This week Jimmy Fallon mentioned a new music video that was going viral like crazy, so I checked it out. The video is “Love Myself” by Hailee Steinfeld, who you may remember as the awesome young actress from the Coen Brothers film True Grit. Although I don’t love the song or video (maybe I’m just a little too old!), the astrological correlations for its release are striking. The song was released August 7, 2015, and the video a week later on August 14. As of today (Oct. 9, 2015), the video has 19 million views! We’ll look at the release chart for the video. We don’t have a time, so I’ll just look at the aspects, and ignore the houses and Ascendant.
To start, the chart has Venus conjunct the Sun and Moon – all in Leo. That’s a powerhouse of love for the self! And the sentiment behind “Love Myself” is a perfect anthem to express this energy. In addition, that tight Leo conjunction is trine Uranus in Aries. In the chorus, Hailee repeats the phrase “Gonna love myself, no, I don’t need anybody else,” adding the Uranian and Arian impulse of freedom, liberation and self-actualization to the Leo vibe.
Watching the video, we see young women admiring themselves in the mirror, taking pleasure in their appearance and self-expression, a positive expression of the Leo energy in this particular conjunction. But a closer listen to the lyrics reveal that this is mainly an anthem glorifying masturbation (see “Love Myself” lyrics from Google Play). Ah, youth!
