Do movie studios practice astrology?
One might think so when looking at the release
date for the new War of the Worlds movie.
The Steven Spielberg movie War
of the Worlds will
have had its wide public opening on June 29,
at which time Mercury and Venus will be in such close
conjunction that they will appear to the naked eye
as one light in the sky. Saturn will also be
within 4° of these two planets. This close encounter
of Mercury and Venus, at 1° of Leo, will not be repeated
for another 65 years. Mercury is the planet of communication,
while Venus rules artistic values--together they represent
films, darkened by malefic Saturn.
War
of the Worlds is an
H.G. Wells novel which was adapted as a radio play
in 1938, a movie in 1953, and is now being redone
once again. H.G. Wells (horoscope)
had a close conjunction of Mars and Uranus in watery
Cancer. Cancer is believed to be the weakest sign
placement for Mars. His Venus and Pluto were in exact
opposition and Wells had a Virgo Sun, notable for
a writer whose best-known work has aliens defeated
by a common virus.
The Los Angeles Times, in
a
glowing review, notes that the
original novel, the radio broadcast, and both movies "have
had the advantage of appearing at uncannily fraught
moments in world history, striking a chord with a
citizenry already primed to be unnerved." The original
novel appeared when Britain feared an invasion from
Germany. The radio broadcast took place on the brink
of World War II. The first film was
released during the Cold War of backyard bomb
shelters and school atomic bomb attack drills. The
current movie version comes in the new age of
terrorism and homeland security .
The original War of the Worlds
radio broadcast, which spooked the nation on the
night before Halloween, 1938, took place while dark,
probing, and unnerving Pluto was at 1° of Leo—the
same degree of the present-day Mercury-Venus alignment.
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Eye; Astrology
Blog; King
Kong and the Decline of the Multiplex
