France is in mourning as the legendary Brigitte Bardot dies at 91. With eerie timing she leaves the stage as Neptune slides out of Pisces, as many female icons have done before at the changing of the sign. France with a final degree Virgo Sun is also dissolving under tr Neptune and Scheat in opposition to its Sun exactly now.
Bardot brought raw sexuality to the screen and her life with multiple well publicised affairs. Paris Match described her as “immoral, from head to toe” after the release of Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman. But at 39 she retired from acting and public life to open an animal sanctuary in St Tropez, saying “I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
Although reclusive she still manged to cause a stir with her outspoken anti-Muslim views on the Islamisation of France for which she had been fined several times; and questioning the motives behind #MeToo allegations. Even earlier she caused outrage by announcing that marriage was a sham. “It’s better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.” She openly stated she wasn’t made to be a mother. In her autobiography, she admitted to viewing her pregnancy with only son Nicolas (from her second husband, actor Jacques Charrier) as a “tumour”, even attempting to induce an abortion by repeatedly punching herself in the stomach. She subsequently regretted her words and the two later reconciled.
Born 28 September 1934 1.15pm Paris, France, she had a strict, even abusive upbringing and broke free in her early adult life into a roller coaster of passionate liaisons (see previous post Brigitte Bardot. 5th December 2025.)
She had a 9th house Sun Libra with a Gemini Moon in her 6th house of work, health and small animals. Venus in animal-lover Virgo was the ruler of her 6th as well.
Two aspects are notable- one is an outspoken Mars in Leo in the opinionated 9th opposition Saturn, hinting at anger from her repressive childhood finding an outlet in making comments which shock conventional morality.
The other is her maverick, rebellious Uranus on the cusp of her romantic and entertaining 5th opposition Jupiter Mercury in Libra and square an 8th house Pluto. Uranus in hard aspect to Pluto mirrors the France chart, born out of a revolution with a Uranus opposition Pluto. A focal point Pluto can bring penetrating insights which are ahead of their time and arouse hostility but are eventually proved right. Her views were deemed offensive and outrageous at the time but some have proved to have a smidgeon of sense about them. She once remarked, “I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.”
Neptune was present as she passed with her Solar Arc Moon less than one degree passed the conjunction to her natal Neptune and her Solar Arc Neptune conjunct her Ascendant, having recently opposed her Moon.
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When Neptune changes sign (every 15 years or so) an iconic female figure dies – Princess Diana, Grace Kelly, Nathalie Wood, Sharon Tate, Judy Garland in previous transitional times of Neptune leaving a sign.
1901: Neptune leaving Gemini – Queen Victoria dies.
1915: Neptune leaving Cancer – Mary Baker Eddy and Emily Davidson (suffragette who suicided by horse at the Derby). Florence Nightingale also died with Neptune in late Cancer (1911)
1929: Neptune leaving Leo – Emmeline Pankhurst (the great suffragette), Ellen Terry, Isadora Duncan.
1943 – Neptune leaving Virgo – aviator Amy Johnson, writer Beatrix Potter.
1957 – Neptune leaving Libra – Laura Wilder (Little House on the Prairie), scientist Irene Curie
1968 – Neptune leaving Scorpio – Helen Keller, Enid Blyton, Dorothy Parker, Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Little Mo, Sonja Henie, Gypsy Rose Lee, Sharon Tate.
1983 – Neptune leaving Sagittarius – Nathalie Wood, Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Anna Freud, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Gloria Swanson, Ethel Merman, Lillian Hellman, Indira Gandhi.
1998 – Neptune leaving Capricorn – Princess Diana, Mother Theresa, Ella Fitzgerald, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Evelyn Laye, Dorothy Lamour, Claudette Colbert, Marguerite Duras, Patricia Highsmith, Mary Leakey.
2011 – Liz Taylor, Amy Winehouse, Jane Russell, Whitney Houston, Lauren Bacall, Esther Williams, Zsa Zsa Gabor.
2025 Jane Goodall, Virginia Giuffre, Cecile Richards, Diane Keaton, Marianne Faithfull, June Lockhart, Roberta Flack.
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Her son Nicholas Charrier, 11 June 1960 2.10 am Paris, was largely bought up by his paternal grandparents after his father gained custody. Bardot in her autobiography said she was not adult enough to take care of a child amongst other revelations; and was sued by her son and his father for invasion of privacy for which she was heavily fined. After which she agreed not to talk about him.
He has a charming, communicative 3rd house Sun Venus in Gemini on one leg of a yod sextile Uranus inconjunct Saturn Moon in Capricorn. He would feel the separation from an unloving mother deeply with a Moon Saturn in Capricorn; and his hard-done-by Saturn square Mars on his Ascendant mirrors Bardot’s Mars opposition Saturn. But he was spared her roller coaster Uranus Pluto and weighted 8th house.
Sagittarius and Gemini seem to pop up in charts of people who espouse right wing ideology and contentious positions on race. Farage has Moon in Sag as does Trump (+ Sun in Gemini). Enoch Powell had a stellium in Gemini, Jupiter in Sagittarius. Gemini sees duality/ divisions. Sagittarius is interesting, perhaps it is the need to be seen as superior? Anyway, BB seemed to find her cause in her animal rights activism.
Ara which means altar is a constellation beside Sagittarius. Look up the story in Greek mythology.
How I loved Brigitte and emulated her looks in my teens in the late fifties! She was very outspoken and sexy. My Virgo MC wasnt quite so sassy but I certainly had fun!
Add Anette Dionne, last quintuplet, to list of famous women dying when
Neptune changes signs.
I think it is fair to point out Bridgette Bardot was against halal slaughter and the ritual of slaughtering sheep from an animal protection viewpoint amongst her other viewpoints. Many of us feel passionately animals should be treated with utmost compassion and that the ritual slaughter of several religions is maybe not compatible with that in Modern Europe and should be thought about
Bardot was a member of the National Front for years. ‘Bardot’s anti-immigration, anti-Muslim pronouncements, which came originally from her disdain for crowds and the practices of halal butchery, led to repeated court appearances into her final years and serious fines for inciting racial and religious hatred in print.’ https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/28/brigitte-bardot-obituary
Brigitte had every right to criticise slaughter practices from an animal protection standpoint. Many people do. But the moment criticism stops being evidence-based and consistent and starts singling out specific religious communities while ignoring industrial farming, it stops being about animals and starts being about who we’re comfortable blaming.
The uncomfortable fact is this:
Most animal suffering in Europe happens in industrial systems; long transport, confinement, stress, and high-speed slaughter lines, not in small-scale religious slaughter per se. Properly carried-out halal (and kosher) slaughter is not automatically crueler than standard supermarket meat. In many cases, the animal’s final moments are quicker than in poorly executed stunning. I used to think Halal was horrific until I read up more on it. We in the west really don’t have much room to act holier than thou when it comes to abusing and killing our own.
Is there any particular orb for natal Mars-Saturn oppositions? I have one (26 Scorpio Mars, 15 Saturn Taurus) and have felt a push and pull most of my life, but wondered if that was too wide an influence.
You might want to try this from astro seek and see what minor aspect show up? I have some inkling but my mental numbers are not tallying up.
https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/minor-aspects-in-astrology-online-calculator
As usual, great insights.
Thank you Marjorie. I look forward to your posts.