{"id":78599,"date":"2014-08-07T18:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=78599"},"modified":"2014-08-07T18:34:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:34:08","slug":"the-trial-of-jane-fonda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/the-trial-of-jane-fonda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trial of Jane Fonda"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Amy Elliott<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On July 30 a new play, The Trial of Jane Fonda<\/em><\/a>, debuted at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (running through Aug. 24). The play focuses on an event in 1988 when the actress and anti-war activist confronted a group of Vietnam veterans who were protesting at the filming location of her movie Stanley & Iris; it begins with footage of her effigy being burned, and soldiers calling her a traitor, before she is allowed to defend herself. <\/p>\n

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Jane Fonda; publicity photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The play’s stated aim is to \u201cset the record straight\u201d; given that Fonda’s name is still mud with many veterans, this may be a much-needed retelling.<\/p>\n

Fonda was born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda, the child of actor Henry Fonda, on the morning of Dec. 21, 1937. Her Sun falls late in Sagittarius; her Moon is in suitably dramatic Leo, and she has a Capricorn ascendant with a Scorpio midheaven.<\/p>\n

She tragically lost her mother to suicide when she was only twelve. By fifteen she was teaching dance; she then took on a successful career in modelling before following her father onto the stage in 1954. <\/p>\n

Fonda\u2019s film work commenced in 1960; the comedy Cat Ballou in 1965 turned out to be her star vehicle. An Academy Award winner (best actress for Klute in 1972), her film career was consistent until 1990, and she has continued since to appear in occasional roles in movies and television.<\/p>\n

The controversy surrounding Fonda’s activities during the Vietnam war has been perpetuated to the present day; this has reportedly resulted in a number of hate websites dedicated to her, and a page on Snopes attempting, like The Trial, to debunk the myths surrounding her time in North Vietnam, especially around her meeting with American prisoners of war. <\/p>\n

Jane herself has published a rebuttal on her website<\/a>; here she discusses the now infamous photo of her sitting on an anti-aircraft gun:<\/p>\n

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\nThe gun was inactive, there were no planes overhead, I simply wasn\u2019t thinking about what I was doing, only about what I was feeling, innocent of what the photo implies. But the photo exists, delivering its message regardless of what I was doing or feeling. I carry this heavy in my heart. I have apologized numerous times for any pain I may have caused servicemen and their families because of this photograph. It was never my intention to cause harm. It is certainly painful for me that I, who had spent so much time talking to soldiers, trying to help soldiers and veterans, helping the anti-war movement to not blame the soldiers, now would be seen as being against our soldiers!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jane’s Sun is in the last degree of Sagittarius opposite Chiron in Gemini (see chart below). Although out-of-sign, it still counts as an Aries Point configuration, probably denoting self-expression through deep personal wounds and their healing. <\/p>\n

Jupiter, ruler of her Sun, is closely rising. Her detractors perhaps view her light-touch self-presentation as a sign of shallowness or ignorance, but hers is a Capricorn ascendant. Underscoring the depth that suggests, her Jupiter in the first degree of Aquarius is in strong opposition to Pluto, which is setting in late Cancer. Pluto is also co-ruler of her Scorpio midheaven.<\/p>\n

This is almost certainly the chart of a deep thinker and emotionally powerful individual, who believes wholeheartedly in the egalitarian causes to which she is aligned.<\/p>\n

It could be argued that the positions of several planets evoke the controversy by which Jane’s life has been dogged. Five significant planets lie in the last two degrees of their respective signs, as does her ascendant. This not only suggests a personal story with two sharply different sides, but a mission — which only a passionate and determined character could carry out — to bring the world into a new stage of awareness; if necessary, kicking and screaming.<\/p>\n

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Natal chart for Jane Fonda; view glyph key here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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