I want to start by saying a few things:
trigger warning (this was hard for even me to write because--relatable and because--appalling)
these placements and aspects DO NOT MAKE YOU AN ABUSIVE PERSON
these placements and aspects DO NOT MAKE YOUR FRIEND/PARTNER AN ABUSIVE PERSON
what makes an abusive person? a person who makes choices that are abusive--to themselves and others. astrology cannot save that, and cannot predetermine it. there are a multitude of ways planets manifest in a person, and the way it does is largely based on the person's free will.
# PROTECTBLACKWOMEN
if anything in this piece reads like a defense or justification of his behavior -- IT. IS. NOT. My aim is objective analysis.
LeBeouf's (LB) birth time is rated AA.
Twigs' birth time is unknown, and a noon chart is used.
Let's dive in:
On December 11, 2020, Twigs filed a civil lawsuit against LB in Los Angeles Superior Court for "relentless" abusiveness in their relationship. In the complaint (read at your own risk), Twigs' lawyer recounts numerous incidents of abuse and harm at the hands of LB, including but not limited to: intentional infection of an STD, being choked, slammed, headbutt (sometimes in public and drunkenly), being blackmailed, being slowly isolated from friends and family, being forced to sleep naked, being deprived of sleep, being forced to kiss LB a certain amount of times during the day, being witness to LB getting into character by shooting stray dogs in Los Angeles and keeping a loaded firearm by their bed, and being gaslit into distrusting her management team. Twigs' former personal assistant also worked in cahoots with LB regarding the blackmail, despite knowing about the abuse. Twigs' house maid witnessed Twigs being locked in a room and yelled at for hours after trying to leave the relationship. LB also drove drunk with Twigs in the passenger seat and threatened to crash the car unless she professed her undying love.
A moment to take all that in....
Of course it didn't start that way. Friends and collaborators of Twigs noted that LB made grand romantic overtures in the beginning, in an attempt to win her trust. It worked. And after wrapping on the film Honey Boy, where the two met, they began a relationship. In retrospect, Twigs' lawyer said it was predatory grooming.
FWIW LB admitted to abusing people in general but said the specific claims in the lawsuit were incorrect. He also centered his apology/PR response on himself. We'll see why later.
Now that you have the sordid context, let's look at LB's chart first, and then their synastry together. For the purposes of this analysis, a noon chart makes Twigs a Taurus Rising (we'll see why that could make sense later).
LB has a tight T-square involving his Sun in Gemini and Uranus in Sagittarius in an exact opposition, with the both of them squaring his Jupiter in Pisces. LB is an Aquarius Rising, placing these planets in his 5th, 11th, and 2nd houses, respectively. For starters, we have a Sun in the 5th house, an identity that is steeped in creative expression. That much is true, he is an actor. But the 5th house is also a place of pleasures--it is where we shop, and gamble, and drink, and have casual sex. LB was called out in the complaint and by fellow singer Sia for being a consummate adulterer, seeming to have ties to many women at once. LB is also a self-admitted alcoholic, a black-out-drunk type of drinker. He has been arrested previously for lewd behavior and public drunkenness.
His pleasure-seeking Sun is in square to Jupiter in Pisces. Jupiter by itself is an exacerbating force, it is the principle of expansion, and when not reigned in, introduces us to complete indulgence, delusions of grandeur. In Pisces, Jupiter is strong. And unchecked, this particular placement has in it the potential for true proselytizing. And not only in a religious context, but just the propensity to believe so highly in one's convictions and one's ways of seeing life that all else blurs and the mission becomes to convert or convince. In this case, to gaslight. The square is an aspect of tension, so Jupiter square Sun creates issues with being able to healthfully incorporate Jupiter into the ego. What we get is poor social moors, grandiosity, hubris, a feeling of being larger than life, untouchable. The test of character here is humility and moderation which is difficult. As a result, we get excessive behavior, and a kind of pathological confidence. Despite an Aquarius Rising answering to Saturn, Jupiter is LB's strongest planet and final dispositor. (His Saturn is in Jupiter's sign of Sagittarius--testing the limits).
And it is a cliche for a reason, because in some ways it rings true: Pisces being the drunk, the artist, the escapist. This is a sign with so much capacity to disappear into states of unreality, positively and negatively. Jupiter in Pisces dousing that potential with fuel and working in challenge with a 5th house Sun is very much a decent into alcoholism for some.
His Sun is opposite Uranus, creating live wire of a person. There is a need for personal freedom, to define ones life on their own terms. Poorly realized, this aspect can create a rebellious and reactionary person, one whose personality is fickle, changeable. Erratic. Playing out on his 5th house opposing the 11th, LB clearly used this energy in his career. Twigs' lawyer stated that the reason LB's abuse has gone unchecked for so long is that it was fused into his public persona of the eccentric artist.
