We might all be a bit tired of talking/thinking about this story, or
maybe we didn't give it a second thought in the first place, either way,
the astrology is truly fascinating.
At the time of the 'slap heard round the world' - and remember this was all applying to the New Moon in Aries/New Lunar Year, so the energies will be in play for a good, long time - the astrology, as it is apt to do with zeitgeist moments/things that resonate with us collectively is incredibly RICH and revealing.
Let's take a look!
We will start with Will and Jada's natal charts and their transits last week.
Will Smith's birthchart has a packed 6th house, a powerful and not always predictable 'performing/royalty/talented' 5th house Jupiter/Pluto/Uranus/Sun. He has a natal 11th house Chiron at 0 degrees Aries opposing his Libra Sun
(so this charismatic, beautiful shine challenged by this very old, very deep wound around his masculinity and not fitting in within groups/not getting the rewards).
0 degrees Aries is an Aries point (zero degrees of a cardinal sign). A natal planet or angle on an Aries point indicates something significant to contribute to the world - because here is where the inner becomes outer - in terms of the planet and house at the Aries point. Will's Chiron (wound) and in Aries we are looking at the 'wounded masculine' here, opposes his Sun and plays out in an 11th house realm, the 11th house being about groups and goals and achievements that bring us into connection with other people, so this Academy Award ceremony with Will Smith at the top of his game fits in rather nicely - and this Aries point Chiron shows up as for all of us as a COLLECTIVE LESSON/GIFT in this pivotal year on this pivotal New Moon. With an Aries point - our collective attention goes HERE.
The New Moon in Aries was tight on his natal Eris/North Node - the stuff that is hidden/not talked about in polite society somehow connecting Will to his destiny/fate (and ours!) - and remember our New Moon this week was conjunct both Chiron (wounded masculine) and Mercury (words, news, information, hands) and answering to Mars (impulsivity, anger, arguments, violence). This was all very tight on his North Node/Eris.
He has also had transiting Saturn squaring his natal Moon for a few weeks which doesn't feel good (this is also where Mars will meet Saturn because remember we talked about this New Moon's actions bringing reality checks/report cards).
Exact on his North Node on award night was dwarf planet Salacia (also conjunct our Aries New Moon and collectively bringing a salacious story to our collective attention, but here is where we don't get the total story like we would at the bright Full Moon, because this is a New Moon/dark moon, so things are hidden).
Salacia (Chris Rock's natal Salacia is at 22 degrees Cappy - the degree of the falling patriarchy/time runs out/power is cemented) was a Sea Goddess (wife of Neptune) who started life as a beautiful nymph known for her gorgeous seaweed braids. When Neptune pursued her, she ran away, overwhelmed by the fact he was a "God" and also wanting to maintain her virginity - keep in mind, virginity in mythology speaks of a female's freedom to not be owned by a man. Finally, Neptune convinces Salacia she could maintain her freedom within their marriage and they marry. Their most famous offspring was their son Triton - the first half man/half fish (merman).
And speaking of Sea Goddess, Jada Pinkett Smith has an uber interesting natal chart. She has a packed 10th house (career/voice in the world/public attention/reputation). She has an EXACT - and I am about to write EXACT over and over again - natal Chiron/Eris at 12 degrees Aries, so the New Moon in Aries was EXACT on her painful conjunction/fresh start this week. So, Will has the natal Eris/North Node and she has the natal Eris/Chiron and he has Chiron on that zeitgeist Aries point!
She also has an EXACT Juno/Mercury (Juno being about contracts and marriage and our power that comes through our relationships to powerful people and Mercury ruling her 7th house of partners and Will's chart) and an EXACT Jupiter/Neptune.
Yes, Jupiter/Neptune, THE big conjunction of 2022 is reactivating her natal Jupiter/Neptune. She doesn't have this conjunction in Pisces, of course, since she wasn't born in 1856 - although now that I am writing this, I am thinking there might be an 1856 connection to this story via their past lives or ancestors. Jada's Jupiter/Neptune is in Sagittarius so answering to Jupiter in her 12th house of THE PAST and what is done behind closed doors. AND her Jupiter/Neptune (ancient and modern rulers of Pisces, almost exact RIGHT NOW) is also tightly conjunct her Ascendant - likely enabling her to see/feel a higher purpose with events/people she interacts with. We might say, along with the Salacia connection, Jada IS kind of/sort of literally (does that all cancel itself out, I hope not) an embodied GODDESS OF THE SEA. No wonder she always looks so graceful/noble/royal, kind of float-y, am I right?!
