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Mars RX
FERNANDEZ
• Jack Nickolson( Iconic Actor) – Mars Retro in Sagittarius
• Frida Khalo( Iconic Painter)- Mars Retro in Capricorn
• Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick( Historic Figure, Deformed body, subject of a film by David Lynch) – Mars Retro in Capricorn
• Alan Leo( Astrologer who stimulated a revival of Astrology) – Mars Retro in Capricorn
• David Copperfield( Magician and Entertainer) – Mars Retro in Pisces
MARS STATION
• Julian Assange( Wikileak founder, Activist) – Mars station in Aquarius
• Kurt Cobain( Iconic Singer, Young Death) – Mars station in Scorpio
MARS RETROGRADE EVENTS
• Middle East partition( 1920) – Mars Retro in Libra
• Gandhi assassination – Mars Retro in Virgo
• Yom Kippur war( Middle East)- Mars Retro in Taurus
MARS DIRECT EVENTS
When Mars goes direct after 6 weeks retrograde, it tends to release a significant amount of energy. This can stimulate action, but also release frustration and anger. Not surprisingly( or perhaps yes), many wars and conflicts have started with Mars going direct.
• World War II – Mars direct in Capricorn
• Pearl Harbor Attack – Mars direct in Aries
• Suez Canal Crisis – Mars direct in Pisces
• 6 day War( Middle East) – Mars direct in Libra
• 9 / 11 attacks – Mars direct in Sag to Capricorn
DAVID LYNCH AND JOSEPH MERRICK( ELEPHANT MAN)
– A Mars Retrograde Connection
David Lynch’ s breakthrough film was about the life of Joseph Merrick, the story of a Victorian surgeon that rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.
It is fascinating to compare the charts of David Lynch with Joseph Merrick and see that they both have Mars Retrograde exactly opposite one another( Lynch with Mars Saturn, while Merrick with Mars in Capricorn), along with many other chart connections. Mars Retrograde is commonly describing a path of an iconoclast. We can suspect there was a past life connection between the two. R
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