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Daily Forecast Archives - Elisabeth Grace(I started writing this late last night, a few hours after yesterday’s harmony between Mars (guns, anger, action) and Pluto (power, ruthlessness). Hmmm, I thought. Haven’t really seen an example of this easy flow of energy in the headlines. U. S. Now waking up to Las Vegas. Sigh.)Good Morning! The Aquarius Moon will be void between 7: 1. AM and 1. 0: 2. 6AM ET.

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East Coasters, there’s your excuse for sleeping in — or any twists and delays that disrupt your efforts to move forward in straight line. Once the Moon moves into Pisces, see if you notice the shift. There are no challenging aspects to the Moon today. Go with the Pisces intuitive flow and find ways to fulfill its need to work with impressions and ideals. Practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty, motivated by the Pisces awareness that All is One and One is All. Compassion. Empathy. Big time.  There’s a special depth to social expression for the next few days, as Venus (money, women, art, social values) harmonizes with Powers That Be Pluto.

Consolidation of power and money in the material world, perhaps? Venus is in perfectionist Virgo; Pluto is in Establishment Capricorn; both are earth signs.

On Wednesday at 3: 1. The World`S End Movie Watch Online. AM ET, Moon goes void on a challenging aspect to patriarchal Saturn. That can be cutting. The void lasts until 4: 4. PM ET, suggesting that crises which crop up during business hours on that day will be much ado about nothing. Chill and stick to routine concerns; avoid impulse shopping until after the Moon enters impulsive Aries.

That’ll pick up the pace of the evening and continue the charge into……THURSDAY, when the Aries Moon will officially be Full (of itself, no doubt) at 2: 4. PM ET. Me or We — what shall it be?

That’s the dilemma when a me- me- me Aries Moon faces off against a people- pleasing Libra Sun.  A quest for a more perfect union is suggested, as Venus (yin) and Mars (yang) unite in Virgo at 1. PM ET. FYI: this meet up will challenge (square) P4. Gemini Sun and Sagittarius Moon. Cue his favorite campaign tune –  “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – and run for cover. If you have a planet or angle around 2. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces that part of your horoscope will be feeling the charge from Venus & Mars, along with the frustrating squeeze of Saturn.

Consult your local astrologer for details. Updating this paragraph to add that the Mars- Neptune square in the U. S horoscope at 2. Gemini and 2. 2 Virgo, respectively, is now being triggered –literally — by transiting Mars at 2. Virgo and Saturn at 2. Sagittarius. Mars square Neptune is reflected in America’s idealization (Neptune) of guns (Mars).  Its worst potential is reflected in the massacre in Las Vegas we all woke up to this morning).

At 9: 4. 6 PM ET on Thursday, Moon makes its weekly clash with Pluto (power plays, emotional catharsis). It meets up with rebel Uranus at 2: 5. PM ET on FRIDAY. The work week ends on Something Big, as the Aries Moon opposes expansive Jupiter at 6: 3. PM ET (watch the late- breaking news). One hour later, Moon enters Taurus, seeking stability and comfort for the evening and through the weekend. The following week looks….

More on that in a minute. And now, the news. We do not have a time for the start of the latest U. S. massacre as I am writing — though we are sure to see heavy planets on the angles of the chart, whenever that time is determined.  [UPDATE: 1. PM; 2. 1 Gemini ASC with Saturn opposing it; Mars squaring it].

This event is now the  record- breaker in terms of people killed and wounded. The Independent published a birth date for the 6. Las Vegas, and fired on hundreds of concertgoers at a country music festival below. Birth date: April 9, 1. UPDATE: the Telegraph is now saying “believed to have been born on April 9, 1.

Sun at 1. 9 Aries; Moon in Aquarius; Mercury around 2. Pisces. Mercury — the way he needs to think — has been feeling the squeeze of Saturn at 2.

Sagittarius since late June; heavy thoughts indeed. Transiting Mars squaring his Mercury in recent days suggests a prompt to take action. His Aries Sun is squared natally by rebel Uranus at 1.

Cancer and opposed by Neptune and Saturn at 2. Libra. At its worst, this pattern could be delusional, rebellious and repressed — all at the same time.  Also part of that unstable pattern: natal Venus in Aries — retrograde. This is an extremely challenging placement for relationships. It suggests an insatiable need to know it is loved — blinded by unrealistic expectation (Venus is opposed by Saturn and Neptune). Transiting Uranus has been sitting on his natal Venus and opposing Saturn- Neptune. This can be impulsive and weird. Transiting Pluto has been supercharging his Aries Sun, suggesting a transformation of identity and/or empowerment.

His natal Mars and Jupiter in methodical Taurus are square to Pluto — a potentially murderous and resourceful pattern. It is possible that his Aquarius Moon is in an exceptionally tense pattern with those three planets — without a birth time, we can’t be sure. His natal Jupiter is at 2. Taurus, conjunct P4. Midheaven and the Fixed Star Capulus (male sexual aggression). Not sure how this Jupiter- Midheaven connection will be “lucky” for P4. Russia, Puerto Rico, corruption in his administration, etc.

