Pluto's Poster Child
The story of OJ Simpson's fall as an American sports hero was a bookend drama that began and ended Pluto's transit through Sagittarius. All the themes are there -- the courtroom scenes, the victims' relentless pursuit of justice and his surreal attempt to reclaim his life in the spotlight, even though the fame had turned into infamy. In her final installment in the OJ series, Eileen Grimes shows how OJ embodied the walking wound of a culture obsessed with celebrity, including the notorious. She sees him as an archetypal figure, someone who has stood out for a reason, and been a catalyst for cultural purging and deep change.
And then there's the man OJ, and his inevitable date with karmic destiny, marked by Saturn transits that are astonishing mirrors. It's closure for Eileen's series, and with OJ in prison now, the end of his run for his life. Eileen says the hand of Saturn has been waiting for him to trip up, writing, sometimes its amazing how we can measure time by Saturn’s cycles, and see that the “cosmic cop” in our solar system has a very patient manner, and knows that we really cannot get away with things - especially murder.
Now contained both physically, in jail, in a way that reins in his runaway natal Saturn-Pluto in the 12th house, a new chapter begins for OJ. Eileen calls it a cage within a cage and maybe now he can begin his journey toward true soul freedom.
- OJ Simpson: Running for His Life, Part VII
- Click here for Part I in the Series
OJ Simpson. You know, if her name had been Taniqua or Shanewa, if her skin were brown, OJ Simpson would have been a faint bleep on our conscious.
Renate:
Perhaps, but I don’t think so. We’re talking about OJ’s fame, how OJ took a dive of consciousness when he committed the murders. He was an icon in our society long before that. He had a pretty high level of fame. I can’t recall, in recent history, where someone who was beloved in the public eye, did something so horrible.
I still maintain that there’s always someone or a major event that will have an impact on history; it was more than OJ commiting murder, it was the entire legal system coming under close scrutiny by the public, as well as examining the nature of hero-worship.
It is an interesting thought, though. But since OJ was already a public figure, it was a hot issue immediately after the murders happened. Also look at this too – the media, at that time, had become more sensationalistic, looking for the juicy story.
And they found it, in OJ Simpson
Eileen