astrocasting 📽️ muhammad ali
TLDR | Baiting bullies beats them to the punch.
Cracking Muhammad Ali’s birth chart shows the virtue of knowing your strength, leaning into your gifts, and baiting bullies who should know better by now.
Fixed energy for days, is what one of America’s greatest heroes held as his zodiacal signature.
Taurus stellium. Aquarius stellium. Ascendent, Pluto & Chiron — all in Leo. Ali was built to stand his ground. Say what you will about the stubborn nature of Fixed signs, facts are facts. The Fixed Cross is a force. Either face or fold, when meeting Fixed power.
Ali embodied his star chart to a tactical T. Knowing his peaks and valleys of physical stamina, secure in his meticulously conditioned capacity, his rigorous and continuous attention to fitness made The Champ bet big on his own vessel when outweighed by his opponents.
The Rope a Dope strategy is a) STILL genius and b) effective AF and c) universally applicable in a cultural moment more closely resembling a boxing match than, say, actual civilization.
Ali reverse-engineered rage-baiting to get the bullies to bite.
Only outmatched by his phantom anchor punch was Ali’s mouth. His brazen Leo Ascendent was fed and fueled by Jupiter & Lilith Gemini’s slick wit. Wanna know what a steady stream of Mutable Air sounds like channeled through a Fixed Fire soul?
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
"I'm so fast, I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet."
“Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."
"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me."
"If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it."
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it."
"I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world."
Surrendering ego to conscience, Ali legit beat the draft AND the Supreme Court.
Here is the greatest astro medicine The Champ offers: bow to no one but your heart’s truth. In the American history of never has any other celebrated athlete-at-large faced prison for his refusal to get in line for a gun.
To savor the implications politically, and globally, of Ali’s so-called fall from grace — and his fated resurrection as infinite icon, I close here with one of cinema’s enduring sequences. It merits a full watch and deeper reflection on a man who truly lived as myth and legend all at once.