Alfred Hitchcock - great and terrible

Alfred Hitchcock the great film maker, was the subject of a docudrama earlier this year focussing on his destructive sexual obsession with actress Tippi Hedren and there is a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren coming early in 2013.

Hedren, mother of Melanie Griffiths, starred in Hitchcock’s The Birds where his treatment of her verged on the sadistic, tying live birds to her costume to attack her and Marnie. He controlled her every move and when she refused his crude sexual advances effectively ruined the rest of her career.

Hedren said recently "We are dealing with a brain here that is genius and evil. Deviant almost to the point of dangerous because of the effect that he can have on people that are totally unsuspecting."

He was born on 13^{th August 1899 with birth times veering between 3.15am and 8pm (ADB). He was a Sun Venus in Leo as befits a movie showman, trine/sextile a bleak Saturn in Sagittarius opposition Pluto in Gemini. He had an intense Scorpio Moon probably conjunct Jupiter.}

A 3.15 am birth time puts organising in the 5th house of entertainment with an entrepreneurial Fire Grand Trine of Venus in Leo trine MC trine Uranus, formed into a Kite by MC opposition Mars. So Mars was his driving planet. It was further emphasised being on the point of a T Square to a Neptune opposition North Node.

The 8pm birth time puts Moon Jupiter in the 8th. His Venus = Mars/Pluto = Mars/Saturn midpoints so he would have pretty damaged and perverse emotional and romantic responses. Love = pain and control.

Tippi Hedren, 19 Jan 1930 has a difficult chart with a Mars Venus in Capricorn opposition Pluto. That Mars Pluto would bring out the ruthless streak in men. Her Saturn in Capricorn square Uranus in Aries opposition Libra Moon collided angrily with Hitchcock’s Mars in Libra.

Their relationship chart has a passionate composite Sun Venus trine a possessive Pluto and trine North Node in an inward-looking emotionally overloaded Water Grand Trine. With Sun Venus square a freedom-loving Uranus and square a clearly delusional Neptune. So it was a relationship with equally strong urges in opposite directions – total submission versus flight.

His wife of long standing Alma, a film editor/ screen writer, was born a day after him so had exactly the same chart – weird to be in a relationship to your alter ego.