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Amid rumors,
speculation, and even uncertainty among the participants themselves,
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Jennifer Aniston find themselves in
the middle of one of the most celebrated purported love triangles
that may or may not even have any basis for being. In a case where
the tabloid industry—the institution notorious for producing
libel and fictions—meets celebrities that have mastered evading
the press, no one knows for sure the difference between rumor and
fiction in this case. Although Jolie, Aniston, and Pitt would probably
not found be in the same room together, one thing that unites them
is their consistent denial about tabloid rumors. On a deeper level,
the threesome is connected through current astrological factors.
All three celebrities are currently undergoing significant transits
from the outer planets to their natal Sun positions. Heralded as
the gods of change and the significations of turning points in our
lives, the outer planets to major points in our birth chart typically
mark the most profound transformations, crises, and turning points
in our life’s biography. Using astrology as our tool for illumination,
we can uncover major themes in these celebrities’ biographies.
Brad Pitt:
Transiting Pluto conjunct Sun
Brad Pitt
is currently undergoing a major transit from Pluto across the position
of his natal Sun in Sagittarius.(1) Due to Pluto’s extremely
slow crawl around the Sun, Pluto transits to our natal Sun are a
rare but prolonged affair. In fact, most of us will only incur one—possibly
two—major transits from Pluto to one’s natal Sun in a
lifetime. If one assumes that something analogous to a divine mind
has created the order of the cosmos, then it seems somehow accurate
that major Pluto transits occur with limited frequency, for Pluto
transits symbolize the most intense points of evolution and transformation
in our lives.
In order
to understand how Pluto functions, perhaps we can look to two of
the most celebrated breakups in recent years: the Pitt-Aniston split
and the Cruise-Kidman divorce. With Kidman’s Moon in mid-Sagittarius
and Aniston’s Moon in later degrees of the same sign, both
women received Pluto transits to their Moon position at approximately
the point when their breakups occurred.(2) Interestingly, friends
of Kidman and Aniston used the word “devastated” to describe
the condition of the women immediately following their respective
breakups. Devastation—or any close synonym of this word of
which we can dream up—is a condition that happens in our personal
lives (hopefully) only once or twice in a lifetime. To be devastated
implies a state of near destruction, cataclysm, or annihilation,
and it is through this process that we can enter the terrain of one
of Pluto’s features—to eliminate and purge with extreme
force that which no longer serves us. We can call Pluto a force that
may resemble fate, but when a major transit from Pluto is observed,
often events conspire that devastate our previous evolutionary condition
and catapult us into a new evolutionary state. Our waking consciousness
has very little input or say about this process—and this is
often why Plutonian processes are indeed felt to be painful. Although
speculative, it may be assumed that Pluto transits are merely the
timing mechanism which indicates conditions that the soul has created
to push us—often kicking and screaming—into a new evolutionary
state altogether.
However,
this annihilating, destroying action affiliated with Pluto is merely
one facet of a very complex planetary symbol. Pluto also represents
the flames of passion, the fires of sexuality, creativity, and the
instinct to survive and live. So, united with its destructive functions,
Pluto symbolizes both extremes of life and death, of creation and
destruction, of passion and the complete lack thereof. The type of
passion and intensity that Pluto represents is often considered taboo
and kept out of the plain sight of day-to-day. Scorpio, the sign
that Pluto is said to rule, is often associated with secretiveness,
where the real personality is kept underground, and where it may
have more control, power, and protection. Pitt’s purported
relationship with Jolie exhibits the Plutonian fondness for “behind-closed-doors” secretiveness.
Contrasted to the celebratory, out-in-the-open relationship of Tom
Cruise and Katie Holmes, the Pitt-Jolie relationship is a veritable
study in secretiveness—the hidden dimension with which Pluto
is so often correlated.
