Jupiter came up with the goods at last night’s Oscars with Michael B Jordan taking Best Actor for Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson a raft of awards including best movie for One Battle After Another.
Michael B Jordan, 9 February 1987 8.14pm Orange, California, has a Sun Aquarius in his 5th house and an exact Jupiter in Pisces square Uranus. The transiting Sun was exactly conjunct his Jupiter and square his Uranus and conjunct his Mercury/Node midpoint at the Oscars. Tr Jupiter is moving through his 10th house of career which is always a peak, and is picking up his Sun/Node and Mercury /Jupiter midpoints this week. And his Solar Arc Midheaven is exactly trine his Jupiter at the moment. Some minor aspects, some major – but all pointing to a boost.
He’s had a busy career since childhood appearing in The Wire, Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther, with a body of work that which encompasses commercial and critical success. Only five black actors have won the award before – Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Denzel Washington and Sidney Poitier.
April oddly looks stressful for him with two challenging midpoints being triggered. But he has a good deal of substantial work ahead of him.
Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Picture for One Battle After Another, a satire about preening Californian radicals getting the upper hand on a brutal and conspiracy-raddled US government. One reviewer described it as “essentially Dr Strangelove for the Maga-versus-wokery era.”
Paul Thomas Anderson 26 June 1970 3.47 am Los Angeles, has a Sun and Mars in Cancer, with is Sun in a rebellious square to Uranus. Tr Jupiter is conjunct his Mars for a morale boost exactly now and is also conjunct his Mercury/MC midpoint, square his Jupiter/Uranus and opposition his Neptune/Node midpoints; with tr Jupiter soon to square his Mercury/MC midpoint so he’ll glow for a while ahead.
Though it will not all be picnics and roses since he also has a jolting Solar Arc Uranus opposition his Saturn and his SA Sun square his Saturn now; and his Solar Arc Saturn is moving to conjunct his Sun and square his Uranus by 2028 – all of which look challenging for his next venture.
I watched the show last night, and what really stroke me was how genuinely supportive major award winners seemed to be towards each other. Paul Thomas Anderson and Joachim Thier especially gave speeches that showed their deep love for the cinematic art, as did Adam Jorgensen who wan the editor price.
Personally, I am as genuinely happy for April Durard Arkapaw as the female front row. Cinematography has long been held a male profession. In fact, I was contemplating applying to Film School in the 1990’s, but felt I didn’t know enough about the technical side, so applied to Film Studies program first. My initial thought had been screen writing, but during my first semester and dissecting films frame by frame, I realized cinematography side would have been more interesting. Eventually, I ended up not applying. It wasn’t until MeToo that I learnt it would have also been impossible for me to get in to that program in Finland, since then professor didn’t think women could manage physical side of it. It wasn’t until well into the 2000s they had a first female student there, although some editing majors break into cinematography.
Walking history, Solaia (whether one wants to be or not!). I’m always amazed at the amount of collaboration that goes into filmmaking. I agree w you, the attendees seemed to almost float.
Jupiter, take a bow ~ mighty nice work all around. Venus must have been casting a spell over the red carpet, everyone looked gorgeous.