonna be a setback for an athlete because it just, it often will, a retrograde of any planet will just mean a reversal or a very interesting turn of circumstance. And it really depends on what planet it's hitting and what the context is of that athlete and their team and so many other things. So I think we do have some really good examples, though. I have a few that I think are examples of players, and we're looking specifically today; we're going to sort of focus on the NFL season since it's starting this week and so forth. But I think in future episodes; I'd love to get into other NBA is fascinating to me as well. And so we'll get into other sports too, but I think the main point we wanted to start with is just that you can't don't just come up with this blanket statement that a Mars Retrograde is going to be difficult for an athlete.

Spencer 10:06
Do you want to hear the other quarterbacks that are Mars ruled?

Acyuta-bhava 10:15
Yeah, no yeah, let's go for it.

Spencer 10:17
I'm just going down the spreadsheet list, which was total nerding out. It was super fun. I got super excited when you asked us to do this because and then try to get as much data as possible. So we've got Marcus Mariota for the Atlanta Falcons, who is a Scorpio sun. We have Baker Mayfield, who is an Aries sun who I believe won the starting job in Carolina recently. Sam Darnold.

Acyuta-bhava 10:46
Jupiter year for him too. It would be there you go.

Spencer 10:47
So he's got an entirely new start here. We've got, let's see what else I'm just going down the list here. We've got gear our who is an Aries this year who has a new shiny new toy in Davante Adams.

Acyuta-bhava 11:12
Sorry for your loss. Spencer's a Packers fan, and Kipp and I are Vikings fans. So we have a good rivalry within our trio here.

Spencer 11:19
Yes. Creative tension, right? Yeah. Okay. We also have, let's see; there's a couple more here. I'm going down the list. Drew Locke from Seattle is a Scorpio. And then I think that's it. There are actually not a ton of Scorpio Aries quarterbacks, which is fascinating to me. There are a lot of Mercury-ruled quarterbacks, which I thought was really interesting,

Acyuta-bhava 11:46
Has Drew Locke won the starting job, or is it going to Gino Smith?

Spencer 11:51
Kipp, what do you think that's where's it at?

Kipp 11:54
As a resident Washingtonian, Gino won that job. So that's an interesting example. You know, using your Jimmy G example. Look for that station and that retrograde, and maybe that's the time that, for whatever reason, Drew gets a chance to get the ball.

Acyuta-bhava 12:14
I suspect overall this season. I mean, even, you know, just it could be that it's it because Spencer was alluding to that, you know, that because Jupiter is in Aries. Mars-ruled quarterbacks may have an edge this year or may have a little boost, especially those with Aries, placement, Sun, Moon, Mars, or something like that. But then you also think whatever Mars is, whatever big, like big league-wide news in the NFL is likely to break this year, is probably coming after the Scorpio Eclipse and after Mars turns retrograde. Like late October through mid-November, to me, those series of weeks, you got to imagine there's going to be some big breaking news or maybe knock on wood; I don't want to wish this upon anyone but have some significant injuries to key players or big contract negotiations. It feels like the NFL is not huge on trades. I feel like it's not like the NBA, where a trade deadline is really exciting; in the NFL, it feels like it's meh with the trade deadline.

Spencer 13:16
But although recently we've seen a lot more blockbuster trades in NFL since the wide receiver market got reset

Kipp 13:24
And I like that maybe this is the year that those trade that trade deadline actually happens to the NFL. It's always a big talker, you know, but yeah,

Spencer 13:32
We've never had trade deadline things. But in the offseason, for this year, in particular, we had some mega trades in the NFL.

Acyuta-bhava 13:42
Yeah, I feel like, you know, post-Super Bowl all the way up to the draft is that the NFL has learned to make money on that part of the year. Like, it's, it's amazing. And if they're really good at hyping, I just feel like in season it's not like the NBA trade deadline in season where you might get some veterans like who have been bought out who are just sitting at home, and they could go, and you know, land on the bucks or you know, some contending team and really shift the balance. I feel like in the NFL, you probably need it because the systems are, so you need that training camp process. And it just doesn't. But you know, if it were to be a year where you were to see some really big trades, wouldn't it make sense that you would have that as Mars is retrograde during the trade deadline?

Kipp 14:27
I think that makes a lot of sense. And with the proliferation of the McVay offense, there are so many coaches in the league now that kind of come from the same place that maybe some of those skill position players make more sense. Whereas in the past, they didn't as much, and maybe what we're gonna see is kind of a revving up of this notion. In the past, it's really been guys who have been pass rushers, but people that can fit into a really specialized role that might move during the season, whereas those guys like wide receivers, even running backs to a large extent, it's you know, it's like learning a brand new language and then going out in the field and performing it's just a really high bar to set for folks.

Spencer 15:12
Yeah, I don't think you see franchises dumping people like they do in baseball, like in NFL, either. You know, I think that, that the NFL is unique because it has different positional value. So like, for example, if you have a quarterback, that's really great; that gives you a huge advantage over, like, say you've got a my I don't know, what is a less important position actually probably running back at this point, because there's a lot more running backs that you can get that are more kind of a dime a dozen, right. So I think that there's been a shift to people valuing wide receivers, in particular, a lot higher than they have in the past. And we saw this in the NFL draft recently, too, where there was a huge run on NFL wide receivers in the first couple of rounds because, as I said, the financial market for them got skyrocketed to the silly. So yes, crazy money for these wide receivers now.

So anytime you're trying to build a team, you're trying to get the most bang for your buck. And these franchises are learning that they can draft cheap talent high in the draft instead of having to spend a huge portion of their salary cap on, you know, a wide receiver that they'd have to trade for and give up like multiple first-round picks for And, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the final Aires, quarterback for our New York audience, which is Daniel Jones. So I know that he's taken a beating over his first few years. Maybe this is the year.

Kipp 16:43
Big year for him to contract your good, good one. Yeah.

Acyuta-bhava 16:47
Who does he have behind him? Oh, geez.

Kipp 16:50
Now you'd say SaQuan Barkley is healthy for now.

Acyuta-bhava 16:53
I have. Yeah, I was just thinking, does he have any real quarterback competition behind him this year? But I'm guessing no. And what, who's the new coach from Buffalo?

Kipp 17:13
Yeah. Dabo Swinney Yeah got a cushy job. He's not going anywhere.

Acyuta-bhava 17:19
If I knew, like, if I was a big enough college football fan, we could extend this into college. But well, let's get into some of our predictions because we each took some time to do some research and make some tangible predictions. Kipp, if you guys out there are fantasy football players, Kipp has some booms and busts of the year. I think we'll start with those. And I will just tell you that. The thing about this is that, you know, like actually, people are in the NFL, and I was listening to this on a podcast the other day that listen to people actually pay attention to the amount there's a huge like submarket of data and analytics that go into the fantasy football world, especially because it's so involved with betting. And so a lot of that is actually being capitalized on by teams in terms of how they expect players to perform. It's not like the big thing, but it's the actually people pay attention to fantasy football. And so in terms of how they think players will perform on some level. So this list, I think, would, even if you're not a fantasy football, you don't play, this list could also tell you about player performance in the year, right?

Kipp 18:28
I definitely get can, and I think one of these is going to be, disappointing for you. I'm actually gonna use my chart. So I have a couple of examples. And my first example is. These are going to be the busts first. Okay, let's go. I'm sorry for still learning how the software works. So I did a deep dive into fantasy football. And I took a couple of years off of playing and went back to it. And this kind of being reached out to and also doing my research for the draft made this something that was precious to me. And what I learned during my research was guys that got hurt or had down years. So what I looked at was kind of the top 20 Guys in average draft position. And then I compared them to the top 60 performers, and if one of those guys had an average draft position kind of in the top 10, especially didn't show up in that top 60-ish range.

I highlighted that, and I took a look at the transits. Now I didn't count quarterbacks. We talked a little bit about positional badly, and that's even more important in fantasy football because quarterbacks rack up points very easily. So even you know your 20th-best quarterback is in the top forty pretty easily in fantasy points. What I saw, and I, you know that I didn't want to beat everyone over the head with charts, I saw was if you have Saturn and Uranus either in your personal chart or the hard angle between the two was hitting a personal planet, and then any kind of Mars transit so it could be you know, what's quote-unquote a good transit, a trine or a sextile to a personal planet. That was kind of the trigger.

And Jonathan Taylor, the guy who was thought to be the number one pick in all fantasy football. I'm going to quickly move ahead to the 11th, which is the first day of the year, you will see that, and this isn't a time chart; I apologize. But you'll see that the Saturn Uranus Square and this is not the first time this has happened; by the way 2016, We had a Saturn Uranus Square on the first day of the year. And then that was one of the years where when you saw it hit a personal planet, and here we have it hitting right onto Venus, and also Uranus is hitting other planets exactly. Hitting Mercury, you then we will see, and you see that especially early in the year, some of the days of the league a year and I unfortunately not predicting this, but I you know, I'm crossing my fingers for Jonathan Taylor on the first day of the year when he has the transiting sun hitting Uranus as well. I hope you got it if people are paying attention; I'm not getting too specific. But this is a trine to the sun. This is Saturn Uranus Square hitting Venus.

The other thing that I think is particularly potent here that I'm going to tell you I didn't see specifically as an indicator. But one of the things we look at when we look at potentially life-changing events is Pluto. I think anyone who's familiar with astrology knows that when Pluto comes around, there are often giant life changes, things that can be really challenging. And what we're going to see here is with this Mars Retrograde first at the beginning of the year, we have an opposition within three degrees of transiting Mars to the natal Pluto, we're going to see Mars go up here, and well, I'm sure we'll talk about this again, stop at about 25 and come back and then hit that Pluto again. So throughout the entire year, Jonathan Taylor is going to have Mars transiting Mars in an opposition, a challenging aspect to his natal Mercury. And where Jonathan Taylor sought natal Sun is, it is going to be very close to Pluto. What I'm gonna say from and square and triggering his natal, Saturn, Mars opposition. So lots of Pluto, lots of Pluto, lots of Pluto along with this square hitting his chart, and I'll tell you that in my draft of the third pick, somehow the guy that was supposed to go first was available for me at the third pick I didn't take it I passed on what often would be considered a slam dunk.

Acyuta-bhava 23:27
So Jonathan Taylor would be one of your BAS of the year because these trends that you're saying probably have an adverse effect on his performance or year somehow.

Kipp 23:35
100% And I'm not gonna predict an injury or whatever because that's just not something I want to do. Yeah, I feel you. So I didn't. Oh, I gotta reshare. I apologize again.

Kipp 23:54
This is the second one I saw that really was indicative of potentially negative results. And unfortunately, this is Dalvin Cook, the running back of the Minnesota Vikings.

Acyuta-bhava 24:08
Surprise, surprise. He's like he's injured every year, man.

Kipp 24:13
It's that, you know, it makes it easier to consider him someone who might get hurt, but as you see, Saturn's hitting him in two different ways. We have the square,

Acyuta-bhava 24:27
can you maximize the chart?

Kipp 24:29
Oh, yeah. Oh, I did not share correctly. Let me stop sharing. I hope I'm not messing this up forever.

Acyuta-bhava 24:39
No, you're fine. You're fine. This is the first time for all of us. We're just getting used to the controls. Windows. Here we go. This should do it. We do have some running back depth in Minnesota, so if he does get injured again.

Kipp 24:57
That part's good. Um, So here just really quickly because we don't have to belabor this, but we see the Saturn, Uranus Square, and in this is Delvin Sun, which I would say from what I saw, if we could get the sun in here, and unfortunately, without time charts you're not getting the moon as much. However, Devon's natal Moon, as far as this untimed chart are concerned, is pretty far into; says 12. I always use 12pm, Right in the middle of the day. This is pretty far into Aquarius, which tells me that a better than average chance that Dalvin Cook has an Aquarius moon which means Dalvin Cook's moon is going to be making contact with this Mars Retrograde in no other way than its by trine by whole house trine. But also Dalvin Cook's Mars is trining his natal, or the Transiting Mars is going to trine and Dalvin Cook's natal Mars multiple times. And keep in mind what I found is that when we have a Mars aspect of transiting Mars aspect in the chart, whether that be a Mars return, in fact, a couple of different individuals who did get hurt, I saw that Mars was entering this place in the turret where Mars was in the where the natives' nativity. That was the trigger point that was the couple week period where the injury either, you know, went from a sprained ankle to ligament damage out for the year kind of thing.

And so again, here we're seeing this Saturn Uranus, the number one thing we're looking for, as far as the charts I looked at from five or six years, hitting one of the SEC lights the sun, we're seeing Mars impact the natal Mars, and those are the big triggers, we can point out some other things. We have Neptune hitting the Natal, Saturn, I did see a bunch of Neptune in these charts, but I didn't want to go. I didn't want to bring up every aspect I saw. But if this point in, in Cooks's career, he gets hurt and misses time, or has a down year and the point of his contract, he's going to enter a time where his stability is foggy, you know, he's not going to know where he's gonna be next year. He's not necessarily gonna have a contract. And that is a classic. Saturn Neptune transit, it's just the structures underneath your feet are just not firm, and you don't necessarily know what's going on. So that's what I saw. Those are the two bus charts. I feel. I looked at a lot of charts. I saw you know, I didn't look at Mars Retrograde necessarily as an indicator in and of itself, but you definitely saw it hit those triggers an impact when we saw some of the personal planets get hit. What do you guys think?

Acyuta-bhava 27:58
Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because there's already a lot of buzz around the Twin Cities, Vikings media anyway, that you know, the likelihood that Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, the new analytics-driven General Manager, I see the first black General Manager to in the league. I can't remember.

Kipp 28:18
He has math. There was the Ravens had a long-term one and Ozzie Newsome, who's really just one of the best general managers in the league. And there was another general analytics manager who was African American and worked for the Browns, and Kwesi Adofo-Mensah actually worked for him for a time.

Acyuta-bhava 28:33
Yeah, okay, well, I know that, like he's definitely many considering the league like 80% African Yeah, exactly. And it's like it's some small modicum of progress, is my point and but Kwesi Adofo-Mensah is a very analytics-driven person, and I don't think he's going to be down with handing Dalvin Cook another major contract. He probably thought I would guess his thinking is don't pay out, don't overpay running back when like they just picked up a burner in the fifth round in Ty Chandler there's it just seems to me like the likelihood that everything's pointing in that direction. Anyway, it seems like so well how that would make sense.

Spencer 29:09
Alvin Cook now.

Kipp 29:11
2526

Acyuta-bhava 29:13
is coming up on a Saturn Return in Pisces that 23 Pisces, so that would be 26, I think I think

Spencer 29:20
There's probably a pretty good rule of thumb in the NFL where you probably don't want to give an NFL running back. It's the third contract, like a second very rare, maybe, right? But you don't want to be the one holding the bag on the short shelf life. Honestly, the NFL running backs have, I mean, when they hit their seven return that it's a lot more likely that they're gonna start getting worn down because they're taking a beating. It's not like an NFL quarterback now who's protected and can play well into their late 30s. And NFL running back has a shelf life.

Kipp 29:52
so reliant on your knees and your ankles and your hips, things that just when you're running hard, even if you're just a runner. If you're a marathon runner, you know, eventually those parts wear out.

Acyuta-bhava 30:04
If I remember correctly, too, Delvin Cook's average games per year since he's been with the Vikings has average number of games he's missed per year has been like four or five. And like that's a lot, you know?

Spencer 30:18
in Libra, and that chart is what I was saying.

Acyuta-bhava 30:22
So yeah, it was Mars and Libra, wasn't it? Yes. The Jupiter opposition is interesting. Like, I feel like having Jupiter in Aries opposite that Mars could galvanize something, but you have the Saturn stuff is hard. Like that's, that's really tough.

Kipp 30:39
It's funny; I didn't necessarily see Jupiter transits as a savior. But I did see them show up when people have successful years, especially really hitting pinnacles.

Acyuta-bhava 30:53
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, for example, if you guys want, I can just pull up one such example that I have on hand. So this is the chart of Kirk Cousins, the Vikings quarterback in 2010 when he won a share of the big 10 Championship as the quarterback of Michigan State, it was a Jupiter in Aries year for him, and he has Mars in Aries. I don't believe that, you know; believe me as a Vikings fan. I do not expect much. Like it's just disappointment. They, you know, this is a true thing. Minnesota Vikings are the winningest team in the NFL to have never won a championship. And that, you know, they, you know, we were like the seventh winningest team in the NFL history, and one through 11 All has championships or some 12 has championships, and we don't, so but anyway, he won the big 10. It's a Jupiter year for him. Jupiter's going to be going over that Mars during the playoffs. So I thought, you know, could he get a like a Could there be a signature when beating the Rams on the road or something like that to advance to the NFC Championship?

I'm not saying you make the Super Bowl or anything, but could there be a really galvanizing moment for him with Jupiter on that Mars? Last time it was there, he had that again, the big share of the big ten championship, so I do agree with I can't remember now for Spencer Kipp, which one of you said it, but it does seem to me like Jupiter over the sun, and Aries are the Mars in Aries especially could mark out some kind of accomplishment. Could it also be that he's just mentioned in the running of like the top three for MVP with a new McVay offense this year? I think he's always underachieved. He's a great statistical quarterback who just hasn't had that like really big breakthrough season yet. He's had some really big signature wins, but everyone feels like he chronically underperforms. So like, maybe that would be an example but anyway, Kipp, let's go if we can go a little bit more rapid fire to keep the pace since we've got a bunch more to get through. Take us through really quickly your fantasy booms of the year, and then I want to get Spencer on with a few things too.

Kipp 33:10
Will do and these are much more classic examples. So first, I'm going to show Najee Harris. This is one of the booms there's been a lot of nowadays; super talented running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers was a first-round draft pick as a running back and as Spencer's and pointing out rare. What we're going to see with Najee is just a lot of Jupiter hitting planets in a benefic way, trining his sun, and again, we talked about not having a time chart, but the sun is right, you know, past the first Deccan in Leo here, so we're going to see Jupiter's retrograde cycle, and again I want to go fast, I'm not going to animate it, but Jupiter is going to go back tuck into Pisces where Najee natal Jupiter is Najee sun, come back into Aries for the second half of the season hit all kinds of inner planets, especially this conjunction of Mercury and Mars and so Mars taking action the warrior Mercury oftentimes thought of as controlling core physical functions hands feet. So you're gonna have Jupiter over the top of this obvious point of dexterousness and drive go back into a pleasant place, a benefic place with the natal Jupiter, then come back and hit the spot again. So I just thought that was too on the nose not to count it.

Here's the second one. Let's see if I can get it to come up right away. I don't think it worked like that last time. Um, this is Alvin Kamara. Alvin Kamara is a running back. Who plays for the Saints. Alvin's had some banged-up years. Also, Alvin had the potential for being suspended, and it sounds like that's not going to happen. So maybe, frankly, Alvin just has that happen. But what we're going to see is, in Alvin's case, we have the natal Mars at two, so there's going to be a Jupiter opposition with the natal Mars. Jupiter is going to make contact with by trine by a supportive benefic trine to Alvin's natal son. Three times so we're Jupiter's gonna come back trine the son of a benefic angle go into Pisces where Jupiter is very strong, which is going to just only been benefit Jupiter's natal spot in Sagittarius where Jupiter is very happy to be. Then Jupiter is going to come back through and again trine, the natal sun. So, with all that said, I think lots of Jupiter for Alvin. Alvin needs a big year again to continue earning his paycheck, which in some ways it's been in question. I think this looks good for where Alvin is. Any thoughts on either of these two?

Acyuta-bhava 36:29
it is interesting to me that Neptune is going over Saturn and that the MARS station will be squaring that Saturn. I feel like his legal issues right now that the NFL is, quote, not doing anything about but like monitoring. I wonder if that comes up at all. While you know, I just feel like how many times have I seen people deal with going to prison or being incarcerated or dealing with the law or something like that when Neptune comes over Saturn? It has this weird. I feel like often I see it when it's like, oh, there's actual imprisonment involved, which I don't believe would be the case at all for him. But I don't think.

Spencer 37:08
Acyuta, also recognize in this chart, Mercury is about to retrograde over his natal Mars, which is in the sign of Libra, which can speak to having legal challenges as well.

Acyuta-bhava 37:20
Yeah, yeah, exactly like I do. I would say that the like, I would almost completely agree with this if it weren't for that question, mark and what the Mars Retrograde around the station point square to that Saturn might do. But otherwise, yeah.

Kipp 37:37
That's I have no argument that at all, and the station point being of particular emphasis because that is almost exactly at 90 degrees.

