Red Eye and Pluto in Capricorn

 

On the heels of War of the Worlds comes another 9/11-themed film, Red Eye. Movies sometimes reveal what’s beneath the cultural surface and in Red Eye, one can see the outlines of Pluto in Capricorn. Earlier this year, Pluto came within just six degrees of Capricorn. Transiting Pluto now closely squares the U.S. Neptune, which may help to create the conditions for Pluto’s energies seeking release through Hollywood movies.

 

 Red Eye’s director, Wes Craven, has a prominent Mars in Capricorn (see horoscope—no birth time, set for noon). Mars is exalted in Capricorn and for a film maker this can indicate a delight in elevating tension, prolonging and controlling audience reactions. Wes Craven is best-known for directing the original Nightmare on Elm Street and all three Scream movies.

 

Rachel McAdams is an up-and-coming actress who plays the heroine in Red Eye. In the movie, she sits next to a flirtatious young man who turns out to be a terrorist on a late night airplane flight. One movie reviewer described McAdams’ performance as “suggesting a depth of intensity uncommon in most Hollywood ingйnues” (read the review). This may be because she has a Sun-Pluto conjunction and Venus in Scorpio (see horoscope—no birth time, set for noon). Her Venus is currently being squared by transiting Neptune.

 

Red Eye’s combination of an airplane, darkness, Homeland Security, claustrophobic airline seating, and terrorism in the hands of an actual terror movie director evokes nothing less than a disturbing future Pluto in Capricorn world. Like War of the Worlds, it resonates astrologically in the context of our post-9/11 world.

 

(As a side note, Red Eye’s costar is Cillian Murphy and his next movie, slated for release later this year, is called…Breakfast on Pluto).

 

See also: Astrology Blog; War of the Worlds