Astrology of Lance Armstrong’s confession

Oprah Winfrey's exclusive no-holds-barred interview with Lance Armstrong  took place on Monday, January 14, in Austin, Texas. After years of tenacious spin that he was innocent, Lance Armstrong has backpedaled in a confessional interview with Oprah Winfrey. He admitted unequivocally to using performance enhancing drugs in his seven Tour de France wins. After winning various legs of the Tour de France, Armstrong's sporting career ground to a halt in 1996, when he was diagnosed with cancer. He was 25. He told Winfrey that he then developed a "ruthless and relentless" attitude that helped him survive. But he carried it with him into his sports career, "and that's bad," he said.

Shown above is Armstrong’s horoscope. The time of birth is not known so that a noon horoscope has been drawn. We notice that his Sun [25vi07] is conjunct Pluto [29vi23] and the star Alkaid  [26vi32] of Ursa Major. According to Ptolemy, Ursa Major is like Mars. It is said to give a quiet, prudent, suspicious, mistrustful, self-controlled, patient nature, but an uneasy spirit and great anger and revengefulness when roused.

In astrology Pluto aspects to Sun are associated with ruthlessness and a tremendous urge for power and control. Since Sun is also associated with health and Pluto with life threatening diseases like cancer, HIV, AIDS [1] it is not surprising to note that he was diagnosed with Cancer.  And very aptly this happened in 1996 when Saturn in transit was opposing his Sun-Pluto conjunction. Saturn transits to Pluto are known to be “make or break” times when whatever we are running away from begins to catch up with us.

Listed below are  a quick summary of a few other aspects in his horoscope with references so that readers can see for themselves that they are fairly easy to interpret with just a little bit of help.

The lunar eclipse  [6ge] of November 2012 fell  on Armstrong’s Saturn which  is part of a T-square involving Mercury-Jupiter-Neptune. (See above)

Saturn-Mercury square: Profound liar, thief, blackguard, scandal and slander.[2]

Mercury-Neptune  square :hides facts (remains silent), invents facts or simply misunderstands the information and is confused. Lying with a Mercury-Neptune is easy and is done by giving misty information or by 'pretending' facts.[3]

Jupiter-Neptune: People who built their castles on sand are  discovering that the tide has changed (and that piddly little bump is  where their fortress used to be.)[4]

In 2012, Neptune transit at 0pi has been squaring his natal Jupiter-Neptune [0sg] and therefore affecting the entire T-square.  This was when his lies were discovered and he was stripped of his title.  

So why is he is giving this interview and coming clean? To answer this question we go back to the solar eclipse  in November that set the stage for what is happening now.

The total solar eclipse of 13^th November 2012,[6] took place at 21sc57. Its draconic counterpart was at 25pi53 opposite Armstrong’s radix Sun [25vi07]. “An eclipse creates a relaxation and re-stimulation both in Earth’s energy grid and in our neurobiological resonance providing an opportunity to release the past and engage in a fresh start”.[5]

The eclipse at 21sc57 is exactly at the midpoint of Pluto  [7cp45] and asteroid Bacchus [7li23] forming a semisquare aspect to each.

Here is Martha-Wescott’s interpretation of this combination from Delineate V2.

During this cycle, you could well be aware of people who "bottom out"  with an addiction; they reach that crucial "surrender" and see that they  are powerless over whatever they perceive to have a hold on them. But there are some other possibilities:

* You may see that people are in denial in terms of their Control  Issues; ie., they think they have Let Go of some things that are still  running their show.

* You may see that people USE an addiction to engage others in a control  or domination struggle...the addiction is just yet another way of  playing manipulation games.

* And you could note that there are addictive tendencies fueled by  surfacing feelings (and the fact that a person feels "driven to the  wall" about something in their life.)

One other thing I want to comment on here.  I'm getting the sense that,  among the insights you could have with this, are those that deal with  how effective an addiction cycle has been in teaching one about  releasing control attempts. As you know, people can stop whatever the  outward thing is that they do that is seen as "their addiction," but  that doesn't mean that, on an emotional level, they've been able to move  toward acceptance of life without untoward attempts to make things go  "their way;" it also doesn't mean that there's been a release of  unhealthy self-preoccupation, of "growing up emotionally," or of facing  consequences and not looking for excuses (for emotional processes or  other perceived shortcomings.)  Observing the nuances of all this should  make some of the coming days v-e-r-y interesting![4]

[1] http://www.en.astrogr.com/articles/various-articles/68-pluto-and-medical-astrology.html

[2] http://www.constellationsofwords.com/categories/natalrobson.htm

[3] http://www.astromarkt.net/aspects-with-mercury.html

[4] Martha-Lang Wescott, Delineate V2

[5] Lunar Planner, Nick Fiorenza

[6] Note:

The Ascendant of the Nov 13 New Moon  at Austin, Texas was 25ar18  and for the eclipse 26ar41 so that following Sabian symbols are brought to our attention. In the context of Armstrong’s interview the symbols need no explanation…they speak for themselves.

PHASE 26 (ARIES 26°): A MAN POSSESSED OF MORE GIFTS THAN HE CAN HOLD. KEYNOTE: Obsession by potentiality. 

PHASE 27 (ARIES 27°): THROUGH IMAGINATION A LOST OPPORTUNITY IS REGAINED.KEYNOTE: Revision of attitude and inner revaluation.

PHASE 28 (ARIES 28°): A LARGE AUDIENCE CONFRONTS THE PERFORMER WHO DISAPPOINTED ITS EXPECTATIONS.KEYNOTE: The necessity for mature preparation and self-criticism.