And then we get to the Jupiter square Uranus piece of the t-square. Both planets represent movement and expansion in their own ways. With Jupiter is it more obvious. But with Uranus, there is a need to push the envelope, to do something new, to lean into a future of unknowns and freedom. So both of these planets meeting up in a square for LB is quite an explosive signature of excitement, enthusiasm and energy. The excitement, via a hard square, seems to manifest for LB as danger, destruction, and other dogmatic, rigid, violent behaviors.
To add, this is a mutable t-square. So the sheer changeability of Uranus opposing the Sun is exacerbated by the mutability of Sag and Gemini.
That t-square on its own explains a huge chunk of LB's behavior. But LB also has Moon in Leo square Pluto in Scorpio. An energy of compulsion, control, and violence related to self-gratifying needs (Leo). Remember those kiss counts from above? How Twigs needed to say she loved him or he'd essentially be okay with killing her? There was also mention of her not being allowed to look at other men, even a waiter.
It suggests that in close relationships, where the Moon shows up more readily, LB also brings Pluto into it. This square is textbook for intense and volatile emotions erupting in interpersonal affairs. LB pushed that manifestation towards a darker, violent place. He has stated he as been diagnosed with PTSD.
Lastly, LB has a RX but exalted Mars in Capricorn in the 12th opposing Venus in Cancer in the 6th. My personal opinion is that in the chart of a person who already has destructive tendencies, throwing Venus in there qualifies that some of that destruction will be towards women and in relationships. Violence against women. A RX Mars in the 12th presents as a hidden or subverted and distorted relationship to anger. It is a blind spot. It erupts and we don't know why. In a night chart, Mars is less destructive for LB, and is helped by being in Capricorn. It is perhaps why his rage seems to always be in check, or hidden, or controlled, or tucked behind the scenes. Twigs has her Capricorn Sun in his 12th, lighting up all that nastiness for the world to see (fuck yes, Twigs, fuck yes).
And with Venus in the 6th, meeting and falling in love with people in work environments (a film set) makes sense. He also met and subsequently terrorized Sia via a work engagement. It also tracks for romantic overtures--Venus in Cancer in the 6th is an everyday type of love--showing up, giving flowers, making breakfast. Making your love seen and known. And, sorry Cancers, but there is also some latent smothering involved. Plus LB's Leo Moon would tend to be more theatrical in love (the two planets have a loose, out of sign conjunction).
Let's bring in Twigs. With a Taurus Rising, she'd have Pluto in her 7th house of relationships, professional, platonic, and romantic. These natives bump up against powerful, consequential, enigmatic and influential people in their relationships--for better or worse. There is a strong draw, at times, to be coupled. LB showing up as a Plutonian presence for Twigs can be explained by this Taurus Rising, as can her shitty personal assistant who stole from her, and manipulated her behind the scenes. But, also, she is an artist, a singer, a dancer. The Taurus artistic work using the physical body tracks. But I'm not here to convince you of a Taurus rising, it's one variable element. Moving on...
Twigs' Capricorn Sun is closely conjunct LB's Mars, a source of some serious agitation in relationships, and this is particular one, violence, control, and demands. It adds to the draw for someone to have their Mars on your Sun. They find you attractive as a person, not limited to physical attraction, but who you are as a person. That's the Sun, your self-image. And Mars being on the proverbial chase after it*.* This fits predatory grooming--using Venus in service of Mars' ulterior motives in the 12th.
What's more, LB's Saturn in Sagittarius is also exactly conjunct Twigs' Mars in Sagittarius. Here we now have two synastry configurations of a powerful and domineering person. A person, LB, who limits /controls Twigs' expression of her Sun limits her movement with her Mars. She was utterly trapped, isolated. Twigs had the means, and towards the end, the resolve to leave LB, but over and over again it proved "difficult and dangerous". Such is the entrapment of malefics.
LB's Uranus in Sagittarius is conjunct Twigs' Moon in Sagittarius. On the one hand, this is a signature of excitement in the relationship. ooo, shiny! And I'm sure in the beginning the chemistry was...there. But I've already demonstrated LB's poor use of his Uranus, so this conjunction screams destruction. Twigs became a shadow of herself, to hear her tell it, she was traumatized. His Uranus working on her Moon is destabilizing, it feels dangerous, it feels like eggshells.
"He brought me so low, below myself, that the idea of leaving him and having to work myself back up just seemed impossible."
It aches to read.
