Some people are just more expressive than others, and David Lynch is one of those people for whom the phrase, "really out there," seems true in both senses of the word. He's both really weird and personally very present, perhaps more psycho-semantically on display in his artwork than most. We are probably justified in wondering, just how demonic is this man's muse?
As the astrology of art goes, the extremes of expression seemed tied to the extremes of astrological circumstances. The demon muse we suspect in Lynch's art is probably directly attributable to the fact that Mars is nearly exactly conjunct Saturn in his natal chart; their difference in celestial longitude is only 4 seconds of arc. That's a mere .001 degree difference! This Mar/Saturn conjunction is opposite both Sun and Venus(within the margin of a 180 degree aspect).
This piece; Wild At Heart Movie Poster, designed by Rich Kelly for a David Lynch art exhibition, is really odd in that it is not David Lynch's personal artwork, but evidently passed the test of his approval. This selection (or adoption) of images or other things for the purpose of representing the Self in an important way is equally important in the process of signaling the presence of one's individuality as identity. It is probably the most common way art is used by people to 'find themselves,' so to speak. Anyway Rich Kelly has done a masterful job of catching the natal chart pattern of 'david-lynch-ness'. Those of us who do not expressively produce art, and that may be most of us, tend to identify with some recognizable portions of the expressions of others, as if this process actually helps each of us to gather the notions of our selfhood when and where these become available in our social experiences.
This piece; Wild At Heart Movie Poster, designed by Rich Kelly for a David Lynch art exhibition, is really odd in that it is not David Lynch's personal artwork, but evidently passed the test of his approval. This selection (or adoption) of images or other things for the purpose of representing the Self in an important way is equally important in the process of signaling the presence of one's individuality as identity. It is probably the most common way art is used by people to 'find themselves,' so to speak. Anyway Rich Kelly has done a masterful job of catching the natal chart pattern of 'david-lynch-ness'. Those of us who do not expressively produce art, and that may be most of us, tend to identify with some recognizable portions of the expressions of others, as if this process actually helps each of us to gather the notions of our selfhood when and where these become available in our social experiences.
More views of this art-v-chart comparison:
Mars is the astrological planet I see more prominently expressed by males, (where as, if I had to pick one, I say the Moon more often for females). Why this is true is not for me to say, its just true that I can seem to find the expression of Mars more easily than other planets, and males express it more often. Part of the reason is due to the fact that symbolic Mars is more closely associated with action. Its presence in depictions is usually found in the guise of red colors and pointed, if not also sharp, objects. These can be soft such flames tips or hard like knives, spears, ect.. My rule of thumb states that a significant pointy thing points to natal Mars' natal chart position as we find it in a chart erected for the correct birth time, date, and location.
The natal chart pattern can be readily found in many of Lynch's works:
This one has a degree of simplicity and it works well for a visual aid here even though it is a photo of a sculpture. Note here that the conjunction of Mars and Saturn are reduce to their brute existence--confined to the mere admixture of a black object (Saturn) attached to a red pointed object (Mars), and Jupiter is expressed in the form of a rectangular structure (Jupiter is often found in the form of a box or rectangular container of sorts).
"Light Fire Boy": (Note Jupiter is here another form of rectangular container)
"Eat My Fear" ( projecting red organ points to Mars)
