Warren "Mars" Beatty

The report for Wednesday has already been posted (below this). I just noticed something fascinating about Warren Beatty whom I mentioned this week because of the somewhat libidinous book about him. This is from a post by John Farr in the Huffington Post about Beatty, defending him as a spectacular actor, director and almost-producer: "I met Beatty unexpectedly years ago under inauspicious circumstances at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. I was a predictably awestruck kid in my early twenties, and also more than slightly in my cups that evening (for shame). Beatty was still unfailingly gracious, and I remember, intensely curious. He really listened to what I was saying; he asked questions, wanted to engage. More than any other impression, I came away thinking what an active and interesting brain he had."

The brain, as the merest tyro in astrology knows, is ruled by Aries, sign of the head and brain (as they are emphasized visually by the striking Ram's head). When a perceptive non-astrologer states that his biggest impression of an Aries person is his "active and interesting brain" this goes on the side of "evidence for astrology" in a big way.

Also, everyone I know who is interested in the twelve signs knows that Aries is a sign of youth, and usually Aries people love young people and enjoy being with them. That comes out in Farr, as a twenty-something, appreciating Beatty's interested engagement with him.

All the attention the 72-year-old Beatty is getting has something to do with Mars being the handle planet in a bucket-shaped configuration in the sky. Mars in high focus, as it is now, is denominated by Marc Edmund Jones, the discoverer of these planetary gestalts, "indomitable." People are saying how Beatty wanted to "have it all" in Hollywood, and succeeded, not only in the sexual arena. (Arena? I hope bedrooms are not becoming arenas.) Mars of course is the ruler of Aries, and Beatty, born on March 30, 1937, falls within the first decanate or face of Aries, ruled doubly by Mars. His Mercury is also in Aries. It is then fascinating that one of his first films, in 1957 when he was 20, is titled "Mars Invades the Earth!" Astrology is truly remarkable. How could anyone but stultified old fogeys and clueless boors "not believe in it"?

Cosmic Piper