Chris Hoy – facing the inevitable with a smile

Chris Hoy former track cyclist, is an 11-time world champion and a six-time Olympic champion, endowed not only with sporting talent but also a likeable personality, articulate, intelligent and humble. At the young age of 48 he has written a heartbreaking though surprisingly upbeat book about his terminal cancer diagnosis. All That Matters: My Toughest Race Yet to be published on November 7.

 He discovered last year that his primary prostate cancer has metastasised to his bones with a diagnosis of two to four years before it kills him. He remains glowingly positive about where he is. “As unnatural as it feels, this is nature. You know, we were all born and we all die, and this is just part of the process.” Part of his approach is attributed to sports psychology teachings about getting events into perspective from a higher level. Though with his wife just diagnosed with aggressive multiple sclerosis and two young children it is an experience that would stun most.

  He was born 23 March 1976 2pm Edinburgh and has a pro-active Aries Sun in his philosophical 9th house opposition Pluto square Mars opposition Moon, so he is not short of determination, courage and initiative. Jupiter in Aries in his 10th will give him confidence and luck.

 His Pluto is catching the recent Libra Solar Eclipse and the one next March in Aries, which will bring forced changes and the tr Saturn Neptune in Aries square his Mars and conjunct his Sun in 2025/26 will slow him down.

Over his diagnosis last year his Progressed Mars was conjunct his Saturn for a life-changing setback.

  Tr Pluto square his Jupiter this month will give him a lift over the publication of his book which he hopes will be of help to others.

4 thoughts on “Chris Hoy – facing the inevitable with a smile

  1. Here is Chris Hoy’s biwheel for time of diagnosis in Sept 2023.
    Natal wheel inside and Solar Arcs in the outer wheel.
    In 1941 Huggins demonstrates the use of estrogen to oppose testosterone
    production in men with metastatic cancer prostate cancer. He wins the
    Nobel Prize in 1966. See also the work of urologist Sheldon Marks
    in Wikiwand.

    https://ibb.co/5rYgkzs

  2. It was very sad to see this news this morning. I recall listening to an interview where he talked about his sporting success and how if you’ve followed your training plan, done every session as required and given your best – then on race day you have nothing to worry about. Not because it guarantees winning but because you have given yourself your best chance of success and the results will fall how they do.

    I suspect his acceptance is a blend of his Pisces mercury/venus and philosophical 9th house planets. But unlike many Pisces who use this as an excuse not to try, he has those cardinal planets pushing to give his best.

    I’ve had pluto passing through the 9th this past decade or so and what he says resonates with how I now see life. There is a certain fatalism and acceptance that events happen as they do and that if you were to wish any part of it different, then everything else would change through the ripples. You can’t just choose the good bits.

  3. An inspiring man. I hope to have his serenity, his humility and his fortitude when the time comes. I wonder what he thinks of assisted dying.

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