The first set of games postponed after Opening Day center around the Corona outbreak within the Marlins team. The stoppage was announced on July 27, 2020 as the square between Mercury in Cancer to Mars in Aries formed an opposition and a square to Neptune in Capricorn within the Marlins birthchart. Neptune, which corresponds with things unseen and porous, is generally considered the planet of diseases and pandemics.

The Corona outbreak within the Marlins team certainly appears to be a bad omen for the 2020 season. If astrology can offer a bright spot bright, it is that a similar Neptune transit is not occurring in the birthchart of the National League. The NL chart has been active in previous work stoppages such as the March shut down and the strikes of 1981 and 1994-5.