The Lorax

The Lorax is officially in the movies! Dr. Seuss would have turned 108 today - March 2nd. The beloved children's author that could speak to different generations and still be timeless.
I read an article in the New York Post about this movie. The guy claims that the movie is boring, preachy and so on. He says that "even Al Gore’s ax was never so blunt." Well, I have to disagree with him. I am guessing that he has no kids and I just took a bunch of ten year old boys to see the movie tonight. They got it, they understood that the movie which is not a fast paced funny kind of a movie, has a message and a pretty compelling one. The children of today get it, they feel that something is wrong. They know what is right and what is not. The rest of us - the adults - we "just go with the flow" because we are told to do so. It is fine to have no trees, we are told we need to "buy" oxygen to survive. We are told to live a certain way and so we do it. If anyone would break that "wall" just like it happened in the movie, the people might wake up, we might see that anything is possible and that we do not need to continue to live like we think we need to live. No, I am not saying to you to stop paying the mortgage, nor to quit your job. I don't want to be accused of being preachy. But perhaps there are other avenues we may now look at and start thinking out of the box. Just because someone - and in this case - the villain O'Hare is telling us what to do and how to live - do we have to follow. Piscean Dr. Seuss would have enjoyed watching this movie as it closely followed the plot of his story that was not just once criticized for its moral.
The movie critic Kyle Smith from the New York Post calls the movie Snore-ax - he is not the only one to criticize the movie or the book - in the 80s some felt the book was unfair to the logging industry. I will let you decide for yourself.

The movie was released today, which makes it a Piscean themed movie as well. Since Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac and it marks the official end of the winter and is therefore associated with the harsher winter signs it tend to be a little apocalyptic but in a good way. Moon is in Cancer which gives the Lorax movie a caring and a defensive kind of spirit. Mars is in an opposition of the Sun which makes the movie critics be more critical and nasty. Luckily the Mars is still in retrograde so even though the critics may be nasty they don't bite too much. Jupiter in Taurus in the 11th House will help The Lorax get the real fans applause and that is what counts. 11th House is about friendships and it is ruled by Aquarius - that makes it so the movie has humanitarian undertones that are ruled by Jupiter in Taurus which is responsible for the movie's beautiful graphics and overall visual experience.

Pisces always see that after experiencing the deepest of the lows and the coldest of the Winter there comes a new hope of Spring emerging - and even if it is in a form of the smallest seed - that is all what matters to them.

With this all being said - and I hope I did not bore you to death - I will finish with a couple of my favorite quotes from The Lorax.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax