The Astrology of Sports: Mars Retrograde in the World of Sports

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today I'm going to be joined by my buddies, Kipp and Spencer, to talk once more about the astrology of this upcoming Mars Retrograde in light of the NFL NBA seasons, a little, some predictions about the World Series. So this is The Astrology of Sports podcast that we're going to be trying to drop once a month we started last month if you didn't catch the first episode and go back and listen to what we had to say about the NFL season before it kicked off and some other prognostications that we made, some of them turned out already to be accurate, some of them fell on their faces. Pretty fun experiment. And we're here today to do it again. So it's just kind of like fun, bonus content because we all love sports. And we're astrologers. And we realize there are not a lot of people doing content on sports and astrology. So that's what we're here to do. We've got a lot of fun content today that we'll run through together. So I'm going to stop yapping and invite my buddies Kipp and Spencer. Hey Kipp. Hey, Spencer, welcome back.

Spencer
Hey, Adam.

Adam
It's good to be back. We're going to talk about a bunch of different things. Today on our list of things to talk about, we have some Mars Retrograde updates we're going to start with after this has been published after Mars has turned retrograde. So we reserve the right to amend whatever. Whatever we say here. We will probably be amending it next month when we revisit this again. But we've we're already as Mars is coming into the station. And it's going through the square to Neptune. We've got a bunch of observations and things that we think have already played out a little bit in terms of some of the first round of predictions that we made. So we'll talk about those. We'll give some updates. For people who are into fantasy football, we have a few NBA thoughts to share. Although we'll develop those, it's only the first week of the season right now.

We're going to have some fun predictions to start off the season. But we'll get into NBA a little bit more next time as well. And then we just have some quirky things like I've got a horary for an upcoming game to do a horror of sports example, Spencer's got some interesting observations about the South Node. Kipp's got some things to say about the MVP race. So this will be fun. Let's start off, guys, with some Mars Retrograde updates. I think just, basically, what are we seeing so far from Mars Retrograde? And again, we're considering the fact that really what we've observed so far is its long, slow move through most of Gemini, it's squared to Neptune, it's basically not moving, and we're just a couple of days away from it turning retrograde. What have we noticed so far? What are your guys' thoughts about it as we go forward?

Kipp
I mean, I think number one, you guys are gonna touch on some of those quarterbacks that you really saw, kind of some downturns in their careers. And I think that's really been spot on. What I'll say is, speaking of that, Mars, Neptune, and the NFL, in particular, has been pretty sloppy. There's been some sloppy play, disorganized play, and some teams that are organized that have good coaching that might not even have as much talent are really the ones who are getting the W's. So I really, I think there's some of that squishiness in play there.

Spencer
Yeah, and I think the Mars Neptune square. I'm not sure if it was exact when Tua had his issue with his concussion. But there were a lot of issues around concussion protocol and his going back out into the field after being examined. And then the, you know, getting a concussion the week afterward, like maybe five days later on some level. So I think that that might be part of it as well. And like Kipp was saying, we were visiting some of the Gemini Suns and Gemini Mars folks that, you know, we've got some observations on Tom Brady, that I think we nailed that one, for the most part, the possibilities with him. And, you know, we've got a list of Gemini Suns to keep an eye on when Mars turns retrograde because that Gemini, Mars is coming for some of these folks that we've already seen some injuries that have come up. Breece Hall is one that comes to mind just recently tore his ACL as a Gemini Sun. You know, McCaffrey is a Gemini Sun. Christian McCaffrey, and he had a big trade that happened. So his world is being shaken up. So I think that there's some other Matt Ryan, for example, Gemini Mars, that basically lost the starting job. So I think there's going to be some things that we'll see. And we can, we can go down that if you want.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, let me just say that I want to piggyback on Kipp's point about one of them before we go down the list of some of the individual athletes and situations. One of them is that there's, I believe, some historical, low offensive output thus far in the NFL season. I'm pretty sure I heard that right. In one of the podcasts I listened to, the scoring has been lower than usual, or the average is down a little bit, or something like that. It might be like a historical low. I can't remember. It's that dramatic, but it's, it's lower. And there's been a general consensus feeling, at least on the podcast I listened to and in my own experience, and you guys, certainly, we were talking about this before we got on, on the record. It's just been sloppy-looking football. I mean, there's been a lot of, and there's been a feeling of kind of like weakness and ineptitude around teams that you would expect to be doing really well. You know, people like Geno Smith look, you know, look like an MVP, sort of. I think he's like, actually in the top five rated QBs by pro football focus or something like that. I don't remember, but the point is that there's been it's been a real Mars Neptune. I mean, that Mars Neptune has been around for most of the NFL season now. And it's gonna continue to be all the way through the end of November. So I think that stands out to me just in terms of, like, what the NFL season has looked like so far. It's been super Mars Neptune looking.

Kipp
Totally agree.

Spencer
Yeah, there's definitely been some surprises as to who's performing well, and who isn't, like, you know, add to the quarterbacks that were doing well, for a period of time, you could another name, you could see as Jared Goff was performing like an all-world quarterback for a little while and but he started to drop off, and one little thing I wanted to point out is that been tracing the planetary ruler of players, natal Sun position, and how the dignity changes has been working with that's been really interesting to track too because all of our Jupiterians, like our Piscean and our Sagittarian suns, which include Aaron Rodgers and Tua, Justin Herbert, Nagi Harris, like Kipp's Kansas City recommendation at the beginning season, by the way, folks, I picked Nagi Harris as number one overall in fantasy football, based almost solely off of Kipp's recommendation and thinking he was gonna get 70 receptions this year, and he's fallen off a cliff, but I digress.

Kipp
But you're not bitter.

Spencer
But seeing that all of those Jupiterians are struggling a little bit with either injuries or something of that nature, Jupiter has been retrograde. And then Venus ruled folks, as Jared Goff played really well while Venus was in Libra. But now they're starting to fall off because we have, and Geno Smith might be included in this because I believe he is also a Libra sun because Venus has now moved into her exile in Scorpio. So I'd be curious to see the Mars-ruled Sun, folks. And what happens when we see, like, you know, Mercury retrograde at the end of the year as well.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's fascinating. No, go ahead, Kipp.

Kipp
I don't think we could hide the ball, though. I think I believe it was Adam who made the prediction about Tom Brady. And we had dual predictions. It was either divorce or retirement. So we're still waiting for the. I think the big goal was to look at what happens when the actual station hits and when the retrograde starts. But he might be divorced and retired halfway through this season. I mean, it's been something.

Spencer
Yeah, we should look at that chart again because I thought about that example. We're coming up on a really pivotal point for that prediction. This weekend will be October 30. The day that Mars turns retrograde. So Adam was joking before we got on that. You know, he may go to England right and just never come back.