Jada also has an EXACT Black Moon Lilith (the first "Eve" ejected from paradise for
demanding equal status with Adam and then demonized. "Liliths" are often
vilified as 'evil'/wrathful women who need to be exiled when what is
really happening here is that the patriarchy has no intention of sharing
power) conjunct her natal Uranus, double freedom-lovers/chaos in partnership focused Libra and her Libra Venus is conjunct Will Smith's Sun.
So, they are kind of reflecting all this back and forth with each other. She also has a very tight Mars/North Node conjunct Chris Rock's Sun. Her Sun is conjunct Pluto and Venus. Her Saturn on the descendant (partner) tightly conjunct Will Smith's ascendant, so they could almost switch places/energies at times. A very powerful chart. A very powerful/unusual partnership. I mean you can't make this stuff up.
The crazy thing is Jada has NO water in her chart and this is still true when we add in a bundle of dwarf planets/asteroids! This is VERY unusual, might feel like living in an emotional vacuum, make it hard to connect emotionally with people. Sometimes people without water turn to religion/spirituality for connection. This can also attract overly-emotional people to her, to mellow them out, and make her attracted to overly-emotional people, to kind of de-mellow her. She also has an enormous amount of mutable planets, so is likely very changeable/restless/maybe moody.
Her Moon is conjunct her Midheaven which will help a little with this no water thing, but a Goddess of the Sea with no water!
WTH!
Makes me think of Salacia without her gorgeous seaweed braids (and Pluto/death is conjunct Jada's natal Salacia right now, applying). Sounds painful.
We won't go into Chris Rock's chart, because this would just get too long, but he has MANY connections to their charts, the current transits and also, interestingly, to their marriage chart. When Will and Jada married there was a stellium/pile-up of planets in Aquarius on Jada's Mars/North Node, with transiting Saturn on Jada's natal Chiron/Eris (and remember her natal Saturn is conjunct her descendant/partner), with the North Node conjunct her natal Moon/Juno/Mercury and transiting Neptune on her natal Salacia and transiting Jupiter (remember Jada is a Jupiter/Neptune Sea Goddess) at 22 degrees Aquarius which is right where Saturn is now and where Mars will meet Saturn - when the accountability/results of what happened will show up (for all of us). Will's chart was equally activated when they married (Chris Rock's was also, and he has many connections to their charts, especially Jada's, including his Sun conjunct Jada's North Node of Fate - I think this would get too long if were to pull in his chart, too, but he is definitely connected here at least historically and more than just a trigger for this).
We also have Juno conjunct Saturn in Aquarius this week and Mars will meet Juno after he meets Saturn - unusual relationships/contracts, freedoms within relationships and the future of relationships (collectively speaking) is a big part of this story, too.
This is a dark Moon, so alot we don't know here.
I went looking for asteroid Narcissus because this whole thing had a narcisstic signature to me, maybe because of Will's speech and the times we live in, and the character he played in the movie and the whole triggering scene including the Oscar crowd's surreal standing ovation after his win. Transiting Jupiter was tightly conjunct Jada's natal Narcissus - and remember Jupiter rules her chart and is part of her Jupiter/Neptune, Sea Goddess energy. Transiting Narcissus was conjunct Chris Rock's natal descendant (other people, open enemies) and Chris Rock's natal Narcissus is conjunct Jada's natal descendant. Alot about her here. Transiting Narcissus was conjunct Will's natal Cupido - maybe, he wasn't so far out in left field when he spoke of 'love making him do crazy things'. Well, love touched by narcissism maybe. Was he defending Jada's honor or his own masculinity here? Probably both, but not that simple in any case. It would have been a whole different story if Jada had risen up and smacked Chris, wouldn't it? Or would it?
