Virgo Season Bonus Materials

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Virgo Season Playlist

Not About Love - Fiona Apple // Simple Math - Manchester Orchestra // Needles - The Pack A.D. // Without Me - Halsey // Location - Khalid // Like a Virgin - Madonna // Dead to Me - Kali Uchis // Bellyache - Billie Eilish // Running Up that Hill (A Deal with God) - Kate Bush // Homegirl - King Princess // Virgo Tendencies - Keke Palmer // Don’t Hurt Yourself - Beyonce ft. Jack White // Valerie - Amy Winehouse // Self Control - Frank Ocean // New Slang - The Shins // Never Call Me - Jhene Aiko ft. Kurupt

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Meet the court

Let’s meet the hardest working Virgo in showbiz, the Knight of Pentacles.

Meet the Knight of Pentacles (IRL) - Beyonce

It might actually be criminal to select anyone other than Beyoncé for the Knight of Pentacles IRL. Born in Houston, Texas, on September 4, 1981, Beyoncé is a Libra Rising, Virgo Sun, and Scorpio Moon, with a notable Libra stellium including her Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto. She's the perfect air/earth blend to represent the Knight of Pentacles — but her empire wasn't built in a day. Remember, the Knight of Pentacles plays the long game. It's all about planning and execution.

In her early years, Mrs. Carter (formerly Ms. Knowles) dominated Texas' local talent shows and pageants, a true triple threat in singing, dancing, and acting. As a teen, Beyoncé, her cousin Kelly Rowland, and two classmates formed a little singing group you may have heard of called Destiny's Child, with Beyoncé's father, Matthew Knowles, acting as manager. After a few changes to the band's lineup, they landed a deal with Columbia Records in the late '90s. Their self-titled debut album helped them grow in popularity, but they didn't truly break into the public eye until their second album, The Writing's on the Wall. Its first number-one single was "Bills, Bills, Bills," followed by "Say My Name." Destiny's Child underwent a few more lineup changes in the years that followed before finally landing on the iconic trio we know and love today — Beyoncé, Kelly, and Michelle.

While enjoying the group's success, Beyoncé started branching off into solo singing and acting projects. Her first significant acting role came in Carmen: A Hip-Hopera in 2001, followed shortly by a starring role opposite Mike Myers in one of the Austin Powers movies.

In 2003, Knowles released her first solo album, Dangerously in Love. It became a massive success, and "Crazy in Love" was voted song of the 21st century by NME. Around this time, rumors swirled that she was romantically involved with rapper Jay-Z, though the couple kept their relationship private in the early '00s.

Destiny's Child split up in 2004, and Knowles carried on with her solo career. Her second album, B'Day, did incredibly well, and she starred in Dreamgirls alongside Jennifer Hudson, Jamie Foxx, and Eddie Murphy.

Things kept steadily growing for Beyoncé, and 2008 turned out to be another huge year. She married Jay-Z in a small, private ceremony in NYC, then released her third album, I Am... Sasha Fierce, later that year. The song "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" demolished the charts, and she returned to the big screen that year as well, playing Etta James in Cadillac Records. In January 2009, Knowles sang for Barack and Michelle Obama at the inaugural ball, and at the 2010 Grammy Awards, she took home a staggering six awards — at the time, a record for most wins in a single night by a female artist.

In 2012, Knowles and Jay-Z welcomed their oldest daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, into the world.

By 2013, Knowles had won 16 Grammys. That year, she performed the Super Bowl Halftime Show and wowed the crowd, then "broke the internet" with her surprise self-titled album — and my personal favorite — Beyoncé. The first of its kind, it was released with no press or promotion, exclusively on iTunes, as a full visual album, with physical copies made available later. The launch broke records, selling more than 800,000 copies within 48 hours of release. Beyoncé made Knowles the first female artist to debut five albums at number 1 on the Billboard 200, and it was the fastest-selling album in iTunes history.

In late 2015, rumors began swirling that Jay-Z had been unfaithful, and in 2016, Knowles returned to the Super Bowl stage alongside Bruno Mars and Chris Martin, performing her new single "Formation" to rave reviews. Two months later, she released Lemonade — an iconic conceptual film and album in which she spoke openly about Jay-Z's affair and their reconciliation. It's an indisputable work of art and some of her best work to date. The album also debuted at number 1, making her the first woman to have six albums debut in the top spot.

