[Least-aspected
Venus]
The
happiest moments of my life have been in Tahiti. If I’ve ever come close to
finding genuine peace, it was on my island among the Tahitians.
Tahiti has exerted a
force over me since I was a teenager. It began in the library at Shattuck
[Faribault, MN; 44N18; 93W16], when I used to thumb through the National
Geographic, and it continued after I went to New York and searched libraries
for any book that mentioned Tahiti and combed the film archives at the Museum
of Modern Art looking for images of Polynesia.
From the moment I saw
it, reality surpassed even my fantasies about Tahiti, and I had some of the
best times of my life making Mutiny on the Bounty.
–Marlon Brando, Songs My Mother Taught
Me.
Marlon studies, he reads for hours … Knowledge of almost any kind fascinates
him and he carries its lure to you. -George Englund, The Way It's Never
Been Done Before. My Friendship with Marlon Brando.
Marlon
Brando
One
of Hollywood’s most “charismatic” and “creative talents” (Primary Venus) and
perhaps the most “skillful / and “gifted” (Mercury / Venus) actor of the century,
Marlon Brando was born in a Primary Location in Omaha, Nebraska, near the
setting position of his Primary Venus. Brando achieved recognition for his
portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in the Broadway production of A
Streetcar Named Desire (1947); he then went on to make Hollywood classics
such as The Wild One (1953), On the
Waterfront (1954), and The Godfather
(1972), the last two films winning him Academy Awards.
In
Tahiti, during the production of Mutiny
on the Bounty (1962), Brando was unwittingly exposed to a powerful Transcendental
Midpoint-Field that framed French Polynesian in its entirety. While working
on the film, Brando befriended a Tahitian woman, Tarita, who bore him a son,
Simon Teihotu, and a daughter, Tarita Cheyenne. He later withdrew from American
culture and relocated to a South Pacific home on the Polynesian atoll, Teti’aroa.
Significantly, these locations lie directly under the midpoint-field of all
three of his Transcendentals: Primary Venus (setting), Secondary Mercury (setting),
and Tertiary Saturn (rising).
The combination of Primary
Venus and Secondary Mercury as key Transcendentals seems particularly appropriate
here, especially when we consider the classic Brando persona: a “lazy, food-
and pleasure-loving, overindulgent sensualist” (Primary Venus) who often cast
himself as the “charming / know-it-all” (Primary Venus / Secondary Mercury).
According to the memoirs of Anna Kashfi (Brando’s first wife), Brando’s so-called
philosophy, while aspiring to Jupiterian heights, is actually rather “plebeian”
(Mercury) and is occasionally eclipsed by his “sensual appetites” (Primary
Venus. Indeed, the Venusian theme of “sensual self-indulgence” appears in
many of the legendary tales of Brando’s escapades.) “Artful and gifted / with
a mercurial wit” (Venus / Mercury) is probably the most fitting equation.
As the planet that symbolizes
the creative muse, Venus is a particularly appropriate Transcendental for
this extraordinarily talented actor. At his best, Brando effused a “creative
splendor”: “carefully balancing” each dramatic gesture with stunning “symmetry
and form.” One of the few true “artists” of the cinema, his “ability to communicate
/ in an elegant, majestic, highly creative manner” (Secondary Mercury / Primary
Venus) exemplifies such classic Venus / Mercury symbolism.
All
text © Copyright 2012 Rob
Couteau and cannot be used without the written and expressed consent of
the author.
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