First published 17 February 2020 · revised and expanded 15 October 2026. The original post is kept below with light edits; the section marked 2026 is new.
Note that the technique described below was also used in this study of mine of a wider spectrum of Super Bowls (actually all of them, up to the date of that study).
At 1:26 pm Mountain time on game day, 2 February 2020 — three hours before kickoff — I posted a simple tweet: “The red and white team by ten.”
I could not remember the name of the red and white team as being the Kansas City Chiefs, but figured that any reader would know who I was talking about. (I did not yet know that the SF team would come out in white-and-red jerseys and gold pants. For the purposes of this analysis, it is important to know that their standard colors are red and gold with a bit of white, while the KC team’s colors are considered here to be red and white with a bit of yellow. The importance of this all will become clearer below.)
I did not change the tweet after seeing the uniforms of the players on the field, mostly because I wanted to preserve the timing and intention of the original thought.
I also did not hashtag the tweet, because I did not want to draw those who would probably be more interested in the football than the astrology.
And I did not bet on this game, because (a) it is illegal, and (b) the karma of profiting off of men hurting each other does not sound appealing at all!
So, my sole gambling based on this analysis was with my reputation. Of course, I am pleased that I was right, and more pleased to see once again that Vedic astrology can carry us through in any situation. Perhaps even just reaping the reward of an ego and/or reputation boost is itself too much. I feel conflicted.
Thus, I want to hurry and let you know how I did it, so that I don’t feel guilty, and I don’t feel any false ownership of this technique. It is a pretty simple one, and again, it has held fast across all Super Bowls.
The technique
OK, so, what you do is of course pull up the chart of the start of the game.
Kickoff — Cancer rising
Next, you look for the grahas (planets) that represent the team colors. In order of importance:
| Kansas City | San Francisco | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | red — Mars | red — Mars |
| 2 | white — Venus | gold — Sun |
| 3 | a hint of yellow — Jupiter | a hint of white — Venus |
Mars and Venus are both incredibly strong in the above chart. So, really, the deciding discriminator is Jupiter for KC compared to Sun for SF. Normally the color difference between the two teams is more drastic, but this is what we had to go on for this game.
Another way to find the two teams in a chart is by home team (fourth house) and away team (tenth house), but that was not available three hours before the Super Bowl.
Of these two grahas, Jupiter is much better positioned than Sun. Jupiter is in its own sign, whereas Sun is conjoined an archenemy, Saturn, and that Saturn is very strong in its own sign.
The dynamics of play
I did not catch what time the half time was (actually, I did not watch much, because — again — karma, but I liked the commercials I did see), but at about half way through the time span of the game, Leo was rising, and so Sun, and hence SF, seemed to have the upper hand.
But at about 9:04 pm Miami time, that Leo ascendant was over with, and Jupiter by house position gained the upper hand, aspecting the tenth house of fame and glory.
9:04 pm — Virgo rising
Moreover, the prize of the win (an eleventh-house indication) started to be theirs as the D-11 (the ekādaśāṁśa, the eleventh-harmonic chart) started to show enough of a separation between Moon (light blue or silver) and Jupiter (yellow) to enact a haṁsa yoga there — Jupiter’s member of the five Mahāpuruṣa yogas, Jupiter strong in its own or exaltation sign on an angle — trining in from the fifth house, thus aspecting the first and eleventh houses of the D-11, themselves each being eleventh-house indications of the prize.
So, there you have it. There is not much to it, but I hope you are now realizing that not only the winner can be discerned, but the dynamics of play within the game.
As to how I got the 10-point spread (actually, KC won by 11), I do not have an exciting answer, except that I used intuition and “kinesiology” to test the intuition. In times past, I have helped friends win gambling spreads by walking through the dynamics of play and surmising the spread accordingly.
I hope this was of interest, and as always, please write to me with any ideas or questions.
The clock, checked — added in 2026
On the night, I had the chart and a television; what I did not have was a record of when each score happened. Going back over it six years later, with the Sports Illustrated live blog for the wall clock and the Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanāṁśa) for the sky over Hard Rock Stadium, the timing holds up better than I would have dared to claim at the time.
First, the facts of the game. Super Bowl LIV was played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on 2 February 2020, scheduled for 6:30 pm Eastern; the ball was actually kicked at about 6:41 pm. Kansas City, as the designated home team, wore its red jerseys with white pants; San Francisco wore white jerseys with gold pants. The bookmakers had the game close to a toss-up — Kansas City by a point, or a point and a half — so “by ten” was a call against the market as well as a call of the winner. The Chiefs won 31–20, having trailed 20–10 with less than seven minutes to play.
