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Analyzing the Charts of Well-Known Beauties - Beauty Indicators?

Here's a second "study" on beauty in astrology. This time, the women in this study are from different backgrounds and races. All are still alive today, but their career peaks were at different times.

I compiled this list based on people whose beauty made a strong impression on me when I first saw them in photos, movies, etc. This "study" is still biased since my perception of beauty may differ from others.

Subjects:

Iman (Somali supermodel, entrepreneur)

Aishwarya Rai (Bollywood actress, Miss World 1994)

Monica Bellucci (Italian actress, model)

Han Ga In (Korean actress)

Erika Linder (Swedish androgynous model, actress)

Olivia Hussey (English actress)

Jennifer Connelly (American actress)

Winona Ryder (American actress)

Duckie Thot (South Sudanese-Australian model)

Lee Young Ae (Korean actress)

Anok Yai (South Sudanese-American model)

MOST COMMON SIGN AMONG PERSONAL PLANETS:

Scorpio and Sagittarius tie for first place with 8 planets each.

Libra and Aquarius tie for second place with 6 planets each.

The least common signs are Gemini (2), Cancer (2), and Pisces (2).

Scorpio is a seductive and deep sign. Sagittarius is a modern and youthful sign.

Libra is a balanced and feminine sign. Aquarius is a striking and unique sign.

Strangely, Pisces appeared in only 2 planets: Erika Linder's Mars and Winona Ryder's Moon (birth time not accurate). This starkly contrasts with my first Golden Age of Hollywood beauty study, where Pisces was the most common sign featured in all 4 charts.

However, both studies have Scorpio as a top sign.

Perhaps the Golden Age of Hollywood glorified soft, feminine, deep beauty more (Pisces, Scorpio). Whereas those born in the mid-century and beyond glorify more distant, sharp, controlled, powerful, passionate looks (Scorpio, Sagittarius, Libra, Aquarius).

MOST COMMON MODALITY: Fixed (24), Cardinal (16), Mutable (15)

Fixed signs are, as its name suggests, fixed. They do not budge easily, and when they reach a certain position in life, they put in a lot of effort to keep that status. If famous, they tend to stay in the public mind for a long time.

The fixed signs are Taurus (5), Leo (5), Scorpio (8), and Aquarius (6). All 4 signs have a strong drive to become the best and make something of themselves. They could have tunnel vision sometimes when it comes to reaching their goals. All 4 could also have an obsessive streak.

MOST COMMON ELEMENT: Fire (17), Air (14), Earth/Water (12 each)

Fire signs are passionate, youthful, and put themselves out into the world. The 3 fire signs are Aries (4), Leo (5), and Sagittarius (8). All 3 signs are unafraid to be themselves and have a lot of drive. They are typically action-oriented, confident people.

MOST COMMON RULING PLANET: Venus (11), Jupiter/Pluto (8 each)

It is no surprise that the ruling planet that appears the most among personal planets is Venus. Venus is the planet of beauty, love, attraction, romance, relationships, likes, etc. It is considered a benefic planet; it bestows fortunes and brings ease to life and personality.

Venus rules Taurus (5) and Libra (6). Taurean beauty tends to have strong, sturdy features that look like they're all in the "right" place on the face (ex: Erika Linder has Sun/Mercury in Taurus; Olivia Hussey has Mercury/Mars in Taurus). They can look striking but not in an unconventional way, and they usually have good bone structure.

Libran beauty is harmonious; all their facial features look well-balanced on the face. Their faces usually look fresh, smooth, and "open." Nothing is placed together too close, and the forehead tends to be wider and rounder. (ex: Monica Bellucci has Sun in Libra; Han Ga In has Mars in Libra; Duckie Thot has Sun/Moon/Mercury in Libra)

Jupiter is another benefic planet that expands what it touches. It is associated with luck, fortune, growth, and things that reach far and wide (religion, higher education, travel, business, law, etc.) Jupiter is the modern ruler of Sagittarius. Sagittarius people tend to attract big things in life, whether money, luck, or just general opportunities. They tend to live life and see life through a large, optimistic lens where everything is an opportunity.

Below you'll see how Jupiter/Sagittarius themes have played out in some of these women's lives. These are details in each person's life that are well-known to the public.