Kipp
He's European now.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, it's interesting. Like there are so many different and interesting examples of Mars already slowing down to station and turn retrograde in the square with Neptune. For example, you have a really muddy, murky back and forth with the two New England quarterbacks this past Monday Night Football. And it was against the Bears. I'm trying to remember it was Mac Jones, and what's the other guy's name? Bailey Zappe Okay. I thought, well, could that be more Mars in Gemini square, Neptune? It's like this back-and-forth between the two of them. And they kind of look and feel similar in a weird way too, like, I don't know, So I thought that was really, that was a super fascinating example of it. But you, you were mentioning a bunch of those earlier to start with Spencer; why don't you roll through a few more of those for us?

Spencer
Yeah, so we had; let's see. So these are the Gemini Suns that we should keep an eye on. We've got Josh Allen, who has been just crushing it like a cyborg since the beginning of the season. It's just he's really, really fun to watch Cooper Kupp, who has continued his dominance through the, you know, through the second season, where he really busted out last year and rag on Kipp for his picks, somehow Kipp got Cooper Kupp at number seven overall in our fantasy draft, so congratulations to you. I was avoiding all the Geminis like the plague. So we'll see what happens, though. Christian McCaffrey, who is a Gemini Sun, has recently traded from the Carolina Panthers to the San Francisco 49ers; we'll see what happens with him. He's notoriously injury-prone. So we'll see what happens. Kenny Pickett is the new quarterback for Pittsburgh; maybe he hits the rookie, Justin Jefferson.

Kipp
I'll just send him a Mars talisman.

Spencer
The Packers suck this year, so I don't have that trump card to play anymore with all of you. So DeAndre Hopkins just recently came back from a suspension for performance-enhancing drugs. Amari Cooper, who I believe Kipp also owns on his fantasy team, has been going up and down but has had some big games. Marquis Brown is nursing an injury right now with the Arizona Cardinals. Reese Hall is a rookie running back who was looking like a super stud Pro Bowl running back until he tore his ACL. Very, that was a bummer. Super bummer because he looked really good, and the Jets are kind of a feel-good story. I think this year, I've been kind of following them and rooting for them.

Daniel Jones has been performing very well lately for the kind of surprising New York Giants. All the New York teams have been a surprise, really. But he's going to be potentially feeling this. And then a couple of Gemini Mars folks we are looking at was Matt Ryan, who recently lost his job at Indianapolis because he has been thrown quite a bit of ducks lately. Looks kind of he looks done. And then Tom Brady has Gemini Mars, and we've been talking a lot about what we've been seeing with him. He has Gemini Mars, but he also has Jupiter at 26 degrees of Gemini, where the Mars Retrograde is going to be taking place, and the Sun is going to be hitting his natal Uranus in his second house on Sunday. So we'll see. I just think Sunday is a big game for him or a big day in general.

Adam Elenbaas
Add in there that we mentioned last time that there could be a switch in San Francisco of quarterbacks with Trey Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo. I believe it was Trey Lance, that also has natal Mars in Gemini. Maybe you could look that up for me. But I'm like 99% Sure. He has Mars in earlier degrees of Gemini, and pretty early, if it was a second game of the season or something, he like broke his ankle. So Jimmy G took over even though Mars is not retrograde; you're going through a Mars return with the retrograde that now is clearly looking like rehab for him. So you know, I thought that was really interesting. Since we had, we had to hit on that one during the first episode.

Kipp
Write that down. It seems like the Suns more mixed. Some of those guys with Gemini suns have been great years, you know, really stellar. And it sounds kind of across the board. If you have that Mars, return in Gemini. It's been hit. Yeah.

Spencer
And you're right. You're right, Adam. Trey Lance, May 9, 2000, has Mars at four degrees Gemini. Right.

Adam Elenbaas
So let's pull this chart up really quick since we also mentioned this one. And that's a good point. Kipp. By the way, just on the topic of here's Tom Brady's chart. On the subject of the Mars native versus the sun native, there does seem to be, like, maybe there's a difference there. I have native I'm natal Mars in Gemini. So I'm paying attention to this myself. Although for me, it's not been like I haven't had anything majorly difficult happening at the moment. It's interesting because it's in my second house. So a lot of it has had to do with changes in approach to business, like we're redoing a lot of things with the business. It hasn't had that, I suppose, if you're an athlete, it just, it's really, it's gonna be really physical. I think with your Mars; if you're an athlete compared to, like, you know, me, it's like techy and sort of in my second house. Anyway. Here's Now the thing about Brady is that it's his marriage house ruler.

So when we're, you know, just for people, it's like, yeah, he's an athlete. He's got a Mars Jupiter co-presence, which, you know, it's that stands out. He's obviously like, Captain America of sports, you know, but he does have the moon in Mars sign in the house of marriage, and Mars is retrograding. And, you know, this is what we talked about the last episode, as well as like, you know, could you see that his personal life and the marriage, which was rumors in the air. Before the season started that things were a little rough and that she wasn't totally happy that he hadn't retired, which, if you watch the Man in the Arena documentary series, you know, that was a part of the series, it's very clear in many parts of the series for the whole world to know it's not like we're just trying to be gossipy. She was very clear in that series that she wants him to retire. She's like, you're the best player ever. What else do you have to prove? Can we just have some time with you?

And you know, I think Mars in Gemini, you know, like sports maybe or like his cocaine in a way, do you know what I mean? Like, there's something I don't know. I'm just speculating, I have no idea, but it seems really significant to me that this Mars Retrograde is, in fact, coinciding with it looks like, I mean, he's got friends and people that know him personally, being like, he looks exhausted. He's telling people he's not feeling like himself. He's going through this big thing. They're getting lawyers, apparently. So yeah, I think I think we, unfortunately, sort of nailed that one. I think it's interesting, you know, Sun and Saturn together. And Leo is the pride too stubborn to back out. Could we just see a terrible season, for example, that's sort of defined by him going through this ugly thing.

Kipp
There's so much impulsiveness here, too, with that Mars, Pluto trine, and Saturn with the Sun in Leo. I mean, this is a guy and not breaking any news who is driven. And then once he gets there, he's fixed there. So yeah, I mean, it makes perfect sense.

Spencer
And he's going through a Saturn opposition right now, too. So Saturn is exactly opposite his Saturn.

Kipp
Our charts are very similar. So everything that's going, I mean, I don't have Mars and in Gemini, but we're really similarly aged. So like the Saturn opposition, I'm looking at this chart going, Oh, geez. Yeah.

Spencer
Well, I did see an article recently that said, I'm not retired, and no matter what, so you know, this, this that seems to confirm what Kipp was saying about his stubborn drivenness. Yeah, but I don't know, though; I just have a funny feeling like there's a wild card within this and especially with the Sun hitting his natal Uranus this weekend.

Adam Elenbaas
And if there's any kind of wild card, I feel like Mars retrograding in the sign of Hermes, that sort of double-bodied Air sign like I do feel like it's gonna throw out some there's gonna be some wildcards. I also wonder. Let me just shift what we're looking at here. I wonder about this for the Mars Retrograde period coming up in just one second.

Spencer
He could have an injury as well.

