Jennifer Lawrence – the mother of all duds or a classic?

The worst movie ever made or a masterpiece? The jury is out on Darren Aronofsky’s mother! starring Jennifer Lawrence. A gonzo horror movie, a paranoid nightmare, claustrophobic, panic-inducing, hyperventilating, surrealist cinema that starts out like Polanski’s Repulsion and winds up closer to Apocalypse Now. And some of those descriptions are from reviewers who liked it, unlike audiences who walked out en masse from screenings. According to the star, it’s about the massive biblical theme of the rape and torment of mother earth condensed into a narrative about a house and a couple.

Jennifer Lawrence, 15 August 1990 8.17pm Louisville, Kentucky, has found her niche in dystopian movies like Hunger Games or playing deeply troubled women. She grew up tough and hyper-active, unsettled until she found acting. She’s a Sun Leo in square to a fearsomely angry, bulldozer Mars in Taurus opposition Pluto. With a practical, business-like Earth Grand Trine of Saturn in Capricorn trine Mars trine Mercury in Virgo, focussed into a Kite, making influential and controlling Pluto her driving planet. So well-designed for cult movies which are ahead of their time. Her lighter-hearted Gemini Moon is in her performing 5^th house, with charmingly frivolous Venus Jupiter in her 6^th for good working relationships.

Darren Aronofsky, 12 February 1969 9.30am New York, has an award-strewn cv with horror, sci-fi and surrealist movies – Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, Noah – and some flops. He also has a forceful chart. His Aquarius Sun squares onto ultra-determined Mars in Scorpio in a showbizzy conjunction to Neptune. His tuned-into-public-taste Sagittarius Moon is on the focal point of a T square to Node Venus in Aries opposition a lucky, adventurous, risk-taking Uranus Jupiter in Libra. And he has a fated, ‘finger of god’ Yod of Mars sextile Pluto inconjunct Saturn, which brings with it a heavy karma, requiring maturity and self-discipline if it is not to self-destruct.

They’ve been together as a couple for year and with his Air Sun and Fire Moon and her Fire Sun and Air Moon, there should be quite a connection. But it won’t be easy since both are stubborn with clashing Fixed planets so neither will give way easily. Their relationship chart does have a Yod from a Neptune MC sextile Pluto inconjunct the Sun – so it is an encounter that will transform both their lives, though it won’t be remotely peaceful.