Worthwhile Sci-Fi
As a Sci-Fi author, I have some opinions on what constitutes good science fiction. Farscape in my opinion, is at the top of the list of very good Sci-Fi. If you haven’t seen it, then go flush around 68 hours of your life away watching the series. You’ve probably spent time doing far worse.
Basic Premise of the Show
The plot Farscape explores concerns wormholes and interstellar travel. There are more than a few cautionary episodes of what might happen if you unlock a quantum scenario you don’t understand–and then there are more than a few episodes that are cautionary if you unlock a quantum scenario that you do understand. However, an interesting piece of information concerning the series was that the two leads were in New York when 9-11 hit after a convention and were preparing to book travel to the United Kingdom. Then, my astrological senses kicked in, and I noticed that Ben Browder who plays John Crichton in the series has a birthday that is situated on December 11th, 1962. Claudia Black, who plays Aeryn Sun, has a birthday that lands her existence on October the 11th, 1972. Those two towers at the time had a very “11” kind of existence–they were after all twins of one another. That got me to thinking about what Farscape’s leads possible birth charts look like. The question, it turns out, bore some unexpected fruit.
Some Assumptions
Before I post the charts, I want to make my assumptions clear. This analysis is coming from the Roman calendar system, which ought to be obvious. There are other ways of keeping time, and some of those ways of keeping time probably would not align with both birthdays being on “11” days. The next thing is that I am using Astrotheme’s information for the charts, and it appears that Claudia Black’s chart does not have a solid birth time. The basic characteristics of the day will remain about the same, but the house expression can change drastically with differing birth times. Still, for the level of analysis I intend to offer, it is enough to make some general observations. With these essential assumptions and limitations being made, I will move on to the charts.
Ben Browder’s Chart
Browder has a very “left-oriented chart”. This usually means the personal will and matters of Aries/Mars are going to be more prominent than typical. The Seventh house, the house of Justice and relationships has a wound in Pisces via Chiron, with a Jupiter sitting next to it. This indicates some proclivity toward spiritual injury and injustice and being put in some position to do something about it. The North Node of the chart sits in the 11th house in Cancer, and away from the 5th house in Capricorn, and suggests a more emotional existence among whatever Ben Browder’s “tribe” is as he moves along his soul journey. The 6th house pops with a Saturn in Aquarius, which says something about how those emotions might come up, and in this case it has to do with groups and karma. All of this chart is relative to Browder’s birth,in Memphis, Tennessee which is, of course, named after the town in Egypt.
Claudia Black’s chart has Libra all over it. It appears to be situated in the bottom half of the circle, which usually makes a person more private. On the other hand, the wound appears in Aries at the top in the Ninth house, and all the contacts from that go straight to Libra. The implication is that information and justice/communication are bound up in relationships in massive ways. The North node here is in Capricorn in the sixth, and away from Cancer, which is the opposite of Browder’s chart. If you take into consideration all the Libra stuff going on in Black’s chart, and see it as a kind of mirror to all the Aries contacts of Browder’s chart, the two are somewhat like mirrors of one another from an astrological perspective. Black is born in Sydney, Australia, which is in the “upside down” hemisphere relative to Browder. Australia has a lot of history, but a big chunk of it concerns England using it as a prison for people for some time.
Take Um Together
If you take both Browder’s and Black’s charts together, you get a kind of spiritual headwound conversation with Chiron in Pisces and Chiron and Aries. You can actually see this dynamic in action by their responses to the trauma of 9-11:
In 2016 I asked Ben if he wanted to share his thoughts looking back :
Angie,
My most enduring moments from 9/11 are ones of compassion and hope. Horrible things happen and we are witness to the great wrongs that people can commit. In the aftermath, there was so much good and caring.
I saw the buildings come down, staring down the avenues of New York.
I watched people stream North out of the city,rubble and dust covered, their eyes glazed in shock.
I walked through an eerie and silent Times Square the evening of 9/11.
But what sticks in my soul was watching strangers and acquaintances caring for their fellows.
For every terror there is a balm in beauty.
Peace
Ben
More from the post from 2016 :
Special thanks to Dani from Farscape.world who found the post!!!!!!!!!! I think I knew the coffee from Ben’s email to me—-Ben, Claudia, David, and company safe in NYC
by Mary Wood – Wednesday, September 12th 2001Category: Old News
Claudia Black just posted to the scifi.com bulletin board:
The purpose of this message is two-fold.
Firstly, thank you for a successful and very enjoyable convention tour.
Secondly we would like to send out our best wishes to everyone in New York. We walked into town and lit a >candle on the steps of a closed church last night. What else is there to do but try and give blood and pray >for everyone.We are here in town until the planes start running and are being taken care of by a large and caring group >of collegues from the Henson Group. So lucky to have members of our work family with us at this time.
As much as I have wondered how Aeryn would be dealing with this the very human me has been a little teary, >a lot scared and very grateful to be alive.
Ben has plying me with chocolate and has firmly established himself as a real life hero.
Chick with gun and black tee signing out for now somewhere in nyc…..
Original source: http://benbrowder.net/bb/news/11-september-2021/
Notice what sticks for Browder in his soul, people caring for one another in a compassionate way–Chiron in Pisces. Black is donating blood. Chiron in Aries.
For Browder, his birth comes slightly before the JFK assassination, another kind of head wound. For Black, her birth overlaps the presidency of Nixon, which one could argue is another kind of head wound–a type of war over who had leadership of the United States.
It seems both their existence, and the show Farscape, are all caught up in trying to deal with some kind of injustice (via Black) around beliefs/children/travel (via Browder’s Sag. Sun). In doing the show, they happened to be at a spot where another kind of grave head wound was inflicted. Both of them would later jump to the Sci-Fi (I hate that rebrand to Syfy–what even is that?) series Stargate which is another discussion entirely, but then, since you have seen their Natal charts now, you somewhat know the hows and whys of that transformation.
The final piece of analysis that might be important is that both John and Aeryn, Biblically speaking, appertain to the voice which is prophetic which emits ultimately from God. A head wound is, if nothing else, a way of shutting someone up–the idea being if your head is missing you probably won’t be doing a lot of speaking. Maybe John Crichton was a weird way of trying to “Make the way straight” in a collective conscious manner. If so, his main convert would surely have been Aeryn, who goes from a creature of war to one understanding love and its place in the universe…