Adam Elenbaas
I wouldn't think so. I would think it is more likely because Mars also rules his financial house ins with Scorpio there, and he's just had an eclipse there. And so I think, you know, the division of assets that's starting to happen, they have houses all over the world. I wonder if some of this might not be financial. But here's the main point I wanted to bring up, not just with Tom Brady's chart but with the general situation for everyone in this Mars Retrograde. I think this is an especially powerful ingress. When you get Mercury going into Mars, sign in Scorpio. It's now combust, it's under the Sun, and Mars is turning retrograde. I get the feeling that. For example, one thing that comes to my mind would be like cybercrime, cybersecurity, leaking of information or documents, cloak, and dagger. So I just wonder, for example, one thing that's also in the air right now is they're trying to out Dan Snyder, the very corrupt CEO or owner of the Washington commanders, but he says I have dirt on every all of the other owners.

Or Tom Brady's. It's been relatively private so far. Could there be more details that come to the surface even, for example, this is just a few days away. One of the Minnesota Vikings offensive lineman Ollie Udo was just arrested in a nightclub on the bye week for; allegedly following a woman into the restroom and trying to like get her to go on a date or something. And then immediately there's been like this retraction from her that like, oh, that didn't happen. And he's like, that didn't happen. And but I'm not, and I'm not saying his situation will change, but could we see situations in the professional sports world where more something comes forward, something is leaked, something is shared? That is damaging or damning in some way? I think it would be it, you know, it's not the kind of thing that I look forward to. I'm not like an ambulance-chasing astrologer, you know, but I do wonder about this and what it could bring.

Spencer
Well, look at what we were talking about that Mars would use as its weaponry, hearsay gossip like that's what they're talking about with Dan Schneider is like he's going to out like with the information on everybody, right? The dirt quote unquote. And now, in this situation that you're talking about, you've got one person's word versus the other. So I think that that's another thing to keep in mind is that there's probably going to be challenged with people arguing about what the actual truth is, right? Yeah,

Kipp
I can picture Stephen Forrest running down the road after an ambulance.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I'm not an ambulance-chasing astrologer. Well, who are the ambulance chasing? Yeah, that's funny. Okay, so the other one that I have to point out, if you guys give me just a minute is, you know, that Kanye West has a sports agency.

Kipp
Does he have one? I know he worked with CAA, which has sports agents.

Spencer
Oh, he has a Gemini sun.

Adam Elenbaas
Yes, I'm pretty sure. I read a headline. And now, of course, I can't find his birth chart. Does either of you guys have Kanye West's birth chart? I had it. I had it because I did a demo on it. And class one time, I thought I was going to easily pull it up.

Kipp
I can look. I'm looking. I might help.

Adam Elenbaas
He has sun Jupiter conjunction in Gemini in the 12th house. Mars goes retrograde in that 12th house. And recently, if you guys saw the headlines, he said he made some really anti-semitic remarks. And or maybe it was just one, I don't know. But he suddenly, I think he tweet tweeted a number of things that got him dropped from Adidas. Adidas cut the deal with him GAP cut a deal as they released him from their contracts. Aaron Donald and I forget the name of the other athlete who was a part of his agency and cut their ties with him. So Adidas, of course, is huge in the professional sports world. You have a major star and Aaron Donald leaving because a sun Jupiter in Gemini in the 12th house, said a bunch of terrible things. While Mars is stationing and turning retrograde in his 12th house. I felt like you couldn't find a better example of someone who's admittedly he's said he has mental health problems. You know, I think that he's, you know, so

Kipp
I think it's a great example of the Mars Retrograde, too, because he said it once. And then he doubled down on it. And that's really where he was the rubber hit the road. And it's that's how I look at a Mars Retrograde; it's this event could happen, but then it's going to keep going, and it revs up,

Spencer
Let me pull his chart out.

Adam Elenbaas
While you're pulling it up, there's a recent debate over whether or not whole sign houses were the kind of oldest predominant original form of house division. That debate was reignited as far as slowing down the station turn retrograde by Deborah Holding, who is, you know, very strongly believes that this is not the case and quadrant base houses are probably the oldest and all this stuff. Which is funny because that debate originally got going because I had Chris Brennan on my speaker series back in time was like 2018 or something 2017, Maybe. And he gave a talk called Whole sign Houses: the best house system ever, which was just Joe. We're just joking. Like, he's not like, oh, there's only one house system you could ever use. He's very open-minded. But he gave that talk. And then Deborah holding ended up going on his podcast, and they had this, like, epic debate. And what's really funny is she just gave a talk sort of doubling down on that debate, as you were mentioning, doubling down. And, you know, just yesterday, they're, you know, she was sort of tweeting at Chris. And it's like, This is so funny that this is happening as Mars is stationing to turn retrograde, revisiting an old astrological debate, you know, and I certainly, I'm definitely on Team Chris with that one because I tend to see things in the same way that he does really, really good arguments and so forth. But aside from all of that, I just couldn't believe that there was an old debate surface. I mean, it's just so quintessentially Mars Retrograde.

Kipp
To really briefly speak up, if you want to listen to just what a beautiful person Chris is, listen back to that old episode where he has Deb on, and he couldn't be more gracious. And at the points where she really had challenged him. I mean, the humble way, I could never have been as just calm and humble as he was when he challenged her points. It's really lovely.

Adam Elenbaas
It was a great episode, he texted me, you know, as the debate started unfolding on social media after she gave this talk at a conference, and he was like, Oh, hey, did you notice this? And, you know, because he because I was so involved with the first iteration of the debate. So he was like, look at all, look at what's happening again. And she had developed some new arguments. And he was sort of like, what do you think about these new arguments? And he already had, of course, just brilliantly formed responses to all of them. But I was like, I was like, what before Chris, before I even respond, now Mars is turning retrograde in Gemini. Can we just take a minute, you know?

Spencer
So anyway, Kanye's chart is up. If you want to take a quick peek, So, you know, I think the thing that sticks out to me is that he has a 10th house ruled by Mars. So he's got the midheaven and the south node here and the 10th. And his Mars, Mars is, you know, retrograding, about to retrograde through his 12th house. And he's losing a lot of sponsorships and things of that nature because of the pretty horrific things that he's saying. I mean, he's using his platform of 18 million Twitter followers to basically spread hate, which is ridiculously crappy. And I'm really disappointed in him. Not that I was ever like a huge fan in the first place. He's kind of been doing some questionable things for a number of years that he seems to get away with. But anyway, we have kind of this retrograde Mars that's going to be grinding over his Sun. He natally has an exiled Mars and Mercury that's on the fixed our Algol. So he's, you know, losing, quote, unquote, losing his head like Medusa quite a bit when he communicates, in my opinion,

Kipp
The eclipse on the eighth that'll be interesting. Hitting him in the house of allies. Because he's been losing allies, maybe this is the avalanche? Yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's a good point. As someone who has algol on my ascendant, I feel like there are some much more generous algol interpretations that I have come across that have helped me just because anytime you mentioned algol, in the negative, there's going to be like, 20 comments, so I'm just getting in front of that. But, but, ya know, there is something about that. I agree that there's something there. And we'll be interesting when Uranus goes over that Mercury. Just as a preview.

