Angelina Jolie by Ray Sette June 4, 1975 Los Angeles, Ca 9:09 AM, PDT

Article by Ray Sette

Growing up in Los Angeles the daughter of an Academy Award-winning actor, this Hollywood celebrity was no stranger to the film industry. She later trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where she performed in several stage productions. She worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and has appeared in music videos for such artists as Meatloaf, Lenny Kravitz, Antonello Venditti, and The Lemonheads. Additionally, she had acted in five student films for the USC School of Cinema, all directed by her brother, James Haven.

When Angelina Jolie first began her work at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute at around the age of 12, this Gemini experienced her first Jupiter return, bringing fortune to her endeavors and expanding her opportunities to pursue something worthwhile.

Transiting Saturn trine her career sector leant ease to her craft and provided a foundation to establish future goals. Despite the acting blood that flowed through her, Angelina’s lifelong goal was to be a funeral director – her natal Sun/Pluto trine gave her a fascination with the dark and the macabre. Eventually, however, she realized that acting was right up her alley. Leo represents acting and drama, which resides on the cusp of her second house, indicating that her income could be gained from those areas. The Sun/Pluto trine would instill a fascination toward dark roles. She does most of her stunts herself and is comfortable with guns, martial arts and guy-flicks. The Sun/Pluto aspect provides her with an extremely strong will and determination, as well as a fearless nature, so it’s of no surprise that she would not object to performing her own stunts.

Venus is rising in her chart and conjunct to her ascendant – the rising sign. Venus brings beauty to the area where she is placed in our charts, and Angelina can be known for her unusual sense of beauty, most particularly her fascination with tattoos. The square that Angelina’s Venus receives from Uranus attributes to this offbeat allure. The influence of Pluto lends a sense of darkness and mystique to Angelina, as does the planet of illusion, Neptune, which is in opposition to her natal Sun. Fortunately, her natal Neptune is well-aspected by her natal Moon and Mars giving this illusory actress a great deal of instinct when it comes to playing her parts. Jupiter widely conjuncts her Moon and Mars and, if not for the fortunate placements of these planets to her natal Neptune, she more than likely would have entered the world of substance abuse that some Hollywood players are notoriously known for. Another factor to her dark beauty is that her Venus is located in her twelfth house, the house of the mysterious.

By 1993 at the age of 18, Angelina had decided to pursue acting full time. Her first role was in Cyborg II: Glass Shadow, which was less than memorable. Soon after, Angelina nabbed a role in Hackers, alongside Matthew Lillard and Jonny Lee Miller. The film got good reviews for Angelina, but incredibly bad reviews for the film. At that time, transiting Jupiter trined her natal Sun, expanding her career opportunities regardless of the films’ less-than-stellar successes. This was a time for her to lay the foundation for her career, as transiting Saturn was also playing its part in the solidification of her future.

In May of 1996, Angelina married her co-star from the film Hackers, Jonny Lee Miller, though they are now divorced. During the ceremony she wore black rubber clothes, one more example of the dark eccentricity that she exudes. Other illustrations of her mystique include her extensive dagger collection and the several tattoos she sports, one of which is the Japanese word for death, appropriately placed on her shoulder, forever a reminder of what’s following her.

After her role in Hackers, Angelina went on to star in the critically praised 1998 HBO movie GIA. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of the bisexual and heroin-addicted supermodel Gia Carangi who died of AIDS. At the time, it was said that Jolie tends to absorb herself in her roles, particularly by friends who were worried that she might have gotten too much into Gia’s character. This is an example of how the Neptune influence in her chart can have a negative effect on her existence. At times she may become so engulfed in her roles that it may be difficult for her to separate fiction from reality.

Angelina’s second marriage came when she met Billy Bob Thornton while filming Pushing Tin. The two married in a small Las Vegas wedding in 2000. It was reported that Angelina checked herself into UCLA for psychological examination only four days prior to the wedding. Once again, the influence of Neptune, as well as a significant Pluto transit, forced her to redefine her life and eliminate the unnecessary.

She once said of Thorton; “I’m obsessed with Billy. I always want more. I can’t have enough of him.” She also continued her obsession with blood and tattoos, wearing an amulet with Billy Bob’s blood around her neck and tattooing his name on her arm. This unusual obsession is born out of Billy Bob’s Uranus making both an exact conjunction to Angelina’s natal Venus and an exact Square to her Uranus. Given both her dark nature and Uranus’s influence, it’s no wonder she would have an obsession with this bold and courageous Leo.

Shortly after adopting a baby boy from Cambodia in 2002, Angelina and Billy Bob divorced. More than likely, the Pluto transit that passed spurred her to realize her true nature and to undergo a complete metamorphosis of her life. Pluto influenced her natal Saturn, which is her marriage partner, in a way that caused her to make the necessary decisions in her life that would be suitable for her own existence.

As she moves through from 2004 onwards, she will again experience a significant Pluto transit, as well as her first Saturn return. Pluto opposes her natal Mercury, so she may find herself redefining her belief system and bringing about a significant change in the relationship with her brother, which, I might add, has been anything but a typical brother/sister relationship. In her chart, her brother is someone who is always a friend to her, and the influence of Uranus in her chart contributes to the eccentricity of this relationship.

Angelina splits her time between New York and Los Angeles – it’s a very typical trait for a Gemini to have two residences.