Astrology And The Movies

If you’re old enough, you remember how this 1985 John Hughes movie caught the imagination of teenagers everywhere. The Breakfast Club became the name for the group of five mismatched Chicago teenagers that meet in detention one Saturday morning and discover that they are more than what others expect them to be. Each of the characters embodies a stereotype that …

Drive, the recent movie which came out starring Ryan Gosling, is dripping with astrological symbolism, albeit inadvertently. Throughout the movie, he wears a gold bomber jacket with a gigantic Scorpio emblem on the back (somehow he still affords to be sexy). At first, I thought the director (Hossein Amini) might be dialed into the transformative power of the corresponding Zodiac …

Ever wonder what would happen if Venus, the goddess of love and sex, set up shop in one of the most Catholic cities in Medieval Europe? Although Dangerous Beauty (titled A Destiny of her Own outside of the U.S.), is not literally about the Roman goddess of love and lust, her influence weaves itself throughout this film. Based upon the …