Spencer
I think that the positive sides of algol can be deep Feminine Empowerment, right? Where we can be able to utilize our ability to protect ourselves if we feel that we're victims of trauma, but that's not what Kanye is doing. Kanye is using that power to hurt people. And I think that that needs to be, you know, denounced pretty strongly because he could potentially be doing a lot of damage to a lot of very vulnerable people. And I think that's, that's not something that I feel even I don't know, ambivalent about at all.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I agree with you. Oh, yeah, I felt for a long time that if you ever wanted to understand what, like I teach his chart as an example of why the 12th house can be so difficult. Because with the Sun and Jupiter in that house, I think one storyline in his life is, you know, heroic inflation. There's a sense of, you know, I'm Jesus, there's a delusional quality of the Sun and Jupiter in that 12th house that it's unfortunate because I think I try to be fair, because I think he's also at times admitted, and people around him have said, look, he struggles with mental health problems. And so, you know, I try to have some compassion for that and not be judgmental, but I absolutely was just disgusted by the things that I read him saying, personally, so. Well, moving along because we have a bunch of other things. Anything else we want to say about Mars Retrograde this far? Or Mars Neptune thus far?

Kipp
I don't think so. But I definitely think we're gonna get back here.

Spencer
You made one other point that I think was really interesting, harkening back to the last Mars Retrograde in Gemini. I think that was the last one in 1990. Yeah, we're looking at Mike Tyson's chart. And Mike Tyson has read Gemini, Mars, and that when Mars was retrograding, you were pointing out that he got knocked out by Buster Douglas, which was a huge upset that year. So I thought that was worth touching on a little,

Adam Elenbaas
I think it was in the direct period right after it had turned. But still, it would have been a part of that whole sequence in his life. And I think that's what's important. The other thing was that in 1990, there was another Mars Retrograde for a little bit; it was blended with Cancer but in around the housing collapse, which I'm talking about in another video. I think that was more Mars in Cancer, really, but in 1990, the NFL expanded the playoffs. We just read this before we got on the air, expanded the playoffs, and reintroduced bye weeks. And both were meant to jack up the revenue. I wouldn't be surprised if this season, some because of things that happen, for example, concussions. We've already seen a shift in protocol from the NFL Players Association and the NFL after what happened with Tua Tagovailoa. I was like I was proud to do that. Like, you know, if we could see that, again, there could be amendments made to the structure of the competitive, you know, what, how are they addressing competition sales numbers? I wonder, especially given the sloppy beginning of play and some of the other quirky things that could happen this year. Like, could the NFL be making could they make adjustments on some level? Also, the trade deadline is coming up right after Mars turns retrograde, and I've got to think that this could happen; there have already been some bigger splashy trades like Christian McCaffrey; that's a pretty big in-season trade.

Kipp
Kansas City just traded for Tony, the first-round wide receiver from the Giants too. So it's been a busy deadline already.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, wow. Did they? I didn't catch that yet. Well, that's real; that's exactly what. And I just heard the Vikings were thinking about trying to trade for either Chase, Claypool, or Jerry Judy. That was a rumor story. They're trying to get a rookie scale contract in the doors to pair with Justin Jefferson because they're feeling like Adam Thielen is aging or something like that.

Spencer
The word from the Packers is that they're exploring DJ Moore's trades. Yeah, as far as that receiver, we also had Robert Quinn traded from the bears to the Eagles.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that was a big one to get.

Kipp
We don't always see trades. Even one of those trades at the deadline.

Adam Elenbaas
No, it's usually quieter, and I feel like, you know, the Kweisi Adolfo Mensa the Vikings, new Vikings GM at the beginning of the year, was like my philosophy is like, you know, not to go; he said he made it it was a quote from like a USA Today article or something he said you know, we're doing a competitive rebuild. We're not going to go full Rams, which you know, they treat; they made big trades to get players that they thought would take him over the edge, and I don't remember who else I'm not sure who was the Jalen Ramsey I think was one of them. Stefan Miller Stafford right, so we're not gonna go full rams. And what was funny is that there was an article that was like, the Vikings are about to go full Rams because they're unexpectedly hot; the NFC is sort of wide open. Their typical dominate you're getting dominated by the Packers. Sorry, Spencer's not happening this year for once. Maybe it'll still happen you Ever no could be a relax.

Spencer
I don't know if it's gonna happen.

Adam Elenbaas
But I think the point is that you could see some wilder trades because in recent there's more precedent recently with a team like the Rams; for example, if you think you're close, you start going for big trades at the deadline, maybe returns from injury could be interesting during the Mars Retrograde that was one last thing I wanted to mention like you have Odell Beckham Jr. coming back at some point probably joining with a contender after ACL.

Spencer
Scorpio Sun-Mars. Mars ruled

Adam Elenbaas
Jaelyn Williamson. Is that his last name? Jalen Williams,

Spencer
Jameson Williams

Adam Elenbaas
From Alabama, right? Oh, yeah. Detroit. Yep, he hasn't.

Kipp 35:48
Is he gonna come back during the year?

Spencer
Maybe in a month? Oh,

Adam Elenbaas
Wow. Yeah. He's on the waiver wire if you want him.

Spencer
I was touching him because I thought he was going to come back sooner. But I picked up van Jefferson instead. Who is coming back probably this week.

Adam Elenbaas
Look, I picked up DeAndre Hopkins. This was my only sly move where I was like, and he's six weeks in. Mars is going to turn retrograde right as he comes back from suspension. Maybe that's the time where he's going to, you know, explode. The first week out of the gate was pretty good. We'll see how it goes.

Spencer
20 you got 20 points out of them. Yeah, pretty good.

Adam Elenbaas
I'm still it's funny like that the top of our league or was one of my wife's cousins who absolutely does not care. He's like; he started Russell Wilson. Well, Russell Wilson was out last week because he does not even care that this league is happening.

Spencer
Still outscored.

Adam Elenbaas
Ya know, he's like, he just has a really good roster. Okay. Anyway, let's go on to fantasy football updates from Kipp, I believe. Do you want to just rehash some of what you said, a bunch of things that were really interesting to start off the fantasy football season about who you thought would be studs and duds, so to speak? Do you want to recap on some of those?

Kipp
Well, I already I'm just gonna go through a couple of quick we already heard that Nagi Harris, who I thought would be a lock. He, he didn't. He hasn't thus far produced all that well on a team that's very bad. And that's already changed their quarterback. The two guys that I thought were going to have bummer years, one of whom was universally thought to be the guy who would be the first pick of the draft as Jonathan Taylor. He had, he had Uranus, Saturn, and Mars. I believe it was a hard aspect from the Mercury Retrograde hitting his Saturn. And a guy thought to be the top pick overall is somewhere amongst running backs, like in the mid-40s, scoring points. He's missed two games already, came back didn't even have a full workload. And now he's got a second-year quarterback who's a sixth-round pick who's going to be his quarterback for the rest of the year.

