HRH Taylor Swift, the Sagittarius queen of confessional writing, burning and exhuming the sins of her exes, is back with the release of “The Tortured Poets Department,” her 11th studio album.
A meditation on her frayed relationship with sad British boy Joe Alwyn, with lyrical forays into her ill-fated affair with Matt Healy, a beef with Kim Kardashian and a few nods to new guy Travis Kelce, the album was released one day auspicious, leaving a fanciful, sideways eye giving a trail of astrological Easter eggs.
Can you find them all? Keep reading and see how you did.
Mercury retrograde
The highly anticipated release comes amid the thick heat haze of Mercury retrograde in Aries, a time when the re-prefix is emphasized and we reimagine the past, revise our conceptions of ourselves, and revisit the muck and mire of failed relationships, to discover the kernels of wisdom buried in the burning buildings of romantic ruin.
In essence and ashes, this album is the smoldering, stillborn delivery of a love story doomed to failure.
Aries is the sign of fierce individuation. Through these songs and during this transit, our daughter affirms who she is in and out of relationships and loudly proclaims what she will no longer defend.
Bless him.
Aries is also the sign of the unequivocally and unapologetically extra, so it seems Swift would round out the release with “The Anthology,” a secret 15-song companion album to “TTPD.”
Swift released her opus while the sun was at a precarious 29 degrees Aries. Known as the anaretic degree, this is the last moment before a planet changes signs.
Also called critical degree, 29 is notoriously unstable. It is insistent and must simply express the essence of the archetype in its entirety. In Aries, the anaretic is volatile, even vitriolic. You have to let it out, play it hard and burn it.
Check, check, check.
Venus/Mercury conjunction
Swift’s latest was released just hours before the planet of love (Venus) and the planet of communication (Mercury) were united in the cardinal cauldron of Aries. Conjunctions mix the energies of two planets. Given the predominant influence of fire, the results here are incendiary.
Under normal conditions, this conjunction allows us to own and express our desires, but during a retrograde period and under the sign of Aries, our desires and our language around craving and connection take on a new level. different intensity – let’s call it argumentative attraction.
It’s about wanting someone but wanting more than anything to be heard, themes strongly related to “TTPD”.
Swift’s double album was released just hours before the planet of love (Venus) and the planet of communication (Mercury) were united in the cardinal cauldron of Aries.
Brilliant astrologer Colin Bedell of Queer Cosmos explains that under this conjunction and during this retrograde, we reimagine the role of the individual in relationships.
“Our relationship satisfaction is largely determined by the autonomy of another partner. We are attracted to others when they are in their element. When they’re excited about something… When they’re radiant, when they’re expressive, when they’re fully defined,” Bedell said.
‘TTPD’ is T. Swift at her fullest and most fearless, at ease and in her element, having passed through the baptismal fires of love and loss, grown wiser – and with new pain for the flour mill, transforming what hurts into what heals.
Rewrite the book of love during Mercury retrograde? We love to see it Tay Tay.
Bedell suggests that this conjunction raises the question: “How much life force and self-sufficiency do I bring to romantic relationships?” » Swift’s long list of ex-lovers is riddled with the names of men who couldn’t hold on to her life force, nor sustain her level of self-sufficiency – fools, she won’t suffer anymore.
Perhaps with Libra bro Travis Kelce, Swift has finally found a vitalizing partner; a safe place to land and a suitable person to hang your wishes, dreams and refrains on.
Rewrite the book of love during Mercury retrograde? We love to see it, Tay Tay.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effects on each sign of the zodiac. His horoscopes incorporate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. She is also an accomplished writer who has profiled a variety of artists and performers, and has chronicled her experiences at length during her travels. Among the many fascinating topics she covered were cemetery etiquette, her love of neighborhood bars, Cuban Airbnbs, a “girl’s guide” to strip clubs, and the “weirdest” foods available abroad.
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