Kent and Wonder discuss the poetic non-fiction film, Gaucho Gaucho, which traces a small community of Gauchos living with their horses and families against the backdrop of the vast plains of Argentina. Emerging themes include caring for the land, the passing on of traditions, and the care of large animals. Astrologically these things are related […]

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Kent and Wonder discuss the artful and personal documentary, The Mother of All Lies, which explores the 1981 Casablanca Bread Riots through the family of the director, who pushes her family to remember and recount this pivotal event despite their practiced resistance to doing so. Themes that emerge are the damage and generational harm secrecy […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the documentary, Battle for Laikipia, which follows the violent struggle over land use between landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, who trace their properties back four generations, and the pastorialists, who have been herding cattle on those same tracts of land for hundreds of years. Emerging themes include indigenous relationship to land vs […]

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Kent and Wonder discuss the documentary, A New Kind of Wildnerness, about a father shepherding his young children through a terrible loss. Emerging themes include death from illness (cancer), grief and loss, family, fatherhood, siblings vs step-siblings, raising young children, ancestry, and homeland. Astrologically Wonder and Kent relate these themes to the 4th, 8th and […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the three part episodic documentary God Save Texas, which focuses on prisons, oil refineries, and the border, underlining the harms caused by each of these foundational institutions in a state which is a bell weather for the rest of the country. The series is based on work by and features writer, […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the documentary Black Box Diaries using the untimed birth chart of the film’s director, Shiori Ito. Emerging themes include an intrepid journalist investigating systemic cover-ups whilst also pursuing justice as a sexual abuse survivor who must face her abuser in court. Also covered: the millennial generation’s preoccupation with itemizing and deconstructing […]

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Kent and Wonder discuss the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat which covers the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba. Emerging themes include secret plots, obfuscation, Jazz as a visual structure, and film as a PhD thesis. Astrologically these themes relate to the 12th house, Saturn in its joy in […]

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Kent and Wonder discuss the documentary Daughters, which follows four young girls as they prepare for a special father daughter dance with their incarcerated fathers. Themes that emerged were exile and punishment, loss of innocence, fatherhood and injury to it, and what it takes to repair. Astrologically these themes relate to the 4th and 12th […]

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Wonder and Kent discuss the documentary As We Speak, which explores the weaponization of rap lyrics in the criminal justice system. Emerging themes include how, exactly, the pen is mightier than the sword, the power of speech and who gets to use it, and the power of setting words to music and music to images […]

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Kent and Wonder discuss the essay style documentary Power, about US policing and its historical roots using the untimed birth chart of director, Yance Ford. Emerging themes include racism, the worth of identifying systemic and ongoing harms, the value of an accurate diagnosis, and the way silence and turning away from issues makes those issues […]

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