Pluto & sports
Once upon a time, news broadcasts and sports broadcasts were quite separate. If an athlete rose to a level of general recognition, it was as a mythic folk hero who was assumed to live an exemplary life.
In 1995, Pluto moved into Sagittarius, the sign which rules sports and is active in the charts of most athletes. The power and intensity of Pluto drew widespread attention and more and more ‘sport’ stories moved into the general news.
A week after Pluto moved into Sagittarius, football hero O.J. Simpson went on trial for the brutal murder of two people.
With a ‘Hello World’ Tiger Woods turned professional in 1996, became an instant multi-millionaire through endorsement deals and won the Masters the following year.
Wrestler Owen Hart was killed in a tragic fall during a televised match and golfer Payne Stewart took off in a small plane and never landed.
There were scandals associated with the awarding of the 2002 Olympic games to Salt Lake City and with the judging of figure skating. Sport stars were found to be using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. An NBA referee gambled on many of the games he refereed. Michael Vick, NFL star, financed and operated a brutal dog fighting operation.
Pluto intensifies, exposes and transforms. With more attention to the world of sports, more sins were exposed. In 2007, the last year of Pluto in Sagittarius, sports stars are no longer given automatic folk hero status. When Barry Bonds hit a record-breaking home run, there were as many stories about his suspected steroid use as there were about the new record and, when Alberto Contador won the Tour de France, the world yawned and waited for the drug test results.
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