In 2017, she and Jay-Z welcomed twins Rumi and Sir into the world. Her birth announcement on Instagram became the year's most-liked post, with 11.1 million likes. She'd originally been scheduled for Coachella's 2017 lineup but had to cancel after learning she was pregnant with the twins; in 2018, she returned to become the first Black woman ever to headline the event. She documented the preparation and performance in the Netflix documentary Homecoming — a marathon performance and an iconic film. We all know Beyoncé works nonstop, but this documentary really showed it. She and Jay-Z also released a joint album that same year.

In 2019, Knowles played Nala in the Lion King reboot, and in 2020, she directed, wrote, and produced the visual album Black Is King.

To say her career has been legendary is an understatement. In total, she's received 1,357 nominations worldwide for her work and won a staggering 542. If there's anything Virgo and the Knight of Pentacles know inside and out, it's the value of hard work — and no one works harder than Mrs. Carter.

Bullet (Journal) With Butterfly Wings

(Gosh, I hope some of y’all are old enough to get this reference…)

Pick up a habit of regular bullet journaling this Virgo Season!

  • Of course, to get started, you need a journal and something to write with. It can be as fancy or as simple as you like. Notebooks can be ruled, blank, or dot gridded. Ruled works best for folks who are looking to do journal-style entries. Dotted journals are best for habit trackers, spreads, and lists. Blank journals are for our doodlers. They work really well for people who like to create non-traditional spreads and include lots of artwork on the pages.

  • This part requires that you think about how you want to use this journal. Bullet journals can be really beautiful, but if they aren’t also functional for what you need them for, you may as well just have a sketchbook. Common spreads include:

    -Daily/Weekly/Monthly Planner Spreads - these are great for writing down all of your appointments, events, and critical tasks to be completed on a daily/weekly/monthly basis.

    -Future Logs - similar to a daily/weekly/monthly spread, but future logs show all of our monthly/yearly larger commitments in once place.

    -Productivity Pages/Habit Trackers - these layouts are utilized for building habits. Common activities include: water intake trackers, hours/mins of daily reading trackers, etc. Lots of tarot readers track daily pulls and relevant astrological transits with trackers like this. These trackers can also be used to track “bad habits” you’d like to stop. For example, marking the days since you quit smoking or didn’t spend more than X number of hours on a social media app…you get the idea.

    -Mind Maps - If you’re brainstorming or you need to consider the multiple outlooks/outcomes/perspectives around a problem, mind maps are the way to go!

    -Brain Dumps and Lists - This spread format can be a catchall for our mental “junk drawer” of tasks that don’t really fit in other spots within our journals. “To be read” and “to be watched” lists are also very common, and of course, we can’t forget lists of goals.

    -Traditional Journaling/Free-writing Spreads - this one is a bit self-explanatory. If you’re someone with something to get off your chest each day, this is where to dump it!

    -Doodle pages - If you’re someone who needs to focus your mind by moving your hands, doodling pages are a must!

    This isn’t an exhaustive list, but you can see there are layouts for everything. Now, the hard part, you have to decide what types of spreads and layouts would be useful for you life and what you’re trying to achieve.

  • This is the fun part. It’s time to get creative! You can search various bullet journal layouts for inspiration online. When you have an idea of what layouts you’d like to experiment with, you can decide on fonts, color schemes, and art supplies you’d like to use to create the vibe you’re after. You’ll def need a pencil (I know, who even uses them anymore?) But they’re great for lightly tracing our layout plans before going in with the “heavy artillery” (calligraphy markers, washi tape, highlighters, etc.)

    THIS TAKES PRACTICE, and we all know Virgo is a bit of a perfectionist. You will make mistakes. Don’t let it overwhelm or discourage you. A few tips:

    -Don’t compare your bullet journal to others’. You know what they say, “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

    -Use pencil to plan your layouts before you go in with ink.

    -Use washi tape, stickers, and white out to correct mistakes and “blend them in” when you can.

    Always remember, the beautiful thing about a bullet journal is that you always get to turn the page and start fresh when you need to.

  • Yes, bullet journals are beautiful, but we can’t forget the core purpose. We’re doing this for self-improvement, and to build some organization and structure into our lives. The act of consistently setting aside time for bullet journaling is part of that structure. Whether you choose to do it daily or weekly, it’s totally up to you. But, the idea that we show up to it regularly is important. If Virgo Season has taught us anything, it’s that what we feed, grows. So, if we’re interested in working bit by bit in the short term towards our long term longs, showing up is the first step in that work.