The Scorpionic Peter Jackson
Scorpio is ruled by the outer planet Pluto. Pluto rules the underworld, which can mean the depths of the human psyche; the underground elements of society; or Hell itself. Pluto has intense drive, and can obsessive-compulsively direct all its energies towards one goal or object. He also rules taboos, those parts of ourselves or society that we cast off because we find them offensive, sickly, disgusting. All the cast-offs of society are in Pluto’s domain. Pluto is also the god of the death-rebirth mysteries, the part of us that dies only to be resurrected in a higher form, like the phoenix rising from the ashes.
Over the course of Peter Jackson’s directing career, the arc of his expression of his Scorpio Sun has passed over much of the Plutonian realm. He first start directing gory movies like Bad Taste and Dead Alive; obviously the death element of Scorpio is evident in these movies. He directed the most scatological puppet movie I’ve ever seen, Meet the Feebles, which includes every possible despicable gross-out thing you can imagine, and many more you can’t imagine. Every conceivable bodily function is exploited.
Jackson also has Sun conjunct Neptune. Neptune rules the imagination, fantasy, and dreams, as well as sacrifice and martyrdom. He took a sudden twist with his next film Heavenly Creatures, which is about two adolescent schoolgirls in New Zealand who fall intensely in love with each other (Scorpio) and escape into their rich fantasy life (Neptune) to cope with the challenges of reality. One of the girls hates her mother, and the other cannot bear being once again abandoned by her parents while she recovers from tuberculosis. The film ends in murder because the two girls resist being separated from their parents.