"All things come in sets of threes," or so the old adage says. Good and bad luck are included in this superstition. At the time of his crucifixion, some believe that Jesus Christ was 33. The father, son and the holy spirit is a trinity of threes. The Earth revolves around a sun, and the moon orbits the Earth. There are three notes in a triad, the basic form of any musical chord. Three is the only prime triangular number. This coming age of n-o-w has been postulated to include the third stage of feminism, for waves also come in sets of threes.
I have a deep, dark secret and I have been hiding it in the closet for years now. I am a die-hard Angelina Jolie fan. My interest in her was sparked back in 2003, when she graced the cover of Vanity Fair and spoke of how becoming a mother to her adoptive son shifted her priorities and changed her life. Reading about her work with the UNCR, which she had only recently begun at the time, added infinitely to my appreciation of this wild-child, Hollywood actress turned thoughtful humanitarian. Early on, I admired her work because I sensed that she too believed that leading an unorthodox life is tantamount for almost all artists. Angie Jolie did not make mistakes or take any missteps in her young career or in her immature rushes to the altar. Rather, she intuited that one's art is directly tied to one's ability at experiencing the vast, wide continuum of what it means to be human. Duh.
Obviously, the plot line has thickened considerably since and, like the rest of the world, my attention has also been distracted by the endless barrage of photos and headlines. Angie Jolie is the only human being on Earth whose life, aside from my own, I'd love to lead. Kill men who have it coming for a handsome penny on the silver screen? Hell yes! Attend the war crimes trial of real-life bad guys at the Hague in Copenhagen? Count me in! Create a rainbow tribe of adopted and biological children with a family man and fellow intelligent actor? Um, yes, please. Do your thing and don't give a damn what anyone else says? I'll take it.
As preeminent scholar, Naomi Wolf, spells out, Jolie is leading the charge of today's third wave of feminism. She embodies feminine as well as masculine archetypes - from the sinner and the saint to the killer and the father, from the goddess and the destructress to the Madonna and the sacred prostitute. Jolie teaches us that by wielding these powerful energies and intelligently applying them across a wide swath of time and circumstances, we can truly have it all - the deep love that drives the creative feminine perfectly balanced with the passionate purpose of the divine masculine's innate need for freedom.
Yes, indeed.