Delvin Cook, who's my guy Delvin who universally breaks tackles, gets more out of plays that are there. The advanced stats have always loved him this year. There's a stat that counts. The Yardbirds expected the game based on the blocks now; I don't know how they do that. These are people who pay way closer attention to football than me. But out of the entire league because all 32 starting running backs. He's been between the 29th and the 32nd in that rating during the year, and a guy who universally was considered a first-round pick when it comes to running backs; I think he's 14th overall in points scored. So as far as fantasy goes and just their year in general, those are two guys who are thought to go really high, and those trends looked ugly, and they're really low.

Spencer
I think Jonathan Taylor potentially could turn it around for one reason, and that's the thing that I've been looking at for fancy people, and you know, take my advice with a grain of salt because I'm like either in last place or second. That was a really bad draft due to Kipp's really terrible advice. I picked Harrison number one overall in our league because I thought he was going to be an Uber stud with those 70 receptions and appoint per reception League, but that has not played out due to his Lin's fracture of foot fracture, some sort of that he's been recovering from. So but I think what Jonathan Taylor the deal with him is that he's, he's a Saturn-ruled sun, so he's a Capricorn sun. And Saturn is turning just recently turned direct. So I actually have some hope that Taylor could have a better second half of the season due to his solar ruler turning direct, and I feel the same way about the Pisceans and the Sagittarians. You know, people like Justin Herbert, who I also drafted, who's been middling. And Naji, they could turn it around because Jupiter is going to be sliding back into Pisces and turning direct pretty soon. But if you have Librans right now, you might want to trade your Librans if you could get anything from them or Tauruses because there's to two factors the Sun and its ruler. And then sometimes you'll see people perform really well at their solar opposition, which I find is pretty fascinating. So someone will have some really big games where at the opposition of their Sun, so take a look at Taurus as if you can stomach their ruler being in exile at this point.

Kipp
So trade your Librans for your Pisceans.

Spencer
That's what I've been looking at. That's why I've hung on to Nagi to this point. So we'll see.

Adam Elenbaas
I feel like one thing to watch for in fantasy football is the potential for slow starters to begin shifting direction in terms of their competitive or scoring value. For example, as Mars is slowing down and shifting directions, you're seeing a slow-start team like the Bengals and Joe burrow start to turn around dramatically. Jupiter, in its retrograde, is about to hit Pisces and pick up dignity. Even though Mars Retrograde might be thought of as something that is about deterioration, breakdowns, frustration, etc., the other thing is it can be; I think it can be about changes or shifts in momentum.

I think I'm gonna try to get Nick Dagan Best to come on with us next time. It would be really fun. He's such a wizard when it comes to Retrogrades. Like he has an almanac of information about Retrogrades, and one thing he pointed out one time I'll never forget was that you know Tiger Woods, born with Mars Retrograde in Gemini, has had really dominant periods of performance and victories when Mars has been subsequently retrograde. And he has also pointed out that Mars Retrograde sometimes almost like Mars is going well I then think we're dealing with an out-of-bounds Mars as well, where it's almost like, Could someone start defying the laws of gravity in terms of sports performance? Could there be something like that where Mars is retrograde is like maverick, renegade, unusual performances that are clutch or really dynamic? And so I wonder about changes in momentum that start, you know, that starts happening. Some of them could be obvious; there's the injuries or the setbacks or the frustrations, but then I think that there could be a special category of, like, explosiveness. Anyway, that's just a side thought. I think we should get Nick on the next time we do it to see and have him tell us more about it.

Spencer
The one person who I feel like that could be true for just because he's kind of, like I said, a cyborg. Maybe Josh Allen. Right? That guy has it is so good. Like, I've been watching more football have other teams this year because of fantasy than I ever have in my life.

Kipp
Do you guys play him this year? This week, this week? Yeah.

Spencer
Aaron Rodgers looks old and slow compared to Josh Allen. And just like the arm strength isn't disinterested. Exactly. So but I will say I made that prediction. When we talked about Aaron Rodgers, his chart is that I said he would start slow because his time lord is a fallen moon in Scorpio, and when on his birthday on December 2, it switches over to his Sun, in Sagittarius. So I do think that he may have a better end of the season, but it might be too late; by then, they're racking up losses.

Kipp
It's late; already seven weeks in.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. That Buffalo game is not promising no matter, like, the only team right now that I would be like, okay, you know, maybe the Eagles or the or the chiefs, like you know, but even then, it's like, they're just they're running wild on teams right now. Like, I think they have a 30% chance in most sports books to win the Super Bowl. It's the highest percentage chance I think of it any team has had in a while. Yeah,

Kipp
They're good. And they're hungry. Yes, yeah.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah.

Spencer
I will say just a little sneak preview. There. The coach doesn't have great aspects during the Superbowl. So I don't know.

Adam Elenbaas
That's, yeah, but we'll come back to that. The other thing I wanted to mention about Aaron Rodgers is just that this Mars is stationing in opposition to his Mercury. And he's, at least from what I've read, and Spencer, you're an actual Green Bay fan. So you would know better than me, you know, people have been saying, like, he's been calling people out and getting frustrated and potentially lashing out a little bit.

Spencer
He's throwing everybody under the bus.

Kipp
He's rubbed people the wrong way in the past.

Spencer
To me, it is not really great leadership. I think that he's taking out his frustration, and I think one of the hallmarks of Gemini, in particular maybe Mars in Gemini, is there's sometimes a tendency to project one's divided shadow onto another. So I think that what he's doing right now is he's saying, well, it's not me; it's obvious. Yeah, these people. Yeah, that is pretty toxic. And I think that that's, that's one of the reasons I'm kind of, like, trying to detach a little bit from my passionate fandom because it's a real dumpster fire in Green Bay right now. Also, I will point out the flu, or the Packers coach is a Scorpio. So he's Mars-ruled as well. And he's about to get, you know, Mars retrograded. And Jordan Love is also a Scorpio.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's interesting. Aaron Rodgers has Mars opposite Mercury, while Neptune is also square to Mercury; as someone who has drank ayahuasca a lot and also gone through periods where the experience, while it's very enlightening and very healing, can also give you an inflated sense of wisdom, especially like early on, like when you first drank, you can get sort of like, well, I've had this otherworldly experience that probably a lot of people really can't relate to, but that makes me a guru. Do you know what I mean? And I think there's a comedown from that. And I just wonder, with Neptune approaching his natal Mercury Neptune, he's getting Neptune in Pisces will square Mercury and Neptune and Sag in the next year. And this Mars thing as well, it just, it makes me wonder if his form of communication and into his, his thoughts about his own thoughts aren't going to be like kind of coming up for him personally. Not that I'm trying to psychoanalyze him, but I mean, just when you see the comments that he's making and the things that he's gone through, and you know, he's dating, I think he's dating a woman named like green earth or something. Okay, sorry, I messed it up; Blue Earth? Do you know what I mean? Like, and I'm sure I have no like, my wife's a witch; she's, you know, she's cool. And I like people like that. I have, like, a real soft spot in my heart for the Rainbow Gathering, you know what I mean? But I think that there is a little bit of this that feels like he's inflated somehow just looking.