Acyuta-bhava 37:46
And you know, the interesting part about that, though, is, you know, obviously, Mars, Saturn combinations can be extraordinarily productive, too. And so, could you see some kind of turning point in terms of his production picking up significantly? Or? I don't know, I mean, but it's not. I'm not suggesting that it's for sure. He's going to be suspended at some point. But that would be an interesting turning point to follow, I think. Well, those were some really solid fantasy football advice. I would love to, Spencer; do you want to talk about the Super Bowl or NFL quarterback perfection charts?

Spencer 38:29
Why don't we continue the player analysis? And then we can get to the Super Bowl chart.

Acyuta-bhava 38:36
I've got two that are pretty quick; why don't I just throw them out? So I'll leave the rest of the time for you. So I just picked the breakout quarterback of the year and the worst quarterback of the year in the NFL this year based on, you know, some transits that I was looking at. And when my breakout quarterback of the year, what I mean is someone who really exceeds where they've been before or what you expect of them. So, for example, no one would expect. Everyone would expect Aaron Rodgers to be nominated for the MVP. So this is someone that I think will perform exceptionally well. Maybe they're considered an MVP candidate. Maybe they take their team really deep into the playoffs. Maybe they have an incredible statistical year. They're the rave of the NFL doesn't necessarily mean they win the Super Bowl, but the quarterback that I'm looking at that has, to me, some really interesting transits is Derek Carr.

So let me I think part of this is, you know, I'm interested to see what he does. I was I pulled up this chart because I was interested to see what he does with Davante Adams on his team now. But if we look at it, I love that this is not a time chart. So it's a 12-noon chart, but I love that he's got Jupiter going over the exalted sun in Aries. I love that Pluto is, for a long period squaring his natal Mercury in Aries, Mercury being a planet that was associated with sports and athletics, Pluto being something that I feel like at times can be, this is the last part of a Pluto dynamic for him. And last year, as Pluto was squaring Mercury, he really had a very good year, and the team had exceeded expectations and so forth. And they also went through a lot of drama with Gruden as their coach.

So I thought it was really interesting to see Jupiter hitting that sun in Aries exalted sun in Aries. He's finishing up his Saturn Return during this season. Pluto is squaring Mercury in Aries. He's got Mars in Gemini, Nataly, so it feels like a really big turning point for his Natal, Mars, and Gemini. I looked at all of those things together. And I just thought, yeah, this feels like a year where he could really perform well. Jupiter is going to be trining his natal Jupiter. It just seemed like there's something popping about his chart that, you know, for me, was really impressive. So I kind of looked at this chart and said, I wouldn't be surprised if he had a really dynamic year. I don't know exactly what that means. But it feels like he could be one of the shining stars of the NFL. He's another quarterback. Often statistically like compared or in the same bin as Kirk Cousins, like the middle of the pack. And I feel like he could rise up to more of like a Top 10 Top eight, top seven quarterbacks in the NFL this year, maybe take his team deeper in the playoffs, knock off someone like Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes n the playoffs, or something like that. You know

Spencer 41:33
You know what springs to mind. Matthew Stafford's journey last year? Oh, yeah. You know, I think a lot about quarterbacks that have some prominent well-placed Saturn placements or Saturn-ruled planets. Stafford was an Aquarius that had a really strong Saturn in his chart. And oftentimes, success comes later in the career for those folks as well. So yeah, having a really domicile, you know, powerful Saturn and Derek Carr's chart, as he's hitting the Saturn Return, maybe he starts to get the respect that he deserves for being a little bit better than people would think now that he actually has some help. Right. Where was Stafford stuck with, with the Lions for a time, right?

Kipp 42:16
Yeah, I really like this chart. Kind of in the same way. I liked the Kirk Cousins chart. One of the comparisons between Carr and Cousins has been these are guys that play it safe. That play for the paycheck that gets the big numbers that don't necessarily stand in tough and win the big game. And here, we're going to see, during that crunch time of the year, that Mar station almost right on top of Derek Carr's natal Mars, and if what we need from him is to put his nose down or stand in there and take a hit to complete that past to win the game. This might be that added kick in the pants that he needs. And for him, This is much like Cousins; he is in contract extension time. So a big, you know, a big November for him really could extend his career as a starting quarterback.

Acyuta-bhava 43:10
Yeah, for sure. On that note, just to keep pace here because we are on a little bit of a time crunch today. I'm going to just tell you who I think the worst quarterback of the year is going to be by transit. I mean, and this could be there could be statistically worse quarterbacks or quarterbacks that lose more but kind of who is the shining dud? Not to be mean, but who really looks like they might have the hurt coming? And I've got Carson Wentz. Now when Carson Wentz charts, the things that stand out to me are, first of all, he has a fallen Mars that's retrograde natively. I don't think that plays well for a Mars Retrograde; if you have a messed up, like, more of a debilitated Mars that that worries me a little bit. I'm like looking at that. And I also noticed that the retrograde Mars is going to be going right over the South Node. Typically not a great thing for the south node to be activated, and the station points really close to his moon. Mars Moon combinations, to me, are not great when it comes to, say, injuries, health, and the body. So I look at those things, and I think, oh gosh, you know that that just looks that looks a little bit rough. The other thing that came to my mind is, you know, he's underperformed for a while; he's had real ups and downs. And you know, he's had been almost like, was either in the MVP race or it was a couple of years ago and then was injured and then sort of was never back to peak form was doing really well with the Colts last year and then sort of just really biffed it his performance was awful right down the stretch when they needed him the most. He gets traded from the Colts to the Commanders. So now it's with the Commanders; he's also got Neptune going over the moon squaring Mercury; I just can't see in that combination of Moon square Mercury. I've heard it through podcasts that I listen to that behind the scenes; he's not the easiest person to get along with. He doesn't have a great locker room presence. So I'm looking at Mercury Neptune over the moon and squaring Mercury with the retrograde Mars squaring Mercury, and like the Philly media is brutal. You know that. So maybe it helps him get away from that. But I almost feel like the Philly media put a curse on him now. And like, and, you know, no matter where he goes, I feel like there's a little bit of this. Almost like, I can't get away from what people think about me. Like it's in his head or something.

Spencer 45:43
Go to the most functional of organizations, right? Yeah, exactly.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 45:47
And he goes to the commander's, which is like, you know, the dumpster fire of the NFL right now for sure not, you know, there's probably lots of wonderful people there, but as far as the owner is concerned, and yeah, so I just look at this with the Mars station in the square to Neptune to the moon Neptune on the moon, Neptune square Mercury with a fallen, you know, retrograde Mars, and I just go like, Oh, this, I can't see it working out, well, he's in a Saturn Return, it would really, I'd love to see where it actually was in his chart, you know, because maybe that Saturn Return is a little bit more like, you know, maybe it's a little bit more positive. But I just kind of have a bad feeling about this chart as I look at those transits.

Kipp 46:27
And the Uranus is going to square the natal Saturn two, which is one of those trigger points that I definitely saw in my research is, is something you were not always looking forward to.

