From November 1st until New Year’s Day, we Americans are inundated with the background sounds of the most wonderful time of the year.
For some, fa-la-la-la fk is out, with a quarter of retail workers citing holiday music as a source of mental strain and emotional damage.
Still, carols and all, Christmas music is an enduring part of our national landscape.
In the words of Post columnist Rich Lowry: “American tastes have changed drastically over the decades, yet our Christmas songbook has largely remained the same. With honorable exceptions — most notably Mariah Carey’s 1994 classic, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” – the most played and beloved Christmas carol dating back to the 1930s and several decades after.
In honor of the season’s songbook, we’re matching a Christmas carol with each zodiac sign. Read, listen aloud and be cheerful and bright.
“Father Christmas” – The Kinks
Aries embodies the energy of punk rock, coming out of the gate with an ax to grind, a fire to stoke, a sneer to share, and a mall Santa.
Kinks guitarist Dave Davies recalls the song: “I love the humor of it, the aggression and the bitterness. I could see my parents’ faces when Christmas came. They had to struggle to make ends meet. We got what we needed, but there was something fake about the party.”
Humor and aggression? Calling the bull to the tune of Christmas bells? The unrepentant Aries energy.
“Christmas in Hollis” – Run DMC
Taurus rules the second house of material goods and earthly pleasures, and this buzzer tells the story of a good Samaritan who walks in the park, finds a wallet, is rewarded with a million in cold hard cash, a warm yule log and a belly full of pasta and cheese. . A Taurus poem.
“Little Drummer Boy” – Frank Sinatra
Have a Gemini fail to bring a gift for a newborn demigod and improvise a drum solo. Pure variability, no rum pum pum pum.
Runner-up for Gemini yuletide banger is Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” which encourages singing, spinning and fun over reflection or feeling. To add to Gemini’s adaptable and accepting energy, according to Lee, Johnny Marks, the man behind the song “was Jewish and didn’t even believe in Christmas. He said he wrote it on the beach in New York [while watching] the swaying pines in summer”.
“Last Christmas” – WHAM!
The late, great George Michael was a Cancer king, and this Christmas is positively steeped in those cardinal, emo waters. Still crying over a doomed love affair a year later? Does passive aggressively suggest that your ex had an icy soul and was taking advantage of your compassionate nature and shoulder pad to cry on? Pure cancer.
For further proof, see the video above, where our suave, feather-haired George can be seen snogging and drinking, the twin tenants of a scorned Crab.
“All I want for Christmas is you” – Mariah Carey
The lion is the sign of royalty and HRH Mariah Carey is the undisputed Queen of Christmas.
While the MC is an Aries himself, this classic sings to the proud spirit of the lion. Leo is a fixed fire sign that rules the heart, demanding absolute loyalty and complete adoration from their loved ones and associates. Too dear for a Leo to shun gifts and snow in exchange for another person’s promised wholeness.
“White Christmas” – Bing Crosby
A party without flaws or boredom? An enviable type of Christmas for the cleaning Virgo. In second place is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, as Virgo is oxygenated by understatement – no song or story sums up the spirit of the badass, or the under-reindeer if you will, like Rudolph. In the major arcana of the tarot, Virgo is represented by the Hermit, who, like Rudolph, illuminates a way out for others.
“Merry Christmas (The War Is Over)” – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Mr. John Lennon, the most famous Libra in music history, singing a heartfelt anti-war duet/appeal for peace and inclusion in troubled times alongside his wife and the Harlem Community Choir? Venus in her highest and most hopeful expression.
On promoting peace, Lennon reflected: “Now I understand what you have to do: Spice up your political message with a little honey.” Sweeten hard truths and softly sing your agenda? Scales to the end.
“River” – Joni Mitchell
Sounding like someone dragged “Jingle Bells” down to the underworld, Scorpio sage Joni Mitchell sings her people’s song.
Humorous, self-loathing and beautiful in the way that only funerals, jackets and frozen wishes can be. – those who are the loneliest in a crowd and the most confident plumbers in the depths of the human psyche.
“Merry Christmas” – José Feliciano
This song sounds like a party, and that’s truly the MO of every Sagittarian who’s ever raised a jug of wine or an arrow to the sky. The repeated refrain, “Feliz Navidad / Próspero año y felicidad,” translates to “Merry Christmas, a year of prosperity and happiness,” a fitting sentiment for the sign of fortune, lemons in lemonade, expansion, and good fortune.
“Fairy Tale of New York” – The Pogues
The late Shane MacGowan, lead singer of The Pogues, was a postcard Capricorn, born to us on Christmas Day 1957. This holiday classic, written from the reflective perspective of a down-on-his-luck lover who spent Christmas Eve in a tank drunk, it has no refreshing feelings (like a sea goat likes it), but still carries with it a high note of hope.
“Do they know it’s Christmas?” – Band Aid
Aquarius is the sign of community organization and humanitarian responsibility. In nature, “Do They Know It’s Christmas” was conceived as an awareness anthem to raise money for those affected by the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s.
Featuring rock-solid visuals and a cast of musicians including Duran Duran, George Michael, Boy George, Bono and Phil Collins, the song and accompanying video raised $10 million for the cause in a single year.
While Aquarius is driven by revolutionary zeal and utopian ideals, their crystal visions often crack under the weight of mismanagement.
Case in point: a 1986 exposé in Spin Magazine reported that proceeds from Do They Know It’s Christmas, as well as Geldof’s follow-up projects We Are the World and Live Aid, may have inadvertently helped the dictator African Mengistu Haile Mariam. buy weapons from Russia. Yes.
“I wish it could be Christmas every day” – Wizzard
A Christmas classic brought to life by a glam rock band that seems to be all about Santa, the main sparkle and cheer in this whimsical video, “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday,” fits the bill perfectly to escapist tendencies, trinket temperaments. and similar Pisces sugarplum preferences.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and reports irreverently on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. To book a birth chart or transit reading, visit her website.
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