December 29, 2008--Capricorn has to do with
time and aging. It is ruled by Saturn,
the Great Chronocrator and Lord of Time.
Now that transformational Pluto has
entered Capricorn, time is going to
become a much bigger issue—which is not
surprising, given the concerns of an
aging Pluto in Leo/Baby Boomer
population.
The Curious Case
Of Benjamin Button, a
film about a life lived backwards,
affectingly explores this Pluto in
Capricorn theme.
The movie begins with the
installation of a giant clock in a New
Orleans railway station. The clock,
however—constructed by a renowned blind
clockmaker—goes backwards. It is the
clockmaker’s attempt to reverse time and
symbolically resurrect his dead son (who
was killed in World War I).
Brad Pitt does a
masterful job of portraying the illusion
of Benjamin Button’s reverse
transformation from old age to middle
age and into youth. One of the closest
aspects in Brad Pitt’s horoscope (see
chart below) is a sextile between
Mercury
(communication) and Neptune (illusion).
The sextile often works to facilitate
the harmonious mingling of planetary
energies.
The film’s director,
David Fincher
(who also directed the excellent
Zodiac),
once again carefully constructs the
story scene by nuanced scene (he’s a
Virgo). The sets, which span the 20th
Century, are uncluttered but establish
time and place and resonate perfectly.
Benjamin Button
has a lot in common with Forrest Gump:
history seen through the eyes of an
oddly Aquarian individual (Benjamin is
raised by an African-American maid in a
boarding home for the aged) whose simple
perspective embodies a singularly
optimistic and accepting philosophy of
life.
It seems to me to be the
perfect movie for Pluto’s entry into
Capricorn. Time often seems to be an
abstraction, the stuff of philosophy and
Faulkner. But, today, it’s real enough
for many of us. Time eventually carries
all of us to death, a Plutonian reality
if ever there was one. An aging
population, a Saturnine economy which is
returning us to the cash standard, death
in all its forms: One of Amazon.com’s
best selling Christmas items was a nose
and ear hair trimmer—one more sign of a
population for whom age and time are
realities.
Capricorn also carries
the indestructible seeds of eternal
verities, and The Curious Case Of
Benjamin Button, with a perfectly
timed Christmas release, is also a movie
about love and charity.
See also:
Ratatouille;
Pan's Labyrinth;
Star Wars
and the Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction
Horoscope for Brad
Pitt (Dec. 18, 1963; 6:31 AM; Shawnee,
Oklahoma;
Rodden Rating A,
from memory)
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