Aishwarya Rai has Venus in Sagittarius. Sagittarius/Jupiter themes in her life include: studying classical dance and music in her youth, initially wanting to pursue a career in medicine or architecture [study, higher education], winning a Ford supermodel contest, winning the title of Miss World in 1994 [chance, opportunity]

Jennifer Connelly has Sun in Sagittarius. Sagittarius/Jupiter themes in her life include: attending Yale University to study English literature, transferring to Stanford University for drama [higher education]

Duckie Thot has Mars in Sagittarius. Sagittarius/Jupiter themes in her life include: coming in 3rd place on Australia's Next Top Model [chance, opportunity]

Lee Young Ae has Venus/Mars in Sagittarius. Sagittarius/Jupiter (also Aquarius) themes in her life include: going to other countries as a goodwill ambassador for different organizations like UNICEF [travel, expanding horizons], being generous with her donations to various causes [generosity]

Anok Yai has Sun/Mercury in Sagittarius. Sagittarius/Jupiter themes in her life include: studying biochemistry at Plymouth State University [higher education], wanting to become a doctor, was discovered by chance at a Howard University homecoming when a photographer took her picture and posted it on Instagram [chance, luck], she was soon scouted by modeling agencies

Pluto rules Scorpio. Scorpio is a passionate, deep, transformative sign. These people tend to be drawn to intensity and exude intensity themselves too. And others are drawn into their real but guarded nature. They are stubborn, honest, and loyal. In a more negative light, they can be controlling and vindictive. Sometimes, a strong pluto placement or even just personal planets in Scorpio can mean run-ins with the law at one point in life and/or amassing a large following or wealth and prestige.

Aishwarya Rai has Sun/Mercury in Scorpio. She is very loyal to her family and lived with them until she married into one of the most renowned, if not the most renowned, Bollywood Hindi film families, the Bachchans.

Jennifer Connelly has Venus/Mars in Scorpio. Appearance-wise, she has darker features with her dark hair and brows. This is contrasted with her lighter eyes. Her face exudes a certain resoluteness that I see in many Scorpios.

Winona Ryder has Sun/Mercury/Venus in Scorpio. Like Jennifer Connelly, she has darker features that contrast against her pale skin tone. In 2001, she was arrested for shoplifting and was clinically depressed at the time. She was also given drugs by a quack doctor, who had his license revoked.

Duckie Thot has Venus in Scorpio. She's expressed a strong desire to never forget her South Sudanese roots and seems passionate about praying and being aware of where and under what circumstances her family came from.

MOST ASPECTED PLANETS IN THIS ORDER:

Chiron (66)

Neptune (56)

Mars/Jupiter (54 each)

Venus (53)

Moon (52)

Uranus (49)

Pluto (47)

Saturn (45)

Mercury (43)

Sun (40)

South Node (29)

North Node (28)

Chiron is the most aspected planet. This was also the case in the Billionaire "study". Chiron is known as the wounded healer, someone who healed others but could not heal himself. Chiron did not fall into a dark spiral because he could not heal himself. Instead, he studied and practiced harder and became a better healer.

I do not think Chiron is directly related to beauty, but it shows sophistication, hard work, and improvement. It also shows hurt in life but having the resources to overcome it, if willing. This could be physical, emotional, mental, etc. pain.

I am also getting imperfectly perfect or perfect-but-with-that-ONE-downfall vibes from Chiron. I say this because Chiron rose above his station as a highly talented and educated centaur, but still, life could not be "perfect" due to his untreatable wound. Not perfect, but perhaps still fulfilling.

In the case of beautiful celebrities, models, (and billionaires), Chiron could point to someone who strives to make life better and rise above their station. They want to touch other people's lives, and they work hard to reach their own dreams. They could experience deep hurt but take steps to heal themselves.

MOST COMMON ASPECTS:

Uranus-Chiron (10/11), specifically Uranus opposite Chiron

This aspect is generational and shows an affinity for revolution and a desire to be free from societal pain.

[Iman, Aishwarya Rai, Monica Bellucci, Erika Linder, Olivia Hussey, Jennifer Connelly, Winona Ryder, Lee Young Ae] The only one who does not have this aspect is Duckie Thot.

Venus-Saturn (9/11)

For physical appearance, Venus-Saturn aspects have been touted as the aspect of models since Saturn makes Venus more angular, which means it gives structure to the face and body. Saturn can also make the body thinner, whereas Jupiter makes the body more voluptuous. Because the 10th house is the house of Saturn, these people could also make a career out of Venus-related things.

