Recently, San Francisco Giants home run slugger, Barry Bonds (see chart) found himself on the sixty-day disabled list. Given his absence this year, the Giants struggle mightily without his potent bat and his prodigious impact upon the pitching strategies of opponents. Questions fly as to his ability to return from recent injuries and why he may or may not return from these injuries.
Bond’s chart is currently a bases loaded situation for an interpreting astrologer. Uranus now opposes his Uranus and Pluto, Pluto opposes his Venus and soon his Mars, Uranus only recently finished off a transit to his Saturn (last December and early January), Neptune continues to flirt with his Neptune and soon Saturn will conjoin his Sun. We’ve all been through patterns like this combining potent personal aspects while enduring the generationally based transits that wake up one’s age group. During these times you strike out a lot, if you’re allowed to play at all.
During the off season, Barry underwent surgical treatment for an ailing knee. He is an aged 40 years young, getting up there in the baseball world’s interpretation of old. The treatment had to do with Uranus to Saturn. Saturn refers to the knees and Uranus hopefully with new, innovative methods that might secure his aching, wobbly foundation. Had Barry not selected a controversial discredited doctor, which could be seen as strange Uranus to the protocol driven Saturn, his procedure might have produced the intended results. Instead, inflammation from the surgery and infection from a hot tub demanded more procedures and Bonds still hobbles. Both inflammation and infection fall under the domain of Neptune - we’ll bring Neptune in an a few innings to show his stuff.
As Spring Training heated up in the Scottsdale, Arizona sun, sullen Barry lashed out at reporters telling the guys looking for a scoop that they’d been dogging him and had destroyed both himself and his family while badgering him about one of baseball’s ugly shadows - steroids. In this time, the uncovering truth revealing Pluto opposed his Venus. Tales of a Paradise Valley girlfriend for whom he purchased a home with cash only autograph memorabilia surfaced upsetting paradise in the park. Venus naturally carries implications of money, real estate and women. Uh-oh. Sounds like this could be true. Think that’s something? Wait until Pluto gets cozy with Mars in this next year’s off season. Mars, which is assigned to those things that prod and poke could be associated with needles, like the kind used to inject steroids.
The question of steroids will not go away and to most baseball fans carries more import than a girlfriend and an illicit affair. Hey, presidents, movie stars, and American Idol judges can all do that. What makes Barry special is his superhuman ability to hit home runs. In Barry’s defense, to hit a home run one must possess unbelievable hand-eye coordination. Even small people can hit one out now and then. You still have to be able to see, swing and hit the ball on the bat’s sweet spot. That ain’t easy, sports fans. That he can do. But how he manages to take what should be a routine fly ball out to McCovey Cove beyond the right field wall remains an enigma. That’s where power building, strength enhancing drugs come in.
These drugs call Neptune out of the bullpen. Neptune continues to shadow Barry’s own Neptune and his truth telling Jupiter in the near future. While many people Barry’s age have these transits, they lack the personal punch that Pluto gives Barry and the immediate call to integrity issued by Saturn. It’s not looking good. Barry more or less admitted he used enhancement cremes but did not know what they were. When you rely upon your body to bring you multiple millions of greenbacks a year, it’s hard to comprehend not knowing what you apply to your vehicle of revenue production. Smells like the swamps of Neptune and Pluto. Under scrutiny for use of steroids, Barry went back to the trainer who allegedly gave the steroids to him to commence his current rehabilitation. Neptune, knowing for blurring perception and judgment, does not apply to stupidity. That’s gotta come from somewhere else.
Saturn issues the call to accountability. It documents numbers, accomplishments and issues rewards for jobs well done - that is, jobs done without cheating. He’ll probably assert his comeback in late July or August as Saturn crosses his Sun (it could be argued he’d call it quits, too). This would also be pretty silly given all the other transits. As he nears the watermark and passes Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron as the best, the question of how many home runs would he have hit had he not been doing performance enhancing drugs will become a dark cloud over baseball until resolved.
Should he re-enter the active roster and use his Leonine ego as he has in the past, he’s going to be knocked down by the fast balls of life. He’s not a team player. He’s brash, not liked by other players, egomaniacal and a royal pain in the patootie. Too bad homers bring in fans. Otherwise, he’d be long gone.
What will baseball do to Barry? They’ve pussyfooted around the drug issue under the milk toast leadership of Bud Selig (I discussed his decisions in articles on StarIQ.com). They fine minor league players you’ve never heard of before and now these guys will never go anywhere. Major leaguers are getting hand slaps. And no one of superstar status has been punished. But what if Barry does become number one all time in home runs? Will they asterisk his record? Who knows. Should they? Without a doubt.
With the Neptune in progress, Barry only talks to people (though he did quip with reporters last week) through his website, which seems to want to sell more autograph stuff than let you know how he’s doing (and he fails to respond to astrologers’ request for an accurate birth time). The feeling in my ephemeris indicates the truth is no where to be seen. Will he wait long enough for all trace of drugs to leave his system and then come back? Or will he be smart enough to realize if he does quit now, it will just settle out and soon be forgotten in baseball’s next controversy?
Guess there’s a lot to think about when you’re not hitting home runs every day. Maybe the contemplative elements of Pluto to Venus and the integrity of Saturn to the Sun will encourage Barry to get this issue handled once and for all. If I were a Pete Rose betting man, I’d bet he makes the comeback attempt and goes for the gold. Gold, is the color of Leo. Whether tarnished or shining, it’s still gold, so say those who invest in gold bonds.