Meanwhile….(this part was written last night): Saturn, planet of cuts and control, is less than three months away from wrapping up its sojourn in Sagittarius, where it’s (mostly) been since December 2. Here’s what I wrote back then: Saturn refers to control, discipline and structure. Sagittarius refers to collective belief systems, including the law, religion, philosophy and academia. Hmm…how about mind control? Or tests of faith? It also refers to publishing and other mass communication media, as well as sports and entertainment. Expect efforts involving restrictions and/or restructuring.

Sagittarius refers to that which is foreign, so issues of border control will likely become hotter. It refers to travel.

So we can expect headlines involving controls in these areas, too. Righteousness is another Sagittarius buzzword, as is blunt honesty. As its best, the Saturnine restructuring of Sagittarius concerns will stem from righteousness, much as the restructuring of the institution of marriage (Libra) to include same- sex couples evolved when Saturn was in Libra. Fairness is a big Libra buzzword. Got that? After Saturn turned direct last month, I noted a pile of stories involving streamlining in publishing and education.

The Village Voice is no longer in print. Online yes; print, no. The NY Daily News was sold — for one dollar.

Wow. Four magazine editors called it quits last month, including Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter and Glamour‘s Cindi Leive.  The magazine business is in serious trouble — as I personally experienced last week while searching every drug store, newsstand and supermarket for the latest Dell Horoscope. No luck at all — and even more shocking — serious cuts in the overall number of magazines on sale. Two days later, the NYT wrote about the “not- so glossy future of magazines.” Then Life magazine publisher Katherine Bonniwell passed away, followed by  Playboy founder Hugh Hefner (good riddance) and S. I. Newhouse (legendary Conde Nast mogul).   End of an era? Meanwhile in the world of academia, I noted several bleak articles — especially this one about adjunct professors: “Facing Poverty, Academics Turn to Sex Work and Sleeping in Cars.”I promised you more stories involving themes of excess in aviation, suggested by last Thursday’s face- off between Jupiter (big) and Uranus (“the plane, the plane!”). Cue former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, who resigned after billing hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel expenses to taxpayers. Fun fact: Mr. Price was born on October 8, 1. Lansing, MI (time unknown).

Guess what he has in his horoscope? Jupiter conjunct Uranus — exactly at 2.

Veronica Mars (film) - Wikipedia. Veronica Mars is a 2. American neo- noirmysterycomedy- drama film produced and directed by Rob Thomas, who co- wrote the script with Diane Ruggiero. It is a continuing film adaptation based on Thomas' UPN/CW television series of the same name and stars Kristen Bell reprising her role as the title character.

Its executive producers are Joel Silver, Bell, and Jenny Hinkey. Warner Bros. Pictures opened the film in the United States in a limited release and through video on demand on March 1. Nine years after the events of the show's third season, former teenage sleuth Veronica Mars has left the fictional town of Neptune, California and moved to New York City, where she is in a stable relationship with Stosh "Piz" Piznarski and has a job offer from the prestigious law firm Truman- Mann and Associates.

She is contacted by her ex- boyfriend Logan Echolls, now a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, who has been accused of murdering his girlfriend Carrie Bishop, a fellow Neptune High student who became a successful but self- destructive pop star under the stage name "Bonnie De. Ville". He is being bombarded for offers of representation from lawyers, and Veronica agrees to return to Neptune and help Logan find one who will best represent him. She is reunited with her father Keith Mars, Neptune's former sheriff- turned- private investigator, who shows her how corruption and classism is rife under Sheriff Dan Lamb. Despite her claims that her stay will be brief and she will not get involved, Veronica begins to investigate the circumstances of Carrie's death.

During her investigation, Veronica is dragged to her ten- year high school reunion by friends Wallace Fennell and Cindy "Mac" Mac. Kenzie. There, she learns that former outlaw biker Eli "Weevil" Navarro is now a reformed family man. During the reunion, Veronica realizes Carrie's murder is connected to the death of Carrie's best friend, Susan Knight, who disappeared off a boat at sea nine years earlier. After Veronica's nemesis Madison Sinclair plays a copy of Veronica's college sex tape with Piz, a fight breaks out.

The reunion comes to an abrupt end as Veronica sets the sprinklers off, with Veronica punching out Madison after Madison verbally harasses Veronica further. Veronica attends an after party and speaks with Dick Casablancas, Luke Haldeman and his fiancée Gia Goodman, and Stu "Cobb" Cobbler, all of whom were with Susan and Carrie on the boat the night Susan disappeared. Meanwhile, while driving home from the reunion, Weevil stops to help a driver being harassed by bikers, only to be shot by the driver, a nervous Celeste Kane. The sheriff's department plants a gun so that Celeste can claim self- defense, and Keith agrees to prove Weevil's innocence. Veronica concludes that those on Susan's boat nine years ago covered up the circumstances of her death, and that someone killed Carrie because she threatened to confess.

Compromising videos of Carrie are posted online and Veronica traces them back to Vinnie Van Lowe, who has been planting spyware on celebrities and selling the footage. Veronica uses Vinnie's footage to prove Gia lured Logan out to Carrie's home the night of her murder, suggesting she and Luke killed Carrie and framed Logan.

Lamb blatantly ignores her evidence and refuses to follow up, but unbeknownst to him Veronica records the conversation. Having stayed in Neptune longer than planned, Veronica calls Piz in New York to explain that she cannot return yet, and Piz breaks off their relationship.

Truman- Mann rescinds their job offer, which results in an argument between Keith and Veronica about what she's doing with her life. Keith has a clandestine meeting with Deputy Sacks about Weevil's case, but they are attacked by an unknown driver in a truck who slams into Sacks' car, killing him and leaving Keith in critical condition. Veronica and Logan sleep together, reaffirming their relationship.

Veronica sends bugged flowers to Gia's apartment and calls her, playing recordings of Carrie's voice, hoping to scare Gia into confessing to being the mastermind behind Carrie's death. Gia panics and calls Cobb, revealing his involvement. Veronica goes to Gia's apartment to confront her, where Gia reveals that Cobb is the mastermind of Carrie's death and framing Logan: Susan overdosed, and he took photos of a panicked Carrie, Gia, and Luke dumping Susan's body and has been blackmailing them ever since, though Carrie had recently threatened to come clean. Veronica's bug broadcasts everything via a radio frequency which she believed to be unused, but which is actually that of a local radio station. Cobb hears their conversation over the radio from his apartment in the building opposite, then shoots and kills Gia through the window before coming after Veronica. She calls the police and lures Cobb down to the basement before beating him unconscious with a golf club.

Logan returns to active duty in the Navy, but promises to come back to Veronica. Cobb's photo and the secret recording of Lamb refusing to investigate Veronica's claims leak online, forcing Lamb to arrest Cobb, with calls to oust Lamb from office. Both Keith and Weevil recover from their injuries, but Weevil returns to the criminal lifestyle he left behind. Veronica takes over her father's private investigator business with Mac as her assistant, resolved to help fight Neptune's corruption. Production[edit]Development[edit]Following the series' cancellation, Rob Thomas wrote a feature film script continuing the storyline, but Warner Bros.

On March 1. 3, 2. Thomas and star Kristen Bell launched a fundraising campaign to produce the film through Kickstarter, offering various incentives to those who donated $1.

Bell, Thomas, Enrico Colantoni, Ryan Hansen, and Jason Dohring appeared in a video promoting the campaign,[1. In its first day on Kickstarter, the project broke the record as the fastest project to reach first $1 million, then $2 million; it also achieved the highest minimal pledging goal achieved, and became the largest successful film project on Kickstarter at the time.[2. On its final campaign day, the project broke the record for the most backers on a single Kickstarter project, previously held by the Double Fine Adventure.[2. Afterwards, the film earned a greenlight from Warner Bros. Digital Distribution.[2.

The Kickstarter campaign ended on April 1. On April 5, Thomas had completed the first draft of the script.[2. In early April, Dohring (Logan Echolls) officially signed on for the film.[2. In May, Thomas confirmed Colantoni would reprise his role as Keith Mars in the film.[2. In June, it was announced that Percy Daggs III, Chris Lowell, and Francis Capra would return as Wallace Fennel, Stosh "Piz" Piznarski, and Eli "Weevil" Navarro, respectively.[2. The same month, Sam Huntington (Luke Halderman), Amanda Noret (Madison Sinclair), Daran Norris (Cliff Mc.

Cormack), and Tina Majorino (Cindy "Mac" Mackenzie) joined the cast.[3. On July 1. 4, 2. 01. Leighton Meester would not be reprising her role of Carrie Bishop. Rob Thomas stated "Sadly, Leighton was doing a different movie during the same time frame on the wrong coast.

In the end, she was unavailable." She was replaced by music artist Andrea Estella, of whom Thomas is a fan.[1. Filming[edit]Principal photography began on June 1. Los Angeles and lasted 2. Initial filming involved 1. Thomas described as "an aggressive schedule."[3. The Santa Monica Pier, the Vincent Thomas Bridge, The Edison at the Higgins Building, were among the 2.

Scenes were also shot at the Arts District of Los Angeles and at Long Beach, California.[3. Following a test screening in October 2. Warner Bros. agreed to pay for an additional day of shooting in order to clarify a plot point. As a result, two scenes were shot during the following December.[3. The musical score for Veronica Mars was composed by Josh Kramon, who previously wrote the original background music to the television series.