The Sports Astrologer - Ken Hopkins

Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 28, 1927 2pm Secondary progressed declination chart

Joe Paterno, Dec 21, 1926 12noon NYC

Jerry Sandusky Jan 26,1944 12N Washington, Pa Secondary Progressed Declination Chart

Jerry Sandusky transits Jan 26, 1944

LSU Tigers Dec 20, 1897 1p (rectified)

During the 2010 off-season using a noon chart for Peyton Manning's birthdate March 24, 1976 in New Orleans, La., the progressed Moon formed a parallel with Pluto's natal declination point. So often when this celestial aspect occurs in the chart of an individual, it equals time off. Often it takes an earth year or more to recover physically and/or mentally. With reports of two neck surgeries and another as of yet unconfirmed surgery, what are the prospects of a healthy Peyton in 2011. It's iffy at best. If Peyton came into the world at 6am, the exact parallel takes place in April of 2011. An even earlier birth time would move the exact date back more. Another event is on tap for next year as the progressed Moon makes a hit on the natal south node placement. If one believes in karma, it can mean a visit of residue from the past. It can mean a letting go or giving up of a life position. It's difficult to say if this could lead to a retirement a few years earlier than hoped for by fans. Peyton doesn't give up easily but as the progressed Moon moves to the northern extreme, 2014 and 2015 would be likely retirement years if injuries were not a factor. We wish him well on his road to recovery and if his health returns hope we can see many more completions and TDs.

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Some key years for Peyton include his first year in 1998. The progressed Moon touched the north node as if it were anointing a gridiron king. After the Moon went to the southern extreme and came back to the north node declination, Manning collected his first of four MVP awards. At the end of 2006, The Moon formed a parallel with Mercury coinciding with the Super Bowl victory over the Chicago Bears.

Bret Favre Oct 10, 1969 Gulfport, Miss

Bret is likely to "stay" retired. Often when the progressed Moon is at a northern or southern extreme, major life changes unfold. Retirement is one of those changes.

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Super Bowl 2008 XLII

Astrology and the Super Bowl:

A Giant Leap of Faith

By Ken Hopkins

Can the New England juggernaut to an historical unbeaten season be derailed? New York Giant fans for the most part are convinced that team that gave the Patriots fits in the final regular season game at the Meadowlands can finish the job in Super Bowl XLII in Glendale. Many pigskin aficionados will point to that Saturday night game that originally was scheduled for the NFL network exclusively but due to the monumental significance of an undefeated NFL regular season a vast TV audience watched Eli Manning coming of football age. The Pats came to Giants Stadium as 14-point favorites and wound up trailing part of the game before finishing just three points better than the Big Guys. Since the kickoff that Saturday evening, the Giants have been on a mission. A mission that has evolved into a journey to immortality. Not only are the Giants the first NFC team to make it to the Super Bowl as a wildcard team, but they now own the longest road winning streak in 90 years of NFL history! Should they win on the first February Sunday in Arizona, they will have extended that streak to 11 and stopped New England from becoming the second team to go unbeaten for a season. Perhaps another dose of immortality, especially in the minds of the 1972 Dolphins. As a sidebar the Patriots are just two games behind the Giants in consecutive road wins, having won all eight road games this year.

Sportscasters and fans alike often make reference in a joking way to the stars being aligned when things come together for an athlete or a team. Usually this in reference to an MVP year or a championship. That adage of many a true word is spoken in jest rings true and I’m here to shed some celestial light on the match up for this year’s Super Bowl.

Astrology is so much more involved than reading one’s sun sign forecast for the day. There are many influences that go into the make up of a real horoscope. There’s Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the outer planets such as Uranus, Neptune and even the “dwarf planet” Pluto. I have looked at astrology for decades with an inner knowing that somehow sports outcomes can be predicted with the stars(planets). For years I decided to focus on the Moon and Mercury in my studies. After 15 years of working and studying it became obvious that Mercury cycles were more responsive to the happenings on the field than lunar cycles. During this time I was studying things from a longitudinal basis, in essence where a planet is from where it rises in the east to where it sets in the west continuing to the east point again. In the last four years, I have discovered a different astrological discipline called declinations. Declinations are based on where a planet is north or south of the celestial equator. This approach seems to be far more indicative of game outcomes and yearly team and individual forecasts than any system I’ve used before. I’m one that wants to predict based on how a team or athlete has performed in the past under similar astrological circumstances. To do this I look at where the Moon and Mercury were at the beginning of every game, home and away. Sometimes that equals hundreds of game dates.

