Charlize Theron's Orange Dress

Remember when Charlize Theron wore the Orange Dress to the Oscars and only one or two people liked it? Horrors. She said it almost tanked her career. Nobody would hire her because she had garnered so much bad publicity. Well, in Hollywood, there is no bad publicity; something else was going on. This supposedly led to her taking on the role in "Monster" where she flaunts sweat pants, bad skin, hair and teeth. This led to her winning the Oscar in 2004. That was a weird story so it stuck in my head ($&#^@) and recently I've been wondering and wondering the way I do (Gemini Rising)....what about that dress and Charlize Theron's chart?

For one, there was nothing wrong with that dress. It looked great. Orange was just 2 years ahead of its time.

For two, you can't really pin one color to an astrological sign because personal taste is so personal, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah. Short story first: Rex Bills assigns rulership of Orange to Leo. And....

Charlize Theron
Aug. 7, 1975 Benoni, South Africa

Sun 15 Leo; Moon probably in Leo; NN 28 Scorpio

Isn't that funny? She's a Double Leo and she says the Leo colored dress almost did her career in!
I don't have a birth time for Theron, it sure would be interesting to see how this all ties in with her Ascendant and Midheaven, but since Venus rules Fashion we can start there. Where's the vulnerability for such a fashion faux pas? Ahhhhhh-hahhahhhhhhhh, Eureka! Venus is at 12 Virgo in Theron's chart. Venus is in its Fahhhhhll in Virgo, which means that it's uncomfortable there, but many rock stars have it, so just shut about it. Charlize may have over reacted to the criticisms as she probably is a perfectionist about her appearance. Either way, Venus is otherwise not well placed in her chart. She was born with it Retrograde and it will continue to Retrograde until 2017. That gives a girl loveability "issues." Venus only makes one aspect, a square to Neptune at 10 Sagittarius. This is an interesting chart to look at because Theron is so beautiful and so glamorous and so successful in these regards and it just makes you want to screw your face up in total confusion about Venus and her placements. But, Neptune is Neptune, square or trine. And Theron's Sun trines Neptune so this obviously releases the Neptune-Venus tension in a very positive manner.

The Oscar Awards ceremony to which Charlize showed up in the (gasp) ~ORANGE~ dress was on March 26, 2000. She was going through oodles of tough transits. Blame it on the LA traffic.

Uranus opposing her natal Sun, that's a good transit for feeling like you've been abducted by aliens, or at least living in a land of them. And t. Pluto and Chiron were 3 degrees past conjunction with her natal Neptune and squaring her Venus. We can see now what that last transit (without Chiron too) has done to Paris Hilton this year. Also, the World was gearing up for the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction in Taurus a few months down the road, feeling conservative, getting ready to lose their shirts in the Stock Market and the conjunction was squaring her natal Sun and Leo stellium. I think I remember somebody telling her she was bad for business because of that dress, well, if that's true this would be the aspect to blame it on. And the person had probably just lost half his life's earnings in the Stock Market and was just in a bad mood when he/she/it said that and having loveability issues of his/her/its own.

Further, on this day at this particular Academy Awards ceremony, Charlize was gearing up for her Mars Return, so maybe she was projecting a masculine vibe maybe she had cut herself shaving and it showed. Theron's natal Mars is conjunct her South Node so this hit a chord deep down within. Leo is a masculine sign and Mars is a masculine planet so maybe she just felt awkward wearing a masculine color. I've read that women with a predominance in Masculine signs often suffer an insecurity about their femininity. They work extra hard on their appearance to compensate and often become blond bombshells like Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole Smith.

The Saturn-Pluto-Chiron opposition would square Theron's Venus the next year. She was lucky to have been able to channel the energy into a movie called "Monster."