Kipp
My rainbow friends to an NFL game.

Spencer
Where is it that we'll get a superstar quarterback like that that goes on a nationally syndicated radio show every week and like just shares just off the cuff his feelings like, yeah, Rogers does McAfee show. You know, that's not common.

Adam Elenbaas
I am not; I'm of two minds about him, very Mars and Gemini myself. Like, I have liked his humaneness and his willingness to explore spiritually and existentially. I liked that he was interested in alternative forms of medicine and healing. I liked those things about him and feel like sometimes he's unfairly. He's he becomes the scapegoat for a lot of people's own splits. Do you know what I mean? Like it can go in the opposite direction. But then there are some times where you're just like, Yeah, you know, you've you're just, you know,

Spencer
I feel like he's one of the more unpopular players in the NFL right now. Like, and this is coming from a Packers fan; people who aren't Packers fans have really started dumping on him. That being said, if you know, Aaron, if you're listening, it'd be great if you want to come on the show with us and talk it out. It'd be great. I still have enjoyed watching you all these years.

Adam Elenbaas
After I offer my two cents psychoanalysis of Aaron Rodgers, I'm sure he's gonna want to come and talk to me.

Kipp
Maybe Blue Earth.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I would welcome that. So anyway, yeah. Let's go into NBA predictions. All right. Let me see. No, I mean, Kipp, you've got something for us, right? Yeah.

Kipp
Just really briefly cause I know we're pushing an hour already. One thing I've noticed about NBA charts more than any other chart is the prominence of a really distinct characteristic. And it's almost always positive. So here's Steph Curry. And you see the Jupiter, Venus conjunction, Kevin Garnett, Venus Jupiter, Anthony Edwards, Venus Jupiter. If you look at some of these charts of some of our more substantial players in the league, here's Luca Doncic. Venus, Jupiter. Here is Jason Tatum. You will see Jupiter in Pisces. So I could go on and on about my thoughts about this, but I think it really has to do with the fact that there are so few human beings that play professional basketball, even versus other professional sports like football or baseball. And there's so, like, everything about them is bigger, like they're huge. Here's Zion Williamson, a physical freak of nature. I mean, if this guy lived 1000 years ago, he would have his own empire that he dominated and one by himself. I mean, seriously, it's like Shaquille O'Neal.

Adam Elenbaas
He is a force man.

Spencer
If his knee would have stayed intact.

Kipp
And the crazy part is that I look at this chart. And right away, I don't see some of those signifiers. I see a really packed Cancer house, and I think, jeez, when's Jupiter get into Cancer, because I'm just going to take a second mortgage on my house and put it on him, winning every award. But if you look right here, this Mercury cazimi that's on Sirius, one of the most benefic stars in the sky. So with this loaded house, with indicators of action and indicators of smoothing things out in the North Node, the direction they should be headed, you know, he's got this charm, like the most significant moment in his chart sitting right on Sirius. So I just see this over and over, especially NBA stars, especially with NBA stars who change the direction of a franchise, and using the Timberwolves example, we've had two ones, Kevin Garnett and one's Anthony Edwards, and both of them have the co-presents, Venus and Jupiter. And I could go on and on about Anthony Edward's chart, maybe we'll do that later in the year, but it's one of the most spectacular charts you'll ever see.

The two guys I want to focus on, though, for MVP pics. One is Joel Embiid. And we talked a little bit about this before we went on, and it wasn't really in beneficial way because they're not there have been a crummy start to their season. But if you think of where Jupiter is gonna go as the main, you know, one of those main signifying omens of the year, you see, Jupiter is right now co-president with Venus, Jupiter is going to move over and be co-present with Joelle Sun and with his natal Saturn Mars conjunction but also trine, this conjunction of Pluto and the North Node. This is a fascinating chart; I could talk about the intensity of this chart. And someone who can kind of be brash and sort of a jerk, and Joel Imbiid, that rings him right up. But there are just some really nice omens in this chart for someone who's going to have a career year; the other one, and I think this is a clear winner, is Luka Doncic, kind of thought to be his year. Luke is a fantastic player. You know, one of the best talents we've had come in the league, and I can't even remember how long, but here we see, you know, Luka has got Jupiter right on his natal Jupiter Venus gonna move over be right on top of his natal Mercury co-present with his natal Sun and that Jupiter is going to go back and be right on top of this Jupiter Venus. So my prediction for an NBA MVP, hopefully, we don't have another Nagi Harris in our hands. But my prediction will be Luka Doncic, and I don't really think it's close. For MVP.

Adam Elenbaas
You don't I think about that Saturn and Aries in his chart that one thing that stood out so far in his professional career is it's it might be something weird about the Dallas Maverick karma that he's a bit like Dirk in that there's like, you're gonna have to do it alone. Do you know? It's just gonna be you. Carrying the bearing the cross of the I'm the guy; I'm the individual who has to carry it myself. It feels very Saturn in Aries to me. And yeah, I just would be really curious to look back and be like, okay, you know, when we're like, who are the athletes that were the other athletes that were born in like the whatever 97 to 99 range, whatever it was, who maybe have similar profiles, but I've looked at his chart, and I've thought about that before.

Spencer
I think the only thing that could confirm this is in the NBA; you have something called voter fatigue. You know, when Somebody like this was something with Michael Jordan, like who had what, four or five MVPs, but he probably could have won it every single year. But they were trying to vote someone in that was new. So we've had Giannis win a couple we've had Jokic win at least two.

Kipp
So you can almost cross those guys off right exactly.

Adam Elenbaas
Exactly. Yeah,

Spencer
I think Embiid has won one yet.

Adam Elenbaas
I think he's due Yeah, so

Spencer
It's Embiid, or Luka are really good bets. Especially due to the writers wanting to coronate a new marketable star.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I mean, the Embiid thing is interesting because they love Jupiter with Venus but Luca having a Jupiter return with Venus and with the Saturn, you know, you kind of want to I kind of lean in the same direction, locking in that legacy.

Kipp
Yeah, I'm gonna stop sharing.

Spencer
I'd also point out not to count on us. It is because the honest is having a nodal opposition this year and that Jupiter that juiced up, Jupiter is going to be training his natal Sun eventually, as well. And he looks really, really good right now.

Kipp
I think he's the best player in the league. But I think you nailed it when you brought up the idea that he's one too. And I think if someone has, you know if someone's within 5% of him, quality of season-wise, that the tie goes to the runner.

Adam Elenbaas
It's not so different from the NFL, where Coach of the Year is rarely the best coach but most likely the best story. You know, it's like, like, for example, Kevin O'Connell, the new coach of the Vikings, has them at five and one. If they go 12 wins, 13 wins make it to the NFC Championship compared to where they were last year. What's the coach of the Giants? I always forget his name.