LB's Saturn is square Twigs' Venus in Pisces. Brief pause here to mention the Venus in Pisces potential to enter relationships that enact a savior-victim narrative is high. This is a compassionate and exalted Venus, and standing in juxtaposition to LB's exalted Mars, I get a sense that Twigs' loving nature, and the Venus in Pisces loving nature in general, is steeped in compassion and care. Before suing him, Twigs asked LB to enter therapy, to get his alcoholism together, to even donate to domestic violence causes as a gesture of good faith. Twigs even initiated couples counseling, in hopes of saving relationships. I mean, this is a selfless crusade of trying to steer someone into healing, and help others in the process while you are hurting and being abused. Pisces.
The Saturn square to this sensitive Venus illustrates more of the same, a dampening and restrictive effect on her loving nature. "Love served cold," as someone once said. And because Saturn is the ruler of LB's Aquarius ascendant, this restrictiveness is part of his affect and orientation towards life, and it seeps out in everything. In this case study, Twigs' Venus in Pisces would be the ruler of her Taurus ascendant, drawing out the stark polarity of these two individuals. One who wants to control and be respected. Another who wants to love and be in harmony. In the complaint, it is mentioned that LB would criticize, and make fun of Twigs' artistic tastes, drawing out a simple disagreement into an hours-long fight that prevented her from sleeping. And this small piece of information is illustrative of the Saturn ability to nitpick, criticize, and belittle the tastes and values of Venus via square. Irreconcilable differences.
I don't personally work with Chiron much, but as a purported "wounded healer", it comes into play here. Twigs' Chiron is conjunct LB's Sun in Gemini, a symbolic theme of learning painful lessons through a person who embodies a primal wound. In essence, the Chiron in Gemini wound is about communication and intelligence.
“I just thought to myself, no one is ever going to believe me,” she said in an interview. “I’m unconventional. And I’m a person of color who is a female.”
A fear of speaking up is certainly indicated, especially in opposition to Sagittarius, a sign more to do with belief and conviction. Natally, Twigs has Pluto in square to her Mercury, which indicates, at times, a fear of speaking up against figures of authority and power. She expressed, also, a fear of saying anything that would damage his career, emblematic of Chiron conjunct the light of someone's Sun, their image.
As a proposed Taurus Rising, Twigs would have Capricorn as her 9th house, which is where we find lawsuits, the court system, and lawyers. At the time of filing, Saturn and Jupiter were in a separating conjunction to her Sun and MC. A narrative of doing a difficult thing (Saturn) in order to be set free, to move more into healing and self-development (Jupiter). Even without knowledge of the house, Saturn and Jupiter traveling over her Capricorn Sun says a lot about the duress of the moment of filing, and speaks volumes about the restrictiveness of the relationship (which was in 2019) on her identity overall.
LB's 9th house is Libra, ruled by the Venus in the 6th and he is being sued by a former lover and co-worker in an art-related industry. More damning is that the current SN in Sagittarius is working its way through LB's 11th house, where his midheaven and Saturn are. I believe the airing of this dirty laundry (which is such a polite way to encapsulate it), will significantly impact his public image and reputation. I don't feel much uproar is really being made in the media, but the 11th house of networks and peers in related professions may speak to the film industry and the players therein reexamining their relationship to LB versus a fully-fledged public scandal the reaches the corners of the world. The draining nature of the SN may see him retreating from public life for good, or being ostracized by industry friends. Which is deserved. When it reaches the degree of his natal Saturn, a planet whose archetypes seemed to have been ignored so far in his life (within relationships and habits), a karmic undoing may pop off.
Interestingly, the NN was conjunct (and is) his Sun at the time of filing. Not to mix the pot too much, but in Vedic astrology, the NN or Rahu (the dragon's head) is a disembodied vortex of unchecked ambition and desire. Its considered a malefic energy. But even in western, evolutionary terms, the NN traveling along the Sun promises spotlight. And because his Sun is configured quite poorly in his chart, much of that spotlight may be on bad behaviors.
I know this is long but I want to make one last point. The Great Conjunction of Saturn and Pluto will be in LB's 1st house of self concept, identity and will oppose his natal Leo Moon. This an opposition, first, of issues with women (will more women come out and file charges?), but is also a significant energy of isolation, difficulty and challenge. The end result being that the Saturn incubator produces more thoughtful, mature, and wise emotional nature. I also see it as the reaper of karma for bad and manipulative behavior.
The Great Conjunction will not conjunct his ascendant angle for a while, but the formidable force of this conjunction will likely see to it that an overhaul of identity is underway. A cosmic reality check that began in LB's 12th house of Capricorn. Transit Mars will conjunct his NN in Aries soon, and I'll go with Astromatrix in saying it'll be something "fiery and fated"
Without Twigs' birth time it is hard to say where blessings may be in her future, but she is in a new relationship, and has done a brave and heroic thing. Transits to her natal Jupiter and from Jupiter will hopefully surround this woman in good spirits.