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Originally written October 1999 | pp. 1 2 3 4 5
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Regardless if you love
his films or hate them, Russell is a great person to look at astrologically
because he was successful at getting his personal vision realized on screen.
Those artists, writers,
musicians, and filmmakers who were able to create highly personal statements
through their art are wonderful case studies in astrology because inevitably
the birth chart shines through their work.
We will look at Russell's
work as a whole as it relates to his birth chart, followed by looking at specific
films of his career as they relate to planetary transits.
Let's first take a look
at Russell's
birthchart (solar only). It is a striking one. Many things are immediately noticeable
upon first glance: The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction; The Sun-Pluto conjunction;
The stellium of Moon, Venus, Mars, and Neptune, and the preponderance of the
element of Fire in the chart. Let's take these bit by bit.
First, the Jupiter-Uranus
conjunction. This particular combination is often in the charts of great filmmakers.
Jupiter—the planet of storytelling,
success, and excess—fuses with the archetypal qualities of Uranus—sudden
breakthrough, radical experimentation, rapid
insight, genius, rebelliousness, independence. Both planets enhance each others'
qualities in this combination. Jupiter amplifies the Uranian tendencies as
Uranus gives the Jupiterian impulse toward storytelling an extra jolt of creativity. There is
often an over-the-top quality, a wildly excessive phantasmagoria, and brilliant technical direction in the scenes
of filmmakers with the Jupiter-Uranus combination. This self-indulgent creativity, critics have noted, often interferes with the ability for
a story to tell itself, however, films of those with Jupiter-Uranus in the birthchart can rarely be accused of being boring. More recent examples of directors born under a Jupiter-Uranus
conjunction include Baz Luhrman, director of Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge and Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich.
Sun-Pluto is the synthesis
of one's self identification with the universal will to power. There
is a need in this combination to purge one's self of all that is taboo, to
often drudge through realms of death, sex, and decay. In this combination,
the Sun is fused with the shady underworld of Pluto, the disidentified and
marginal aspects of society and the individual. Pluto can also drive the personality
to intensely desire power in any of its manifestations.
The stellium, or grouping,
of Moon, Venus, Mars, and Neptune indicates a rich and powerful dream life
and one prone to visions of exquisite beauty. In this stellium, all the typically
feminine planets of Moon, Venus, and Neptune are tightly conjoined, and with
the addition of Mars, there is a need to assert these qualities forcibly into
the outer world.
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