I’m writing about the astrological commonalities of the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays: a team that came heartbreakingly close to winning the World Series, and somehow managed to take the entire country along for the emotional ride.

This post has been sitting half‑formed in my head for months. Partly because I didn’t want to get too jargon‑heavy with astrology. Partly because I didn’t want to pretend I’m a baseball expert when I’m not. And partly because… well, this season mattered. It felt bigger than stats or charts.

So I’m writing this for a niche audience: people who know a fair bit about astrology, won’t mind me being a Johnny‑come‑lately baseball fan, and are open to the idea that sometimes teams come together for reasons that feel bigger than strategy or luck.

Why This Felt Different

Yes, I know the trope. Canadians suddenly caring deeply about a team right before they win it all. We did it with the Raptors and Kawhi Leonard (especially H and I:). That was thrilling- but it was different.

That run felt like borrowing someone else’s magic. Kawhi was a comet: brilliant, brief, and clearly not staying.

The Blue Jays this season felt communal.

What moved people wasn’t just how well they played—it was how they played together. The camaraderie, the visible affection, the way they held each other up. They didn’t feel like coworkers. They felt like family.

Exhibit A: the genuinely adorable Instagram posts showcasing the hilarious, tender friendship between John Schneider and Addison Barger. Even non‑sports people noticed.

One of my closest friends said she experienced their World Series loss as a kind of death. Renee knew it sounded dramatic- and still insisted it was the most accurate word. We talked about the afterward: Ernie Clement continuously crying throughout his interview, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. breaking down quietly and close-up in the dugout. That image still haunts me.

This was a band‑of‑brothers team. And I suspect we’ll be referencing this World Series for a long time.

What I Looked At (Astrologically)

I plotted the charts of all active Jays players from the 2025 season, plus their coach and manager, John Schneider.

I started where most astrologers would: looking for obvious overlaps in Sun, Moon, and Mars signs- by sign, element, or modality.

At first glance? Nothing screamed here it is.

But patterns did emerge:

• Sun signs: Mostly Air and Water

• Moon signs: Predominantly Earth and Water

• Mars signs: Largely Earth and Fire

What surprised me was the dominance of Earth and Water overall- yin elements- over Fire and Air, which are considered yang.

In plain language: this team skewed emotionally receptive, bonded, and sensitive beneath the surface. A stronger feminine polarity. And honestly? That tracks. These men felt each other.

From a more technical standpoint, a yin‑heavy elemental distribution often correlates with heightened emotional permeability, intuitive attunement, and a greater capacity to register one another’s inner states- traits that don’t always get celebrated in elite sports culture, but were clearly part of this team’s magic.

When I looked at modalities:

• Suns leaned slightly Mutable (adaptable, responsive, able to shift roles)

• Moons leaned Cardinal (emotionally initiating, protective, motivated)

• Mars leaned Fixed (endurance, loyalty, stamina under pressure)

Again- nothing overwhelming, but quietly supportive of long‑term cohesion and staying power.

Personal, Social, Universal (Made Simple)

Astrology often divides signs into three functional groupings:

• Personal signs (concerned with selfhood and immediate experience)

• Social signs (oriented toward cooperation, culture, and shared rules)

• Universal signs (focused on systems, ideals, and humanity at large)

Here’s what stood out:

• Sun signs: Evenly balanced across all three

• Moon signs: Definitely more Personal

• Mars signs: Overwhelmingly Social

This latter part fascinated me.

Mars describes where and how we expend physical energy. A team saturated with Social Mars placements suggests people wired to invest effort into collaboration, belonging, and contributing to a shared ecosystem.

Baseball is a team sport- but this team put the we in tweamwork:)

Had their Mars placements leaned Universal, we’d expect more emphasis on abstract ideals, hierarchy, ideology, or large‑scale reform. Instead, their drive lived locally and relationally: in the dugout, the clubhouse, the shared grind.

Where the Real Commonality Was (And Why It Matters)

The real pattern surprised me.

Almost every single player had a planet either squaring or conjunct the nodal axis.

• 23 out of 30 had a planet square the nodes

• 6 more had a traditionally difficult planet conjunct one node (and opposing the other)

• Only one player, Jeff Hoffman, had supportive aspects to the nodes

That level of concentration is extraordinarily rare.

