Actress Keira Knightley has been letting fly in all directions with some fruity and forthright opinions on the status of women, banning her daughter from watching Cinderella – waken yourself up, don’t wait for a rich guy to come along. She’s been acting since she was six, was a tomboy as a child, had a breakdown after too much success in her early twenties and doesn’t see why she shouldn’t tell it like it is. She was in Stars Wars at 13, Pirates of the Caribbean at 17, then Bend it Like Beckham, then Pride and Prejudice.
Born 26 March 1985 in Teddington, London, she’s not surprisingly a feisty Sun Aries square Neptune; but what drives her chart is a do-or-die determined Mars in Taurus opposition Pluto square Jupiter in Aquarius (similar to Antarctic solo explorer Colin O’Brady: see post Dec 27.) Plus her Mercury in upfront Aries conjunct Venus is trine Uranus, which will give her a charming and direct way of speaking.
The interview below is worth reading.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/28/keira-knightley-i-cant-act-flirt-or-mother-to-get-voice-heard
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Totally agree, Claire. However, I think KK is being specific… it is Disney’s interpretation of Cinderella that is at issue. I was obsessed with Grimm’s, etc fairytales when I was a kid… the dark, bloody ones! Not the sanitized versions that Disney releases. Instinctively I knew that they were guiding me (I have Pluto in the 8th) and I am grateful that I discovered them. A lot of the depth of these archetypal stories are lost in the “cute”, modern versions on screen. Maybe KK is talking about that!!??
You may be right Sandra, nevertheless I’m not sure all meaning is lost beneath cuteness. An archetypal story is an archetypal story and, sadly, many children will not be given access to traditional fairy tales but will be plonked in front of a screen. Better to have glimmers of the archetypes smothered in cuteness than none at all.
KK’s views on Fairy Tales are mistaken. The Cinderella story is not about a poor girl being rescued by a prince. It is about a girl enduring cruelty and injustice with patience, and then, with the help of her own natural instincts ( the mice and rats etc ), the courage of the sacred feminine within ( the fairy godmother ), she achieves her rightful place in the world and all is made good again. The prince is a symbol of the male principle in a woman’s life bringing about wholeness. Fairy Tales are symbolic, they work on the unconscious and are full of useful psychological wisdom. That is how children experience them, not as the banal caricatures KK imagines.