An Astro-Games or Exercises Post
© 2012 by Joyce Mason
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This new category of posts is designed to highlight
fun ways to explore astrology. Since the arts as healing are a big component of
Chiron
in Pisces, it might be fun with value added!
A friend recently turned
me onto Pinterest, which has become my
newest social networking adventure. Pinterest’s own definition: Think of Pinterest as a virtual pinboard — a
place where you can create collections of things you love and “follow”
collections created by people with great taste. Some of the boards I have created have
been very revealing to me from an astrological perspective: TV Shows I Still Miss,
Movies I Can’t Forget, and TV Shows I Watch.
I used IMDB, the Internet Movie Data Base, to pin
images to each of my boards. As I looked up each fave, I noticed the
descriptions of the TV show or movie. In the process, I discovered planetary
themes—and I believe which planet most colors my worldview. If you have a chart
with multiple influences by several different planets, it might be a revealing
exercise to list your 5-10 favorite movies and TV shows of all time. Visit IMDB
and look at the adjectives that
describe the shows. I’d love to hear if
you find your dominant planet, as I think I did mine, by taking a closer look
at your taste in TV shows or movies. The TV medium had a message for me!
Here are some examples
from my board, TV Shows I Still Miss:
- Nash Bridges (probably my favorite show of all time) – Nash is described as a “smart alecky San Francisco cop,” definitely a rebel and a rule breaker.
- Northern Exposure - All about the characters in an “eccentric Alaskan town.”
- Twin Peaks – no doubt, there’s Pluto involved in this one, but first, there’s another planet you might recognize in this description: “An idiosyncratic FBI Agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.”
I’m sure I don’t need to
go on for you to recognize Uranus as a key character in the TV shows that have
been most memorable to me. There’s plenty of Pluto in many of them, too, but
it’s the unique, rebellious, eccentric and idiosyncratic characteristics of
these shows that draw me in.
As I’ve written many
times, I’m an outerplanetary
person and PUNC prominent (Plutonian, Uranian, Neptunian and Chironic). My media of choice are film and TV (Neptune) and my faves have a lot
of Pluto along with Uranus, suggesting no one of my PUNCs works solo. (PUNC
Solo. Wasn’t he a character in Star Wars?) However, if I were to grade
prominence strictly by closest relationship of these planets to a personal
planet or angle, the order for me would be: (1) Pluto, (2) Chiron, (3) Neptune, and (4)
Uranus. In my historical TV choices, Uranus is at the front of the line, not third
runner up. Along with the fact that most people who don’t know my chart think
I’m an Aquarius after spending time with me, I have to question whether the
outer planets, in actual practice, don’t ignore our assumption that the
tightest orb equals the most influence.
You can do this exercise with
movies, music, art on your walls, books on your shelves, or any other
entertainment or aesthetic medium you enjoy. Just a little astrological game to
play when you have a few spare minutes. Would love to hear about your
discoveries in the Comments!
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Photo Credit: © eugeneharnam - Fotolia.com
2 comments:
My absolute all-time favourite TV-series is Six Feet Under. I've cried and laughed and been terrified everytime I've watched it. Contains all sort of PUNC-issues...
One of my faves, too, Mads. You are right. PUNC to the max! Definitely Uranian and Plutonian in the extreme. I guess a person is kind off offbeat who's life is death. I remember meeting another little girl while walking with our moms in downtown Chicago. She told me she wanted to be an undertaker when she grew up, because that was her family's business. Do you think she grew up to be Claire? LOL! I thought that was the weirdest thing I ever heard at the time ... but then, Michael C. Hall "grew up to become" the character, Dexter. Even weirder.
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