Absolutely Fabulous, the movie, has just launched, a Brit comedy about fashionista desperation, with a pair of drunken ladies d’un certain age, embarrassing themselves on a spree across Europe. Written, like the original successful TV series by Jennifer Saunders, she co-stars with Joanna Lumley and the original cast plus Kate Moss and a zillion other celeb cameos. Reviews suggest it may be just what a battered UK needs to divert attention from existential meltdown.
Principal Photography and the Premiere were both launched on the Jupiter in Virgo trine Pluto, with the start of filming having an enthusiastic Venus Mars and Jupiter trine Pluto and a Libra new Moon, which had to give it head wind. Other less helpful aspects, of course, since nothing is simple these days.
The multi-talented, Jennifer Saunders, 6 July 1958, is a Sun Cancer square Mars in Aries opposition Jupiter, so not short of an adventurous spirit, with a Pisces Moon.
Joanna Lumley, 1 May 1946 7.30pm Srinagar, India, is a New Moon in Taurus square Mars Pluto in Leo, so not quite the flighty air-head she usually plays.
Both she and Saunders share Jupiter in Libra which in both cases is getting the tr Uranus opposition this year into early 2017 which is good news. Both also have social-butterfly Venus in Gemini.
Their relationship chart has an energetic and argumentative composite Sun Mars Mercury Venus trine sensible Saturn and creative Neptune. It won’t all be sweetness and light since Saunders’ Sun square Mars hits on Lumley’s Saturn. But clearly there’s enough right to give them on-screen chemistry.
Thats a really good guide and makes a lot of sense, thanks for taking the time to explain.
Tara, This is only very general; but for emotional I’d look for good Venus and Moon aspects/houses and Jupiter to smooth round rough edges and give mutual support, plus a smidgeon of Saturn for longevity and common sense about the nuts and bolts of everyday life. There is often a very strong Saturn in relationships that are restricted by circumstances – an affair with one partner married or living elsewhere, and such relationships rarely seem to get over that obstacle. Indeed if they did it would bring the Saturn chill into the intimate arena which isn’t helpful.
Mild Pluto aspects bring closeness and passion; strong Pluto aspects bring obsession and possessiveness which feels meant-for-several-lifetimes but usually self-destructs and the break up is long drawn out and rancorous. Uranus can work if they are a semi-detached couple – one travelling, working away constantly, both independent.
For a working relationship definitely a stronger Saturn for discipline, putting feelings to one side and getting on with it. Mars for energy as long as it doesn’t turn into ego-clashes. (Mars, god of war, knocks all rivals to one side and takes the lead.) Depending on what the joint working project is, a relationship can soak up really difficult aspects. For example a pair who were out working in a war zone together would get away with Mars Pluto plus Uranus Saturn in the relationship chart – but if you brought that working duo back to civil service life, they’d probably murder each other.
Neptune can be tricky in either love or work since it brings idealisation, then disappointment. Can work if both really spiritual, or for music/showbiz marriages and career partnerships up to a point.
Interesting, thank you. May I ask, what do you look for with a working relationship as opposed to a romantic one? Is it more productive to have a few hard aspects? I would guess that a working relationship could take a bit more mars or saturn, but I wonder what you experience is?