Acyuta-bhava 46:38
Right, right. And Spencer, you are going to take us home. Here I want to mention one more small thing that might be of interest, which is Lamar Jackson's chart. Lamar Jackson's chart is going, Oh, here's the thing about this chart; if I understand this correctly, if you guys know more about this, tell me if I'm wrong, but he does not have an agent. It's just him and his mother, as far as I've understood. I thought it was interesting that the Moon and Venus are conjoined when that makes sense for joining with your aunt or your mother in business dealings. And isn't it interesting that a lot of fortune is also in an exact square with that combination? And, of course, Mars is going to oppose those two planets. The station point will almost exactly oppose those two planets squaring a lot of fortune. He's got a fallen Jupiter that Pluto's just plopping down on all the way through December. So I look at that, and I go, Oh, man, you know, I think he's in a year where, if I understand correctly, it's kind of like you don't want to get injured this year. This would be a really bad year to get injured for him because he's in a contract year. And if he's playing hardball because he wants the contract of Deshaun Watson and Russell Wilson, the guys who are setting the market super high right now, the problem is that he holds out, banks, on his own performance, refuses all the advice not to play in a year like this, when if you get injured, that value of the next contract probably goes down a huge amount of money. I mean, he'll still make a lot of money, but it would probably go down considerably. Then I'm looking at this and being like, Don't bet on yourself this year, even though I think he's a phenomenal quarterback. And I feel probably as much as he does that there's ruthlessness and that you should take care of yourself, you know, but still, I'm like Neptune's coming into a square with that Venus and Moon. That will show you maybe some of the shadows of being overly attached to mom or aunt potentially, right? Mars opposing Venus and the moon as it stations. You know, I just look at that with Pluto also sitting down on the Fallen Jupiter in Capricorn. And I think, look, if there's any planet that could indicate that your worth is completely devalued because of a corporation that takes advantage of you when you get injured. It would be a fallen Jupiter, wouldn't it? So, I mean, I look at this, and I go, man, I hope I hope he gets a deal done relatively soon and doesn't go into the season. And then we see some of these transits play out in terms of an injury that takes this value down.

Spencer 49:17
There's definitely some hubris that comes in with a fallen Jupiter Jupiter to, you know, valuing material over the spiritual on some level.

Kipp 49:26
So potent with Jupiter transiting that Natal, Jupiter Mars, or a sorry Saturn Mars opposition three times two. I mean, this is really you. You found maybe the biggest Brewer of any chair seat for the day.

Acyuta-bhava 49:40
yeah, I mean, I looked at I was just looking through it. I wanted to look at his chart just because I just feel a feel for him like he's an incredible quarterback, and I feel like mobile African American quarterbacks aren't just classically devalued or they have been traditionally like Michael Vick. You know, like, you know, I was there was someone in the draft I remember being like, well, Lamar Jackson should be a wide receiver. You know, it's like there's they're always getting the short end of the stick, and I don't want to see that happen to him. I guess that's my fear.

Kipp 50:14
I'm gonna make sure we name and shame Bill Polian. Yeah, he is the gentleman that said that. So let's see the one. Yeah, yeah, let's cast derision toward him.

Acyuta-bhava 50:24
Sorry, Spencer, take us home. Now you have a bunch of stuff to share, too. Which one do you want to start with?

Spencer 50:28
Let's, um, let's pull up a few annual perfection charts for the few time charts that we actually have in the NFL. So we have three-time charts for NFL quarterbacks. We have Aaron Rodgers. We have Tom Brady. And Russell Wilson. Can you all see that on the screen? So Aaron Rodgers up right now? Yes, we're starting with the Aaron Rodgers chart. And one of the things that I was looking at in the fancy spreadsheet I made was something called an annual perfection year. And basically, what that means is that a certain house in a chart is activated at your birthday.

So one thing I was kind of starting to look at was what house was activated for these players and what kind of themes may be associated with that. And because we have a time chart, we have a planet that is called a time lord. And when we look at the condition of that planet, that can tell us a lot about the year that they may experience moving forward. So, for example, in Aaron Rodgers's chart, he is going to be starting the year in third house perfection, which is Cancer. And it is ruled by the moon in exile. So I think it's going to be a bumpy start for Aaron Rodgers. He, of course, has lost his favorite receiver in Davante. Adams, he has a number of rookies and new players in the wide receiver room right now. I think it's going to be some frustration for him in the beginning of the season, unfortunately.

But I will say that once he moves into the fourth house perfection, which is ruled by this, which is on the cusp of the sign Leo, he's going to move into an annual perfection year that will be ruled by the sun in Sagittarius. So and one thing I'm looking at here, and I'm not making any huge predictions one way or the other with him, but I think that he will improve his station once he hits his birthday on December 2 because he will have a planet that isn't necessarily in its exile anymore, although it's not in as much of a favorable house.

The only thing that I'm worried about at his solar return on December 2, 2022, Is that the ascendant is very close to another Mars in Libra and his conjoining Mars and Libra in his sixth house. So there's an overlap in his solar return house with the sixth house, which is traditionally associated with injury and illness. So I'm a little bit nervous that he might get hurt after his birthday. And that there's we were talking about Scorpio Aries quarterbacks, and one of the ones that we've neglected to mention because he's not a starter is Jordan Love. Jordan Love is a Scorpio quarterback. So we may be seeing him play some kind of role in the Mars Retrograde potentially as well.

Acyuta-bhava 53:30
So it's interesting, I just want to mention on the side that I was looking at his chart, and when he was working with Ayahuasca, which is, you know, interesting to me, he has all sorts of controversy in his personal life. Right? And just as an aside, I think it's really fascinating that you've got some really strong Neptune activation going on his chart the past couple of years as he's gotten into things like the panchakarma cleanse, Ayahuasca retreats, he pursued a homeopathic version of immunization rather than taking the vaccine and then sort of was deceptive about it very Neptunian. Like all surrounding this kind of religious, spiritual stuff he's been into. And I looked at that and like, just because someone who drank Ayahuasca, and he's like on Joe Rogan, you know, talking about his Ayahuasca journey, and I was like it's got to be a Neptune transit, so I looked it up, and you know, sure it off.

Kipp 54:20
And there's a new tattoo that he said you can only understand if you understood astrology.

Spencer 54:25
Yeah, he has. He has astrological symbols.

Acyuta-bhava 54:27
Aaron, if you're listening to this, you are welcome on the show at any point because we love we'd love to talk to you. Spencer's a Green Bay Packers diehard fan. We are Vikings fans, but you're welcome.

Kipp 54:38
We promise to be nice.

Acyuta-bhava 54:41
I would love to talk to an NFL person who's drank Ayahuasca. That's it for me.

Spencer 54:46
Oh, and it seems from that tattoo that Aaron's into it sounds, like he's got a new relationship with someone who is into the spiritual community. I believe she goes by Blue of Earth. And so I think Maybe he'd be amenable to chat and about the astrological, you know, the ins and outs of an NFL season.