Venus-Saturn is known to make a person take love or beauty seriously. They are loyal in relationships and more of the slow burn types. Note that several of these Venus-Saturn women have been popularly linked to one person with whom they've been in a relationship for many years even if they're now divorced or if she's been in other relationships before/after:

Iman with David Bowie, Aishwarya with Abhishek Bachchan, Monica Bellucci with Vincent Cassel although now divorced, Han Ga In with Yeon Jung Hoon, Erika Linder with Heather Kemensky, Jennifer Connelly with Paul Bettany

[Iman, Aishwarya Rai, Monica Bellucci, Han Ga In, Erika Linder, Olivia Hussey, Jennifer Connelly, Duckie Thot, Anok Yai] The only ones without this aspect are Winona Ryder and Lee Young Ae.

Jupiter-Chiron (9/11)

This aspect shows a desire for improvement and learning through life lessons. There is a desire for enlightenment and expansion. But there may also be blockages the person will have to work through.

[Iman, Aishwarya Rai, Monica Bellucci, Han Ga In, Erika Linder, Olivia Hussey, Winona Ryder, Lee Young Ae, Anok Yai] The only ones without this aspect are Jennifer Connelly and Duckie Thot.

Sun-Mars (8/11)

Mars is a hard-to-ignore planet because it is confident, active, and energetic. Mars is a masculine planet, and so is the Sun. Sun-Mars people have a masculine edge to their personality and/or their appearance. What you see is what you get energy. Could be a little self-centered at times.

[Iman, Aishwarya Rai, Monica Bellucci, Han Ga In, Erika Linder, Olivia Hussey, Winona Ryder, Lee Young Ae] The only ones without this aspect are Jennifer Connelly, Duckie Thot, and Anok Yai.

In contrast, Jennifer Connelly has staid, controlled, internalized energy (Sun opposite Moon, square Pluto). Duckie Thot has a lighter, distant, and rebellious energy (Sun square Uranus/Neptune). Anok Yai has youthful, childlike, stimulating energy (Sun conjunct Mercury).

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS:

Something I found very interesting was that there were zero Sun-Venus aspects. This is typically an aspect astrologers and astrology fans deem a beauty aspect. I believe Sun-Venus can be a beauty indicator, but maybe it is not the type of beauty I am initially attracted to. I have Sun conjunct Mars in my chart, so perhaps that is why I find Sun-Mars people more attractive. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I cannot say that these aspects and placements guarantee physical beauty. But it is interesting to see what pops up frequently. While doing these "studies," I find more commonalities in personality, vibes/energies, or life events rather than physical attributes.

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thedramanotes · 1 year

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The Great Misunderstanding Trope From Ye Olde K-dramas

Hello. So, I wanted to chat some more about this well known trope in Korean dramas from the 2000s and early 2010s.

Or if you ever picked up a romance novel from the eighties or nineties, this was one of the major tropes used there too.

I'm talking about the Great Misunderstanding trope.

Not that it ever went out of fashion exactly, but in the late 2000s, early 2010s, this had quite a resurgence and was used in pretty much every dramatic romance drama.

A drama that really exemplifies how dramatic this trope could get was secret from 2013, which had Ji Sung and Hwang Jung-eum.

There was a LOT of misunderstandings in that drama.

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Now, typical of this trope is that the hero would be drawn towards the heroine despite believing the absolute worst of her. And the heroine would be in a situation where she can't clear up his misunderstanding for one reason or the other. Maybe she doesn't know that he believes the worst of her, or she's trying to protect somebody.

Maybe she's even trying to protect him.

And the hero's behavior gets really egregious, because on the one hand, he is terribly drawn to her almost helplessly. But on the other hand, he believes she is a really horrible human being. He's constantly experiencing inner turmoil because of her, and this crisis of feelings and beliefs makes him lash out at the heroine.

Since he believes the worst of her, his behavior towards her is the worst, and this is a key point of this trope.

The hero is constantly horrible to the heroine at this juncture of their relationship. While the heroine is either helpless to resist or hit back, or unwilling to hurt the hero in return.

