But it wasn’t for lack of trying. I suspect the moment of closest lunation was too low in the sky to be seen in Noelville. Either that, or our shed was blocking my view from our bedroom window. Oh, well…
This time, Mars and Pluto are above the horizon, ahead of the Sun and the following planets in Pisces and Aries. The Iran War won’t end anytime soon, in my humble opinion. But the Moon turning blood red sounds apocryphal, doesn’t it? Evidently, the eclipse can be seen by up to three billion people.
I read a line in a Facebook post that quoted Elizabeth Taylor as saying Montgomery Clift was her soul mate. I thought to myself, could that be seen in comparing their birth charts?
Using Clift’s birth chart as the base for the comparison, the close links between them is obvious. Her Mars is conjunct his Uranus; her Neptune is conjunct his Virgo Ascendant; her Moon is conjunct his Mercury; while her Jupiter is conjunct his Neptune. So, yes, they are very connected..
Taylor’s Sun and Mercury are ‘combust’ and her Venus/Uranus conjunction is almost exact. That makes her do the ‘running’ in the relationship. The Venus/Uranus conjunction is inconjunct to Clift’s Mercury and his Saturn, creating a double Yod. If he had been straight in his sexuality, she would have been ideal for him, but the double Yod says otherwise. Isn’t that a shame for them.
My wife is a great fan of Andrea Bocelli. This film is his origin story, based on his 1999 book of the same name. In the story he called the hero Amos Bardi. But it is clearly Bocelli’s memories, through and through.
As always, the disability of blindness becomes his superpower. Faith needs to be strong, even when everything is against you. If you believe, it will happen. And family is the secret sauce to the mix.
Most of the illustrations for this six planet lineup tend to show them in the wrong order, as if they lined up in their ‘normal’ positioning in our solar system. This one, shown above, is probably the most accurate, although, astrologically, Mercury will be closest to the horizon, at least here in Northern Ontario. Here’s an event chart, demonstrating what I mean:
The Sun, the North Node (in Pisces) and Mars and Pluto (in Aquarius) are the only ones below the horizon. (Perhaps that’s the hint for the conflict in Iran that the Americans have started last night.)
So, if you hope to view this alignment tonight, weather permitting, look west, young man @ 7 pm.
This one was filmed in Winnipeg, and it shows. The use of natural lighting is the giveaway that it’s from Canada. The amount of snow that the producers had representing a blizzard in 1994 Louisville, Kentucky was a ‘normal’ snowstorm north of the border. Funny, that.
Films like this tend to take liberties in order to enhance the dramatic effect, but the real images shown during the ending credits kind of gave the game away. The final obstacle to overcome happens in the daylight, not at night. That makes quite a bit of difference. Driving (or flying) during a snowstorm at night is harder than during the day, although accidents do happen then, too. But not matter, the story is about a miracle, and it delivers it in spades.
The image of a red blanket flying like an angel beneath the descending helicopter is seen as the personification of Michelle’s mother That’s when Ed Schmitt ‘saw’ who was behind the miracle.
I purposely didn’t watch yesterday’s Gold Metal hockey game between the United States and Canada. I’d already suffered through the women’s game earlier in the week and didn’t want a repeat. I wrongly thought I might be jinxing them. (and, of course, I have NOTHING to do with the outcome.)
But being Silver medalists is nothing to sneer at. But being beaten by Team USA is a bit galling these days, especially in the climate of international politics. Both games ended in 2-1 wins for the States.
How’s that for synchronicity? This animated movie has been on Netflix for over three months, but I only saw it for the first time, last night. The children are siblings: Stevie is about 12, Elliot is about 8. That age difference may be the real cause of their ‘conflicts’, but one night they share a strange dream about flying.
Most of their dreams have nightmarish qualities to them, but they discover that by holding hands and working together, they can overcome any obstacles and approach their goals.
The siblings eventually reach the Sandman’s castle, hoping that he will cast their wish where their parents will not move away to Duluth. However, unlike the benevolent figure they expected, the Sandman traps dreamers by offering them a “perfect” fantasy life that never ends, keeping them asleep forever so he can feed on their dreams. He offers Stevie a simulation of her life where her parents are happy and—crucially—where her brother Elliot never existed.
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As always, I won’t tell you how this turns out, but I need to remind you of the adage (somewhat modified): “Be careful what you dream for, you just might get it.”
An enjoyable romp, nonetheless, with many cultural references visually, like the Sandman’s castle is the alien spaceship in “Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind”, for example.
And some more:
And one more:
P.S. Stevie reminds me of my granddaughter, Miss B.
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