Megan Fox

When Jennifer's Body came out in 2009, critics dismissed it and audiences mostly stayed away. Megan Fox, its star, was at the height of a public image built almost entirely on her looks after the Transformers films. Over the next decade the film was reappraised as a sharp feminist horror comedy and became a cult favorite, and Fox herself began talking about how the industry had treated her during those years.

She was born at 12:35 a.m. on May 16, 1986, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a time from her birth certificate, and Capricorn is on her Ascendant, with Mars in Capricorn in the first house. Capricorn is guarded, disciplined and slow to trust, and Mars there gives a tough, self-protective edge. As a public presence, the combination tends to read as cool, strong and hard to read, and Fox has described building that armor early, growing up in a strict household in Tennessee and Florida.

Her Sun is in Taurus in the fourth house, with Mercury, also in Taurus, there too. Taurus is steady and sensual, and the fourth house concerns home, family and private life. A Taurus Sun in the fourth suggests someone whose real priorities are domestic and private, whatever the public image says, and Fox has repeatedly spoken about her three sons as the center of her life.

Transformers, released in 2007, made her one of the most talked-about actresses in the world. In 2009 she gave an interview comparing the director Michael Bay to Hitler on set, and she was not cast in the third film. At the time it was treated as a scandal; years later, as conversations about how young actresses were treated in Hollywood changed, many people looked back at her early career differently.

Her Moon is in Leo in the seventh house of partnership. A Leo Moon wants warmth and admiration, and in the seventh it ties emotional life to relationships, which in her case have often been very public. She was married to the actor Brian Austin Green for a decade, and later had a highly publicized relationship with the musician Machine Gun Kelly.

Venus in Gemini, in the fifth house of creativity and self-expression, points to a love of words and play. In 2023 Fox published a book of poetry, Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, about relationships and abuse, a project far removed from the image the studios had built for her.

Pluto, retrograde in Scorpio, falls in the ninth house of beliefs and meaning, and Fox has spoken frequently and unselfconsciously about spirituality, astrology and the supernatural. The Capricorn rising built the armor. The Taurus Sun, in the house of home, is what it was protecting.