Megan Fox always knew she would have a creative renaissance in her 30s. It was marked in her natal chart. As a strong follower of astrology, Fox claims the timing of her work, love and fame was written in the stars. “I believe that there’s a purpose and a reason for that,” she says with certainty.

Everybody in her life would say she’s spiritual to the point “where it might annoy certain people,” she says, candidly. Fox, 35, typically begins her day with tarot cards and reading her horoscope. Before the pandemic, she integrated daily deep visualization and shamanic meditation. On the June afternoon when we speak, she’s even been planning rituals to harness the power of the looming solar eclipse.

Fox, who long endured a fraught relationship with Hollywood, is ready to embrace acting and being in the public eye again — due in no small part to her intuition. This year, the actress has a stacked schedule of movies, including the lead role in the offbeat horror-thriller “Till Death,” out July 2; the crime thriller “Midnight in the Switchgrᴀss,” which also stars her now-boyfriend, actor and musician Machine Gun Kelly, a few weeks later; and Brian Petsos’ forthcoming directorial debut “Big Gold Brick.”

Fox’s return to the horror genre is significant. Since the 2009 release of the bloody “Jennifer’s Body,” Fox has been strategic about signing onto any film in a similar vein. She’s encountered tons of similar scripts over the years, but the Karyn Kusama and Diablo Cody movie, which has reached cult status in the dozen years since its release, remains precious to Fox.

“‘Jennifer’s Body’ is iconic, and I love that movie,” Fox said. “I didn’t want to do that movie an injustice by doing something that was similar but not as good.”

When Fox began her acting career in her teens, she was often typecast as a stuck-up Queen Bee, but she enjoyed it. “When I was a teenager, all those little movies I was doing with Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen [“Holiday in the Sun”], and then Lindsay Lohan [“Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen”] and Kaley Cuoco [“Crimes of Fashion”], that was essentially the exact same character. All of my lines were interchangeable,” she recalls.

At the same time, Fox had become increasingly frustrated with the blatant misogyny she was facing in Hollywood, between the mismarketing of Kusama and Cody’s movie to focus on how “H๏τ” Fox was (which was anтιтhetical to the film’s plot), to a 2009 appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” where she described being Sєxualized at 15 as an extra in a scene from Bay’s “Bad Boys 2.” Instead of finding support when she opened up, everyone laughed.

“That was a microcosm of my whole life and whole interaction with Hollywood,” she recalls. “It was just very dark.”

While she wasn’t exiled by Hollywood, she struggled with her self-confidence as an actress. “I was never really established as having been talented,” she says.

Fox says that giving birth to her first child in 2012 (she shares three sons with ex Brian Austin Green, from whom she filed for divorce last year) made her retreat from the industry and find “purpose.” “That kind of saved me honestly,” Fox said of having children. “I needed an escape.”

“People were surprised that I was funny at all,” Fox said. It was par for the course though: Surface-level ᴀssumptions have been a constant throughout her life and career. “More than being overlooked for my ability to handle comedy sometimes, I’ve always been surprised by how easy it was for people to overlook that I’m relatively intelligent,” she said. “I was like, how does that get so lost when there’s ridiculous amounts of material that can educate you otherwise?”

Lately, Fox has felt even more of a shift within herself: The once self-described “recluse” has enjoyed being pop-culture fodder — starring in the music video for Kelly’s 2020 single “Bloody Valentine,” having her dialogue from “Jennifer’s Body” appear on Halsey’s third album “Manic,” and going on double-dates with Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker. Still, she lives a largely Twitter-free life (though her Instagram is full of witty captions and fans praising her as a “biSєxual queen”). Most of the time she hears about when she’s trending after the fact.

In her romantic relationships, spirituality has been a guiding force for Fox. While the Internet spent the past year and change fawning over her PDA-filled relationship with Kelly, the reality, she says, is that their bond has been much more cosmic. On the set of “Midnight in the Switchgrᴀss,” Fox and Kelly only worked together for two days. Sure, she knew his name and that he “was a tall, blond tattooed rapper,” but she didn’t expect such a “magical” connection. “The first time I looked into his eyes, I was like . . . “I know you. I have known you so many times, in so many different forms, in so many different lives.” She “wasn’t expecting it’d be like, ‘God, you are my soul mate,’ instantly.”

And after 20 years of acting, Fox is more intentional than ever when it comes to what she wants for her life. She wants to take on roles that are “challenging” and “fun” but unconventional. Sure, she has some career aspirations: Growing up as a fan of comic books and graphic novels, Fox would love to be a part of the Marvel or DC Comics universes. With its enduring fan base, Fox would also be open to a “Jennifer’s Body”-related project. “I don’t think it’s a hard movie to make a sequel to,” she said. “I mean, they should make it into a TV series. That would be cool.”

But the actress is looking inward when it comes to her career goals. “I want to grow into myself as an actor,” she said. “I feel like I spent a lot of years not doing that because I sort of checked out from Hollywood. Now I’m ready to grow into myself.”