{"id":30535,"date":"2010-11-05T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=30535"},"modified":"2010-11-05T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T20:23:48","slug":"astrology-olbermann-suspended-msnb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/astrology-olbermann-suspended-msnb\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann Suspended by MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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This chart is for the timestamp on my post this morning about Olbermann being suspended by MSNBC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is somewhat freaky news, but it fits our weird moment. In Wednesday’s podcast<\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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<\/em>. Here is a Planet Waves article about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So we have a combination of three points in the ascendant: Pallas (politics), Pholus (small cause, big effect) and the Great Attractor (polarizing effect). These are all closely situated around the degree of the United States ascendant. The backlash is going to be huge — and this is payback from the other side of the aisle, as it were.<\/p>\n

[Phil Sedgwick just wrote to me and reminded me that Ixion is on the ascendant as well. My keywords for Ixion are ‘Anyone is capable of anything’, and I view him as an amoral influence. In mythology he’s the guy who squandered his second chance. You can find a short article on Ixion in Small World Stories.]<\/p>\n

With that in mind, let’s look at some classical elements, starting with the ascendant ruler, Jupiter. It is in its domicile, Pisces – very strong. It is retrograde – less strong. The Sun is applying in a trine to it; very helpful. <\/p>\n

Next, the Moon. The Moon is in the extreme waning phase — we are mere hours before the Scorpio New Moon. Whatever happens, this matter is going to be resolved fast, one way or the other. The Moon is about to conjoin the Sun. Notably, this is during the festival of Diwali, the Hindu celebration of Lakshmi, the supreme goddess. Venus, the Mon and the Sun are all in the 11th house — extremely public. Everyone is watching. What they are watching is a sacrifice. This aspect contains Vesta, who can and often is associated with a sacrifice of some kind, and there are many who are hoping this will be a human sacrifice of one of the authentically human people on television, who made a human error in judgment.<\/p>\n

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Keith Olbermann natal chart, set for noon. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Note to horary wonks, the Moon’s last aspect was a sextile to Pluto and its next aspect is a sextile to the North Node of the Moon. These are two more indicators that the millions are paying attention. It will be the public that protects Olbermann just as he’s been protecting us.<\/p>\n

The actual assailant is hiding. Mercury is in the 12th house. Mercury rules the 7th house. Mercury rules the house of open enemies, and is in Scorpio, in the house of hidden enemies. Mars, the ruler of the 12th, is also in the 12th. This was a stab in the back; I recognize that this is stating the obvious.<\/p>\n

I’m going to post Olbermann’s natal chart cast for noon, without much comment — except to say that this chart qualifies as intense because so many points are conjunct centaur planets. Note Mars-Nessus; Venus-Chiron; Sun-Pholus.<\/p>\n

In many respects, this is Keith’s life the way it is. He is accustomed to controversy, and while I will not accuse him of thriving on it, which is an immature mental posture, he recognizes that it’s a basic necessity of his existence. He has an effect on people. Those centaurs have an effect that you could call catalyzing, but a ‘catalyst’ merely facilitates a reaction. Olbermann is a propellant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}