So… what does that mean?

The Nodes, Explained Without the Mystical Fog

I describe the nodal axis as your karmic storyline.

• The North Node points to what you’re here to grow into—unfamiliar, uncomfortable, but ultimately meaningful.

• The South Node represents what you already know—habits, skills, and emotional defaults that feel natural, but can become limiting if you stay there too long.

When planets interact strongly with the nodes, life doesn’t begin on a blank slate.

In evolutionary astrology, a planet squaring the nodes is known as a skipped step—unfinished business carried forward from a prior incarnation.

Translation: you’re born with a stone in your shoe.

Something unresolved. Something that insists on attention. Something that quietly (or not so quietly) drives you toward growth through friction.

In my experience, clients with the most complex, consequential life arcs often carry this signature. 

And it describes the vast majority of the 2025 Jays.

The Weight of the Planets Involved

Some of these nodal contacts were fleeting—but that doesn’t make them minor. In fact, it makes them rarer. Inner planets like the Sun, Moon, and Mercury only square the nodal axis for very brief windows of time. The Sun does so for roughly twelve days in each of two signs per year, the Moon for only about a day twice a month, and Mercury for a handful of days every six weeks or so. Being born during one of those windows isn’t common at all, which makes their presence here feel strangely precise rather than coincidental.

Other players carried much heavier nodal signatures. Several had Mars or Saturn conjunct or squaring the nodes—planets already associated with effort, pressure, discipline, and consequence. And then there are the planets that carry the greatest weight in evolutionary astrology: Pluto and Uranus. When these are tied directly into the nodal axis, the story becomes unmistakably karmic. These are not subtle influences. They speak to lives shaped by disruption, compulsion, crisis, and profound inner change.

What’s especially striking is that these nodal entanglements appear across players born years- and in one case decades- apart. The planets involved differ. The timing differs. But the underlying tension is the same. This wasn’t the result of one rare transit or one dominant generational signature. It was many different lives intersecting at the same karmic crossroads.

The Heavy Planets Didn’t Go Easy Either

The six players (four of them pitchers) with planets conjunct the nodes weren’t exactly cruising either.

When a planet sits on one node, it automatically opposes the other. That creates tension between past comfort and future demand—especially when the planets involved are… difficult.

In this case, they included Mars, Saturn, Pluto, and Uranus, with Chiron also playing a role.

These are not gentle teachers.

Even Jeff Hoffman- the only player with supportive nodal aspects—received them from Saturn and Chiron: growth through responsibility, accountability, and pain. Not exactly a free pass.

Which makes it especially poignant that Hoffman, a pitcher, publicly felt he had cost the team the Series.

What This Says About the Team

To me, this was a fated team.

The nodes speak to destiny. And nearly every player carried unresolved material into this lifetime- material that demanded resolution through effort, relationship, disappointment, loyalty, and loss.

They weren’t here just to win.

They were here to learn about brotherhood. About giving everything and still coming up short. About holding one another through fame, pressure, and heartbreak. About what happens when peak meets fall.

That tells me this wasn’t about individual destiny.

It was about shared destiny.

A micro‑zeitgeist. A collective initiation. A once‑in‑a‑lifetime convergence that allowed them- and all of us watching- to feel something enormous together.

And maybe that’s why it still hurts.

Because some stories aren’t meant to end neatly.

They’re meant to move the soul along its path.

And all of these souls moved. ❤️

A Note to Fellow Astrologers

Yes- god please- I know this is a simplification.

The nodes are exquisitely complex. I'm still learning. This is where my cutting edge lies.

Their expression depends on house placement, dispositors, lunar condition, planetary phase relationships, and whether one is working from a traditional, evolutionary, or hybrid framework. Entire books have been written on nodal theory alone. I haven't read most of them... Mostly Steven (my favourite wizard and teacher) and Mark (also trained in psychosynthesis like me and wow, what a phenomenal Pisces). 

This piece isn’t meant to be a technical treatise. It’s an observational meditation. 

But I am confident in this: the sheer concentration of nodal stress across this roster—particularly involving the square and then also the conjunctions- is statistically unusual and symbolically loud. Whatever language we use for it, something unfinished was moving through this team.

And for a brief, incandescent moment, we were allowed to witness it. Who-Rah!

xoxo,

S

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