DAILY ASTROLOGY IN FILM: MAY 24-25

MOON IN CAPRICORN from 1:34am EDT on Tuesday May 24th until 9:11pm EDT on Wednesday May 25th.  This month's Capricorn Moon may be trickier than last month's when the last aspect was a square to Venus. We recall that this Moon is ruled by Saturn and travels the range from feeling restricted in expressing our feelings, depressed or in denial to feeling very ambitious and driven to produce something. It is the great manifester. Saturn rules form and structure, bones and teeth, authority figures and is the maker of laws. It is traditional, obeying convention. This is a serious, practical, responsible, disciplined time of testing. It rules the law of Karma. It is a teacher of focalization, differentiation and individuation.

LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Square Uranus at 9:11pm on Wednesday May 25th. Actions initiated during this moon period will tend to have a CHALLENGING result. Moon square Uranus is very difficult for the emotional body which likes a safe and comfortable container - think womb - where all elements are held in place. Uranus shakes things up and breaks things apart, forming a new unusual and often uncomfortable situation. Uranus will abruptly breakdown existing structures. Add the ninety degree square relationship and this is no picnic. The trick is to be as flexible to change as possible. Be prepared to have your buttons pushed and not react. Take a breath and consider your possibilities before you act. Also remember that we're in the three day period after Mercury Stations and turns Retrograde at 9:20am EDT on Sunday the 22nd. This is often considered the most vulnerable time for Mercury's arenas of Communication, Mind Processes and Travel. Check and double check all communications and travel arrangements. Contracts and agreements often don't work out. See Post for April 17th. If at all possible wait to make important agreements and purchases until after MAY 25th.

SCENE OF THE DAY: DAYS OF HEAVEN, 1978; Director: Terrence Malick: Cinematographer: Nestor Allemandros. A quick karmic return develops when migrant worker Bill, played by a young Richard Gere, convinces his girlfriend Abby (Brooke Adams) to marry the Texas landowner known only as The Farmer (Sam Shepard). Bill overhears the doctor inform The Farmer he only has a few months to live. Ambitious personified, Bill devises this plan to inherit all his possessions. The narrative is an biblical allegory, Malick's script famously inspired by the expulsion from Eden - the locust scene, a plague. Fate is dead set against this ensemble cast, the bite of the apple being deceit. What ensues is only more debt dramatically paid. As I've said before, the gods demand their due and Moon square Uranus in Aries may be trial by fire! Fast-spreading fire at that. This, Malick's second film following Badlands - after which he stopped filmmaking for twenty years - is considered one of the most beautifully photographed movies ever shot. Malick, MIT philosophy professor, is considered America's poet/filmmaker.