King
Kong
King
Kong,
Peter Jackson’s bloated but magnificent new movie,
showcases the Uranus-Neptune mutual
reception. Uranus’ entry into Neptune-ruled
Pisces in 2003 began an eight year sharing of energies
with Neptune (
Neptune will be in
Uranus-ruled Aquarius until 2012).
Neptune rules movies,
and Uranus rules technology. Therefore, we are witnessing
a revolution in movie technology. King
Kong’s director, Peter Jackson, is a master
of digital film-making. There are scenes in King
Kong that are beautiful and sublime, yet many of
the scenes—lush jungle island waterfalls, breathtaking
sunsets, twinkling winter cityscapes—are computer
software creations. The island monsters are actually
digital animations a few steps beyond Toy Story. The recent hit movies Star
Wars: Revenge of the Sith, War of the Worlds, and
Batman Begins
all relied heavily on digital effects—and all
were produced during the Uranus-Neptune mutual reception.
The length of the movie is truly Jupiterian—over
three hours. It has not met sales projections in its
opening weekend and is part of an overall decline in
movie ticket sales (see
news article). Although there are problems with
King Kong
(an interminable exposition and too many island monsters,
the latter a probable precursor to King
Kong video games), the movie’s lagging ticket
sales represent part of a larger trend away from movie
theaters.
This is due to a number of factors. Like Krispy
Kreme doughnuts, a number of movies today have all the
downside of Pluto in Sagittarius: too much sugar glazing,
heavy calories, and they are expensive.
The public seems to prefer the movie version
of a salad bar—a stroll down the DVD aisle at
the local video store. We can also order takeout from
Netflix—and some people just stiff the restaurant
by downloading movies for free off the Internet. It
is, in general, part of the diffusion away from a central
organizing power hierarchy—Neptune’s
separating aspect from Pluto. More specifically, the
shared energies of Uranus and Neptune (through the conjunction
of 1993 and the current mutual
reception) are shifting movie and music power from
the old-fashioned industrial model and putting it into
iPods (and other personally controlled entertainment
devices) everywhere.
See also: Star Wars
and the Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction; War
of the Worlds
