Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot, known the world over by her initials B.B., shone with the Venusian radiance of a Libra Sun, the sign of the Scale, where beauty, symmetry and the pull between self and other become the whole point of the light. Libra shines through charm, aesthetics and an unerring eye for what is beautiful, and Bardot became one of the defining faces of the 1950s and 1960s after And God Created Woman (1956) made her an international icon and caught the attention of French intellectuals. That Sun sits in the ninth house of global horizons, and indeed her image travelled everywhere; Simone de Beauvoir called her a locomotive of women's history.

Her Moon in Gemini gave her the restless, quick, changeable mind and the social, talkative nature of an air-sign psyche, comfort found in movement rather than depth. Placed in the sixth house of daily service, it points to a life that later turned wholly toward a cause: after retiring in 1973, she poured herself into animal rights and founded the Fondation Brigitte Bardot. A Sagittarius Ascendant lent the free, outspoken, larger-than-life mask, the woman who says exactly what she thinks. Awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985, and forever a symbol.