Yet Another Angelina Due Date Update

The Brangelina baby watch continues. To recap: The initial reports had her due around her own birthday in early June. Now, after recently reporting a mid-May due date for Angelina Jolie's first biological boobah, Star has gone so far as to peg the date as May 18 in its April 3 issue:

"'The official due date is May 18,' a source close to the Pitts tells Star.... Star consulted numerologist-astrologist Carmen Harra, author of Decoding Your Destiny. Here are her predictions: 'He -- and I'm feeling male energy -- will be extremely creative. He will be handsome and thoughtful, loving and charismatic -- but not overly emotional. His strongest connection will be with his mother.'"

Before we move on to my own reading of the May 18 chart, a few passing comments. First of all, I HATE, HATE, HATE when people refer to astrologers as "astrologists." That would be like a celeb referring to her "styler" or "publicer." Second of all, every astrologer knows you cannot tell gender from a birth chart. Yes, you can pick up on masculine energy, but that could just as easily mean a little baby butch girl -- especially with a badass mama like Angelina. Third of all, way to go foreseeing that a newborn baby's strongest bond will be with its mother. That is some keen predictive power, boy. (Not that I am in any way bitter that the Star did not call me for an expert opinion on a Taurus baby for Brangelina. It's not like I am an expert on Brangelina or Tauruses. But whatever, I'm totally enlightened and so over it.)

Anyhoo, if born on May 18, the Brangelina baby will not necessarily be butch so much as have a nontraditional sense of gender and a refreshingly free interplay of "masculine" and "feminine" traits, what with masculine Mars in nurturing Cancer and feminine Venus in Mars-ruled Aries. Especially if born after 8:00 AM (I'm assuming a birthplace of Paris, France, since the tabloid consensus seems to be that Angie wants her baby born there as opposed to early frontrunners L.A. and Africa) with a progressive, experimental Aquarius Moon, Branjunior/Brangelette would be a nonconformist in terms of gender roles. With a tight Sun-Mercury conjunction in Taurus, mini-Brange would be very bright and, yes, creative. The Jupiter-Uranus trine in water signs contributes to the creativity as well as the progressive mindset. This chart certainly fits the child of two actors who travel the world and adopt children from different cultures, not to mention a mom who is unabashedly bisexual, flies planes at 7+ months pregnant and will probably be squeezing into black leather catsuits within weeks of giving birth.

A May 18 birthday for Brangelissimo would mean Venus on Angelina's Jupiter (and possibly Moon opposite her Venus/Ascendant, depending on birth time) as well as Pluto on Brad Pitt's Sun, signifying how his life and sense of self would be transformed by the baby. (Pluto is slow-moving, so this aspect would be in effect even if the baby is not born right on May 18.) With the Sun-Mercury conjunction in late Taurus trining Brad's Moon-Venus, I actually think the little one might be more connected to Brad (you hear that, Carmen Harra? It's ON!) in the long run. With the baby's Neptune on Brad's Saturn, he would be a doting dad -- the kid could easily charm his/her way out of any kind of discipline or punishment because Brad adores him/her so much.

Of course, even if the Star has obtained the true due date (seems to me celebs often plant fake dates to maintain their privacy around the blessed event), there's no guarantee that Brandene will come into the world as scheduled. (Well, unless they, um, schedule the delivery. They can do that these days.) For instance, the kid could easily pop out a few days earlier with his/her Moon in Sagittarius conjuncting Brad's Sun. But this due date does seem like it's in the ballpark, with the way it depicts Brad's heart being utterly melted, and Angelina feeling blessed (Venus conjunct her Jupiter), by the bambino/a. Needless to say, I will be keeping an ear out for any further due date updates and encourage you to email me if you find any.