"Mirror Mirror" and "Wilde"

Oscar Wilde was said to be the role Stephen Fry was born to play and it won Fry a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. "Wilde" was released on 15 October) 1987 and today is Wilde's birthday. The pair have a Venus conjunction in Libra within two degrees as well as a Moon conjunction in Leo within three degrees. Coincidence or Astrology? For more film and astrology trivia, follow me on Instagram at mirror_mirror_astrology or just buy the book and get the whole story: mybook.to/MirrorM (for personally signed copies, please go to: https://alextrenoweth.co.uk/.../signed-copy-of-mirror.../...)

Signed copies of "Mirror Mirror"

It’s been a busy few days delivering signed copies of “Mirror Mirror: The Astrology of Famous People and the Actors Who Have Portrayed Them” to various outlets in London. However, with things being as they are with travel being so difficult, people from out of town (and the country) have told me they wished they cold have a signed copy too. So I’m super happy to be able to offer a signed copy of “Mirror Mirror: The Astrology of Famous People and the Actors Who Have Portrayed Them”. I’ll sign a copy JUST FOR YOU, package it and take it to the post office to ship it to you. It doesn’t cost extra to have the book signed but postage and packaging fees have to be added (it’s cheaper than travelling to a conference to see me!). If you live in London, I’m happy to bring you a signed copy and have a chat over a pint or cup of tea (email me at alex.trenoweth@gmail.com). Public places only of course. You can also buy unsigned copies from the usual outlets such as Amazon.

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To give you a taste of what’s inside “Mirror Mirror” here’s the foreword by the wonderful Julia Parker followed by a review from the equally wonderful Victor Olliver.

FOREWORD

Among the many astrology books published each year – each decade, indeed – how many explore a genuinely new idea? It can safely be said that Alex Trenoweth has achieved that goal in a book which is based on a comparison of the charts of famous film actors and of the personalities they have portrayed for the cinema.

A physical impersonation and spectacular make-up is one thing, but to give the impression even for just 120 minutes, that Mrs Thatcher or Linda Chamberlain are actually on-screen before us requires some kind of indefinable theatrical magic. Magic – or astrology? In her intriguing book Ms Trenoweth examines over a hundred examples of the synastry between actors and their biographical roles. The results are of course variable, as in almost all astrological books concerning synastry, but here, in almost every case, one follows the author’s arguments with eager interest.

This is a book not only for the astrologer with a thorough knowledge of the subject, but – spectacularly – for those with a keen, developing interest. A certain amount of knowledge is of course essential when reading, for instance, the separate chapters on the planets – and Chiron and the nodes – but the enthusiastic film-goer will find enormous interest in those which deal, in the core of the book, with the relationship between the actor and his or her subject. The interest broadens when Ms Trenoweth (whose knowledge of astrology and film history run side by side, with neither one in advance of the other) looks at a range of actors who have played the same character – for example, Harry Houdini, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and Stephen Hawking.

I must have seen a good dozen Hamlets at the theatre: how I would have liked to read Ms Trenoweth speculate on, say, Peter O’Toole’s disastrous performance – what, in his chart, betrays his inability to play the introvert Lawrence with such spectacular insight, when he seemed to have no intuitive connection at all with the introvert Prince? How did the planets at birth encourage John Gielgud to be the finest Hamlet of our time, when that fine actor Jude Law failed to reach the heights? Perhaps another book by another astrologer – but with this book, remember, Alex Trenoweth, comes first. Huckleberry Finn, reading Pilgrim’s Progress, found ‘the statement was interesting, but tough.’ This author’s statements are interesting and far from tough. It deserves to be the bedside book of the year.

--Julia Parker 2021

REVIEW

The moment I opened Mirror Mirror, memories were revived. Before astrology beckoned me rather late in life (thank you, Saturn) I reviewed movies and attended film festivals – Cannes being by far the most glamorous and cool. I was transported back to the Palais des Festivals, the vast entertainment hub of Cannes on the Croisette, and heard once again Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, the ‘Aquarium’ movement in particular which was played on a loop morning, noon and night, year after year, in the Palais’ public halls and corridors. I didn’t know it then, but Cannes had enjoined the movies showcased with a piece of music that summons up dreams and magical phantasms of reality (as well as an aquarium) ­– Neptune in a word. In modern astrology, Neptune rules the movie, the arena of light illusion, all that appears real but is not. Unwittingly, the organisers of Cannes had found the perfect Neptunian, watery serenade for the celluloid fodder of the dream factories.

Another one of those…coincidences.

