About the Promise Brigitte Bardot Made to Her Estranged Son
We’re days into Aquarius season. But I want to share this with you.
After all, Aquarius and Capricorn share the same traditional ruler—surly Saturn about material responsibility and lessons.
French actress Brigitte Bardot passed away on December 28, 2025, aged 91. With her passing, as much about her incredible love life as about her once-estranged son surfaces.
She had personified, even helped defined, the term “sex kitten”. But it is clear privately other identities weighed as much on her.
In this newsletter, we zoom in on the Capricorn emphasis in her T-square challenge. How she went from upholding the sex kitten symbol-as-symbol to far-right activist. Controversy to controversy.
Depending on the perspective you take. As Bardot learnt, and taught us through how she lived.
As above, so below,
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Brigitte Bardot — The Original Sex Kitten to Animal Activist
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (28 September 1934 – 28 December 2025) was raised by high middle-class parents.
Apparently, they were strict and showed a preference for her younger sister. Brigitte was closely monitored by a governess. She considered herself ugly when young, having to wear braces and glasses (she had slight strabismus).
Her father was not happy when she met Roger Vadim in 1952. Brigitte was 14 and he was 22 years old, a man about town movie director. Her father was not happy and tried his best to delay their official marriage until she was 18.
Brigitte tried to commit suicide—she stuck her head in a gas oven. Her father then agreed to let them get married, but not until she was 18.
The following year, for the Cannes Film Festival, she decided to lighten her hair. The golden blonde she was showing on the Croisette attracted all eyes and got funding for the Roger Vadim film. They were a golden couple from 1952 to 1957.
In 1690, she gave birth to her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, born on January 11, 1960, with her second husband, French actor Jacques Charrier. The marriage lasted 1959 to 1962.
They divorced shortly after. Brigitte wrote a shocking memoir going into detail of her chase for love, sex, and passion. She also went at length about her son. Shocking confessions for a lady and a mother of the time.
She was the Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter.
My screenshot from the Independent.
Brigitte Bardot walking in Rome, april 1969.
Friends and Subscribers,
I know — we’re days into Aquarius season. But I want to share this with you.
After all, Aquarius and Capricorn share the same traditional ruler—surly Saturn about material responsibility and lessons.
French actress Brigitte Bardot passed away on December 28, 2025, aged 91. With her passing, much about her incredible love life as about her once-estranged son surfaces.
She had personified, even helped defined, the term “sex kitten”. But it is clear privately other identities weighed as much on her.
Brigitte Bardot — The Original Sex Kitten to Animal Activist
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (28 September 1934 – 28 December 2025) was raised by high middle-class parents.
Apparently, they were strict and showed a preference for her younger sister. Brigitte was closely monitored by a governess. She considered herself ugly when young, having to wear braces and glasses (she had slight strabismus).
Her father was not happy when she met Roger Vadim in 1952. Brigitte was 14 and he was 22 years old, a man about town movie director. Her father was not happy and tried his best to delay their official marriage until she was 18.
Brigitte tried to commit suicide—she stuck her head in a gas oven. Her father then agreed to let them get married, but not until she was 18.
The following year, for the Cannes Film Festival, she decided to lighten her hair. The golden blonde she was showing on the Croisette attracted all eyes and got funding for the Roger Vadim film. They were a golden couple from 1952 to 1957.
In 1690, she gave birth to her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, born on January 11, 1960, with her second husband, French actor Jacques Charrier. The marriage lasted 1959 to 1962.
They divorced shortly after. Brigitte wrote a shocking memoir going into detail of her chase for love, sex, and passion. She also went at length about her son. Shocking confessions for a lady and a mother of the time.
She was the Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter.
My screenshot from the Independent.
A T-Square Challenge to Re-Invent Your (Family) Relationships
On the day that Bardot was born, a few remarkable patterns lit the skies.
For this piece, I’ll start with the obvious. Obsessive seductive Pluto right in line with how she operated in her earlier life.
On Bardot’s birthday, Pluto was in the 8th House. It is the focus of a T-square challenge along the 4th and 10th house axis.
Pluto the planet of Transformation. Not before Death and Destruction.
In Cancer, you’re born part of a generation (between 1914 and 1939) who experienced much family upheaval. Many in this generation were forced to put traditional values of family and home to trial by fire. Some were subverted, and even perverted.
We have a birth time, which I will include in this reading. Pluto requires transformation most through 8th house of sex, other people’s money (and power). Pluto is your obsession or subconscious shadows. Either way, it is dark matter that require purging.
Pluto being a collective light shows her peer orientation. In the 8th house of power and sex, Bardot would have been irresistable in the bedroom, or anywhere and time such relations can be currency (pretty much anywhere—these folks are truly magnetic).
Pluto magnetism is inexorable, even psychological in effect. Bardot was celebrated and coined as the original “sex kitten”, keeping this powerful identity even in her later years.
Houses 7 and 8 are about other people. Her life got a first overhaul the Pluto in 8th house way — her first husband Vadim entered her life.
Bardot played a free-spirited, sex-positive, scantily-clad orphan in the 1956 Roger Vadim picture, And God Created Woman.
Brigitte would continue this transformation through other men. Shortly after they married, on one of her first movies (and Vadim’s first movie as director), she fell in love with the leading man and began an affair. She was young (only nineteen), and Plutonian energy in a seduction-based society can take experience to wield.
For one, Pluto, dark psychological stuff, gets dangerous. One instance of her losing this dangerous dance with power was when director of La Vérité took was harsh on set. To get the best out of Brigitte he tormented her to make her seem desperate and slipped her a sleeping pill to make her look drowsy.
She attempted suicide, shortly after filming La Vérité, by slashing her wrists and overdosing on pills. To the public, it only intensified the allure around the sex symbol.
By the time she was 38, it seemed she grew tired—definitely mental worn out—of the extremes in her relationships. She retired from the screen.
“My dream would be the solitude of two. I would like to marry for the last time of my life. Right now, the best thing that could happen to me would be to live with a companion for the rest of my days.”—Brigitte Bardot