Kipp
The guy from the Bills, I believe.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, then he's getting a Giants team that nobody thought would do anything, you know. So it's usually like, I feel like usually, the Coach of the Year is not like, Bella check. It's even if he's like the most masterful chess player. You know, it's usually like, the feel-good story that sort of, and it's a lot of it. It is marketing too. I was listening, actually, to a baseball podcast recently where they were talking about how, you know, the way that awards are given out and chosen now is, like, so gimmicky and driven by marketing that it's not even really about skill, and I can't remember which award he was talking about, but it was he was like, frustrated. They were expressing frustration over so I think it's it's something that happens across all sports that certain awards are shifted.

Kipp
In a lot of ways, with coaches, especially because he would just have to name the Coach of the Year award. The Bill Belichick award in the NBA would just be the Gregg Popovich award.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, here's LeBron James's chart. Mars is stationing, almost exactly on the ascendant of his chart. I can't help but notice that it is stationing there. And, you know, for me, the potential for that to feel like a frustration. I think at this point; he might be just cashing checks and trying to break the all-time scoring record anyway with the Lakers to sort of cement his legacy. But I think that this could be a super frustrating season. Could LeBron James be traded?

Kipp
He signs the contracts. And during this season, he can't be traded.

Adam Elenbaas
Really? Yeah. I didn't know how that worked. I just thought like, could they move him? Could he demand to be moved?

Kipp
I guess that can't happen. They can trade Anthony Davis.

Adam Elenbaas
That's interesting.

Spencer
And that eclipses right on his natal Pluto two that we just experienced this past week.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, okay. Gotcha. Could it be an injury? I mean, you know, I hate to say that, but like he's got, he's had more of them over the past few years. The other thing is that he's going to get the mercury Mars opposition coming up in the next month. You know, across his natal Mercury. So with Uranus, could he say something? Could he finally, after a bunch of losing? Could he be like saying something that's a little foot in the mouth?

Spencer
He's gonna go full Aaron Rodgers.

Adam Elenbaas
Right yeah, and the other thing honestly that I think about a little bit with him is he has a Venus Saturn square. That Venus Saturn square is going to be reactivated with Saturn going over it. I wonder about his international relationships in business. I think including China elsewhere. I wonder about those things. I wonder about international things for him this year, with Venus in the ninth getting hit by Saturn and activating the Venus Saturn square; he's already had some controversy about that. I don't recall what all the details were, but there was some years ago, do you remember?

Kipp
Exactly trine the station degree of Mars too.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's interesting. Anyway, I feel like it doesn't look like a super great year for LeBron. Either that or, you know, just with the proximity of Mars stationing so close to his ascendant, could there be some kind of, you know, a little bit of a wild ride coming up here?

Spencer
The Mercury Retrograde in Capricorn at the end of December is going to grind right over his Jupiter Sun conjunction. So it starts retrograding right around his Jupiter, and it turns the Sun, so yeah, news with him. Late December, early January.

Adam Elenbaas
Well, it has to be said, what could happen for Tiger Woods? He's a dominant athlete, born with Mars Retrograde in Gemini. And it's not like there are any major golf events at this time of year. I don't think so. Right. They usually get going in the spring, and then they kind of run through the fall, right?

Kipp
Is he playing in that new Saudi tour?

Adam Elenbaas
I don't think so. No, I think he's been on the PGA side of that debate. That's an interesting thing. I mean, could there be something with the Mars Retrograde in that whole standoff between the LIV tour and the PGA? I don't know, that's an interesting thing to think about. I think we're going to try to get Nick on next time because he's an expert on that subject. So that ought to be interesting. I don't know; I like golf. I like video game golf, especially. Golden Tee. Played a lot of that in college. Remember that?

Adam Elenbaas
My favorite was Hot Shots Golf. I don't know if you guys ever played that for PlayStation. It was really, really fun. Because it makes you feel good because you're hitting eagles from like 80 yards out. That's the only way I've ever going to be good at golf; as if it's a video game, that is also very easy. Anyway, well, thank you guys for being here. We got through a lot of good things today. We're at an hour, so I think we will wrap up; I think Spencer, you had a few things that we weren't able to get to today so let's bookmark the south node and the Super Bowl and stuff like that for next time. That's not okay. Series prediction before Oh World Series. No, no, we got to hear that because World Series is coming up. Let you go for it. We'll close with that.

Spencer
So I'll try to make it pretty quick. But I'll I'm going to share my screen.

Adam Elenbaas
So the Astros and the Phillies are playing. I'm not a big Philadelphia fan.

Kipp
Houston, who are a bunch of cheaters. Philly has probably the worst fan base, the least generous and welcoming. What's the term? That old Greek term for the proper treatment of guests in your home? They're like the opposite of that.

Spencer
Open up the chart for Dusty Baker.

Kipp
Oh, it's Dusty. Is he coaching Houston?

Spencer
Yeah, he's coaching for the Houston Astros.

Kipp
So, man, he's been a coach most of my life.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Yeah. Could it be with Mars Retrograde and Mercury sign and Mercury going into Scorpio that we relive the cheating, there could be a new, a new form of cheating exercise during.

Kipp
I just hope everyone talks about it the whole time. Right? You get no credit. We just talked about the cheating.

Adam Elenbaas
They probably are gonna have people there banging on trash cans.

Kipp
Oh, for sure.

Spencer
So I've got pulled up right now, the chart of the game that could be game seven of the 2022 World Series. So I was looking at this today. And what I did is I pulled up championship-winning games for three different sports over the last two years. Now we're not going to; we don't have time to go through all of it. But the pattern that I was seeing was that the losing coach had some significant South Node connection. So here we see; first of all, just to point out, Dusty Baker, the coach of the Houston Astros, is, has a Gemini sun at 24 degrees of Gemini, which is very close to the Mars Retrograde, which made me first like, well, he's in trouble at this World Series. But I wouldn't have looked last year, and I looked at what happened last year because, funnily enough, Dusty was in the world series last year, and he lost the World Series. And on the day he lost the World Series, you can see that the ruler of his Sun. Mercury was conjoining his natal south node. And this was some pattern that I saw quite a bit, repeating some significant South Node action for the losing coach of the championship. So here's him losing. Now, let's fast forward again back to this year. And we can see that we've got the 2022 World Series, we have, you know, we've got a Pluto on his part of spirit, which could be something interesting, but I wanted to show you the chart of the other manager, which is His name is Rob Thompson. And he is the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies.

If you notice, he has the ruler of his Sun, okay, and the south node is going to be joining his natal Neptune. So he has the ruler of his Sun conjoining the south node and making prominent contact to a planet in his chart. So to me, it's interesting to see the pattern with that, that that he's not going to win, right because the nodes are related to Fortune and the North Node with increasing material fortune, potentially, in the south node having to let go of something. So I feel like it's not that dusty has great stuff going on this year. However, one could say that he has unfinished business that he needs to, you know, complete this year, rather than what he didn't complete last year that might be part of his Mars Retrograde story. He's also in a natal, numerological nine year which is about completing something. Dusty Baker has been around forever; as Kipp said, he's never won the big one as a coach. He won it as a player in 1981. But he is in a nine-year, which often denotes completion and being able to finish something. So I think we're looking at Rob's kind of chart here where he has a South Node contact with a ruler of his Sun on a natal planet; I think that he is probably going to lose. And I think that this pattern was repeated, and I won't bring up every single chart, but I'll just read over some things.

