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4: Reverse Node Trouble with Ricardo López and Lars Von Trier

In 1996 when the Sun was conjunct Neptune, Björk was stalked by an unbalanced and obsessive admirer called Ricardo López, a Capricorn born in Uraguay with a North Node conjunct Neptune.  He was unhinged clearly as when he was living in Florida, he began stalking Björk who was having a relationship with British musician Goldie at the time.  López sent Björk a letter bomb laden with infected needles and sulphuric acid. It failed to explode but his feeling was so intense that he filmed himself committing suicide while listening to Bjork’s music. The implication was that Björk was the cause of his personal suffering. She was duly freaked out and worried about her own life and the safety of her son.

Björk reached truly international fame in her first major acting role in the film Dancer in the Dark (2000). She even wrote the songs in an ironic anti-musical style. She played Selma, a girl losing her sight who had to work with heavy machinery but who falls foul of the law. This was directed by Danish director, Lars Von Trier, a Taurus with a conjunction of Pluto and Jupiter in Leo.

Some think of this film as a kind of twisted masterpiece, but others say it is a kind of relentless doom porn. Make your own mind up. Von Trier puts his leading actress through every form of difficulty, creating an absolute hell on screen all of which can be disturbing to watch. But they had personal disagreements on set. She refused to be his pet leading girl and he did not like it. She avoided acting for 22 years after that until she did ‘The Northman.’ She published a statement in 2017 explaining Von Trier’s abusive and domineering behaviour as Björk is not one to be pushed around as the female  journalist learned to her cost in Bangkok when Björk physically attacked her. Von Trier denied all these accusations and claimed his behaviour towards Björk was not unusual in any way. But since that denial has kept quiet.

So what brings this challenging behaviour out in her chart? I noted a fascinating pattern of the reverse nodes of the Moon. This is where the the North Node in one chart conjuncts with the South Node in the other. Björk has her North Node in early Gemini and her South Node in early Sagittiarus. Both these men who challenged her have the reverse positions to those of Björk. Both their North Nodes are in early Sagittarius and their South Nodes are in early Gemini. This clash shows a potental for aggravation or some kind of karmic reckoning. López even said he wanted ‘to punish’ her.

Nodal positions can bring about fated events. In 1984, aged 19, when her nodes returned to the natal position, not reversed she published her first book of poems.  But in synastry where two natal charts overlap, there’s a sense of it being like compass points where the magnetic pull in each direction is forced in the opposite direction. While not exact to the degree, these natal points are close enough to show that there might be a clash of wills, a reversal of fortunes, or at the very least a struggle with different goals, and how each native might trigger the other native to operate from their projections on the other.

To have this alignment would not be auspicious synastry for a good marriage for example. But deep lessons can be learned for the events that happen, not all necessarily bad, but where it appears to polarise two people. Ricardo López and Lars von Trier are both Earth signs and upon encountring Björk, it may have mirrored something lacking in themselves that they perceived in her an energy that is both emotional yet other worldly. Another interesting factor of this node reversal phenomenon is the age gap: Lars von Trier was born nine years before Björk in 1956, and Ricardo López ten years after her in 1975.