entertainment and consciousness-raising were no longer mutually exclusive propositions.
Released just months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger and Me and the destruction of the Wall were both symbols of velvet revolutions of sorts, signaling swift and major changes in their respective empires. The landscape of corporate America changed radically in the nineties, with horizontal structures, increased benefits, and causal Fridays. Was Roger and Me the "shot heard 'round the world" that signaled the coming changes? Probably not. However, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger and Me was not the product of one angry and aware citizen but the result of many complex and subtle forces, mirrored by a very important and rare triple conjunction of Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn in Capricorn. (see chart)
With his natal Uranus square to Mercury, (see chart, solar only) Moore demonstrates that the most successful weapon of subversion is a caustic wit and dry irony. This film's exposé would have fallen completely flat had Moore gone into the General Motors fray with a valiant, self-righteous determination. Instead, and like all good David versus Goliath fights, Moore allows General Motors and the Reagan Era logic to defeat itself; Moore is simply there to be a conscientious, witty, albeit highly biased, reporter.
Though the weapon used in the film is primarily humor, the creation of the film must have taken an incredible degree of courage, guts, and as critic as Hal Hinson points out, "rage." (8) Moore saw a tremendous opportunity to create awareness around the growing discrepancy between the power elite and the common man in America in the eighties.
At the time of the premeire, Michael Moore was experiencing both a Uranus transit to his natal Mars (a conjunction) and to his natal Sun (a trine). (See chart) Any significant Uranus transit to natal Mars can be a time when we take our rallying cries for freedom and truth into action, a time when we become rebels for a cause. Moore's Mars—his point of action, determination, and self-assertion—became both ignited and catalyzed through a significant transit by Uranus. To walk into a shareholder's meeting of one of the most powerful corporations in the world and to stand firm (as Moore does) epitomizes the audacity, brazenness, creativity and freedom-loving capacity of Uranus as it also symbolizes the daring and boldness of a fully-functioning Mars. Like Moore, we can become transformed into champions for the underdog and become freedom fighters during significant Uranus-Mars transits, using anger and rage as positive emotions that are elicited from a world of injustice, hypocrisy, and lies.
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