Acyuta-bhava 55:07
So I will tell you as an aside, Spencer, that I listened to a lot of sports podcasts about the Vikings. So I hear a lot about the Packers. I've heard so many people rip him for drinking Ayahuasca like he's a crazy person. And that has, I didn't ever have like a love or hate thing about Aaron Rodgers. But it has made me sympathize with him a little bit more because I'm like these people who are ripping him for doing something that is really deeply transformational for many people and probably had some very positive impact on his life, as it did for me, have no idea what they're talking about. It's, you know, it's frustrating.

Spencer 55:40
I think it has. He seemed much more at peace since he's gone through that experience. He had a lot of challenges with the Packers organization in the last few years, with feeling disrespected that he didn't have a voice in the room. There was a lot of talk that he would be asked to be traded and things like that. And after his ayahuasca experiences, it seemed like he was able to come to some kind of place of centeredness and peace. You know, he did have the controversial vaccine types of things, which I personally found disappointing, but I think that it's one of those things where he seems to have moved on from that and come out of it fairly, okay. Like, I think that in his mind, he's at a place of peace and centeredness. And I think that people are feeling that in the Packers organization, and they're seeing him kind of be a team player more so. Does that make sense?

Acyuta-bhava 56:33
Yeah, it's gonna get nuttier as Neptune reaches up to Mercury and Neptune Nataly. I'm just playing.

Spencer 56:40
There was one funny thing that I was seeing with him that another quarterback has gotten into, like medicinals is what's his name? Jake Plummer from the Denver Broncos.

Acyuta-bhava 56:52
Oh, yeah.

Spencer 56:54
Jake Plummer is also a Sagittarius. I don't know if he has a similar, you know, the aspect with Neptune or whatnot. But he is growing like Reishi mushrooms and, you know, medicinal mushrooms as he's got a big company now where he has warehouses full of these mushrooms. And you know, him and Aaron Rodgers sort of started communicating. So I wonder if they'll, they'll team up and have a whatever, some kind of interesting side biz together. Okay, so that's Aaron for the deal. One thing I did want to point out I don't want to spoil it too much. But I've just was looking one of the things I was looking at was just contacts with these particular players with the actual date of the Super Bowl, and we do see that Aaron Rodgers does have the north node can joining his ascendant right on the date of the Super Bowl. So I thought that was something interesting just to keep an eye on. You also have Mars conjoining his North Node.

Acyuta-bhava 57:54
Jupiter opposite Mars, too. Wow.

Spencer 57:55
So this is one of the things I've been looking at as far as who might potentially be in the Super Bowl, and you can see that Mars is right on the IC of that chart as well. So I'm just looking for contacts because, in my research, I've seen that generally, the player's prominent players in a Super Bowl will have some connection with the starting time of the game itself.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 58:20
sorry to cut you off there. Just Spencer. Were you gonna mention Jupiter's opposite his natal Mars?

Spencer 58:24
I mean, it's a pretty powerful connection right there, also, isn't it?

Acyuta-bhava 58:28
Yeah, I just blurted it out like an astrologer.

Spencer 58:34
The descendant of the chart is conjoining his natal midheaven, so so visible happening there. This is giving me at least a little bit of hope that maybe the Packers will make the Super Bowl because they have a heck of a defense this year. Say what you will about the wide receiver room, but defense wins championships, and Packer's defense is something that I don't think they've had there in a very long time. Cool. So

Kipp 58:58
The chart is bumming me out.

Acyuta-bhava 59:02
As Vikings fans,

Spencer 59:04
I try not to rub it in, you know, I was talking about never winning Super Bowl, and I had to bite my tongue. You know, as a fan of the Packers.

Kipp 59:13
I show you my running back ending his Vikings career, and you show me your quarterback winning the Super Bowl. That is the Viking's packers dichotomy.

Acyuta-bhava 59:25
Wide left or 50 years of MVP quarterback

Spencer 59:31
We looked okay in the preseason. So, you know, break Vikings fans in the future if we got like a third, like good, but I know.

Kipp 59:40
We're already so beaten down. Yeah,

Spencer 59:43
Fair enough. And I will say it in an empathizing. I was a fan of the Milwaukee Bucks for a long time too. And they were very, very bad for a long time before they actually turned the corner. So one other player or I've got two other players real quick that I wanted to just kind of show you what would because these are the other two time charts that we have. So Russell Wilson has a time chart from November 29, 1988, to 12:09pm Eastern time in Cincinnati, Ohio. And he is going through a 10th house perfection this year. But moving to an 11th house perfection, so he will be starting off with Mars in Aries as his Timelord in and 10th house perfection, which generally can speak to some success and visibility. And, of course, he is starting a new chapter of his career with the Denver Broncos after getting out of a difficult situation with the Seahawks. He has a fairly innovative offensive coordinator now that used to be the Packers off our head coach that was the offensive coordinator of the Packers. So I think that he's going to start the season off really well. The issue becomes when he gets to the 11th house, his time lords switches to an exile Jupiter retrograde exile Jupiter. So I think that Russ might have some issues late in the season because his time lord is really it really is a downgrade in his time lord ruling his chart, even though it isn't 11th House perfection which still could be positive. So that's Russ Wilson.

Kipp 1:01:19
I really liked this example. Because it really highlights the difference between some of the things I've been looking at with an untimed chart because with an untimed chart, what I'm seeing is that Mars, the natal Mars coming in contact later in the year with the Jupiter transiting back into Aries. So, this is going to be a good case study. I really liked that.

Spencer 1:01:45
Yeah, the other thing was, you know, just kind of seeing if there are any important contacts with the Super Bowl too. He does have Jupiter going over his natal Mars in that case, but Mars won't be his time lord anymore. So it's time lord is Jupiter over here, and Mars is going to be kind of grinding over it. I'm not getting the feeling that we will see Russell Wilson in the Super Bowl. It's just not something that is, like, my instinct with this.

Acyuta-bhava 1:02:11
I feel like, especially not when Saturn is opposing your moon like that. To me, that feels so heavy. Right?

Spencer 1:02:17
So not a recipe for success. The final time chart that we have is, of course, every buddy's favorite vacationer Tom Brady, who recently took a leave of absence to do something. God knows what. There's a lot of shit that happens when you're 45. He said so, you know,

Acyuta-bhava 1:02:39
Including your wife being pissed at you. I'm pretty sure what's going on.

Spencer 1:02:43
But it's like so, so Tom has a time chart. And I'll tell you what; Tom Brady makes me irrationally angry. I don't know what it is.

Acyuta-bhava 1:02:54
You and anyone except for the Patriot fans or Bucs fans.

Spencer 1:02:59
He is the luckiest quarterback in the history of the NFL. Not to say that he isn't talented, not to say that he isn't a good leader, because I think he is both of those things. I just think that he has a chart that is ruled by an angular Venus. And that really brings him luck, like more luck than you would see normally. So I was looking at this chart, and unfortunately, for all of thinking about, he's in the 10th house perfection here, which means that Venus is very active this year. His moon is going to be his time, Lord, in the first decade of Aries; guess what planet is transiting over his Moon this year? Jupiter. So I'm pretty upset because I think; unfortunately, we may see this jackass in the Super.

