Footballers & Mars conjunct Pluto Kicking off in the UK

by Deborah Houlding

No one in the UK is unaware of the bizarre collection of football-related news items pounding the media at the moment. Other visitors might have been spared the gory details. The synchronicity is remarkable and concerns a number of high profile stories concerning the sordid antics of professional footballers. These include:

A very distressing tale of a 17 year old claiming to have been gang-raped by up to seven footballers, a number of who are premiership players. The dispute is apparently not whether the event took place, but how many were involved and whether it was consensual - one of the men claiming that this type of sex is just a common occurrence in footballing circles.

Another, unrelated rape investigation involving a Leeds United player.

Controversy over drugs tests.

Widespread condemnation over the England team's threat to refuse to play at an important international game because the FA suspended a player who didn't take a drug test - and no doubt there will be more international ramifications over that.

On the rape theme, as I write on 21st October, Venus is currently approaching the trine of Mars bringing matters of a sexual nature to the fore. Mars is still very volatile, moving from the disturbing influence of Uranus to the amplifying opposition of Jupiter. In the UK that Mars is particularly vice-ridden when compared to our national chart. It is transiting the 5th house of sport in the 1801 UK chart and closing into the conjunction of Pluto at 2 Pisces 43. (In the 1066 chart Pluto is at 3 Pisces 52 - so in either of these main charts there's a Mars-Pluto conjunction bringing themes of vice and misuse of power).

Also in the 1801 chart: -

Saturn rules the 5th house cusp, with transiting Saturn applying to the conjunction of the 10th house Moon - drawing public attention.

Transiting Neptune is conjunct the 5th house cusp.

Transiting Pluto is exactly conjunct Mercury in the 3rd house of press. There are quite a few other significant contacts worth checking if anyone is interested.

With Pluto on Mercury, there's a heavy undertone to TV soaps and a lot of news stories at the moment. Public controversies and enquiries, political intrigues and investigations. But for the moment Mars conjunct Pluto in the 5th certainly seems to be expressing itself through the world of sport and has found an easy target in our footballers and their self-centred lifestyles. Let's hope Sven hasn't got any remaining undisclosed secrets.

UK 1801 Chart - 1st January 1801 00.00hrs, London, Placidus Houses Source: Book of World Horoscopes Chart # 357

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