Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith met Tupac Shakur at the Baltimore School for the Arts when they were teenagers, and the two became inseparable friends. She has called him a soulmate, though their relationship was never a romance, and their friendship lasted until his murder in 1996. She came from a hard background in Baltimore, raised largely by her mother and grandmother, and arts school was her way out.

She was born at 12:38 in the afternoon on September 18, 1971, in Baltimore, a time her mother shared publicly. Her Sun is in Virgo, at the top of her chart in the tenth house, where public life and reputation are read, along with Pluto and with Venus and Uranus in Libra. Her Moon and Mercury are also in Virgo, in the ninth house. That much Virgo describes a person who is analytical, self-examining and focused on improvement, and Pinkett Smith has built a large part of her public life around examining herself, often in uncomfortable detail.

Pluto in the tenth house is associated with intense, transformative public moments, and Uranus there with sudden, unexpected shifts in reputation. Her public life has been marked by both.

She moved to Los Angeles after high school and was cast on A Different World in 1991. Her film career took off with Menace II Society, then The Nutty Professor, Scream 2 and the role of Niobe in two Matrix sequels. She later played the villain Fish Mooney on the series Gotham.

She married Will Smith in 1997. They have two children, Jaden and Willow, both of whom became performers. The marriage was famously unconventional, and the couple discussed it openly.

Sagittarius is her rising sign, and Jupiter and Neptune, both in Sagittarius, sit in the twelfth house, a sector associated with spirituality and private inner life. Pinkett Smith has spoken often about meditation, spiritual searching and healing, and she has fronted a heavy metal band, Wicked Wisdom, as an unexpected creative outlet.

In 2018 she launched Red Table Talk on Facebook Watch, a conversation show with her mother and daughter in which the family talked openly about addiction, infidelity, race and their own relationships. The show became a cultural phenomenon, and some episodes made headlines of their own.

At the 2022 Academy Awards, after Chris Rock made a joke about her shaved head, which she had shaved because of alopecia, Will Smith walked onto the stage and slapped him. The moment became one of the most discussed events in Oscars history. In her 2023 memoir, Worthy, she revealed that she and Smith had been living separately since 2016.

Mars in Aquarius, in her second house of resources and self-worth, describes independence in how she defines her own value. The title of her memoir says much the same. The Virgo planets made her a relentless self-examiner, and she has done it, more than most, in public.