The Passing of A Master, and how his Natal Chart Speaks to Dreams and their Power to Innoculate Against Fear

 

 Waking up to hearing David Lynch has ascended really affected me deeply. I started out the day before looking at messages turning on my Monster Synch Generator, and after some Zorn, spit out Miles Davis playing Bitches Brew live.... the versions where when that main theme drops, the whole band just falls into a funky intense synch. It is dark, and uplifting at the same time, like the best of Lynch's films. I said to myself, "It's going to be a great day....." and then I found out the news still in the midst of Bitches Brew. This post in my Astrology group is how I found out by the way: 

Only mildly unhinged like a Lynch film.

 

 

  It's odd timing for me personally because I've been watching his entire oeuvre over the past few months with my son. My son has paused our viewing halfway through the Return, and now this has happened, which makes me happy about the break we took, because there will be no ambiguity as we watch the final episode as to whether it truly is the end of the saga or not. I feel like this watch through I was seeing Lynch for the first time and finally understanding what he was doing. Many of the interlacing themes throughout his films grinding at the subconscious finally started to come into a grounded focus. It's all one grand masterpiece, like his natal chart, which happens to be my favourite natal chart of all time. I'm not sure if it was a dream, or something he actually said, but I swear he claimed once to be making films to inoculate the public against fear and evil, and like the best of dreams, whether it happened or not, it is still true, and very real.  Lynch made films with a dream logic, where he demonstrated deep revelations in huge films and even prime time television, but in a language only the true dreamers could perceive. It then becomes a powerful statement that the planet which catches our dreams, the Moon, is right on his midheaven which denotes career. He placed his dreams on the screen for all to see.

 

    David Lynch truly seemed like an infiltrator to the depraved Hollywood system, showing their evil while providing hope for a light beyond this realm.  Like his Capricorn Sun, the world is mostly dark, but the light is returning.  If we look to Kyle MacLachlan as an avatar for Lynch himself in his own films, connections and threads start to be drawn between disparate realms, connected as one as if in dream.  Agent Cooper gives a speech in Episode 1 of Season 2 Twin Peaks about how fear is the worst part of any situation, and if one can transcend fear, then the worst of it is over, as he lies dying, bleeding out after being shot.  This is almost the exact same concept as the Litany Against Fear which Paul Atreides repeats on a planet named after a star in the snout of Draco the Dragon.  Both characters are aliens from higher up on the hierarchy who are accepted by the rural locals as an authority figure based on their foreign magic.  Is this how Lynch saw himself entering Hollywood and raising the bar with what could be done with, and too the collective unconscious?  Fair enough.  Both figures were accepted and lauded by a population who in most circumstances would reject and revile them.  Somehow he made a successful and impressive career happen.
    Speaking to this inoculation against fear and evil, Lynch was born under an exact Mars Saturn conjunction. How exact? Well to within a minute to be exact. The two classical malefics, foreboding evil, placed within the eighth house of death. Mars rules his ascendant, meaning it is the planet which represents David in his own chart, there, with Saturn, in the house of death. This evil in his chart is ruled by the Moon. Demons in dreams, manifesting in dream logic in the real world. Is this not extraordinarily descriptive of his films? 

    Mars is in fall in its Cancer and Saturn is in its detriment.  As far as placements for malefics go, this is the last place anyone wants them in their chart.  One can hope that Saturn will be able to restrain the more destructive impulses of Mars, but in such condition, not much good can be expected.  This often means that these planets, being confused, miserable, and out of control, can do the most damage here.  We might also say that within Lynch's chart they are inhabiting the worst placement so that they may come to light and be seen clearly, behaving with the unrestrained wrath of an agitated Moon.  Given Lynch being born with the Sun in the underworld, with the Moon the most elevated and visible part of the chart, this potential for great evil is manifested in the imaginal realm, and then brought out into the world, as his Sun, deep below the horizon, begins to rise.
    Lynch's Moon, way up there on the midheaven in Virgo, is perhaps the most powerful placement one can have in their chart to show creative mastery.  The Moon siphons influences from beyond, which normally stay within the imaginal realm, and diffuse themselves through dreams.  In Virgo, the Moon has the capacity to Mercurially dissect and draw down into Earthly reality the most magical elements of the dream world.  But what is the condition of Lynch's Moon's ruler?  An out of bounds Mercury.  Out of bounds to the south, the realm of the chthonic. The deep seas of the unconscious, filled with monsters and beasts. We can certainly see, without having to spare any words, how Lynch's films display the eccentricities of an Out of Bounds southern Mercury.   Lynch also had Mars WAY out of bounds at 26 degrees North. Born at 3 AM on the dot, it would have been extremely high in the sky that night, with Saturn.   Surely there were sky watchers out that night, marveling at Mars, which was at its opposition to the Sun, as it is now on the day of his passing, where Mars is closest to us, brightest, and culminating close to midnight, proclaiming how oddly disturbing a sight it was.  Remember, Mars represents Lynch in his own natal chart, as high as it can get, extremely eccentric and brilliant, gleaming an eerie red, out of place and impossible to ignore.
    Was it this wild Mars, opposing his Sun, Venus, and Mercury, which spurned this Capricorn into bizarre, and unexpected feats of the imagination?   When we look at Lynch's Sun, it is worth reading what Dane Rudhyar had to say about the Sabian Symbol of this degree.

