Brett Ratner: Does He Have the Mojo?

Brett Ratner, despite critics' assertions that he is merely a competent director, is doing rather well. X-Men: The Last Stand broke box office records. Is there more to him than meets the eye?

Born March 28, 1969, Ratner has a fairly tight Jupiter-Uranus conjunction opposite his Sun, Chiron and Mercury. Jupiter lends fortune, optimism and confidence; Uranus lends innovation and brilliance, as well as a desire to disrupt the status quo. Paired together, Jupiter expands the Uranian penchant for technology and revolution, while Uranus lends a level of excitement and breakthrough to the Jupiterian need to be larger-than-life, to be successful.

Bill Streett gives a succinct summary of this pairing:

Within film, the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction is the archetypal combination representing the timeless icon, the legend, the classic, the highest achievement of cinematic arts. Approximately every fourteen years, Jupiter and Uranus form a brief conjunction which ushers forth the greatest potentials of cultural achievement which can easily be witnessed in film. If we look at these planets individually, we see that Uranus is the planetary archetype associated with ingenuity, novelty, humanitarianism, transcendence of limitations, and rebellion. Jupiter grants both success and lofty elevation to Uranus's penchant for innovation and uniqueness.

What both of these planets share in common is a capacity to transcend the mundane. In Uranus, we witness this thirst for transcendence through the breakthrough of previous limitations and in Jupiter through the support of the high arts and championing the greatest achievements of society. Jupiter and Uranus is arguably the most Apollonian combination, the most lofty, and the most transcendant of the mundane—and film is its most favored expression.

He also notes that during the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in the late sixties, breakthrough films like 2001 and Easy Rider were released. In addition, influencial directors like Woody Allen, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg started to make their mark. Since Ratner was born during this period -- both Jupiter and Uranus were retrograde at the time, so this conjunction was still strongly in effect -- the archetypal power of this conjunction is channeled through his imaginative Mercury in Pisces and his me-first Sun in Aries.

Ratner also has a Grand Fire Trine, which means that three of his planets make approximately 120-degree angles to each other. He has his Sun in Aries, Moon in Leo and Mars in Sagittarius. This director is easily inspired, naturally enthusiastic, and has more than enough energy to initiate (Aries) his projects, stay with them through the end (Leo), and sell others on his ideas (Sagittarius).

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