Second, the sky. These are the sidereal positions at the scheduled kickoff; during the game only the ascendant and the Moon changed sign.
| Graha | Position, 6:30 pm EST | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Ascendant | Cancer 25°45′ | Leo rises at 6:49 pm, Virgo at 9:04 pm |
| Sun | Capricorn 19°26′ | in Saturn’s sign, conjoined Saturn |
| Moon | Aries 29°39′ | enters Taurus, its exaltation, at 7:10 pm |
| Mars | Scorpio 26°36′ | own sign |
| Mercury | Aquarius 5°04′ | in Saturn’s sign |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius 19°57′ | own sign, with Ketu |
| Venus | Pisces 0°08′ | exalted — entered Pisces at 4:00 pm that afternoon |
| Saturn | Capricorn 1°08′ | own sign |
| Rāhu / Ketu | Gemini 13°40′ / Sagittarius 13°40′ | true node |
Third, the clock. The ascendant was in Cancer for the first eight minutes, in Leo from 6:49 to 9:04 pm, and in Virgo from 9:04 pm to the final whistle. Here is every score, with the time it went up on the broadcast clock, and the two sign changes set among them:
| Time (EST) | Rising | Play | SF–KC |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:41 | Cancer | Kickoff | 0–0 |
| 6:49 | Leo | Leo rises | |
| 6:53 | Leo | SF — Gould 38-yard field goal | 3–0 |
| 7:11 | Leo | KC — Mahomes 1-yard run | 3–7 |
| 7:31 | Leo | KC — Butker 31-yard field goal | 3–10 |
| 7:38 | Leo | SF — Juszczyk 15-yard reception | 10–10 |
| 7:58 | Leo | Halftime | 10–10 |
| 8:42 | Leo | SF — Gould 42-yard field goal | 13–10 |
| 8:57 | Leo | SF — Mostert 1-yard run | 20–10 |
| 9:04 | Virgo | Virgo rises | |
| 9:34 | Virgo | KC — Kelce 1-yard reception | 20–17 |
| 9:50 | Virgo | KC — D. Williams 5-yard reception | 20–24 |
| 10:02 | Virgo | KC — D. Williams 38-yard run | 20–31 |
| 10:10 | Virgo | Final | 20–31 |
So: while Leo was rising, San Francisco outscored Kansas City 20 to 10. Virgo came to the ascendant at 9:04 pm, seven minutes after Raheem Mostert’s touchdown had given San Francisco its biggest lead of the night, and from that minute to the end Kansas City scored 21 and San Francisco scored nothing. I wrote “about 9:04” that night from the chart in front of me; the ephemeris puts the Virgo ascendant at 9:04 pm exactly.
Two things in the table I did not remark on at the time. Venus — white, the second color of the red and white team — had entered Pisces, its exaltation, at 4:00 pm that afternoon, two and a half hours before kickoff; and the Moon left the last degree of Aries for Taurus, its exaltation, at 7:10 pm, early in the first quarter. The “incredibly strong” Mars and Venus of the original post were Mars in its own sign and Venus a few minutes of arc into exaltation.
References
- Renay Oshop, Casual, Double-Blind, Cross-Sectional Study of Super Bowl Retrodictions (2017) — the same technique applied to every Super Bowl with a recorded start time: 35 of 45 called correctly.
- Super Bowl LIV As It Happened: Chiefs Beat 49ers 31-20 With Fourth Quarter Comeback, Sports Illustrated live blog, 2 February 2020 — si.com. Source of the wall-clock times in the table above.
- Super Bowl LIV scoring summary (quarter and game clock), designated home team, uniforms and the opening line — Wikipedia; the 49ers’ white-jersey, gold-pants choice — NBC Sports Bay Area; the line at Chiefs −1 — Sports Illustrated, 23 January 2020.
- Mez, J., Daneshvar, D. H., Kiernan, P. T. et al. (2017). Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football. JAMA 318(4), 360–370. doi:10.1001/jama.2017.8334 — 110 of the 111 former NFL players’ brains examined showed CTE. Reported in Science as “Ninety-nine percent of ailing NFL player brains show hallmarks of neurodegenerative disease” (25 July 2017), the story linked in the original post.
- Planetary positions and ascendant times: Swiss Ephemeris 2.10 (Astrodienst), Lahiri ayanāṁśa, for 25°57′ N, 80°14′ W. Ingress times are given to the minute.