We watched this movie the other night. I can’t recommend it even though it’s got a great cast (Randy Quaid, Laura Dern and a very young, Kirsten Dunst spewing shocking racial stuff).

The movie pretty much sucked because there was no telling what was real and what wasn’t. For example, Randy Weaver is ex- Special Forces but he was portrayed as an ineffectual idiot, with his wife pulling the strings.  Quite incredibly, his young daughter appears to call the shots once her mother is killed and it’s bewildering.

I don’t know if the way I parsed this was the way the director intended the viewer the see the movie but one thing is for sure: The oldest girl (Sara) most definitely grew up in strange circumstance.

My husband didn’t think so as much as I did. Lots of people are racist (she was indoctrinated) and/or super religious, however these kids were trained to crawl on their bellies with rifles from the time they were tiny and they lived, isolated and home-schooled, on top a mountain. All these things put together, plus the way the story ended, (tanks show up at your house) qualifies her for me.

I have a lot interest in girls who grew up in extreme (isolated) circumstance (like Jaycee Dugard) because I am one of them. I particularly like to see how they merged with society later in life (if they merged) because this is an ongoing process for me and it’s just really hard.

I’m old. I got to town, decades ago and rarely a week goes by that I don’t stumble on something that I think it normal, that I find out is not.  If you can understand that, then maybe you can understand my fascination. In whatever case, after the movie, I was curious enough I looked for an update on, Sara and she’s on youtube. She’s pretty normal from what I can see. I mean, you might not think so but I did.

She said she struggled terribly for a long time.  She now forgives the government for killing her mother and her brother. She has a religious basis for this which seems fine to me.  She says this story is about forgiveness and when I watch her talk, my thought is that people are resilient. Some of us are, anyway.

This is Randy Weaver’s chart – Click to see full size It’s wicked looking, eh?

I would like to see, Sara’s chart but can’t find her birth date. I specifically wonder is she has a Jupiter Uranus aspect in it. I do and her father does.

When you have something like this in your chart your life is inordinately unpredictable. Weird things happen. Psychic types waste their time with people like us in most cases. It sort of takes you off the grid.

Do you know anyone who has a life like this, beyond the pale?