Since Spielberg is in the minority of directors working in Hollywood who have attained artistic control of their movies, his personal vision and the workings of his own psychology are more likely to manifest in the movies he directs. The succession of movies he has directed, then, should reflect the personal ideas, experiences, interests, and passions that occupied Spielberg during the time of their creation. In addition, astrological transits should correlate with Spielberg's experience of creating a motion picture and should mirror the main themes and content explored in each movie. Hence, a threefold dialogue—a trialogue—occurs between archetype, Spielberg, and his creation, each accurately reflecting and affirming each other's condition.

The symbol most often associated with the archetype of Neptune is the ocean. Acting as the literal embodiment from which creation springs forth, the ocean potently captures the matrix of creation that archetypal Neptune signifies. However, the Neptunian waters that connected with Spielberg's thoughts were not of the sort that led to experiences of oceanic bliss. As Benchley's novel used the great white shark as a secondary device around which to devise a tale of morality, Spielberg, to his credit, focused primarily upon the shark and crafted scenes of chilling suspense and terror as a result.

Spielberg's natal chart illustrates that he was undergoing the generational transit of Pluto conjoining Neptune. Individually manifesting as an intensification of dreamlife and fantasy or as transformation in consciousness itself, Pluto conjoining Neptune received it's perfect realization in the image of the killer shark terrorizing a U.S. resort town. Pluto represents the revolution and renovation of life by processes of intense and extreme transformation; whatever archetypal Pluto contacts is irrevocably changed. That which evokes extreme conversion and metamorphosis-death, sex, birth-are Pluto at work at it's most actualized level. The killing machine of the shark is not necessarily "Plutonic" per se, however, the pain of extinction and annihilation that a shark attack represents is deeply metaphorical of the process of Pluto. Thus, Spielberg's Jaws is a symbolic manifestation of the transformative powers embedded within the collective unconscious (Neptune).