In today’s edition of Planet Waves, I mentioned Keith Olbermann, the MSNBC anchor whom I described as “the voice of moral indignation. He is a journalist who is bigger than it all.” He was suspended today for giving donations to three Democratic candidates, at least one of whom had appeared on his program.
This is somewhat freaky news, but it fits our weird moment. In Wednesday’s podcast I proposed that there would be a series of fast-moving repercussions after Tuesday’s elections, and this is the first of them. It’s certainly a victory for the political right, whose radio and television programming contains little other than neurological venom — the likes of Uncle Rush and Glenn Beck.
Before I interpret the chart you see to the left, I’ll repost the rest of my section on Olbermann from this morning’s edition, which counted up lots of good things we have to be thankful for.
“His ‘special comments’ on the Iraq war and the Cheney-Bush administration were a vivid wake-up call. He too is brilliantly funny and sees the irony in everything, and is not put off by it. He’s another person saying deal with the facts. I view his background as a sportscaster as a plus. He supports my long-held view that sports writers have to be honest because everyone has seen the game and knows the rules. Meanwhile, Olbermann got Rachel Maddow her job, and he also brought in Lawrence O’Donnell, another primetime MSNBC guy who is genuinely pragmatic and who’s believing no lies; his new program gets better every night as he steps into his role. I recognize these programs all have some of the limitations of TV and corporate ownership — but even in the age of media conglomerates, they are doing more with television than many of us imagined possible.”
First let’s look at the chart for getting fired. Since we don’t know exactly what time that happened, I am using the time that I posted the news to Planet Waves. This chart gives a Sagittarius ascendant that is either peculiar or spot on, depending on your viewpoint — it’s the exact degree of the United States Sibley chart, the most widely used horoscope for the Declaration of Independence — 12+ Sagittarius rising.
There are two points within one degree of the ascendant: Pallas Athene, the planet of politics (technically an asteroid) and Pholus, the planet of ‘small cause, big effect’ (technically a comet-like centaur planet). In addition, in the background of that part of the sky is the Great Attractor, an intergalactic point — the largest thing known, and it is very large — located at 14 Sagittarius. So the GA is right there. Note, this is not the Galactic Center. It is much vaster — an enormous dark matter magnet drawing a million or so galaxies toward it. Its effect is polarizing. Here is a Planet Waves article about it.