Don Imus Fired
As I’m sure everyone is aware of at this point, there has been a huge controversy in news that resulted from radio personality Don Imus making off color “jokes” about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team last week. Yesterday, Mr Imus was fired for these actions. Let’s take a look at what happened.
I do not have an accurate birth Time for Dom Imus, so that makes things a little more
difficult. But we can tell a lot about this incident just based on the position of his planets and where the transiting planets were when he made his now infamous “nappy headed ho” comment.
Given that his birth Time is not precisely accurate, the moon is somewhere around 20° Aquarius - early Pisces. At that same time last week, the North node, Mercury (and Uranus) were hovering nearby. Also, Mars was in early Aquarius.
The moon is a main planet of fame as its has a lot to do with how we are perceived by others. With Mercury having just past Rahu couple days earlier, and still pretty closely conjoined, it is easy to see how someone could misspeak, thinking they were being funny, but actually wind up offending many people - hurting their recognition, reputation in the process.
It is interesting to note that Mercury and Mars are somewhat on different ends of the exaltation / debilatation spectrum on this day. Mars is at about 5° Aquarius — Mercury is almost 27 Aquarius. Thus, Mars is about 7° from his exaltation position, and Mercury is about 4° from his debilitation sign. Mars is still pretty powerful here, at least expressing himself powerfully having just been exalted. Mercury is getting weaker and weaker heading toward debilatation. This comment was made last Wednesday, by Friday evening mercury was in his debilatation sign and a full uproar had already begun. In less than a week, Mr Imus would be offering many apologies, having numerous public figures demanding his termination, and eventually wind up being fired for these remarks.
Also poignant is the sign of Aquarius, the sign of social equality. Leo, the opposite sign from Aquarius, is the sign of personal strength and power — where we learn to shine individually, and be personally responsible for ourselves. Aquarius is where we learn to yield our personal power and responsibility in recognition of each person’s individuals strength and responsibilities to higher, societal causes - things bigger than ourselves. The outcry over these comments seems to be touching larger societal issues. From the outset the black leaders who have been challenging Mr Imus have also been scrutinized for their failure to also criticize black musical artists, comedians and others who use the same terms regularly and who actually introduced these terms into the lexicon in first place. In many ways Imus is a symbol for a greater societal dialogue about marginalizing women and minorities. Indeed it seems everyone has forgiven Imus personally, even stating that it is not about him. Yet, It is agreed that he should be fired on principal as the public airwaves cannot sanction this type of dialogue. All of these larger themes are Aquarian in nature. The individual must be sacrificed for a greater cause.
As how this personally relates to Mr. Imus and his chart/Karma. No public humiliation or loss of reputation would be complete without the influence of Saturn. And wouldn’t you know, retrograde Saturn is in Cancer now, where Imus has Mercury, the Sun and most notably, a debilitated Mars.
The chart itself is also quite interesting. Especially of note is the very tight Square between Jupiter and Mercury by transit, recently separating to the second of orb. There’s an exchange of Nakshatra rulership between Mercury and Jupiter. Mercury is in Purva Bhadra, ruled by Jupiter - and Jupiter is in Jyeshta, ruled by Mercury. The deity associated with Jyestha, is Lord Indra - the king of the gods. Indra is notorious for having a large ego and feeling he is somewhat above the law due to his past conquests. The ruler of Purva Bhadra is Aja ekapad, the one footed goat - related to lightning. (lightning hits the earth in one point - one foot) Lightning symbolizes atmospheric fire striking the earth, bringing about sudden, shocking changes. Aja Ekapad is one of the 11 Rudras, the protectors of Veda (knowledge). Another interesting Nakshatra consideration is retrograde Saturn is in Mercury’s Nakshatra (aslesha) - the Sun is also in Mercury’s Nakshatra (Revati).
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