Kipp 1:03:54
Right, so if you look at the Super Bowl chart every year, his natal Pluto Sun, Mars positive interaction is almost always in a positive aspect with what's going on at the Super Bowl. Just over and over and over again. Tom Brady's best stuff is lit up at Super Bowl time, and it drives me crazy.

Spencer 1:04:20
He's got part of spirit at 22 degrees Aquarius; the Super Bowl is played at roughly the same time every year. So the sun's gonna be transiting as part of spirit like every Super Bowl. Yeah, he has like really good aspects for the time that that game is played. And I think that's actually really important. I think you know, we've seen that with LeBron James is charged on some level too in basketball; not to cross-pollinate the sports, but you know, it really does make a difference. He's happy he usually has some kind of solar opposition around the like a full moon of his life on some level around the Super Bowl, like the peak of his solar power even though the sun is in its exile. So, unfortunately, I think that there are signs that point towards him having a very good year. And the other thing that I will say is since he's in a 10th house perfection year, and since he's born in August, Tom Brady does not change Timelords over the course of a season. So he always has the same time, Lord, for the entirety of a season where someone like Rogers or Wilson will have a change of fortune at the end of, you know, November and early December, which I think can be a really, depending on what the condition of the planet is. I mean, there's stability there, right? And he's been very consistent over the course of his career.

Acyuta-bhava 1:05:43
It strikes me as interesting if I might add a couple of notes about his chart; as you're talking Spencer one, his ascendant ruler is Venus, and Jupiter is progressing into the angle into exultation as well. So it feels like just to add a little point of emphasis to what you said about him having good fortune. That's to me, that's like, doubling it up that because I would read that Jupiter as like, you know, kind of cusping into Cancer there. It's interesting to me that he has Mars in Gemini and that it's a Mars Gemini year. But it's also interesting to me that Jupiter is in the seventh, and that the eclipses next year will be in this his seventh house, that the Mars Retrograde is his seventh house ruler. I mean, it's pretty much all over the news right now that one of the reasons that there was some offseason break from the team is because, you know, it's well documented in the documentary that came out about the Man in the Arena, that, you know, his wife really wanted him to retire. And so, you know, could there be some of could some of this be pointing toward, you know, marital strife, which I not that I'm trying to speculate about someone's private life. But if that's already having a potential impact on his career, and we know that his wife has had a huge desire for him to retire for a while, could that be a part of the storyline of the year? I was thinking about that as you were talking.

Spencer 1:07:09
Well, and here's another just really interesting moment for Mr. Brady, when Mars is turning retrograde, it's going to hit his Natal, Jupiter as well, right at the 25 26 degrees of Gemini, in the ninth house of his like, you know, to me that Mars Retrograde is in a Deccan of Gemini that's, you know, associated with the 10 of swords card, which is basically a place in the Zodiac that says, It's time for you to make a choice. It's time for you, you have too many options, but one of them has to perish for the other to live. So the other possibility, even as maybe Brady just says, I'm done if I want to save my marriage, and I want to like I'm gonna retire mid-season.

Acyuta-bhava 1:08:00
Wouldn't that be the ultimate Mars Retrograde thing to happen to, especially in the ninth house where it's like, are you going to get a divorce? So legal proceeding Jupiter in the ninth house with the Mars connotation ruling the seventh and so forth? Or, are you going to retire? I mean, that would be such an interesting twist, right? If the bucks are doing really bad. Could you see that happening?

Spencer 1:08:24
Potentially, because look at where the sun is hitting his natal Uranus at this time exactly, as well. So it could be a shocking announcement where he's like, Alright, I guess I'm gonna have to quit to be with my wife.

Kipp 1:08:38
It'll be terrible for him to have to take the $230 million that Fox is paying him to be an announcer whenever he quits.

Spencer 1:08:47
Yeah, so we don't have to feel sorry for him.

Acyuta-bhava 1:08:51
But yeah, and I want to make it clear that, like, the only things that we're speculating about on this show are things that are really well documented and that we specifically have an impact on the athlete's story this year and just our interest is fans, and you know, it's like it's not at all to is a practice I tell my students this all the time, like, you know, when you're looking at the charts of public figures, you know, you want to tread carefully and not make judgments and so forth. So we do you know, we mean all the best when we're looking at these things,

Spencer 1:09:21
Disclaimers to that this isn't like betting nice either, you know, for entertainment,

Kipp 1:09:27
Do not bet that Tom Brady's gonna retire mid-season.

Acyuta-bhava 1:09:33
yes

Spencer 1:09:34
and yeah could be extremes where there could be an extreme or Hey, he hangs them up mid-season or Super Bowl, and I don't know if it could be really anything in between that at some level. You know, like, that's my that's one of my bold potential predictions for the year. He's got some stuff.

Kipp 1:09:52
Yeah, great, Spencer. Thanks.

Acyuta-bhava 1:09:54
Yeah, that was excellent. I really appreciate it, though. The analysis of those charts. We are unfortunately The out of time. I know we have things we still wanted to get to. So I think we're definitely going to be. I think we're going to try to do this maybe once a month. We'll see how it goes and just do it throughout the season. Maybe if we're, you know, really feeling lucky, we'll expand into something like NBA or other sports arenas. But I think this was really good for today. This gives us a bookmark. Spencer has some really nice things to say about the Super Bowl chart. We're going to come back to that in our next episode. Why don't we end just really briefly, with any predictions or any things you guys want to say about the Vikings packers season opener on Sunday?

Spencer 1:10:40
I'm gonna pull that up. Yeah,

Acyuta-bhava 1:10:43
I've got let's see, you know, you go ahead. Do you want to say anything? First off, I have a horary chart I can pull up, too but do you want to say anything first?

Spencer 1:10:50
Let's pull it up real quick if we can. Yeah.

Acyuta-bhava Dasa 1:10:54
So I just cast this right before we met today. So typically, I like to spend a little bit more time meditating on a horary also say that in advance because I just sort of did this on a whim. So if you look at this season opener, and you compare first and seventh house lords, then I think, I think you have a case too, there's a case to be made that the Packers might have a little bit of a slow start this year, with the seventh house ruler, being Mercury about to turn stationing like about to turn retrograde almost like we've got to figure it out. And I guess the big criticism would be with the new wide receiver room. You know, Aaron Rodgers got to get those ducks in a row. And you were even saying it; maybe his better football comes later in the year. You also have Mars malefic in that house.

Spencer 1:11:43
No starting two offensive Pro Bowl tackles either.

Acyuta-bhava 1:11:47
Bakhtiari has been out for a while.

Spencer 1:11:51
ACL injury two years ago that has been really difficult to come back from.

