Contrasting events in Angelina Jolie life: Astrological Analysis

With birth time at 7:30 A.M. her ascendant will be Gemini, with ascendant lord Mercury in the twelfth house.  Her ascendant lord has to be in such a position to explain her several diverse passions and her uniqueness in expressing them.  The ascendant lord is also conjunct the third house lord which rules passions and desires.  Her attraction towards women, her multiple marriages, her fascination for tattoos and self-injury, and the fact that she would wear vials of her husband’s blood round her neck are all explained by this position of the ascendant lord, not to mention she attended her first wedding in rubber pants on which she had written her groom’s name with her blood. This is also because of Ketu’s position in the twelfth house.  In 2002 her father, Jon Voight, even claimed that she had mental problems.

Jolie had a difficult childhood as till the age of 14 she was running the Mercury Mahadasha.  Her parents divorced when she was an infant and was raised by her mother in difficult circumstances.  As a teenager she would feel isolated by the people in her area.  It was at this time that she began to indulge in self-injury.  At that time her attempts to become a model also met with reverses.  This was because she was born in Mercury dasha and Mercury being in the twelfth house it was bound to give her hardships.  Also the dasha that followed the Mercury dasha was that of Ketu which she ran from 1989 to 1996.

Angelina Jolie’s rise in life began during her Venus Mahadasha which began in 1991.  Venus being posited in the second house and aspected by the tenth lord Jupiter, she became an international figure at this time.  Her acting career though not distinctive made her an international sex symbol.  During 1997-2000 while she was running the Mahadasha and Antardasha of Venus she had her breakthrough in the film industry with several critically acclaimed films like Gia, George Wallace, fetching her Golden Globe Awards and Girl, Interrupted for which she received an Academy Award.

Jolie has also been named as one of the most beautiful women in the world.  This is because of the presence of Venus in the second lord aspected by Jupiter.  Venus in the second house is indicative of a beautiful face.  Ninth lord Saturn in the first house also gives magnetism.

In early 2005 Jolie was involved in a scandalous split that took place between Brad Pitt and his then wife Jennifer Anniston.  At that time she was running the time of Venus/Rahu/Saturn.  Venus and Saturn can influence the seventh house as Venus is the natural significator of the seventh house and Saturn is aspecting the seventh house.  Venus is also aspected by the seventh lord, but since the Antardasha was that of Rahu, her relationship with Brad Pitt caused a scandal.

Jolie, however, has been a great human being in that she has been actively involved in humanitarian work since 2001 and is now a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.  Jolie has donated millions of dollars to charitable institutions. For her efforts, she was the first person to receive the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association as well as the Global Humanitarian Award by the United Nations Association of the United States of America.

These contrasting events, wherein the same person is involved in honorable activities and indecorous behavior, can be explained partly by the presence of the ascendant lord in the twelfth house, as described above, and by the presence of tenth lord Jupiter in the tenth house.