Comedian Larry David is taking aim at 250 years of American history with Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America on HBO – an eviscerating satirical and occasionally educational series. A different sort of celebration from the man who has “made a killing out of killing sacred cows.” Best known for Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld, at 78 he decided retirement was not for him.
A reviewer wrote: “For a country evangelical about its superiority, there is a dark and sizable underbelly they would prefer to ignore….. Who better to educate America on its history, then, than Larry David?” The series is executive produced by Barack and Michelle Obama with Samuel L Jackson narrating.
Larry David was born in Brooklyn on 2 July 1947, no birth time with a father from a German Jewish family, who moved to the US in the 19th century and a Ukrainian mother. A Sun Cancer square Neptune seems mildly sympathetic for a comedian with a penetrating wit and a sharp bite, but he does have the tough Saturn Pluto in Leo of that era square a confident lucky Jupiter in Scorpio which also trines his Sun. He also has a fired-up Mars conjunct North Node in communicative Gemini. More than that his Mercury in late Cancer sits on his Sun/Pluto midpoint which will give him insight and a powerful way of putting across his points.
What intrigued me was how he interfaced with the USA with whom he shares a Cancer Sun. His Uranus Venus conjunction on Gemini sit on top of the US Mars for a sparky relationship; and his Mars North Node fall close to the SA Uranus – for a double dose of argumentative triggers. His Saturn in Leo is also conjunct the US North Node in Leo which gives the country leadership potential and aspirations, so no surprises his Saturn aims to cut through bombast and vanity. His Mercury in Cancer, already hyped-up in his own chart, also opposes the US Pluto and is conjunct the USA Mercury – that USA Mercury opposition Pluto is guilty of overly dogmatic opinions which he delights in taking aim at.
His relationship chart with the US has an explosive Mars Uranus conjunction square a Saturn Jupiter conjunction for a disorienting association veering from dislike to appreciation and back again. The composite Sun is in a trine to Pluto for a bond that remains tight despite all the brickbats he throws. Though it may be tested across the 250th Anniversary as tr Pluto will be squaring the composite Pluto; and by September tr Saturn will be square the composite Sun – so the reaction is unlikely to be all positive.
The USA, despite all, has a robust tradition of comedians focusing on the public and political scene. All power to them.
The upcoming full moon? Sort of hits his chart.
Marjorie, further comment?