What would have been a whole other story was if Will had spoken out about his wife's Chiron (wound) and connected us to her vulnerability (see the rich/the 1% are just people, too, with their wounded spaces and broken-places, we are all going through hard things, so maybe even our jokes should be kinder right now) through the kind of loving language he used in his acceptance speech instead of lashing out with vulgar language that felt (to me at least) as violent/shocking as the slap itself. Although maybe the angry words said the same thing if we listen closely (see the rich/the 1% are just people, too, with their wounded spaces and broken-places).
And, keep in mind, whatever we 'think this is about' is something we should think about. And I mean more in terms of "why do I think it means this?" and not "what do I think is really happening?" because Will's Chiron on the Aries point makes this public story/zeitgeist moment somehow a very personal lesson/gift for all of us.
My hub's immediate reaction, and honestly I was surprised with his lack of pop-culture reference points he even knew who the main characters are (he wasn't familiar with Jada, I am not really either, but know who she is), was that Chris Rock caused this because his jokes can be mean and Will seems like a nice guy. Then I rolled the tape for him and he was like, "hmm, that was weird, I didn't think Will Smith could go off like that. Chris Rock really kept it together". Although a couple days later he was back to his, "Chris Rock is mean" thing.
My gut reaction was to feel the 'class' implications of the whole thing. Chris Rock was the hired help/doing a job he was paid to do and Will and Jada are Hollywood royalty. It made me think of the waitresses/service people wearing masks while the patrons didn't. The standing ovation for Will's win just a few minutes later made me feel a little/lot sick, like we'd collectively lost the thread of something ... that mattered. I felt more empathy for Jada and Will as the days moved on. Some friends immediate reaction was to feel for Jada, for Will, her wound/the 'hair thing'/the pain of a Black man defending a Black woman which has not always been historically possible. It's a VERY rich/very old story. So connected with our times. Such a teachable moment.
And the way it speaks to us, WHAT WE SEE, and the way we re-language it - says more about us than them.
That's how these zeitgeist moments work. THIS is where we are. THIS is who we are. Here's a window as the inside comes outside.
It also made my think about the future of marriage/this Aquarius style marriage of theirs (and the collective future of marriage which could look like something alot like theirs) and some of the potential pitfalls/cliffs like maybe the fine line between equality/freedom and becoming so unattached we are detached or maybe one partner is detached and the other has to kind of play the role of unattached/independent when they are actually very lonely/in need of attachment and then genuine emotions/spousal support/love comes out all wonky. Or maybe since Aqua is fixed air, and so logic driven, if the relationship dies emotionally it will be hard to even tell, and then we are wearing something dead and calling it a mink coat. I am not saying this relationship is dead, but Aquarius is such a sticky/fixed sign, things can drag on too long with stuck emotions that will sometimes come out in unexpected/chaotic ways.
(here's another MIND BLOWER - Chris Rock produced a documentary about Black hair (!) called Good Hair released 10/9/2009, he even interviewed a woman with alopecia. When the movie came out Uranus/Juno/Salacia were EXACTLY where Neptune and Jupiter are RIGHT NOW - Jada the Goddess of the Sea! - and the Sun, then, right where Narcissus is now and transiting Narcissus, then, EXACT on Jada's ascendant and conjunct her Jupiter/Neptune and Jupiter/Chiron/Neptune THEN piled up in Aquarius just as Mars/Venus/Juno/Saturn were at the New Moon.)
I admit I watched as little as possible of the whole thing. Enough to see Will's quick/easy laugh at Chris's joke, maybe before he caught the implications, Jada's eye roll. Enough to hear a bit about her alopecia, their marriage, her affair, their joint feeling of being previously dissed by both the Academy and Chris. The charts showing a very old story and a rather perfect astrological storm.
With Mars ruling the New Moon and headed to Saturn, there will be consequences.
Keep in mind where we are tonight - one day after the New Moon in Aries made her first aspect which was her connection to wounded-healer Chiron - allowing the wound to humble us is what allows us to step onto this new path, our personal fresh start in Aries. The story of Jada and Will and Chris and Oscar is a perfectly, imperfect narrative that brings this New Moon to life. A gift to all of us and to them.
And, once again, in these rocking and rolling 2020's the narcissistic wound, which we all carry, some of us more visibly than others right now, is where the light gets in ....
xo all
please excuse any typos, too tired to re-read tonight :)
