I figured why not burn myself out and make my hand hurt. David Lynch astrology time!
Ascendant Scorpio. Mars in Cancer in 8th conjunct Saturn. Well well well if we don’t already have clarity. No wonder someone told me I wrote like David Lynch once – I, too, am a fellow 8th houser with a bullshit Mars condition. Anyway, this is someone who leans towards privacy or breaking down social rules or depth. Mars conjunct Saturn is someone who needs to work/keep busy. Saturn rules the 3rd house (only) and he needs to work via communication, telling stories, movement, self education. Does he has some thing regarding vehicles/transportation? And I immediately think of the titles Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway. Cancer isn’t overtly masculine (obviously not astrologically) but there’s a sense of the thing there, of martial, sexual, fire BAD topics. Mars+Saturn here is like “here’s my fucking baby, I just fucking cut it out of me with a pair of fucking nail scissors, it took all fucking day, fuck you”.
Midheaven Virgo, Mercury in Capricorn in the 2nd. This is a more grounded vibe. Once again communication has come up, writing, thinking, sensing the environment, textures, looking at and scrutinizing small details, thinkin’ ’bout stuff (literal stuff). Minimalism comes to mind. Maybe owning things that are very old. Collections of old medical books? I’m theorizing lately that maybe 2nd house types have a thing for 3D art, art history, clothing in the sense of texture more than visual fashion, and finding personal value in creating or hoarding physical value.
Moon conjunct Midheaven. Known for being known. A need to be known/seen. Why u no talking about me.
Sun conjunct Venus in 3rd. Again, communication, probably pretty floral. I see Pluto has been conjunct his Sun in the past year or three. Harder to communicate, walk, drive in recent times. Very interesting that my mom had Pluto conjunct Sun when she lost the ability to talk and walk and it all turned into just fucking yelling, even though her Sun is in a completely different area of her chart.
This is pretty surface level, but it’s obvious enough that this person was going to be known via some sort of communication activity. I would have thought writer if I just saw this chart without knowing who it was but the 2nd house influence here and Ascendant ruler in 8th suggests more tactile than just ideas.
When I think director of movies my first thought is Neptune. He has that in Libra in 11th making a super wide square with Mercury. It’s a 7 degree orb, I wouldn’t normally look at it. I think it’s more likely he’s gone through some Neptune transits, annnd yes duh, but let’s look at some movie dates.
1977.03.19 Eraserhead
Pluto had been conjunct his Neptune in about 1975 and was now approaching square his Mercury (ruler of his Midheaven). He had an eclipse conjunct his Neptune around here somewhere (the exact one was Oct 2, 1978). I’ve never seen Eraserhead to assess its relevance but TLDR he got tapped into the social vibes y0. I understand the movie is fucky and that would follow with Neptune+Pluto. Sounds like it took forever to get made and properly released so there’s probably a lot more accurate astrology to look at here but I don’t have those dates in front of me.
1980.10.10 Elephant Man
That date is for the full US release. Jupiter trine Sun/Venus from the 10th (Jupiter in 10th = good for career recognition). Saturn had just trined Sun. Uranus was conjunct his Ascendant about a year before. Pluto was about to conjunct his Jupiter.
1986.09.19 Blue Velvet
At this point he had a career going and me looking at years out of context mean I’m staring into a void of who knows. Neptune sextile Midheaven/Moon all that year. Saturn square Midheaven/Moon from 1st house, exact both that month and had been exact both in later 1985. Jupiter sextile Mercury from 4th. Mars due to be conjunct Sun in the following week or two and had been retrograde that year where it passed over his Mercury. Guessing early promotion for the film was a lot of back and forth movement, travel, changes in plans, paperwork. The thing that stands out the most to me is Saturn in 1st square his Midheaven/Moon. It’s a turning point in career time and a restriction of emotion to focus on work at expense to self while simultaneously being viewed as someone who has their shit together.
2001.10.12 Mulholland Drive
Jupiter is opposite his Mercury, lol, and Mars conjunct his Mercury that week, also lol. Apparently the movie had already gotten praise in May 2001… with Saturn square his Midheaven and Moon from his 7th. Literally the opposite of Blue Velvet. Fantastic. Love you astrology.
I’m about to burn out so I’m stopping there for now.
I just noticed Venus rules his 7th, though… Did he ever work directly with his partners? Yes. He was with Isabella Rossellini, she worked on Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet. Mary Sweeney worked with him also. His last wife was also an actress in his stuff (yikes that age gap). I thought of this specifically because of Venus conjunct his Sun, and Sun doesn’t rule a house in the Placidus chart, so it needed a way to express through aspects. Venus opposite Mars (his Ascendant ruler) in his chart, too, so working with a partner or a collaborator would be his M.O. Might be a bit parasitical, but men be menning.
Anyway, that was fun and now I need to zone out for the next 10 hours to recover from this.
SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch
https://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Lynch,_David