Perhaps
the most obvious sign of Pitt’s transformation during his Pluto-Sun
transit is his purported newfound choice of partner, Jolie. Arguably
perhaps more than any other female celebrity, Jolie carries the Plutonian
dimension for the collective. In the late twentieth century, perhaps
Madonna was the one woman to hold this archetype for the times and
now the torch appears to be passed to Jolie. Erotic, dark, seductive,
and empowered, Jolie is, in a sense, the antithesis of congenial
bourgeois domesticity. Jolie’s and Aniston’s celebrity
personas present a marked study in contrasts. Aniston’s charming,
light, all-American cuteness is the flipside of Jolie’s darkly
seductive siren. The nature of Pitt’s and Jolie’s relationship
is certainly yet to be determined; however, as Pitt is undergoing
a Plutonian process, it does fit the course of his life that he is
linked with the one woman that embodies this symbol more than any
other female celebrity.
As Pitt’s
Plutonian journey to the underworld is just in the beginning phases,
the transformative nature of his Pluto transit will certainly bear
more rich, soulful territory in time. As a complex psychological
territory that is both contradictory and hard to put into words,
a Pluto transit to the Sun is often difficult to describe. However,
from the point of view of the soul, the process changes one’s
personality and ego to the core. Perhaps as the transit continues
over the course of the next two years, Pitt’s biography will
unfold more clues as to the nature of this highly transformative
process.
Jennifer
Aniston:
Transiting Neptune conjunct Sun
The first
decade of the twenty-first century represents an extraordinarily
revolutionary time for Aniston as the actress is undergoing major
transits from Neptune and Pluto to her Sun and Moon, respectively.
At the end of this decade, the perky and quirky Aniston who entertained
millions on Friends will be a distant memory to the actress who played
the part. Although a transit from Pluto to her Moon correlated with
her current divorce from Brad Pitt, Aniston is currently entering
a transit of Neptune to her Sun. In a similar way to Pluto, transiting
Neptune moves so slowly that we undergo a major transit from Neptune
to the Sun only once or twice in a lifetime. Also similar to Pluto,
Neptune’s transiting force represents transpersonal energies
that are beyond the scope and control of the ego’s powers.
However, beyond these similarities, Pluto and Neptune are nearly
diametrically opposed energies. While Pluto may radically empower
our sense of effectiveness in the world, Neptune almost invariably
immobilizes or incapacitates our sense of ego in the world. For a
time that can last up to three years in some cases, major Neptune
transits to the Sun can subordinate the accomplishments of our own
identity so that we attune to something much greater than ourselves:
the cosmic, the otherworldly, the metaphysical, or the spiritual.
During
a significant transit of Neptune to the Sun, our daily, mundane tasks
may appear to be petty or insignificant relative to some higher or
greater purpose. Throughout Neptune transits to the Sun, we may loose,
or at least question, our concern with “becoming” somebody
and be more attuned to dropping our sense of attachments to striving
and accomplishments. Therefore, it is not uncommon for individuals
to turn to religion or spirituality during Neptune-Sun transits,
for the greater orientation and perspective that religions afford
harmonize well with the energies of a Neptunian transformation. Although
she denies the rumors, Aniston, according to reports, has recently
turned to Buddhism to assist her in her time of personal transformation.
The iconography, messages, and doctrines of Eastern religion carry
the archetypal Neptune, and it is often during significant Neptunian
periods that individuals from Western cultures become interested
in Buddhism, Hinduism, Zen, or any other form of Eastern spirituality.
Disorienting
and yet inspirational, confusing and yet cleansing, a transiting
conjunction from Neptune to the Sun can be a time when worldly concerns
seem so inconsequential that we may take a temporary reprieve from
our responsibilities so that we may tune into something far greater,
cosmic, and wondrous than our daily lives. For individuals like Aniston
who are in a creative profession, a transit from Neptune to the Sun
can give one access to an extraordinary wealth of inspiration and
imagination. Thus, while the Neptune transit may seem to keep her
will in check, Aniston may bring more creativity than ever for her
roles. The Neptunian dimension helps one to access the mythic, timeless,
and larger-than-life facets of being, which is precisely why one
goes to the movies in the first place. Often Neptune transits for
actors and other artists can represent peak times in career, for
the ability to access the creative imagination is far greater at
these points than more prosaic, “earthly” points in one’s
biography.