Maybe because she's just a genuinely good person and she just has a high tolerance for pain, like Hwang Jung-eum in Secret or she is protecting him, like Han Ga-in in Moon Embracing the Sun, when she comes back into the life of the king and the king believes that she is an imposter sent to like mess with his head because she looks so much like his first love and throws her in the prison for three days where she doesn't even get like a drop of water.

And while she is barely alive, he's just going about his life feeling disturbed that the situation happened, but not really thinking about her condition. And of course then her character goes through several other trials, which he could have put a stop to and would have put a stop to if he knew that she was indeed his first love and not an imposter.

But, of course that would completely skip over this period where the heroine suffers at the hands of his enemies and he just lets it happen. But because of this period of suffering, the hero later on feels abject remorse towards the heroine. He is utterly guilt ridden because she had to suffer so much because of him.

And added to that aspect is the fact that she never hit back at him. She was never horrible to him in return. This heroine is usually extremely Gandhian in her approach to the hero, turning the other cheek and all that. She is virtue herself.

And once the hero realizes that about the heroine and he grovels at her feet and the she gets a moment to be like, "I don't hold anything against you, but I may need two years abroad to rethink life and to come back more deserving of you."

That's a whole other trope, but the point is that she gets a moment to sort of get the upper hand in the relationship. Now, this is an interesting aspect of this trope, this upper hand. The relationship dynamic between the hero and the heroine is such that the hero usually occupies a higher position in society.

He is richer, more powerful, maybe he's a celebrity. Either ways. He's in a different, entirely different strata than the heroine. And the heroine is really weak. Maybe she has been emotionally devastated by something that has happened in her life. She's definitely financially in a weaker position and probably also socially from a different class.

This huge class gap is one of the major reasons that this trope exists, and we'll come back to that in a second. The heroine starts the journey in this really weak position, but at the end of the story, the heroine is barely the hero's equal, and the way she becomes his "equal" is by getting the moral upper hand.

And the upper hand doesn't really put her in a higher position than him. It's not like for the rest of their life, they're going to have arguments and she'll bring up what he had done before and he'll be like, yes, you win every argument ever. No, that's not what the story is going for.

The story is making very sure we understand that the gap between them at the start of the story is so huge that the hero finally understanding the heroine's true virtues and how good she is, and that she had never done those awful things he believed of her and that she had suffered in silence while he tortured her - all of those things and the hero's guilt barely brings the hero up to be kind of his equal, at least equal enough that now they can have a relationship.

The heroine comes up in the world, hero doesn't go down at all. He loses only one thing, and that is the right to look down on the heroine, and that is an important aspect of the Great misunderstanding because as you might have noticed till now, I have been specifically telling you about how the hero is the one doing the misunderstanding, the heroine is the one being misunderstood. This particular trope usually flows in this fixed direction. The genders are pretty much fixed.

Occasionally they try to flip it, but the dynamic immediately becomes weaker and the story isn't as interesting.

I'm sure the dramas of decades before this period also had the great misunderstanding used liberally, but it was used to an excessive amount during that period, the late 2000s, early 2010s.

And the reason for that was that the class difference was still quite huge. And women still had fewer opportunities. They were coming up, but they were not quite there yet. And you have to understand, Korean dramas were primarily written for middle aged women who were housewives and/or working. And for most of them, their economic strata was kind of fixed.

There wasn't really a lot of opportunity to come up in the world in the decade after that. Even though the real world wealth gap hasn't exactly decreased, but you must have noticed that dramas no longer tell the stories of really poor women and really rich men. They tell the stories of really rich men and women who are middle to upper class, but don't feel inferior to these rich men.

Their upbringings, even though there is definitely a difference in wealth, no longer makes the two feel like they are from different worlds in terms of the education they got, the exposure they have in the world.

So, from the heroine's perspective, the gap between the two of them doesn't seem so impossible to bridge anymore these days, but back then it was HUGE. The heroine wouldn't look at the hero and think, hey, that's a guy I want to date. The hero would look at the hero and be like, I am drawn to her, but I cannot date her.

We saw examples of this in, let's say in Secret Garden where Hyun Bin was drawn to Ha Ji-won's character. He pursued her, but not for a relationship. He just pursued her heedlessly, but then anytime she reciprocated, he would be the one to point out how much of a gap there is between the two of them and how they could never be a permanent thing.

He was willing to offer her the position of his mistress, but not his girlfriend.

