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Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen - For the Eclipse in Virgo
Outtakes and Various Other Sundries…
Last night I watched “Ladies and Gentlemen… Mr. Leonard Cohen” 
The movie is documentary… the camera follows Cohen around as he meets, greets, sleeps, walks, ponders and bathes. It’s well worth a look for the poetry and for the retro fashion, but I was especially struck by the ending.
Cohen is a Virgo with Pisces Moon. He has Venus in Virgo conjunct Neptune at the same degree so there is another Virgo/Pisces exchange. And after the movie ends, there’s an addendum that has Cohen analyzing himself on film.
It’s very Virgoan but what killed me is he was remarking on how remarkable it was to see himself sleeping. The thing is, he’s not really sleeping in the movie. He’s only pretending (Neptune) to be asleep. And you see him stare at his “faking being asleep” self and you can see him thinking before he concludes this is an even better privilege. “Everyone wants to know what they look like when they are pretending, right?”
I had to laugh. Maybe this is what all those porn stars are up too, eh?
Would you be curious to see yourself pretending?
skip to Leonard Cohen Redux…
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auch! watched it in Documentary film class last year. and i am a big Cohen fan, but even taking my bias into account, that film is brilliant. so much of it is set up in a kind of candid camera style, like the cameraman is just recording the events as they happen, but then they let Cohen subvert that, and reveal the constructed nature of documentary film.
so for me, it was the “CAVEAT EMPTOR” bit that really grabbed me. his need to be a double agent working for the audience, to show them the film is not entirely ‘devoid of the con.’ there’s something vaguely virgo/neptune going on there…needing to be upfront with the ‘truth,’ but doing it stylishly. i’m making no sense.
oh! and he’s ‘deeply concerned with the style of his soul’… that’s gotta be the Virgo talking.
why do i feel like i’ve already typed this to you once before?
Yes! Ever since I was a kid I’ve wondered what I look like with my eyes closed! I still try to see it sometimes, ha ha. I’ve never thought about it like that. I actually just heard my first Cohen CD and I really love it.