Angelina
Jolie:
Transiting Uranus square Sun
Unlike
Neptune and Pluto with their far reaching orbits, Uranus’s
major transits to the Sun happen with greater frequency in any individual’s
life biography. Because Uranus steadily orbits the Sun at a pace
of eighty-four years, most of us receive the quadrature transits
(the opposition, square, and conjunction) from Uranus to the Sun
approximately four or five times in a lifetime. Lasting for up to
two years, these Uranus transits to the Sun represent the most exciting,
thrilling, creative times, on the one hand, and the most bizarre,
destabilizing, and turbulent. As Jolie is receiving the square, or
ninety degree, transit, the nature of the angular relationship emphasizes
the “out-of-leftfield” quality often associated with
Uranus transits in general. Uranus transits almost invariably bring
in the sense of unpredictable change into our lives; the square transit,
with its decentering affiliations, merely compounds this energy of
Uranus.
For Jolie,
a Uranus square transit to the Sun can feel not unlike a year or
two rollercoaster ride in which the pace and rapidity of events happen
so quickly that one has to simply go along with the chaos and allow
what happens to happen. When asked how she was coping recently, Jolie
said, “It’s a little crazy.” (3) Craziness is certainly
one of Uranus’s main signatures. If we liken our lives to be
not unlike our own personal film, then Uranus segments of this film
may have very rapid editing, jump cuts, bizarre and experimental
camera angles, and general weirdness; the Uranus segments of our
lives certainly stand apart. We will never accuse our lives of being
boring during Uranus transits; quite the contrary, we may pine for
times in which our lives had a greater degree of steadfastness and
groundedness.
Beyond
craziness, Uranus transits also encourage us to become unique individuals,
to detach from the scripts handed down to us from parents, and to
free our selves from conformity. Although this time period may seem
a bit crazy-making for Jolie, it may actually be quite refreshing,
for Jolie is just exiting the demanding, labor-intensive maturational
period of the Saturn Return. Uranus’s colorful, energizing,
and thrilling energy may revitalize Jolie in ways which are entirely
unexpected for the actress.
Although
Uranus transits typically are not associated with the extremes and
profundity of Neptune and Pluto transits, the danger of Uranus transits
is to simply burn too many bridges too quickly, to abandon one’s
past, and to defy social rules and conformity with a trickster-like
nonchalance. If one gets swept up in Uranus’s crazy-making
chaos, one can get carried away in rebelling and defying social or
self-imposed structures. For Jolie to navigate this period successfully,
it may be well-advised for her to take risks, to be experimental,
and to ride the dynamic chaos of the period but to also remain grounded,
focused, and stable in the process.
Conclusion:
By chance
or by fate, these three actors’ lives have all intertwined
a time in which they are experiencing extraordinary evolutionary
possibilities. Transits from the outer three planets to our natal
Suns often bring in the dramas, changes, crises, and turning points
in our lives. By studying these celebrities’ lives over the
next few years, one may catch a glimpse of how astrological archetypes
assist and pattern the course of one’s life.
Birth Information:
Brad
Pitt
December 18 1963
6:31 AM
Shawnee, OK
Source: AstroDataBank
Jennifer
Aniston
February 11 1969
Sherman Oaks, CA
Natural Noon
Source: Internet Movie Database
Angelina
Jolie
June 4 1975
Los Angeles, CA
Natural Noon
Source: Internet Movie Database
Notes:
(1) For
the purposes of this article, “major” transits are defined
as the quadrature aspects: the conjunction, opposition, and the square.
(2) Although
we only have the natural noon chart of these individuals, we can
know the Moon’s position +/- 6 degrees from the position of
the Moon at noon on one’s birth day. In both Kidman’s
and Aniston’s case, the natural noon Moon position (+/- degrees)
is placed in orb of both individuals receiving a major Pluto transit
to their Moon. Pluto-Moon transits are often correlated with intense
relational dynamics, sometimes involving secrecy, betrayal, love
triangulation, and extremely difficult emotions.
As interesting,
Pitt and Aniston have a Sun-Moon conjunction by synastry. Noticing
Pluto’s transit to this Sun-Moon position in their birth charts,
astrologer David Pond presciently stated, “Watch for fateful
events to emerge in there lives in 2005 with Pluto going across their
Sagittarius conjunction.”
(August, 9th, 2004, http://www.llewellynjournal.com/article/663)
(3) People
Magazine. June 20, 2005, p. 64.
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