Mirror Mirror takes us into the domain of Neptune for an amazing and original exploration. As a film buff herself, Alex Trenoweth started to notice the astrological connections between real-life stories and the illusory renditions on the big screen, and between the real people portrayed (such as Oscar Wilde or Elizabeth I) and the actors hired to portray them. We may say, for instance, that Taron Egerton gives us a remarkably good impression of Elton John in Rocketman, but only an astrologer can make something of the Sun/Moon conjunction in the two men’s synastry which enabled the actor to get under the skin of the subject and persuade us that he was in effect Elton John.

Trenoweth puts a hundred movies under the astro-microscope, supported by hundreds of charts – mostly biwheels and triwheels. She rewatched all the movies under discussion, with Mr Bubbles by her side, her pet cat who has since departed for purr-heaven. And what helps make this an astounding book is its structure which ensures that a love of the movies does not eclipse the astrology.

This is achieved quite simply by allotting each of the planets and lunar points its own chapter with a selection of films that share its astrological themes. As Trenoweth explains in her Introduction, films are categorised “by the planet that showed the strongest synastry between character and actor”. So, to take one planetary example, Pluto embraces A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, Al Capone, Madame Curie and Schindler’s List because each features highly transformative, Plutonian themes. But also, there are interesting aspects and synastry involving Pluto: Greer Garson, for example, was perfect to play Marie Curie, a scientist who researched radioactivity, because Garson’s Pluto (radioactivity) was conjunct her own MC (career).

Another wise move structurally was the decision only to look at the films that are about real people living or dead – this roots the astrological associations in an origin actuality, a discrete starting point from which to trace the links that take us into the filmic dream. And the astrology.

Trenoweth imposes a disciplined, set format on each movie analysis, upholding order, and this reminds us that this is not a book to be confused with the spirit of Photoplay. Under each title, birth data of selected starring performers is set out before Trenoweth treats us to a faithful synopsis of the storyline. Then she moves to the aspects and synastry. So, in the case of Wilde in the Venus chapter – the biopic of Oscar Wilde’s decline and fall starring Stephen Fry – it is significant that the two men’s Venuses in Libra are conjunct, and that Fry’s MC sits on Wilde’s North Node. This aspect alone suggests a fated quality to Fry’s uncanny conjuring up of Wilde, as if he were born to play the part. (Arguably, Fry has never done anything better since the brilliance of his Wilde.)

Trenoweth also notes that Fry’s co-star Jude Law’s Pluto in Libra is conjunct the Moon of Lord Alfred Douglas, aka the infamous Bosie whose affair with Wilde and feud with his own father were largely responsible for Wilde’s destruction. It is as if the astrological dynamics of the actual story are played out at a filmic level in an interplay of matching cosmic energies – crossing boundaries of time, personal identity, fact and fiction, and locations – a mirroring only to be found in the horoscope.

Countless other new things are to be discovered in this compendious book. In the later chapter Multiple Versions, Trenoweth revisits those famous people whose lives have been turned into more than one biopic, people like Ted Bundy or Stephen Hawking. My favourite chapter is…Favourites, at the back of the book, comprising the flicks that have turned Trenoweth into a fangirl. I share a lot of her loves. I was most pleased to see Michael Douglas’ Liberace film Behind the Candelabra – not strictly a big screen film but a TV movie, largely thanks to Hollywood studio homophobia – analysed, as well as the Meryl Streep classic Julie & Julia. The astrological connections in these and many other films are breath-taking.

If ever a book should come with a carton of popcorn, it’s Mirror Mirror. Prodigiously researched, painstakingly detailed to satisfy the worst cases of data freakery, and beautifully turned out (applause for publisher Margaret Cahill), this is a book that (like all good movie franchises) most probably will end up with a sequel and a prequel.

--Victor Olliver The AA Journal

Lady Sings the Blues

 For you fellow jazz lovers. . ."Lady Sings the Blues" (about the wonderful Billie Holiday played by the equally wonderful Motown legend Diana Ross) was released 12 October 1972. Billie had Jupiter in Pisces (in its rulership) at 14 degrees whilst Diana has her Venus in Pisces (in its exaltation) at 12 degrees. The film is essentially about Billie's sad decline into drug addiction but is filled with her wonderful music, performed by Ross. Oh and the film was released during their Saturn returns. There are an awful lot of astrological "coincidences" in "Mirror Mirror" and you can purchase your very own copy here: mybook.to/MirrorM

Looking for Richard

 Richard III was the baddest of Shakespeare's baddies (and my favourite) and he appears in the section of my book where one character is portrayed by different actors in different films. "Looking for Richard", released on this day (11 October) in 1996 featured Al Pacino as the Bad Boy. It was a strange accent for a British king but what can you expect when the actor's Uranus is on Richard III's descendant? There are an awful lot of astrological "coincidences" in "Mirror Mirror" and you can purchase your very own copy here: mybook.to/MirrorM

