Aries Season Bonus Materials
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Aries Season Playlist
Savage - Megan Thee Stallion // Canned Heat - Jamiroquai // Kids - The Mgmt // Bad Girls - M.I.A. // Ready to Start - Arcade Fire // The Man - Aloe Blacc // Ooh La La - Run the Jewels ft Greg Nice & DJ Premier // Hot Girl Bummer - Blackbear // Danger! High Voltage - Electric Six // I Like It - Cardi B // DVP - PUP // Fire - Louis the Child, Evalyn // Teenagers - My Chemical Romance // Sorry Not Sorry - Demi Lovato // Volcano Girls - Veruca Salt // Teenage Queen - Deap Valley // Like I’m Winning It - Girlpool
Meet the court
Let’s meet some Aries court card archetypes (IRL) who display serious grit and drive.
Meet the Page of Wands (IRL) - Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey is, without a doubt, our Page of Wands IRL — pure youthful fire energy. She's a Taurus rising, which explains that voice: Taurus rules the throat, and many of our famous "smooth crooners" have prominent Taurus placements. She also carries a 12th House Aries stellium containing her sun, Venus, and Saturn.
Fun fact about Aries suns who sing: they're our belters. Aries is famous for its total inability to control its volume (inside voice? Aries doesn't know her). So it tracks that so many Aries singers are known for legendary pipes, extreme range (Carey's is five octaves) and sheer vocal power. Other Aries suns with seriously intense vocals: Lady Gaga, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Diana Ross, Reba McEntire, Steven Tyler, Chaka Khan, Al Green, Leona Lewis, Jill Scott, and Gerard Way.
The Page of Wands feels like someone gifted with raw talent — they may not even know yet what that talent can do, but they're fiery and hungry to find out. Mariah was born to an engineer and a Juilliard-trained opera singer, so singing was in her blood, and so was a grounded sense of practicality. She's reported to have started imitating her mother's opera singing at age two, and by four she was already in voice lessons. Starting that young feels very "Page-y" to me.
Mariah moved to NYC in the late '80s, where she worked as a waitress and a coat-check attendant while attending cosmetology school on the side. The Page of Wands is an earth/fire blend, and Mariah is a hard worker — she held down multiple jobs at once, long before her big break, staying economical and practical the whole way through. (There's even a famous photo of her riding the Manhattan subway in a blue ballgown.) She may be firmly classified as a "diva" now, but Mariah has always had a grounded, down-to-earth, practical side. At one point early on, she reportedly lived with nine roommates and four pets in a single apartment. She sang backup vocals for other artists, too — all to pay for studio time to record her own demos. That hustle is exactly how she got her big break.
At just 18, Mariah was singing backup for Brenda K. Starr. The two attended a CBS Records party together, and Starr convinced Carey to slip a demo tape to some Columbia Records executives there. (Carey would later marry one of them — Tommy Mottola.) Mottola popped the tape in on his drive home from the party and signed her almost immediately. The rest is history. That's the magick of Cardinal Fire.
The Page of Wands is a pioneer, brimming with creative potential, and Carey is so much more than an incredible vocalist — she's also a songwriter and producer who had a heavy hand in producing some of her most iconic albums. Of her 19 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles in the U.S. — more than any other soloist — she wrote 18 herself.
And we can't talk about Aries or Page of Wands energy without talking about awards, because fire signs are here to win, baby. Carey's career is nothing short of record-breaking: she was named Billboard's Artist of the Decade for the 1990s, World Music Awards' Best-Selling Female Artist of the Millennium, and won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1991. Across her career she's taken home five Grammy Awards, 19 World Music Awards, and 21 Billboard Music Awards — just to name a few.
Meet the King of Wands (IRL) - Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou lived one hell of a life. It feels like she packed in a hundred lives' worth of living, and her lasting influence on our culture makes her our King of Wands IRL.
Maya was an Aries Sun, Libra Moon, and Leo Rising, born April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents had a tumultuous relationship and divorced when she was three, so she and her brother went to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas.
At age seven, she and her brother returned to live with their mother, and around that same time, Angelou was sexually assaulted by her mother's boyfriend. When she spoke up, her abuser was sentenced to just one day in jail — and was murdered by her uncles upon his release. Realizing the power in her voice, and fearing that speaking up again might cause more death, Angelou chose not to speak to anyone but her brother for the next five years. But when she did start speaking again, it turned out she had a lot to say.
The King of Wands is double fire energy, and Angelou's Big 3 is double fire — a wealth of creative talent. She emerged from her silence as a writer, singer, and dancer. As a young teen, she moved to San Francisco and worked in dance and theater. At just 15, she tried to enlist in the army during WWII but was denied over her ties to the California Labor School, which was rumored to have communist connections. So she applied to be a streetcar conductor instead — and was rejected because of her race. But the King of Wands isn't easily deterred: Angelou showed up and requested an application every single day for nearly a month until they finally gave in. She was technically too young for the job, so she lied and said she was 19. She got hired, becoming the first Black woman to work as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco.
She returned to school in 1944 and gave birth to her only son, Clyde, at 16. After graduation, she took on odd jobs to support them both. She married briefly from 1949 to 1952 — the source of the surname she kept for the rest of her life. After the divorce, she moved to San Diego and worked as a nightclub waitress, and is known to have dabbled in drugs and sex work. Strangely, this is what led to her big break: she was discovered by a theater group while dancing in a strip club, auditioned for a touring play, and landed the role. From 1954 to 1955, she toured 22 countries, and she kept writing and performing overseas through the late '50s — and really, throughout her life.
In 1959, Angelou moved to NYC and joined the Harlem Writers Guild, dedicated to supporting Black authors. She also became deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a prominent Black advocacy organization.
In 1969, she published one of her most notable works, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an autobiography of her early life that confronted racism and her own assault head-on. It was nominated for a National Book Award and has sold over a million copies worldwide. She went on to write six more autobiographies, along with volumes of Pulitzer Prize–nominated poetry and several essay collections. She even won multiple Grammys for spoken word albums. She spoke at Bill Clinton's inauguration, became the first Black woman to have a screenplay turned into a film, won Tony Awards for her theater work, and appeared on TV — including playing Kunta Kinte's grandmother in Roots.
Angelou's literary contributions have been honored around the world. She was inducted into the Wake Forest University Writers Hall of Fame and received the National Book Foundation's Literarian Award for outstanding service to the literary community. She earned more than 30 honorary degrees, and in 1981 was offered the Wake Forest University Reynolds Professorship of American Studies. Finally, in 2011, just three years before her death, President Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
Remember: the King of Wands is the spark of change and the sustainer of change. Maya Angelou feels like an insider and an outsider all at once, and she knew exactly how to use her voice to drive awareness and progress. That became her legacy.
Aries Practical Magick: Let your Inner Aries Baby Color It Out
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