Another Hyun Bin drama is, my name is Kim Sam-soon, where you also had elements of the great misunderstanding, but it was essentially that class divide that made Hyun Bin's character again look down on Kim Sun-ah. Who was poor, clumsy, supposedly overweight and definitely from a different world class-wise than Hyun Bin's character.

So the class divide really is ultimately the reason why the great misunderstanding trope existed.

But you didn't always need the great misunderstanding trope to exist in a story to talk about class. Like I just said my name is Kim Sam-soon and Secret Garden both did that really well.They actually faced the question of class divide and how two people from two different strata would overcome that.

Those stories were directly challenging the idea of the class divide.

The stories that employed the great misunderstanding didn't really want to directly talk about the class divide. They wanted to solve that problem, the problem of the woman being from a weaker section of society, and also just having like a weaker position within the relationship with the hero without really underlining what the problem was.

So why was the trope so popular at the time? Because the class divide existed in reality and the drama watching audiences wanted more stories about it. And this was a morality play where the virtuous heroine has to go through this traumatic trial by fire to prove herself.

But once she has proven herself, the hero can never doubt her again.

The hero would now forever be so grateful that she has forgiven him for his big mistake in not knowing how wonderful she is, that he will never abuse her, he will never mistrust her, he will never doubt her.

Once their love is affirmed in this way, she emerges, virtuous, victorious, and having secured the love of this man.

And if you haven't figured it out yet, the great misunderstanding trope ultimately is not about the hero being a jerk to the heroine. It's about the heroine going through a hero's journey. To finally land up in a place where she is powerful enough to be the hero's equal morally. This is a female empowerment fantasy.

This was all we wanted. We wanted the hero to acknowledge the heroine's goodness and never doubt her. And of course, we as the audience absolutely love this. We loved that the heroine was sort of the personification of goodness. She may be clumsy, she may be silly at times. She may make poor decisions. She may make us extremely frustrated because she refuses to tell the hero the truth, whatever the truth may be.

But ultimately, we absolutely love the fact that the hero, once he figured out how wrong he was, how terribly he had treated her, and how much he owes her, once that moment struck, that's when the real payoff would happen. And of course then we had dramas like Secret where they would use the great misunderstanding to create some of the steamiest moments between the hero and the heroine.

Seriously, Ji Sung and Hwang Jung-eum had the most messed up dynamic in that story, and yet it's like seared in my brain. That was crack.

Now, something else to keep in mind is that the great misunderstanding has been used in modern day romances quite liberally as well. But this - what is used these days - is the great misunderstanding lite.

Like, you have Our Beloved Summer where the hero doesn't actually know why the heroine had broken up with him and sort of misunderstands her intentions, and then years later finally figures out why she was forced to break up with him at that point.

Or you have Love Is For suckers, where the heroine realizes that the hero has feelings for her, but she's still feeling conflicted. And she also knows that another woman deeply loves the hero and she doesn't want to come between them. So, she lets the hero misunderstand her, which creates a chasm between the two of them.

So you do have these instances of misunderstanding. It's not that dramatic because there really is no great payoff. There is no groveling hero. There is no guilt. There is no internal misery. There is no irresistible attraction that is constantly pulling the hero and hero in together. And they are just dying inside because they can't be together.

It's not that dramatic anymore. It's simpler.

Which on the one hand is a good thing. It's a good thing, but it also makes for less memorable stories.

I was trying really hard to think of more instances where the misunderstanding lite trope has been used in dramas recently, and I know there have been tons.

I just don't remember because, it was not that interesting. I just think, if you have to use that trope, it's maybe worth it to go full fledged, like modernize it, make the woman less of a dish rag or flip genders, but really commit to the trope. Don't just use it as this one throwaway thing that happens for two episodes.

That is a waste of a trope that could genuinely create a lot of heat and trauma, but also, I'm sure in the hands of good writers create moments where the hero and heroine could really talk about their differences - whether it's moral, ethical, political, religious, economic, or a clash of egos - actually get into the depths of why the two of them felt so torn asunder despite being attracted to each other.

I am sure we can modernize it and still keep the drama aspect of it.

It doesn't have to be this morality tale that requires the woman to be a saint. So that she could just barely be equal to the spoiled rich hero.

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This essay was originally published as a video on The Drama Note YouTube Channel.