Gorillas in the Mist

 Sigourney Weaver and Dian Fossey both have the Moon at 5 Taurus (yup they're timed AA charts). Sigourney, who celebrates her birthday today, was nominated for Best Actress at the 1989 Academy Awards and to this day she supports the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Transiting Pluto was opposite to their Moons when the film was released thus uniting them in their passion to protect these beautiful animals. I'm delighted to hear so many are enjoying "Mirror Mirror"! You can purchase your copy here: mybook.to/MirrorM

Mirror Mirror: Iris

Today is the lovely Kate Winslet's birthday. In "Iris" she played the young, rebellious, free-spirited, non-conforming, skinny dipping author Iris Murdoch. Kate has Venus at 0 Virgo opposite to Iris's Uranus at 1 Pisces. Coincidence or Astrology? "Mirror Mirror" contains over 100 films with about 1,000 more of these "coincidences". I'm delighted to hear friends on the West Coast are receiving their copies and that for my Australian friends, the wait won't be too long before you receive yours. Londoners!! I'll be popping into the Astrology Shop and Watkins to drop off some signed copies very soon! You can order your copy online too.

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Astrological Dreamwork: Out With a Bang

I love Astrological Dreamwork because our subconscious very often gives us such a great insight into complicated situations and emotions. In this interpretation, the Dreamer wanted to make a quick exit to stage left. But things take a rather unusual turn. Whatever could it mean?

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There are a few other examples of dreamwork if you’d like to read:

Along Came A Spider

The Queen and Her Angry Spirit

Between a Sock and a Hard Place

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The Dream

The Dreamer says: “I had been at a conference and knew I was not welcome. I could feel the hostility but, as I do in such situations, I completely ignored this and concentrated on what I was there to do, which was to deliver some books.

“A former friend pulled me aside and asked me to clarify something and seemed completely astounded by my account of events. We made amends with me saying something like “And I’m never going to talk about this again” and I went on to complete my task. On my way out of the building, I had to quickly walk through a banquet hall just before festivities were about to start. With the books delivered, I was more than happy to be on my way. 

“I saw someone with whom I have had an off-on relationship with (an SO) sitting at a table and he seemed stunned to see me so I pretended I didn’t see him. He jumped up from the table to try to stop me and when I ignored him, he grabbed me by the hand. I stopped and turned because I didn’t want anyone to see us. But we were standing in front of everyone. I tried to be all cool but he insisted I follow him by pulling me in the opposite direction. My thinking was that if I didn’t make a fuss, no one would pay us attention. So I let him lead me by the hand, past the Master of Ceremonies (and a mutual friend) who was about to make a speech. 

“The MC looked at us, looked at us holding hands and said into the mic: “You have got to be kidding me.” This was said in a tone that expressed surprise yet also seemed to explain something. There was this murmur in the crowd so we both knew everyone had either seen us or were talking about us. I can’t remember any further.”

The Symbols

The main symbols in the dream are:

–A large public event

–The feeling of being disliked

–Reconciliation with friends

–Being acknowledged when wanting to make a quick, unassuming getaway

–Holding hands with a SO

The Meaning

This dream is a really good example of how recent events affect the Dreamworld. The Dreamer had been talking about a conference with the SO and how much they didn’t enjoy attending. There had been a certain level of animosity concerning the Dreamer, the SO and their circle of friends. Before the dream, the SO had been talking about someone who has created a lot of previously unknown problems for the Dreamer (in this case also with the former friend who had not spoken to her in several years ever since an alleged ‘incident’ with an adversary). 

In the dream chart, Venus, the chart ruler, is opposite to Uranus so the Dreamer was feeling disconnected from everyone at the conference. The Venus of the dream chart is exactly square the Dreamer’s natal Mercury which may explain the challenge of delivering those books in terms of difficult emotions (also Venus was square Saturn and we both have harsh Venus-Saturn contacts natally). 

The Mercury of the dream is on the ascendant in Libra, ruling the 9^thhouse of the dream and is trine to Jupiter in Aquarius in the 4^thhouse. Hence, aside from feeling that she shouldn’t be there, there was no difficulty in doing what she needed to do. And then of course thinking she could make a quick getaway. The Dreamer also indicated the dream was a good connection in terms of other recent events (the SO signing a contract and the Dreamer with a newly published book). 

The Pisces Full Moon could indicate a rescue/rescuer theme. However, the Dreamer resisted being rescued and more intent on showing how unbothered she was. The SO was persistent and wouldn’t release her hand and the Dreamer just accepted. Mercury of course, as the ruler of the 9^th, is about hands. On reflection, the Dreamer remembered the SO’s hands exactly as they were in real life.

The Dreamer confirmed that recent events indeed had a profound impact on the dream and reflected. She adds that she felt her exit was the best possible outcome for a tricky situation and the she woke up in a state of happiness.