      

     For anyone who has seen Twin Peaks, the reference here to the White Lodge will put your Ears on edge.

       Now things get even weirder when we look at the outer planets. Lynch had a sextile and trine pattern all within Yang signs, mimicking the historic moment we are about to move into this year. Curious.   So we have a Mars opposition in Cancer, and a sextile and trine between the three outer planets recurring at the moment of Lynch's death. Ok. The moon also moved into Virgo today and Mercury and the Sun are in Capricorn. Recurrence of alignments in the sky with one's natal chart portend huge events and shifts in the life of the native. Today Lynch took his step back into the waiting room of the White Lodge.  Obviously the most powerful predictor here is the Mars retrograde (being his ascendant ruler) in Cancer.   Today, Mars retrograded back into the degree of his 9th house cusp, in other words, the end of his eighth house of death.  Those Placidus house cusps can really show some powerfully exact timed events.   

Exact time not known, but I set it for around 9 AM on January 16 2025.

   When we come back to the alignment of the outer planets which are one of the most profound signifiers of the  wild new frontier we are about to enter in the coming years, the fact that Lynch was born under a similar alignment is impossible to ignore given his massive impact on the modern world.  The fact that he didn't make it to his Uranus return in Gemini is tragic, but let us not linger upon it.  In Venus ruled Libra, we have the dreams and visions of Neptune working with the dark chthonic fears of a fiery Pluto, and the shocking, brilliant eccentricities of a bright and airy Uranus. This is extremely descriptive of his artistic career, only with the support of these outer planets which defy the normal flow of respectable reality could Lynch have made a prominent career placing his bizarre and eccentric dreams in celluloid for the masses to see.
   It's obviously no cosmic coincidence that as Hollywood burns, Lynch passes on. One could make a logical causal argument about his emphysema and the smoke, but correlations between physical reality and the deeper dream logic meanings only strengthen the power of the moment. Lynch spent the later part of his career making films about the nebulous evils growing in Hollywood. Lynch was born as part of the Pluto in Leo generation heralding a golden age of celebrity the world had never seen the likes of, and now as Pluto is opposing the sign of royalty from the sign of populist power, Hollywood is both literally and metaphorically burning down.  It truly gives this feeling of mission accomplished, time to go back to the White Lodge. Back to source, back to Lynch's IC in Pisces, where is all but pure dream, ruled by a Jupiter in Libra moving past Chiron. The wound is healed.   Lest we forget, Lynch's IC is directly upon Fomalhaut, widely considered the most mystical star in the sky, one responsible for many great feats of mystical revelation through creative works.

   Before we move past Jupiter, for those who might go back to the Elephant Man in the coming days as a salve and tribute to the master, be aware that that film is a profound Jupiterian allegory. The Elephant man literally represents Jupiter descending onto the Earth in the guise of one in need of charity to test the hearts of the royalty as he was wont to do.  For my detailed analysis on the Elephant Man, click here.
    If we look to Lynch's Solar placement, the third house is an extremely fascinating descriptor.  Lynch waxed poetic about his childhood in Spokane where his whole world was encased within a few blocks.  His memories of this time were so great he refused to go back to Spokane and have the reality ruin it.  A few blocks from one's home is the Third house where his Sun and Venus reside.  Lynch's third house is ruled by Saturn, up there, fallen in Cancer with Mars, opposing his Venusian coated memories.  Is this not the perfect alignment to show the rot and evil hiding beneath the surface of the idyllic Suburban veneer he was so obsessed with for a good chunk of his career?

    It's impossible to not look at that 3:00 AM birth time and not be suspicious, despite it being pulled from his birth certificate, that it's a rounded off time in the flurry of activity of a birthing room, as so often happens.  But for such exceptional lives, we expect to see birth omens of exceptional things. Isn't it a fitting that a wizard like Lynch was born exactly upon the witching hour? He certainly weaved some powerful spells upon our culture which I'm not sure we will ever recover from. And why would we want to? The Owls are Not What they Seem... indeed David, indeed.

 

Edit: after writing this article, I came across this.  I really hope an astrologer found David and showed him his chart!

 Edit: And another addendum! This one is huge and embarrassing.  In writing this article off the cuff in the moment yesterday, I totally missed that Lynch's Mercury, a planet of immense importance in weaving together all the disparate threads of directing a film, and the ruler of his tenth house of career, is upon Vega!  The pole star of the far distant past, a brilliant light in the northern sky which carries with it all the oracular power of the lyre Apollo gifted to Orpheus.  Surely this star's inherent meanings of prophetic visions and artistic mastery describe Lynch's career to a tee.