Meet the Queen of Pentacles (IRL) - Lizzo

Taurus Sun Melissa Viviane Jefferson — aka Lizzo — was born on April 27, 1988, in Detroit, Michigan. She's got a Taurus stellium in her 10th House, including her Sun, Jupiter, Mercury, and Midheaven, plus a Leo Rising and a 2nd House Virgo Moon. To say she's earthy is an understatement.

Venus rules the arts (including music), and Lizzo has been musical from birth. Her family belonged to a Pentecostal church, and she grew up immersed in the gospel music scene. When she was 9, the family relocated to Houston, Texas, where she got into rapping. By 5th grade she'd picked up the flute, eventually performing in her high school marching band, and in her teens she formed and joined several hip-hop groups.

After high school, she earned a full scholarship to the University of Houston to study musical performance, with plans to continue at the Paris Conservatory and eventually play in concert halls. But throughout college she kept at both flute and rapping, performing regularly enough that she ended up dropping out.

She joined a prog-rock band, but after her father passed away shortly afterward, she left the band and briefly moved to Denver to be near family. The stay didn't even last a year before she moved to Minneapolis in 2011, where she immersed herself in the local music scene — performing with multiple groups and even being taken under Prince's wing.

During this time, she signed with Atlantic Records and released her 2016 EP Coconut Oil. She moved to LA, landed a gig hosting a live music program on MTV, and opened for some pretty big names, including Sleater-Kinney and Florence + the Machine. Her label released "Truth Hurts" in 2017, and it flopped — she was largely an underground thing for a while. (I remember catching her at a drag event in NYC before she blew up; she had a small but devoted cult following back then.) After "Truth Hurts" underperformed, she actually considered leaving the music industry. But the track got featured in the 2019 movie Someone Great and became an overnight sensation. From there, she topped the charts hit after hit, earning eight nominations at the 62nd Grammy Awards — more than any other artist that year — and taking home three.

But it hasn't all been fun and games. Lizzo has faced numerous public attacks rooted in racism and fatphobia. What makes her Queen of Pentacles/Taurus/Venus energy so apparent is that she genuinely loves herself — not in the performative Dove-commercial sense, but for real. She's comfortable in her body. She enjoys food. She enjoys fashion. She's a beautiful, talented, fat Black woman who loves herself and isn't afraid to say so. That's Empress and Queen of Pentacles energy: the idea that we deserve abundance, that we deserve to love and accept ourselves, that we deserve to make and enjoy beautiful art while we're here, and that we get to define what beauty and comfort mean to us.