Astrology Explored

May 24, 2008

Karen Allen, twenty six years after the blockbuster success of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” was called back to reprise the roll of Indiana Jones former lover Miriam Ravenwood in “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”. Throughout Allen’s thirty year career as an actress, having significant roles in important commercial successes such as “Animal House” (1978), Raiders of the The Lost Ark (1981), Starman (1984) The Perfect Storm (2000) and now the latest Indiana Jones movie, there was a trend of hitting movie star success than a recession into the background, with decisions to work away from Hollywood, only to be brought back into the limelight once again.

One biography has this to say about Allen:

Karen Allen is undoubtedly one of the most talented, ambitious and versatile actresses of the last 20 years. In many ways her own choices to “go back to theater and smaller projects” are the only things that have really stopped her being a major, major star.

Most of us would consider this to be a curious thing. Don’t actors naturally desire to be at the pinnacle of success? What makes Karen Allen “The Reluctant Movie Star”. This is what astrology has to tell us.

Karen Allen was born October 5, 1951 with a charming Libra Sun and a bright and sparking Sagittarian Moon and Ascendant. She has strong drives to be extroverted, gregarious and social. This is a person who can literally talk to anyone about anything. Surrounding her Libran Sun is two powerful planets, Saturn the planet of work and responsibility, and Neptune, the planet of illusion. The planet of communication, Mercury, sits along side this complex configuration, lending a voice to a personality sometimes driven inward by Saturn sitting alongside her Sun. With a stellium, the power of the planets fuse together. Expansive Jupiter in the fourth house of the home is in tension aspect with this collection of planets forming one of three important themes in her chart, the drive of home versus career.

Uranus in Cancer is in challenge aspect to the stellium and the Jupiter, forming a configuration known as a T-Square. Here with the Uranus, the this configurations talks about what it means to retain your independence within your familial relationships.

The third theme is driven by a second stellium of the planet of personal values, Venus, the planet of survival instincts, Mars, and the power of planet and control, Pluto in challenge aspect to her Moon in Sagittarius. Allen is often in the core of her emotions is often at odds with the traditional roles allotted to women. Perhaps this is what shows through in her first appearance as Miriam Ravenwood, the feisty, hard drinking, adventure oriented former love interest of Indiana Jones. “I’m your g*****m partner!”, she declares, accepting nothing less than equal footing on the adventure. Indeed, on his recent interview with “Good Morning America”, Harrison Ford describes Allen as “your damsel not in distress.” Allen resolved this issue in her own life by becoming a teacher, of textile arts (knitting), yoga and acting, combining the nurturing drives of her Venus and Mars in Virgo with the Sagittarian adventure of inner exploration.

Still her Neptune conjunct her Sun gives her the star quality to which actors everywhere aspire. Though she retreats to “smaller, personal” projects, the stars draw her out to the limelight at predictable times. The key to following this pattern is her Neptune, Sun, Saturn, Mercury stellium in tension aspect to her Jupiter. Transiting Saturn, especially shows when she is thrown in the public eye. In 1978, her role in the popular and now cult classic “Animal House” coincided with a harmonious energetic connection call a trine from transiting Saturn to her Neptune. At the time of the wildly popular “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981 transiting Saturn conjuncts her Neptune. The commercially successful but less critically regarded “Starman” in 1984 was released when Saturn semi-sextiled her Neptune. In 1990 transiting Saturn squared her Neptune at the time her son, Nicholas was born and she made a decision to focus on raising her son and took smaller, less time consuming acting roles. But now in 2008 Saturn is semi-sextile her Mercury, setting off her stellium containing her Neptune and inconjunct the Jupiterian opposition. Again, Saturn drags her kicking and screaming into the public eye. As much as she says publicly she was very excited about this role, it will be some time before we hear about how emotionally and physically draining this experience has been for her. We can expect that after the excitement of her latest movie dies down, she’ll be back at her Great Barrington home, teaching and knitting. However, the same aspect that propelled her to movie stardom in 1978 roles around again in 2012. Though it may seem unlikely now, can anyone say “Indiana Jones 5″?

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