Virgo season is upon us, and as we transition from the body glitter and ring lights of Leo season to the tweed, sourdough, and judgment of Virgo, one among the ranks of this star sign has been showing off her shadow.
Blake Lively has been called out by social media users for focusing on punchy floral fashion, her haircare line, and her husband’s movie while promoting “It Ends With Us,” a film anchored in the devastating effects of domestic violence.
Meanwhile, old interview footage has surfaced of Lively using slurs and being casually cruel to interviewers and costars alike.
And lest we forget that time Lively got married at a plantation, launched a lifestyle brand inspired by “the allure” of the antebellum South and told Vogue the movie ‘Shawshank Redemption’ made her laugh.
Lord.
WTF is going on with this Virgo? Read on to learn more.
Quintuple Virgo
Born August 25, 1987, Lively is a QUINTUPLE Virgo with the sun, moon, Mercury, Mars and Venus, all landing in the sign of side-eye and divine discernment.
This unholy amount of Virgo energy primarily falls in Lively’s first house of identity, which indicates how we project ourselves and how we are perceived by others. Virgo represents service and streamlining, but in the first house, that can quickly translate to a self-serving agenda.
Checks out.
There’s an elitism to Virgo; they expect the best of themselves and extend that same punishing standard to others, often making those who attempt to know, collaborate with, or question them feel insignificant at worst or inadequate at best.
Leo rising
Add to it that Blake is a Leo rising. Our rising sign is akin to the mask/coat of arms we wear when facing a crowd or meeting a stranger. In Leo, it rides the line between confidence and arrogance, feeding on attention like a lizard in the last gasp of golden hour sunlight.
In-kind, all press is good press to this ilk, and all conversation that centralizes them, be it hate or exaltation, is evidence of their power to command.
Nothing is more apt of a mane-shaking Leo rising than to both have a haircare line and use every available opportunity to hawk those goods to the masses.
All press is good press to this ilk, and all conversation that centralizes them, be it hate or exaltation, is evidence of their power to command.
The Leo s–t also explains Lively’s unbecoming habit of turning serious issues into fodder for seriously bad jokes.
Leo X Virgo
Virgo is sharp, and Leo is loud.
In tandem, Virgo X Leo equals mean girl s–t, a detectable air of superiority and sarcasm, a stab and a smile, a joke, and a jab, if you will.
This combo may also be at the root of why Lively has played the proud muse to very, very problematic men like Wood Allen and Karl Lagerfeld.
Mars in the first house
Add to the mix of mean that Lively has Mars, planet of will and war, conjunct her sun in the first house. Mars, in the first, denotes a person with great potential to lead but also one who can easily lean into defensiveness, aggro antics, and uncalled-for confrontation.
The instigatory energy of Mars in the first may also be the source of Lively’s feud with director Justin Baldoni because, trust folks, this Mars was made to call shots, not take them.
Venus in Virgo
Lively has Venus, the planet of aesthetics and attraction in Virgo.
I thought that Tom Ford calling his toddler son’s dinosaur shoes ‘tacky’ was the pinnacle of this sign’s sartorial scorn…until I saw this video of a fan gifting Lively a bracelet. She hands it off to someone else, telling the giver, “I’m going to put it here because it doesn’t go with my outfit, but I will wear it later,”
Do you know what really clashes with crystal bodices and floral applique? Insolence.
Why now?
Mercury, Virgo’s ruling planet has been retrograde for the bulk of the ‘It Ends With Us’ press tour, and folks, it shows. Retrogrades are a ripe time for reckoning, a point made painfully clear to Livley in these past few weeks. And yet, she has remained notably quiet about the controversy.
Por queue?
Nothing is more erotic or satisfying for a Virgo than being right, so much so that they often fail to see what they’ve done wrong. Though astrology is more reflection than prediction, I bet my cracked crystals that Lively will shave her prodigious mane before she owns or offers a mea culpa.
Astrology 101: Your guide to the star
- The 12 zodiac signs
- What are the astrology houses
- Here’s what each planet represents
- Sun, moon, and rising signs: Get to know your Big 3
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports back on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
