the stars, the ice, moon-mars, and shipping sports guys
I haven't paid attention much to this blog due to real-life stuff but I just have to add, since this is basically where I've established my previous sports astrology posts: Sidney Crosby has an AA rated chart, which is always appreciated here <3 <3
Sidcros and Evgeni Malkin, Mama y Papa themselves, has a standout astrology that echoes F1's Brocedes (mentioned and explained more here), specifically a Moon-Mars conjunction in a cardinal sign. Sidgeno happens to be a healthier expression of that particular synastry, which is an astrological signature usually seen between individuals who cannot help but personally affect each other, for better or worse.
Moon person (who is more prone to reflecting, generating) is Sidney at 17degrees, loosely conjunct Geno's retrograde Mars (more prone to reacting, combusting, expressed in a roundabout way due to the Rx) at 12 degrees.
Capricorn is the sign of the GOAT btw!! Unlike Brocedes, where the domicile Cancer Moon person had better footing in the relationship, the detriment expression of Capricorn meant that the exalted Mars person had a better grip on the wheel, so to speak. As to mobility, cardinal signs involve initiatory procedures. Both Crosby and Malkin (and Ovechkin, which we will get to later) have been called at some point a "savior" of hockey, building up new legacies for the sport at a crucial time in the early 2000s when the NHL was floundering re: salary talks w their teams and players.
On another interesting note, Sidney Crosby's chart ruler is a stunning 11H Venus in Leo (famous for the face card as much as he is famous for his hockeycraft), in its own term, and trining his Mars in Sagittarius as malefic out of sect, and trining by sign his Jupiter in Aries as benefic of sect.
His draft day is also very nicely put according to the astrological weather- on July 22 2005, transit Mars was approaching his natal Jupiter in Aries (29deg) which was his timelord at the time, and it perfected its crossover during July 30-31. The draft basically was like striking a match on dry pavement, the first move that would eventually set the hockey world on fire.
Crosby was 17 years old, a teenage phenom in a 6H profection year (a year where he would pay attention more to daily routines, exercises, work environment, physical health), and the planet lording over his time, so to speak, was the one that traditionally signified luck, not just for him, but for the team that he would eventually play with for the rest of his NHL career (just like a fixed sign to never move!)
Funny as well that his Jupiter is at a critical degree- most of his lucky breaks came at the very last second, because Jupiter was *this* close to inching out of Aries and into Taurus, but slowed down and stationed direct at that exact degree a few days later, so a lot of his best plays were literally changes at the last second, impulsive springboard stuff, which comes from a good foundation.
Sidney Crosby, astrologically, is the hockey rainbow baby born after the labor pains of the 2004-2005 season lockout. Ensuing talks between the NHL and the player labor unions regarding the player's salary caps (this started around 2001, during the NHL's own Uranus return = signifying big structural changes and shakeups).
Because there were no playoffs during that season, there were no determined teams who would be getting draft pick #1 in 2005, which made it possible for teams like the Pittsburgh Penguins (one of the teams who could've lost it all during if there was a playoff season due to money losses) to get it in.
Thus, Sidney Crosby Sweepstakes. Very much like a Leo to be special.
At the time I was probably five years old with zero idea of what snow is, let alone fathom the historical impact of the 2005 NHL Draft Day, but I imagined it looked something like this.
I think it's good that he has a Venusian influence on his Leo planets. I got the impression that hockey is a team sport that tries it's best to not hype up individual players. It might have been so easy to hate Sidney Crosby's meteoric rise if he wasn't so blessed by the planet of connection in the sign of royalty.
Crosby seems to be considered the current king of ice hockey, though I've much more frequently seen him referred to as the hockey princess or the people's princess, befitting the Venusian influence of his chart, though I'm not sure if that nickname translates to what the actual hockey world thinks of him, or if it's just because my knowledge of him is viewed through the lens of online articles and social media (I am nowhere near anywhere wintery to be familiar with ice hockey as a sport to see the greater culture surrounding it) which tends towards transformative fannish spaces.
Lastly, Alexander Ovechkin's Venus in Leo (20 deg) is conjunct Sidney Crosby's overachieving Mars in Leo (24 deg). Ovechkin was also draft pick #1 for the previous lottery season! Befitting synastry for a rivalry. Not all Venus-Mars synastry is about romance, it's mostly about intense chemistry. Like if you find someone you particularly like, singling out and fighting with on the ice then yeah sure have at it. An equally matched fight etc.
In both his one-on-one interactions/relationships with the Russian hockey players, Sid is the traditionally fertile planet in astrological terms, which is probably where people get the omega jokes. It helps that he looks cute because then the halo effect stuns even the angriest players across from him into friendliness, even though they have reasons to really hate his ass (and honestly, most hockey players slow burn admiration of his skills comes from their desire to overthrow the king crossing wires with their desire to pummel something beautiful, and therefore alien, to the ground, and being entranced that he just. won't. budge.). (check edit notes!)
Sid really had it out for him, in as much as that ice hockey would have their players be an individual enough that they would allow for solo rivalries. Something territorial and hardened. They will both retire in their respective draft teams btw. There's just no way they wouldn't. They wouldn't retire the same year too, but they would retire closely.
I don't know enough about the actual rivalry they have and I can't research any more than I have done for this post because I got real life responsibilities. I had to learn this shit from scratch and not from years of uncles or society keeping records and sharing gossip around me, which is probably the appeal for most people living in hockey regions. Turns out sports has a lot of lore and history that I could read into. Might look into others soon.
Main takeaway though is that Sidgeno definitely is a more nurturing relationship (moon in earth sign, even in detriment in capricorn, is a fertile sign) than the heated rivalry of Crosby/Ovechkin (venus-mars in a fire sign, literally heating up and getting drier).
Funny enough, the actors Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, who played characters that are largely based on the Crosby-Ovechkin antagonism (but whose emotional vulnerability with each other mirrors that of Sidgeno), have a Venus-Mars conjunction in fiery Aries— except theirs is exactly conjunct at 8 degrees.
While the Crosby-Ovechkin fiery Venus-Mars synastry is expressed through the inherently Martial realm of sports, battle, and points system of ranking, these two actors met each other in the most Venusian way they possibly could– a gay man adapting a bisexual woman's sports hockey romance series (Venus as art, in detriment in Aries = queer/GNC/unusual relationships) which, when taken seriously by everyone, is a passion project that executed well and struck home among many (Mars as literally the "action" and "cut" of the director, is at home in the sign of Aries).
From an interview with the HR actors on Out, talking about the first chemistry read they had on Zoom.
The actors have gone on record calling each other best friends and soulmates during the press run of the show, continuing to be physically and loudly affectionate with each other, and intentional with how they're moving their careers, which are on different tracks.
If you've been following the lightspeed rise to fame these two have been on since the first season of Heated Rivalry aired, you would know exactly who has the Venus placement. (Hint: it's the one with the all-woman team, and who had a photoshoot earlier this year where he had a shot that mimicked that lamb eating wolves art from above).
Edit on April 08, 2026, 1:29 p.m. GMT +8 - I mistakenly swapped the Venus-Mars connection with Sid and Ovi. Ovi is the Venus Leo 24 deg, Sidney is the Leo Mars at 20 deg. While Sidney does have Venus in Leo, his is in the first decan at 4 deg Leo. lmao my bad
