Life in plastic is fantastic, thanks in part to the hefty check Margot Robbie received for her role in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie.”
The Australian bombshell made $12.5 million for the Mattel film, according to a report from Variety, making her one of the highest-paid actresses of 2022.
In “Barbie as The Island Princess,” the OG tippy toes, tits up blonde imparts some unexpected poetry, “Life is a sea I’m sailing, riding the winds of time. Looking to find a course that is mine. Striving to find direction. Starting to understand, every wave’s a part of the plan.”
Robbie is a moon child that’s well versed in course setting, wind riding and sailing high on the waves of change. A girl who grew up building forts in her back yard and cut her teeth making Subway sandwiches in Melbourne, the two-time Academy Award-nominated actor made her star turn as Naomi Lapaglia, the mistress turned MILF of the century in Martin Scorsese “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
Margot has since lent her prodigious talents to roles as far ranging as an unhinged comic book character, a vengeful figure skater, a silent film star, Sharon Tate and Queen Elizabeth I.
This summer, Robbie takes to the screen, drenched in pink and packed with moxie to play the titular role of “Barbie.” She stars opposite Ryan Gosling as Ken in Gerwig’s live action imagining of the life, times and sudden conscious awakening of the iconic doll. How did the divine design of Robbie’s birth chart prepare her for the role of a lifetime?
Why doesn’t Margot vibe with her sun sign?
Born July 2, 1990 at 7:45 AM down under time Robbie is a quintuple Cancer with a Scorpio moon and a heavy dose of planets in grind or die, if you build it they will pay, Capricorn. Robbie has some telling thoughts on her birth chart.
She revealed to “W,” magazine, “I’m a Cancer. But I don’t really identify as a Cancer…Everything I’ve ever heard about Cancers doesn’t sound like me: that they’re very sensitive, wear their emotions on their sleeve, and are real homebodies. I hate being at home, I’m not particularly sensitive, and I don’t really wear my emotions on my sleeve.”
How is it that a person with a FIVE PLACEMENT STELLIUM IN CANCER, including her ascendant, not feel like a Cancer? Because my dudes all of that cardinal water is pooling in Robbie’s twelfth house of shadows, hidden matters, self-undoing and the unconscious mind and planets present in this house are not obvious to, or celebrated by the person in question.
The twelfth house is the domain of secrets, shame and other such things we are reluctant to show. Here, everything is shrouded, dimmed or buried. Thus, despite the heavy concentration of Cancer in her chart, the Cancer archetype and its stereotypes of a super sensitive, bleeding heart homebody don’t resonate with Robbie.
Counter to Cancer
In terms of presentation, Cancer is ruled by the moon and true to her rising sign, Robbie’s visage is luminous AF, looking as she does like an abalone bowl of holy water mixed with the resplendent dust of Cinderella’s pulverized lost slipper.
Many astrologers hold fast to the theory that as we age, we raise ourselves (or rise up) into our respective rising signs. In this sense, Robbie may begin to identify with her Cancer placements if and when she decides to become a mother.
Interestingly, Robbie’s husband is a Capricorn sun and while the two have yet to add children to their family, the ‘build it’ influence of their shared cardinal earth energy finds a home in LuckyChap Entertainment, the couple’s join production company which in addition to producing “Barbie,” has brought “I, Tonya,” and “Promising Young Woman,” to the screen as well as the Hulu series “Dollface” and the Netflix miniseries “Maid” to streaming services.
Restriction and reward
True to her ascendant Robbie’s visage is luminous AF, looking as she does like an abalone bowl full of holy water mixed with the resplendent dust of Cinderella’s pulverized lost slipper.
Another feature of Robbie’s birth chart that supports her struggle to identify with her Cancer placements is the presence of dad jeans planet Saturn directly opposing her rising sign.
Saturn is known as a malefic planet and in Capricorn, the sign of its rulership, it’s super charged and downright overpowering. Saturn constricts and limits what it touches and in the case of Robbie’s ascendant, this equates to a suppression of the stereotypical expression of the Cancer archetype.
This could be why Robbie resists sitting still and staying home and is by her own admission, a distracted, disastrous cook. Robbie’s ascendant is also weakened by the square aspect it forms to Mars, planet of drive and desire, in its home team sign of Aries.
This planetary placement is legitimately setting setting a match to the moody waters of Cancer and is likely to blame for Robbie’s habit of setting her kitchen and her holiday hams on fire.
Scorpio at heart
Robbie’s moon is in the secret holding, power hoarding sign of Scorpio and as a Cancer rising the moon is her chart ruler. Scorpio is at once deeply emotional and fanatically private, they absolutely do not wear their emotions on their sleeves, preferring instead to hate whisper them into a tattered spider’s web and bury them in a root cellar.
There’s a real obsessive/possessive element to the Scorpio archetype, particularly for moon placements and it seems Robbie has channeled these twin tendencies in her approach to securing and performing roles, as she told “Babylon” director Damien Chazelle, “I have to play this character—she’s mine.”
Further, Robbie expressed something like grief, the provenance of Plutonian Scorpio, when she described the process of letting go of that role,” “I’m sad finishing every job. I always get attached to everyone in the film, and I sometimes get attached to certain characters.I think I poured so much of myself and my body and everything into this character that it kind of left me in pieces at the end of it. I didn’t want it to end.”
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Scorpio is at once deeply emotional and fanatically private, they absolutely do not wear their emotions on their sleeves, preferring instead to hate whisper them into a tattered spider’s web and bury them in a root cellar.
In terms of sun/moon combinations Cancer is about root systems and Scorpio is about shedding skin, burning boats and breaking ground to make way for what is yet to be; nostalgia and newness in an underwater tea party conversation. We see these two energies at work in Robbie’s turn as Barbie, an iconoclastic reimagining of the doll who is loved and loathed in equal measure.
Robbie’s Barbie stays true to some of her traditions; mainly a banging wardrobe and a perennial effervescence while moving into a a more self-aware modern, Feminist modality. To be fair, there was a bit of female subversion from the midcentury jump; in a bold, beautiful inversion of the creation myth, Barbie came first and out of demand, in second place and in her plastic image, came Ken.
Robbie’s Barbie role is further supported by her Mars in Aries/Venus in Gemini. Mars is our planet of action and Venus the ruler of attraction, attachment and aesthetics. Mars in Aries lives for a challenge and in cahoots with a Scorpio moon is absolutely relentless in its pursuit of desire. Venus in Gemini craves constant intrigue and changing scenery. Apropos of this, Robbie told “Vogue,” “All I want to do is live on a train,” a perfect scenario for a Mars/Venus combo that is allergic to boredom and seeks always to be intellectually stimulated, physically on the move and ever on the make.
Other casual indicators of Robbie Venus/Mars tango include our girl removing the brakes from her recreational roller skates and going off script to slap Leonardo DiCaprio during her “Wolf of Wall Street” audition. That’s air helping fire burn bright my babies, the quick instincts of Gemini and the fearlessness of Aries mixed with the psychic sway of Scorpio and the under the moody, moon drop shine of Cancer.
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Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports back on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. She is also an accomplished writer who has profiled a variety of artists and performers, as well as extensively chronicled her experiences while traveling. Among the many intriguing topics she has tackled are cemetery etiquette, her love for dive bars, Cuban Airbnbs, a “girls guide” to strip clubs and the “weirdest” foods available abroad.