Acyuta-bhava 1:11:56
Yeah, yeah. And so, by comparison, the Vikings show up as a retrograde Jupiter in Aries, which to me is not a super strong Jupiter in Aries. It's seven minutes from moving back into its term, and it is angular. So as Mercury, though, and the two are opposing one another clear show of the rivalry. I can't say that I feel like the Jupiter retrograde, and I think it's technically peregrine looks all that stronger to me than Mercury, but if I guess with Mars in the seventh Mercury about to turn retrograde in the 10th, I would probably favor Jupiter. The other question mark that I had about this is typically the applications of the moon; you know, if it looks like it's a split decision, it may play a role moon to Mars in the seventh house, maybe gives a little competitive advantage to the Packers. I'm gonna call it with Jupiter in the fourth for the Vikings, but I'm very tentative about this one because it looks to me like there are some pros and cons on either side of the basic first seventh house balance here, so that's kind of my judgment I'll say the Vikings win the season opener I'm not convinced that they're going to go to the Super Bowl or even win the division this year. Frankly, I think that they need to blow up the team and start over. That's my personal opinion, but I think I'll give the first game to them.

Kipp 1:13:20
I just really love that. This is an athletic event that you got Mars in the house of open enemies.

Acyuta-bhava 1:13:29
Yeah, especially since you know across the aisle is a Packer's rival in the time when I cast that; I thought that was always great.

Spencer 1:13:36
Well, you've got a former Packer that is going to be looking for revenge on week one, Za'Darius Smith, who didn't leave on very good terms. I think if those two tackles don't play, he is going to destroy some stuff. Like Za'Darius is going to be on a mission.

Acyuta-bhava 1:13:54
Yeah, yeah, you could definitely. I guess if a healthy Daniil Hunter is off to a good start, then the Vikings should be better on defense than they were last year, which, you know,

Spencer 1:14:03
so one thing we could do if you want to just have a little bit extra information on this as we've got this starting time of the game up here, and you can see that we're going to overlay the Packers first. Okay, so we've got the moon hitting the this is the natal chart for the Green Bay Packers, which was established on August 11, 1919, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. So we have the Packers chart as a full moon in Aquarius, you know, Leo Sun Aquarius moon, and their moon is going to be hitting retrograde Saturn during this game, which I don't feel great about.

Kipp 1:14:46
Square Uranus.

Spencer 1:14:50
Yeah, that doesn't feel like a resounding victory to me. We also have Mars; they have a Mars in its fall. I'm in the seventh house of their opponent as well, so maybe there's something going on in that regard; anything else you all are noticing with the connections with the Packers in this game and the start time here?

Acyuta-bhava 1:15:14
but just it's interesting to me to note that, you know, the staying power of the Packers that's in the inner wheel is their birth chart right now; the teams suppose that birth chart

Spencer 1:15:26
The Packer's inner wheel is the birth chart.

Acyuta-bhava 1:15:31
just to me that the sun and the moon a full moon and fixed signs with a bunch of planets including Jupiter and Leo and a Fixed sign that's like their dynasty, the Lombardi trophy, you know, that they have such staying power in their chart which I think explains why in part I scratch my head going how is it that they get far followed by Rogers and equivalent of like 30 years of like x top tier quarterback play which is what makes every season potentially over ten wins or whatever

Kipp 1:16:01
With a leader you know, known for having great quarterbacks Bart Starr, Brett Farve, Aaron Rodgers, it's all right in Leo.

Spencer 1:16:08
I mean, that brings great power, oftentimes, as well with a fixed star in the heart of the constellation Leo, that speaks to great achievement as long as you don't fall prey to the nemesis of revenge and trying to pursue power by any means necessary.

Acyuta-bhava 1:16:29
What's interesting is that that kind of came up for FAR band Rogers at different points. I just noted that when Pluto enters Aquarius and starts opposing Jupiter, there's probably going to be a dynasty or a regime change or something like that. Maybe that starts to shift to the next quarterback.

Spencer 1:16:45
Very interesting. And that's coming in at the end of at the beginning of March; I think it was one; we're going to see the Pluto dipping in and if I'm not mistaken, the next year. And there's been rumblings that Rogers that this may even just be his last year because his contract is set up in a way that the longer he plays, the more dead money is like a poison pill on the cap. And I almost wonder, with his Scorpio mode, if he did that on purpose. So like, when I leave, you know, you're gonna have to blow it up. And I'm not gonna let my successor success at all. Because he was pretty pissed when he signed that contract, and he raked the Packers over the coals when he signed that deal.

Acyuta-bhava 1:17:29
And there's Pluto opposing the Fallen Mars during that time.

Spencer 1:17:32
Yeah, this is very ugly. So if we take a different tact right here, and we look at the Vikings, and what they're dealing with, on this particular day, the news is slightly different. So you can see that Venus in their chart is right on the ascendant of the chart of the game. That, to me, is a pretty good, pretty good sign for them. That looks a lot better to me. Although I will say they also are a moon in Aquarius, right so but they are a new moon; it's not a full moon, they have a fallen or, I'm sorry, an exiled son rather than a domiciled one. So they make a lot of sense. But their moon is also hitting Saturn. So that's a data point that we may not be able to kind of like point one way or the other. But I do think they're their natal Venus being on the ascendant points more towards their success, potentially, unfortunately, because I'm a Packers fan.

Acyuta-bhava 1:18:38
That's really fascinating. Yeah, and I didn't; the outer ring is the Vikings. Correct? Yeah. That's yeah. That it's, it's interesting to see that lineup in. It's interesting to see the lineup in Capricorn and that when Saturn started its return, they would have been taking on Kirk Cousins. And they're so there's something, and then they're there. Where's their natal? Saturn It's in Capricorn, too, right? Yeah, whatever their Saturn Return as well, which is interesting. Anyway, I'm just I could look at this all day, but we're out of time. So it sounds like we're both calling the first game of two between the Vikings and packers for the Vikings. And then we'll have to maybe revisit game two.

Spencer 1:19:25
I hope I'm wrong. But yes. Okay.

Acyuta-bhava 1:19:29
Kipp and Spencer. It was wonderful having you guys here today for everybody listening. I hope you enjoyed this. If you're not into sports, pass it on to someone who you want to get into astrology, and maybe you know sports is the bridge that could bring the planets into the picture somehow. In the meantime, if there are topics you'd like to hear us talk about or athletes you'd like to hear us cover, email us info at nightlightastrology.com. Kipp Spencer and I will try to come back and do this again. Maybe hopefully, once monthly, you can catch Spencer spencermichaud on Instagram. You can find Spencer Michaud astrology on YouTube, and Spencermichaud.com is the website to book a reading classes and things like that.

Acyuta-bhava 1:20:19
And then Kipp @eudaimoniaastro on Twitter. Am I saying that correctly?

Kipp 1:20:38
Yes, and if you want to check out the Basement Astrologers Feel free. It's still up with lots of great interviews. It's there for you guys to enjoy.

Acyuta-bhava 1:20:48
The basement astrologers podcast. We once took a deep dive into Donald Trump's chart around the election, if I remember correctly, but anyway, it was good having you guys here. Let's do this again soon. And thank you, everybody, so much for listening. We'll talk again next time.