In sports these days there are two major contests going on the field simultaneously. There is the actual or real winner on the field based on who scored the best whether it’s higher point or run totals in football, basketball and baseball, or the fewest such as golf. The second game is betting. Most of the football research I have done incorporates both major contests. Now let’s look at the game.

The Teams:

New York Giants: First Game: October 4, 1925 2:30pm New Britain, Ct

Coach Tom Coughlin August 31, 1946 Sun Sign Virgo, Moon sign Scorpio

QB: Eli Manning, January 3, 1981 Sun Sign Capricorn, Moon sign Sagittarius

New England Patriots: First Game: September 17, 1971 1:00pm Foxboro, Ma

(originally established as the Boston Patriots September 9, 1960 8:00pm at Boston, Ma)

Coach: Bill Belichick, April 16, 1952 Sun Sign Aries, Moon sign:Capricorn

QB: Tom Brady, Aug 3, 1977: Sun Sign: Leo, Moon sign: Aries

Planetary game data: Moon: 7 Degrees Capricorn at –27.20. Mercury is retrograde at 20 Aquarius at –11.37. Probably the most significant celestial event is the Moon far to the south. A position that is OOB(Out of Bounds). What this means is that a planet has exceeded the maximum travel of the Sun at 23 degrees and 26 minutes, the exact tilt of the earth from its axis. The Moon will exceed the solar declination maximum once every two weeks, as the Moon swings to the north, it is the signs of Gemini and Cancer out of bounds and then two weeks later it’s in Sagittarius and Capricorn. The Moon is symbolically linked to the emotions, personal and public. It seems that many of the most newsworthy of events unfold when the Moon is in the extreme positions. This being the largest single day sporting event of it’s kind in any year, lends perfectly to extreme public interest. The Moon is not out of bounds every year for the Super Bowl, so this could be an unusual year.

There certainly could be more fan interest than usual. We know that we have teams with two impressive streaks, The Patriots having a chance to run the table and finish unbeaten at 19-0 for an NFL season which has never been done before and the Giants have an opportunity to extend their NFL record of 10 consecutive road wins, something that has not been accomplished in 90 years of NFL competition. Which steak is more difficult to achieve. The discussions could go eternal!

So how have the teams fared with the Lunar and Mercury cycles? Glad you asked. Let’s look at the favorite New England Patriots. The Patriots are 12-point favorites. The Pats have gone 9-2 winning as a road tossup or favorite when the Moon was out of bounds in the southern extreme. Their Mercury accomplishments at the 11th degree 1-2 straight up and against the line.

The Giants’ Lunar cycle is not as strong as a road underdog as the Patriots are a road favorite. The Big Guys are 5-7 with a 6-6 record versus the line. The Mercury cycle though has them 1t 3-0 winning all three games as an underdog which means they covered the spread as well.

With other games this past season when two teams facing each other had winning indicators, the underdog has won. The Fiesta Bowl comes to mind as well as last week’s Packer-Giant game. This game should be close and I don’t expect the handicapper’s 53 and one half total points to be met. Oh, and what about that giant leap of faith? This year is a leap year, so maybe we could see a New York team “leap” over the burgeoning myth of the New England area teams that seem so dominating of late. A Giant leap just might do it!

Here’s the “Leaping” score New York Giants 26 New England 23

The Quarterbacks: Tom Brady: Has some challenging energies at 5:20pm and 7:20 pm, while there is potential for positives at 5:35pm and 6:35pm. (If the teams aren’t on the field, the energies will remain idle.) Eli Manning: High/positive energy times are 5:45pm(near end of 1st half and 6:40 pm(probably the middle of the 3rd quarter.

Astrological Super Bowl Trivia During a nine-year stretch 1971-1979 at least one of the starting quarterbacks was an Aquarian. More Aquarius Trivia: Two were born Feb 3rd, two Feb 5th and the last three to appear in Super Bowls were all born Feb 14th. No other sign has more than one QB born on a date. Even More Aquarian Trivia: Also only once did an Aquarian QB win a game where the other QB was not an Aquarian in A super Bowl game..

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