Michael Vick

Michael Vick today plead guilty to a Felony Charge of owning and running a dog fighting business out of a home he owns in Virginia. I pay less attention to Football players than to Baseball Players, because, the Baseball Players, they have nice butts, at least there's something to watch.

Michael Vick
b. June 26, 1980 Newport News, VA

Sun 6 Cancer; Moon Sagittarius; NN 22 Leo

Sun in Cancer with a Sagittarius Moon. Well, you could say that it makes sense that he'd run some kind of competitive sports business out of his own home.

The Wikipedia article says that Vick is the most exciting player in Football. To me that means that he's volatile. I wanted to know where it says in his chart that he's mean and cruel. He and his friends murdered about 8 dogs in cold blood just because the dogs didn't win the fights. Looking at the chart, one sees that Vick has a close conjunction of Mars to Saturn in Virgo. Okay, Saturn is always pulling Mars back and Mars is always just plain old pulling. All this pressure on repression in a cold sign like Virgo can come out in odd ways. You find this aspect a lot in Librarian's charts. (And I'm not kidding about that.) But Virgo rules the 6th house of Amazing Household Pets and I guess people love their pets in all kinds of weird ways.

This Mars-Saturn aspect is very busy in Vick's chart. It's apex of a small triangle between Uranus in Scorpio trine Mercury in Cancer. Dude's thinking patterns are sharp, precise, and aggressive. Mars-Saturn is also apex of a t-square to Gemini Venus opposite Sagittarius Neptune; maybe also Moon in Sagittarius. You throw in the Sagittarius and Pisces and Venus elements, well, you'd expect the guy to love animals. He could even be a real moosh-moosh. Guess when you grow up in the projects and achieve instant success out in the world your idea of what to do with what you love gets a little distorted. Anyway, this also shows an indicator for violence and emotionally explosive tendencies because of the square/opposition aspects, especically between Moon-Mars-Saturn.

There are a number of aspects indicating Star Power, Competitive Nature and Athletic abilities in Vick's chart. He's got a Leo North Node and his Sun has just progressed into that sign this year so he has probably been overdoing the whole act lately. Vick's Sun and Jupiter aspect each other in a sextile which shows talent in anything competitive and having to do with the public. This is doubly emphasized because these planets are otherwise not sharing any aspects with other planets. They really stick out when compared with that Mars-Saturn conjunction and it's control over the rest of his planets. Venus-Neptune can be easily deceived and will eventually try to deceive as well.

The Uranus in Scorpio squaring the Nodes also indicates that he could suffer through his friends in his lifetime if the negative sides of Scorpio and Leo and Aquarius are used. .In business areas he's probably pretty shrewd and knows how to work the system. And it would give entrepreneurial skills, only not necessarily the conscience that one would hope to go with that.

Vick allegedly started this dog fighting business with his friends 6 years ago. That would have been around the same time that he was hired on as a Pro with the Atlanta team. At that point the Saturn-Pluto opposition would have been right on top of his Venus-Neptune (also maybe Moon) opposition and squaring his Mars-Saturn. This is a definite indicator of cruelty and violence. But, it's also a great aspect to enhance one's killer instincts as a Football player. Venus-Neptune-Moon is so soft, that's not really what one expects in a Professional Football Player's chart. He should work on improving his relations women rather than looking for "bitches" in the dog world.

The Transits have now filled in the empty leg of that t-square and Vick's been caught. On April 25, 2007 when the business was exposed, t.Mars-Uranus-North Node were all in conjunction in Pisces opposite natal Mars-Saturn and t.South Node. The Moon was also conjunct Saturn on Vick's natal North Node in Leo while Neptune was conjunct his South Node. You may be able to pass up the other team's tackle, you may be able to outrun the other team, but Saturn will always catch you.

It's interesting that Vick, who was born with Venus Retrograde, was going through a Venus return on that day. Pluto and now Jupiter have been transiting on his natal Neptune pretty much the whole time since he went pro. Same for Paris Hilton and just look at the hideous crap she makes those little dogs wear.

It's also interesting that Vick's progressed Mercury is coming out of Retrograde this year. Hopefully, he will use this experience to speak out openly about the awful circumstances in which he grew up, not the most nurturing environment for a Mercury in Cancer type.