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Speaking as a Capricorn, I prefer Capricorn.
Heres the thing about Capricorns: We normally dont get to have this.
There is no definitive Virgos Groove or Medley: Aquarius for the water goat.
We dont have the evocative edge of Scorpios or confident simplicity of Leos.
Also, Capricorns simply dont have muse energy.
At our worst, we are status-obsessed workaholics.
At our best, were boring: dependable, practical, fiscally responsible.
None of it makes for compelling art.
(Though there are exceptions.
See: Rihannas Capricorn anthem, Work.)
Its the unwanted person lingering at the party that everyone is saying, Who invited him??
about, but the party is … Earth?
New York under the unbearable weight of latter-day capitalism?
Capricorns are both the youngest and the oldest sign of the year, straddling the ball drop.
Too old for dying young / too young to live alone.
It is so rare that Capricorns areseenlike this!
Even rarer that we get pretty piano riffs and noise-inflected interjections and a strings section.
We are normally paid Christmas music and dust.
The Capricorn brand is too grind-set-coded: all about working hard, trudging forward, and pushing through.
But for now, Im claiming it anyway.
Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified Rihanna, a Pisces, as a Capricorn.
The author just really, really wanted it to be true.
