JUNE 22-24: EXCELLENT SCORPIO MOON

MOON ENTERS SCORPIO at 3:11pm EDT on Friday, June 22 after a VOID OF COURSE DAY and remains here until Sunday, June 24 at 10:00am. LAST ASPECT OF MOON: Moon Trine Mercury in Cancer. Actions initiated during the V/C time tend not to work out as planned. It's best to use this time for inner creative work. The Scorpio Moon would be a great time for communicating about important issues, especially psychological and/or financial resources, with someone we trust. Both Scorpio and Cancer are water signs and emotions, which are likely to run high, are in focus. Go deep and try to find the source of any painful early wounds. Once identified and expressed, and appropriate responsibility taken, the suffering tends to lighten. This is also a great time to ask for money! Scorpio rules others' resources so benefits, especially from family or close women friends, are quite possible. If you can get to some revitalizing body of water, do it! Actions initiated along these themes tend to have EXCELLENT resolutions.

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SCORPIO FILM: Queen of the Desert, 2015; Writer/Director: Werner Herzog. Daughter to a wealthy and politically well-placed British family in the late 1800's, Gertrude Bell is a restlessly independent woman before her time. After being sent to live with relatives in Tehran, she finally finds her true home in the freedom, dignity and poetry of the Arabian Nefud desert. She becomes a writer,

photographer, archaeologist and political liaison. Because of her unique intelligence and sensibilities she is one of the only foreigners who comes to know the Bedouin tribes fondly. This is a Lawrence of Arabia-like story based on a remarkable real-life female historic British character. T.E. Lawrence, archaeologist friend to Bell, is actually also a character in this film and played by Robert Pattinson. Nicole Kidman, as Bell, takes on what could have been another role of a lifetime but the writer/director fails to deliver the goods. I'm not a Herzog fan (my analyst and I agreed a long time ago that he doesn't tend to love his characters) but I was compelled, for the second time this week (The Promise), to continue watching just to learn the story. Interestingly, both films depict the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
While Herzog keeps us at bay and on the surface of her adventure, the true Gertrude Bell with her natal Moon Conjunct Pluto, would have been driven deep into Scorpionic emotional territory. Kidman’s Scorpio Ascendant would have been able to journey down into this underworld, but without the written prima materia, the task is nearly impossible. There is dialogue which alludes to this moist creative place seething with potential self-wisdom but the breadth of narrative scope as well as the traditional focus on her romantic interests undermine the presence of any meaningful character development. East of the Red Sea, Bell discovers a hidden gorge with surprisingly fresh

water. "The deeper I penetrate this labyrinth, the more I become known to myself." The movie would have benefited greatly from more of this inner poetic connection to the land...reminiscent of Out of Africa. The majestic mise-en-scène is almost powerful enough to carry the movie. At one point a colleague toasts his fellow archaeologists. Bell responds, "So far I am just a traveler." "Well, then here's to the travelers and those who dig up mysteries from under the surface." A perfect Pluto trine Mercury description. Officially named 'Oriental Secretary' by Churchill, she helped create borders between Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Bell was thought by many to be a spy; but her character states defiantly in the film “I am a spy only for myself.”