DAILY ASTROLOGY IN FILM: MAY 19-21

MOON IN SCORPIO from 2:30am EDT on Thursday May 19th until 7:40am EDT Saturday May 21st. Ruled by Pluto, the Scorpio Moon reflects primordial Power: Life, Death and Regeneration. This Fixed Water sign is deeply emotional and often concerns issues of jealousy and possessiveness in relationships. Intensity in some form is usually the order of the day and often shows up in the area of resources or money, particularly other people's money - as in inheritance. This is also a very creative and sexual time though power struggles may ensue. Pluto goes down to the core of whatever structure - physical, mental, psychological/emotional or spiritual - breaks it down and re-constructs, remodels or regenerates it. What is available to us now is a step in long-term deep transformation.

LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Opposite Venus at 7:40am EDT on May 21st. The sexual intensity of the Scorpio Moon may be heightened with an opposition to Venus in her own sign of sensuously earthy Taurus. Both are Fixed signs and resist flexibility in the relationship. As we are building to the FULL MOON in Sagittarius later on May 21st (the Sun enters Gemini on May 20th at 10:37am EDT) and Mercury is in its last days of retrograde, the drama may be about a culmination of a previous conflict. Some circumstance in the outer world, most likely involving a woman, may hinder a positive resolution. Actions initiated during this time are likely to have a CHALLENGING result.

SCENE OF THE DAY: Damage, 1992; Director: Louis Malle. Forbidden love has dramatically Plutonic consequences when a member of Parliament, played by Jeremy Irons, falls into a passionate affair with his son's fiance, played by Juliette Binoche. Here we witness Scorpio's darker qualities of possession, jealousy and death in a most compelling and unusual love triangle drama. Malle shocks us to our depths in his exploration of the shadowy desire of human sexuality and how close to the edge, and over it, we will go to satisfy this drive. After what feels like an obligatory climb to a devastating climax, each character slowly begins their respective journey to reconstruct their life.