Cosmically Chic

Anne Baxter

The birthday girl for May 7 is Anne Baxter.

I really don’t know a thing about Anne Baxter besides the fact that her role in “All About Eve” is widely considered to be one of the most-memorable performances in the history of cinema.  Personally, the film still gives me goosebumps every time I watch it.

I guess I’m sort of surprised that Baxter is a Taurus.  I associate the actress with her classic role, and Eve Harrington didn’t really give me a Taurus vibe.  I don’t expect a Taurus native to be scheming and underhanded.  Perhaps if she was Scorpio this would all make much more sense . . .

Amber Heard

I was away last week, so I’m going to try to get caught up over the next few days.

The birthday girl for April 22 is Amber Heard.  I keep seeing Amber Heard on red carpets, but I don’t really know anything else about her.  I do know that she can wear almost anything and look gorgeous.  Yet when I saw this photo of her from last night’s Met Gala, I thought that she looked a little overworked.  She’s wearing Zac Posen.  Posen is a Scorpio with a true Scorpionic vintage vibe to his designs.

Scorpio opposes Taurus.  For that reason, I don’t believe that Posen is the right designer for Heard.  She appeals to me the most when she’s not trying too hard.  There’s a girl-next-door quality to her that would be better served in something a little sweeter.  Posen always goes for a cinematic bombshell silhouette that creates some distance between the wearer and the observer.  Heard seems to look her best when she’s accessible.  Scorpio is cold and distant.  Taurus is warm and accommodating.  The two signs simply don’t work well together.

But, as I already mentioned, Heard can wear anything.  In this instance, however, she’s more a creation of the designer who styled her than a reflection of her own signature style.

Bruce Willis

The birthday boy for March 19 is Bruce Willis.

Astrologically, I believed that Bruce Willis and Demi Moore made a terrific couple.  I was shocked when they broke up.  I wasn’t shocked at all when Moore broke up with Ashton Kutcher because I forecasted bad things for the Scorpio/Aquarius pair.  I won’t be surprised if Willis’ relationship with Emma Heming, a Gemini, ends soon.  Squares are the toughest of all bad sun sign aspects to overcome.  Relationships don’t live and die on sun-sign compatibility, but they don’t thrive because of these tense aspects, either.

I guess we’ll all see if I’m going to have to eat my words in the not-too-distant future.

Eva Mendes

The birthday girl for March 5 is Eva Mendes.

Lately, Mendes’ claim to fame is that she’s dating Ryan Gosling.  Gosling, a Scorpio, is considered by many people to be the world’s most-eligible bachelor of the moment.

Although sun-sign compatibility is just a fraction of what makes a relationship work, the Pisces/Scorpio combination isn’t a bad one.  What Gosling will have to overcome, however, is his tendency to bring out the dark side of his partner.  It can be a rather depressive pairing if the Scorpio is too serious or too moody.  Pisces natives often suck up the negative energy of their partners like a sponge.

Gosling does seem like a cheerful guy.  I hope that he doesn’t have a dark side.  Otherwise, I don’t see this relationship going on forever, despite it’s potential.

Karina Smirnoff

The birthday girl for January 2 is Karina Smirnoff.

I was far more excited for Karina Smirnoff than I was for her partner when she won this past season of “Dancing with the Stars.”  My favorite two professional dancers on the show both happen to be Capricorns: Karina and Maksim Chmerkovskiy.  Carrie Ann Inaba is also a Capricorn.

I also get along very well with Taurus natives, and there are plenty of those on DWTS, too.  Tom Bergeron, Len Goodman, Cheryl Burke and Edyta Śliwińska share that sign.  The other people I like the most on the show are either born under the sign of  Cancer (Louis van Amstel and Dmitry Chaplin), Virgo (Brooke Burke Charvet) or Scorpio (Bruno Tonioli).

Just like in real life, I’ve found myself unintentionally rallying around the earth signs and the water signs on this show.  I guess I can’t fight it — the universe made me this way!

David Pelletier

The birthday boy for November 22 is figure skater David Pelletier.

I don’t know if Pelletier is a Scorpio or a Sagittarius.  Shortly after he had won the gold medal in the Olympics with his partner Jamie Salé, she asked me to figure out if they were romantically compatible (we went to the same gym).  I looked at his birth chart only to determine that the sun switched signs right in the middle of the day, giving him about a fifty-fifty chance of being either sign.

Now that the couple has broken up, I believe that he’s probably a Sagittarius.  I see romantic longevity in the sun sign combo of a Taurus woman and a Scorpio man; it’s one of those pairings that seems almost Karmic, as if they are meant to be together.  In retrospect, if Jamie Salé had to ask me if her and her skating partner were destined to be together, I probably should have told her that they weren’t meant to be together.  I should have told her that she would have known already.  I didn’t do my job very well.

Goldie Hawn

Today’s birthday girl is Goldie Hawn.

I’ve made it a habit to never talk about Goldie Hawn while discussing astrology.  The reason is that I’ve never been able to reconcile her Sagittarius-like persona with her Scorpio sun sign.  Years ago, when I wrote my book, I even tried to get a friend to confirm her birth time at an event they both attended.  My friend got drunk, however, and forgot to ask.

Nowadays it’s much easier to confirm a birth time, so I can talk about Goldie Hawn without sticking my foot in my mouth.  She does have a Sagittarius rising, just as I expected.  In fact, she reminds me of a million dumb-blonde Sagittarians, including Kaley Cuoco and Anna Faris — and I mean that in the nicest-possible way.

The real-life Goldie Hawn is probably much more like a Scorpio than I suspect, but her onscreen persona doesn’t give me a Scorpio vibe at all.

Sean Young

The birthday girl for November 20 is Sean Young.

I rarely use the word “robotic” to describe Scorpio, even though it suits the sign quite well.  With most Scorpio natives, you don’t often get to see their inner workings because they’re so good at concealing them.  For that reason, it’s not surprising that Sean Young became a star playing a robot who doesn’t know that she’s a robot in the movie “Blade Runner.”

To me, it seems like more than just coincidence when actors are cast in a role that is so close to their astrological “type.”  On that note, Young’s fellow Scorpio, Julia Roberts, became famous playing a hooker.  I’m kidding, sort of . . .

Brenda Vaccaro

The birthday girl for November 18 is Brenda Vaccaro.

Every zodiac sign rules over a particular body part.  Scorpio rules over the genitals, so is it any surprise that the most-famous tampon pitchwoman of all time is a Scorpio?  Nope!

Rock Hudson

Scorpios are known for being private to the point of being secretive.  For that reason, it’s no surprise that Rock Hudson was a Scorpio.  It was also not much of a surprise when I discovered that Hudson’s rising sign was Libra.  A Libra ascendant usually produces individuals who don’t want to rock the boat.  Content to live his life in private, Hudson never revealed details of his sexuality to the public.  That behavior was completely in character with his sun-sign/ascendant combination.