Current Planets
20-Apr-2018, 13:09 UT/GMT | |||||
Sun | 0 | 24'16" | 11n37 | ||
Moon | 29 | 13'57" | 20n03 | ||
Mercury | 5 | 53'10" | 0n49 | ||
Venus | 24 | 56'53" | 19n22 | ||
Mars | 18 | 22'21" | 23s05 | ||
Jupiter | 20 | 36'54"r | 16s40 | ||
Saturn | 9 | 8'38"r | 22s14 | ||
Uranus | 28 | 35'51" | 10n29 | ||
Neptune | 15 | 34'28" | 6s32 | ||
Pluto | 21 | 17'10" | 21s28 | ||
TrueNode | 11 | 17'55"r | 17n23 | ||
Chiron | 0 | 10'21" | 3n12 | ||
Explanations of the symbols | |||||
Chart of the moment |
Aries
Aries-born Robert Downey Jr. put on his armour for the third time, and
is in “Iron Man 3” doing again what the eponymous hero
does best: he fights terrorists, and as furiously as unflinchingly
confronts his personal enemy. At the same time he is fighting his own
fears, because the Aries-hero is facing Libra-energy: he deals with the
common challenges a relationship can bring, and he needs to learn to
appreciate teamwork.
Taurus
„The Great Gatsby“ is the
luxuriously furnished and lavishly staged story of a man who still after
many years is stubbornly holding on to his early love and his dream of
living together. Gatsby’s visionary hope, his feverishly unyielding
pursuit of his goal and the excessiveness of the whole production are
illustrating an unusual and striking union of Taurus and Sagittarius.
Gemini
As an entertaining movie, dealing with books, writers and
plagiarism “The Words” mainly represents Gemini-motifs.
Through three intertwined layers of narrative we learn about writers
struggling with lack of money and success, with publishers and other
obstacles or even with tragedy. A bit of Cancer-energy is added by some
sentimental and melodramatic aspects.
Cancer
Featuring an abundance of
imaginative ideas and a well-known, romantic story of good versus evil,
the colourful animated film “Epic” is a droll fairy tale
and meant to be fun for the whole family. A fantasy world with a forest
inhabited by tiny residents, who with the help of an ad hoc shrunken
professor’s daughter struggle for the survival of their forest, is
lovingly created to address naive playfulness in all of us.
Leo
When it comes to the “King of
Blues” even a documentary can make a warm and appropriately majestic
impression: In “BB King: The Life of Riley“ famous
musicians and other celebrities appear like courtiers worshipping their
king. The film tells the story of a great artist, treading his path of
creatively expressing his own experience and feelings, thus becoming a
star whose light in the world of music continues to shine.
Virgo
The German documentary “Frohes
Schaffen” (“Keep up the good work”) is dedicated to a very
typical Virgo topic: it’s about labour and the fundamental meaning work
has in our society and culture. Konstantin Faigle is trying to show how
much our work ethic has in common with religious rituals, exploring the
history of our industriousness and its roots in his film.
Libra
The lives and relationships of four classical
musicians, playing together for decades as an internationally acclaimed
string quartet, are dramatically changing when one of them is diagnosed
with Parkinson’s disease. Controlled discontent and suppressed conflicts
erupt while they strive to arrange a final concert. Their complex musical
play together becomes a metaphor for fragile internal dynamics. “A
Late Quartet” is a film that clearly demonstrates the reactions
of a complex system to the change of one of its elements.
Scorpio
„Stoker“ is Park Chan-wook’s new film,
and like many of his movies it strikes me as very Scorpio-imbued, yet once
more, although being dedicated to intense obsessions just as his other
films, it differs very much from “Oldboy” or “Thirst” or every other
single one of them. “Stoker” is a young girl’s coming-of-age-story. After
her father’s death, she meets his strange and dangerous brother and amidst
dark passions, sex and murder the young woman adopts a sinister
legacy.
Sagittarius
The Star Trek saga with its
explorers of strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new
civilizations, boldly going where no one has gone before and letting us
witness their moral dilemmas and cognitive processes always had essential
Sagittarius-features. In the recent „Star Trek Into
Darkness“ the so appropriately named “Enterprise” and its crew
also confront some dark yet nevertheless familiar powers of the universe,
adding a dash of Scorpio with the motif of personal vengeance...
Capricorn
Formidable Charlotte Rampling stars as the
title character in “I, Anna”, a melancholy Film Noir with
protagonists, who are exhausted by loneliness, isolation, gloom and
unlived life. Investigating a murder in rainy, inhospitable London amidst
daunting grey concrete blocks, a depressed police detective meets
attractive and mysterious Anna, who is more involved in his case than he
would care to realize.
Aquarius
The French film “Something in the
Air” captures the time of anti-bourgeois revolutionary movements
after 1968’s protests and street battles. Gilles is a young man torn
between radical politics and rebellious art and searching for his very own
way of combining both. Linking his personal experience to political
history, this film illustrates the interface between Aquarius and Leo.
Pisces
Well-known for his visually powerful films,
Terrence Malick made a film with minimalist plot, sparse dialogue and
heavily loaded spiritual reflections. Visually as extraordinary as it is
in narrative, “To the Wonder” is an almost esoteric film
about faith and compassion and the all-encompassing love, which transcends
personal relationship history.
Vesna Ivkovic studied literature and
linguistics, sociology, philosophy and history and as well took a profound
interest in psychology, mythology and different belief systems. Along the
way she also explored various paths of body awareness such as the martial
arts of Kung Fu, Dance, Yoga, Qi Gong and several other methods of body
work and motion arts. In 1993 she discovered astrology as an instrument of
knowledge and graduated in 2004 in Markus Jehle's and Petra Niehaus'
master class at the Astrology Center Berlin.
You can find out more about the author and her work on her own website www.astrosemiotics.de
The Cinemascope is meant to give an overview of current movies and their main themes from an astrosemiotical perspective (i.e.: regarding film as semiotic system and translating it into the astrological semiotic system). A well made movie not only has a story and a certain theme, it also provides a special atmosphere, a certain feeling and it draws us into its very own world. This basic quality that is contrived through characters, plot, setting and many other components also translates into one or more astrological principles. Quite simply: a fast-paced action-flick confronts us with plain Aries energy, a horror-movie evokes Scorpio-like abysmal depths and fears etc. We step out of the theatre and – if the film succeeded in sucking us in – find ourselves dwelling on and engaging in that special energetic quality.
Current Planets
20-Apr-2018, 13:09 UT/GMT | |||||
Sun | 0 | 24'16" | 11n37 | ||
Moon | 29 | 13'57" | 20n03 | ||
Mercury | 5 | 53'10" | 0n49 | ||
Venus | 24 | 56'53" | 19n22 | ||
Mars | 18 | 22'21" | 23s05 | ||
Jupiter | 20 | 36'54"r | 16s40 | ||
Saturn | 9 | 8'38"r | 22s14 | ||
Uranus | 28 | 35'51" | 10n29 | ||
Neptune | 15 | 34'28" | 6s32 | ||
Pluto | 21 | 17'10" | 21s28 | ||
TrueNode | 11 | 17'55"r | 17n23 | ||
Chiron | 0 | 10'21" | 3n12 | ||
Explanations of the symbols | |||||
Chart of the moment |