Primrose Road

Via Shakespeare Geek: an astrologer blogs about Kenneth Branagh's chart and links us to another blog post that asks whether or not the character Hamlet is "Saturnian." This probably would have interested me a whole lot in my drippier days, and would have most likely inspired me to write a paper speculating about Hamlet's astrology chart. You'll notice that Branagh's Saturn is between the seventh and eighth houses. ;) Though astrology is bunk and there's no mechanism by which planets and asteroids can influence human behavior, I will offer this critique of Branagh's Hamlet film: Branagh -- probably because he casts *himself* as Hamlet -- doesn't acknowledge the possibility that our buddy the Dane has Saturn in the eighth house in his chart. :) (Explanation: the eighth house is the house of sex and death. Saturn is a planet of limitations, usually limitations imposed on oneself, but it can relate to physical limitations too.) (Also: astrology is fun mythology, but it's at best a protoscience and at worst crap.)