So in the World Series in 2021, Brett Snitker of the Atlanta Braves had Venus conjoining his natal north node, which was the ruler of his Libra sun. Dusty Baker had Mercury conjoining, his south node, which is the ruler of his Gemini Sun. He also had the North Node connecting with his natal Mars, but in his chart, sometimes we'll see the North Node conjoining a planet that isn't in great condition. So this one is kind of there's some challenges potentially with this Mars harming his Sun. In 2020, Dave Roberts had Saturn conjoining his north node and the North Node conjoining his natal Sun; I believe that was the Los Angeles Dodgers won. And the loser Kevin Cash had the South Node conjoining his natal Sun and Mars conjoining his natal south node. So that's baseball.

In the NBA world, we had this past year and 2022, Steve Kerr had Mercury conjoining his natal north node, and Venus conjoining the north node, which is the ruler of his Libra sun, and then Ime Udoka had Mars conjoining his natal South Node, as well as a Saturn opposition to his Sun and Saturn. So if I could just keep going down the list, I have a bunch more. But the one thing I did want to show you is so I'm going to predict that the Astros are going to win the World Series. So that's Prediction number one. And I want to make one other thing just really quickly because I want to just put this out there. And we can revisit this, but I have one person who I think is going to lose the Super Bowl. I don't know exactly who's going to win the Super Bowl. But I have a feeling that Nick Sirianni, the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, is going to lose the Super Bowl. And I say this because he has Mercury exactly conjoining his south node, which is a pattern that we see for losing championship coaches. I guess my prediction at this point is as far as who's going to win the Super Bowl. I'll just throw this out there. Andy Reid has some pretty good aspects going on during the Super Bowl. And he's also at a natal opposition. So I think it's going to be the Chiefs over the Eagles.

Kipp
I just want to say that I'm depressed that Mars is still going to be in Gemini when the Super Bowl happens. Funny.

Spencer
Well, Buffalo, who has like, you know, everybody is their darling right now, you look at Sean McDermott's chart. You do not see any of that. Nodal action, what you do see, though, is that he does have a Mars return that day. So that's something to keep an eye on, potentially.

Kipp
He'll be in his house punching the wall. Maybe.

Spencer
I mean, if he does have, if he is in the game, it would seem to suggest potentially that he would lose because of the connection with the south node. So I'm still leaning toward the Chiefs and Eagles. But I do think that there are some contexts that could suggest the bills as well. I know that that's sort of a cop-out.

Kipp
But I love that you again, you put it on the table way ahead, right?

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, forgot to mention this. Let's all just round us out with these. Those are nice predictions. I like that. Here's my little horary for this Sunday's Vikings-Cardinals matchup, which I threw as we started today. So in horary, you're really starting off in competition horary by comparing the first and seventh house rulers, your team for the first opponent for the seventh. So you have the Arizona Cardinals as the Moon in Sagittarius and the 10th house, the Vikings as a recently turned direct Saturn in the first house. That's a pretty close matchup from the standpoint of dignity because the moon has no dignity of its own but is in a pretty dominant house. Saturn's in its own domicile and in an angle. So it looks pretty evenly matched just from that standpoint. I think it is also interesting that the moon, as a picture of the Cardinals, has just left Scorpio, and the last game that the Cardinals played, they really felt like it was like they played the Saints and they just walloped them. Although they had some good luck from Andy Dalton throwing a bunch of pics of the moon coming out of its fall and going into Sag, and having just hit a trine to Jupiter is sort of a good picture of their last game. And sort of writing on that game. I wonder how much that lasts, given the reception with Jupiter and the fact that Jupiter is about to leave Aries very shortly. It's like right there.

The other thing is that you know, so it could be a picture of a team on the rise. It could be a picture of a team that has gotten better, but it's not now suddenly dominant enough to beat a team that is Saturn in its own sign in its own house because they're playing at home. You know, I feel like as I look at this I'm it's a real toss-up for me. Part of me is just with Vikings. Luck, you know, like I feel like I'm tempted to pick the Cardinals only because I feel like that that 10th House position to me feels like, oh gosh, that's hard. So it's a real toss-up. I'm gonna go ahead and pick. I think I will pick the Vikings. It's hard to argue against Saturn in your own house in an angle. But I have real hesitations with Saturn barely getting going direct again after a bye week and the moon as the Cardinals having gotten out of bad dignity recently, so I could easily be wrong about this. So I'm going to pick the Vikings, but I think I wouldn't be shocked if I was wrong about it.

Kipp
A lot on the cusp vibes here. You know, it's so close to that Jupiter being in his own domicile ruling that moon but not quite. Just came out of Scorpio, you know, but it just came out.

Spencer
And I didn't toss a horary, but I'm gonna pick the Bills over the Packers.

Adam Elenbaas
The Bills over your home team. Right, right.

Kipp
Speaking of vibes. Yeah.

Spencer
Actually, I hope to eat those words later. But

Adam Elenbaas
That would be like the NFL season to see the Packers, who lost the Commanders, suddenly turn around and beat the Bills. That would be exactly on course for this year, wouldn't it?

Spencer
I mean, that is the day that Mars is retrograding, so, you know, stranger things have happened.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, well, this weekend's games should be interesting, with Mars turning retrograde over the weekend. Anyway, you can find Spencer at Spencer Michaud.

Spencer
You can find me on Instagram and Twitter at SpencerMichaud. Thank you. That's good. I have a YouTube channel, SpencerMichaud astrology, where I do weekly forecasts and monthly transit reports and things like that and have special guests every once in a while. And that was very fortunate to have you as a guest a few weeks ago, so check that out.

Adam Elenbaas
Oh, well, thank you. You are very special guests to hear like you. Kipp. Twitter, tell us how you pronounce that.

Kipp
@eudaimoniaastro. I also have old back versions of the Basement Astrology if you're interested. Check it out. Lots of fun. Yes.

Adam Elenbaas
Yeah. Basement Astrologer podcast. That was That was fun. I hope you bring it back at some point. All right. Well, thank you, everybody, for listening. We appreciate you listening to us ramble on about our hobbies and our past, like astrologers, are not always. You know, like, I have a lot of astrologer friends, and although we work with clients, and we talk about people's lives, most astrologers have a side practice. It could be your favorite movie stars, historical figures, authors, or sports figures, and part of learning astrology is to have a little bit of fun with it and track out some of the subjects that you're passionate about. So we're glad to do this, and we will be glad to do it again next month with hopefully lots of good updates on Mars is retrograde. Maybe I'll get Nick Dagan Best to come on if I can convince him to. I think he's in South Africa. So I don't know if the time how the time zones will work. But we'll figure it out. All right, take it easy, everyone.