With the sudden death of Joan Rivers, I decided to look at her
battle with Johnny Carson that lives as one of the Hollywood's great feuds. The
story unfolded when, after years of being his fill in host, Joan Rivers took a
job with the new Fox Network to host her own late night show. According to
Rivers, she had inside information that NBC would never give the show to a
woman and her contract was ending. Whatever the details, Carson hung up the
phone when she called him and never spoke to her again.
Karma anyone?
Of course, I had to look at their charts
to see what forces could have led to him first giving her career the boost it
needed to take off and then almost destroy it.
The biwheel of
their chart tells me three things immediately - karma, power and jobs. Let's do
the juicy stuff first - karma. Her retrograded Juno, the goddess of loyalty and
partnership, is on his Mars, the warrior, in the 12th house. There is no more
karma house that the 12th because it connects us to the universe and carries
our karmic history. Hmm, it seems like this played out once before. She was
in an inferior position (because of the retrograde) and royally annoyed him by
defying his power. Mars is the leader, the epitome of male energy, so it seems
Johnny just didn't like this happening again! I wonder if they are doomed to
repeat the situation although she always said she appreciated what he did for
her career and a good deal of pain over the whole thing. Has he moved on? Guess
we will have to wait and see.
OK we had karma how about power? Look at
the eighth house, the house of personal power. He had Pallas and Vesta there, ironically they are
two female asteroids named for the goddess of war and the goddess of the
devotion to a cause, respectively. These two gals gave him drive and
determination as Vesta gives us the desire to overcome all obstacles. However,
right on top of these powerhouses are Joan's Sun, Mercury and Venus; her inner
energy, her communication skills and her creative energy. That makes sense in
light of the encouragement he gave her to reach her creative goals in the
entertainment business. I do find it funny that they have their Vesta's in
conjunction meaning they could have - and they did indeed- work together for a
long time to overcome power obstacles. He boosted her career and she was a
reliable co-host. However, playing with that much energy and that much power is
a little bit like dancing with burning torches - you can get seriously burned
at any time.
Finally, Carson had a retrograded Chiron in Aries, the wounded warrior, in his
6th house, the house of day-to-day work. This accounted for his colossal
temperament and touchiness when on the job. He was carrying an enormous chip on
his shoulder in the workplace. Mars rules Aries and he was always looking for
people who were threatening his power. Well along comes her Uranus, the rebel
and it plunked right down on that wound issue. Uranus is the rebellious
teenager of the Zodiac. Who better to stick a pin in Aries ego?
The stars show the battle that ensued. Why
there was no kiss and make up between the two might have something to do with
his Mars and Saturn in stubborn and vengeful Scorpio in the first house. Mars
and Saturn in conjunction is not a good placement - it is warrior energy and
authoritarian energy (see my recent blogs on the current Mars/Saturn
conjunction and the havoc is it causing to the planet right now.) Johnny may
have been the king of late night but he was a difficult man, a secretive man,
an insecure man and a man of vengeance. She got on his
wrong side and there was no going back.
Maybe now - maybe now - they can meet on
the other side and put a stop to this. Maybe...
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