Which ‘Yellowjackets’ character embodies your zodiac sign?
There’s nothing mellow about this hit show.
In a note on survival, grim, prolific Virgo Stephen King reminds us, “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.”
Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” the doom hearted tale of a teenage soccer team struggling to survive after a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness, attempts to pinpoint that lonely section of hell and chart the change that comes from and through the act of enduring and coming out the other side.
Delirious with hunger, hallucinogens and hormones, the Yellowjackets resort to increasingly drastic, “Lord of the Flies” esque measures to make it through.
Chock full of trauma bonding, nineties nostalgia and allusions to the darkness that dwells within and beyond, “Yellowjackets” is an ode to the stakes and aftermath of continuance.
Survival brings out our base instincts and as a result it also activates the primal expression of our respective sun signs, with this in mind we bring you a list of the “Yellowjackets” characters as zodiac signs. Read on and stay hungry.
Jeff
Ruled by Mars and driven by Id impulse, Aries folks are prone to making rash decisions and have a hard time saying no to sex in cars. Enter two timing, loan shark seeking, diary reading, glitter spilling blackmailing former jock Jeff. Among the unsung merits of Aries is their willingness to perform questionable acts of heroism and stand up when they see someone being cut down.
We see these qualities expressed in Jeff, who for all his faults was still willing to take a murder wrap for his wife, love her in spite and because of her serious flaws and flat out refused to let Jackie’s awful WASP parents insult her. Some saviors don’t wear capes folks, they run failed furniture stores.
Coach Ben
An, unflappable, grounding force of reason, carrying condoms and a psyche full of regret, Coach Ben is an apex Taurus. In true blue bull fashion Ben has an epiphany about the importance of love while lying on moss, high AF on mushrooms. Like many a Taurus, Ben is benign until pushed and then it’s full bull horns and full blown outbursts.
Taurus folk enjoy earthly delights and the only thing that can force them into the defiant, destructive stance of a hunger strike is self-righteousness. We see this in Ben, who has thus far refused to engage in cannibalism despite the critical condition of starvation.
Jessica
Gemini is ruled by curious, communicative planet Mercury and Jessica Roberts played by Rekha Sharma is a fixer and a duplicitous double agent whose job it is to uncover dirt, clean up calamity and goad people into spilling tea.
Mercury is also the domain of the mass media and Jessica baits Misty, her abductor, with a book deal to earn her way into her confidences and finagle her freedom. Known for their sharp minds and cutting words, it tracks that a Gemini like Jessica would use her first opportunity to speak without a gag in her mouth to insult her captor’s haircut.
Runner up for Gemini goes to season two standout Crystal who struggles to contain her need to express and who took dubious Gemini energy to a whole new level by CONSUMING her twin in utero.
Misty
As Christina Ricci describes her character Misty and coincidentally, all Cancers, “She takes a lot of crap from people but she’s putting that away in a box somewhere and you will be punished.”
Proving that caretaking is an exercise in control, the moon ruled, emotionally unstable Misty is not to be f—ed with and embodies the high and low expressions of this cardinal water sign. Our girl gives help whether it’s wanted or warranted, ain’t afraid of an amputation and springs alive and into action when crisis calls.
HIGHLY manipulative she is willing to go to great and terrible lengths to be needed. Deeply invested in the lives and decisions of others this nurse turned citizen detective turned murder cleaner upper is a ride or die even if she’s absolutely off the rails.
Jackie
What crueler fate for a sun ruled fire sign than to die in the cold? Leo Jackie is the enviable captain of the soccer team and though she really brings it with the pep talks confidence early in the series, she veers often and easily into insufferable arrogance/egotism.
In true lion form, Jackie maintains that imminent death by starvation is no reason to waste a perfectly good outfit and pushes for the team to throw a Dooms-coming party. At their best, lions want others to look theirs, and one of Jackie’s more endearing moments comes when she’s doing Misty’s makeup for their nihilistic jamboree.
Oxygenated by envy and resistant to accountability, pride is the downfall of lions and Jackie’s refusal to ask for help, admit defeat or apologize leaves her out in the cold and as a cannibal offering.
Taissa
Played by Jasmin Savoy Brown and Tawny Cypress, Taissa is a determined, dirt eating, tree climbing Virgo, bent on turning trauma into fuel for achievement. Virgos often confuse success for satisfaction and are devastated when the former fails to deliver, a trajectory we see in the highly accomplished Tai whose veneer of perfection belies some deep, deep, lip biting, dog killing darkness.
Virgo is the realist and the great investigator of the zodiac and Tai is no exception, she is skeptical about Lottie’s paranormal powers and hires a PI to sniff out snitches. Playing the long game of logic even as she plays out her own destruction.
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Shauna
Air signs observe emotion more than embody it, a quality that serves to explain some of Shauna’s more ruthless behaviors, including but not limited to infidelity, deceit, backyard bunny butchering, ear eating and murder. Conflict averse, chameleonic, and people pleasing, Libras get by and get away with a whole hell of a lot because they are unassuming and aces at keeping up appearances.
Libras have an interesting relationship with justice and personal justification; if they can nominate a reason or find an excuse for their behavior (and they always can), they harbor no guilt and take no blame. These people can go with the flow and follow the crowd to a dangerous degree, as our girl proved when she nearly killed Travis in a hive mind moment of abandon.
Libra is ruled by Venus, planet of love, beauty and literature and Shauna, played by Melanie Lynskey and Sophie Nelisse, tenderly harbors the dashed dream of being a writer who gets to f–k a French mime. Don’t stop believing, baby.
Natalie
Coming in hot with a rifle and an insult to greet Misty in season one, episode 2, Natalie announces herself as the scorpion among the soccer team. Played by Sophie Thatcher and Juliette Lewis, Nat, like many a Scorpio is hyper perceptive, hard edged, soft hearted, suspicious of everyone and a rogue romantic, equally capable of making a kill shot and smelling a rat/spiritual imposter.
Nat’s out here drinking, smoking, snorting, f–king and fronting trying to take the edge off surviving but all she’s really after is deep intimacy and unadulterated truth.
Scorpio rules the eighth house of sex, death and secrets and apropos of this, natives do not fear the darkness in others and Nat is no exception. Intuitive and intense, Scorpios like Nat do not deal in false hope and understand that a cruel truth is always kinder than an easy lie.
Laura Lee
Sagittarius rules the ninth house of philosophy, adventure and mind expansion. RIP Laura Lee, the archer that dared to believe that god is real, god is good and the best is yet to come. There is an innocent optimism to the Sag spirit, one that makes them sure that all things are possible and beneficial turn of events are probable and Laura Lee fits the bill, a sunny side idealist and unexpected adventurer, she strapped in, teddy at the ready for a solo flight with the pure purpose of going far enough to find help.
Van
Red headed, dead panning, fearless hearted Van is all Capricorn. Sea goats are born to endure and hard to kill and our girl survives all manner of upset, both being left for dead and fed to the wolves. In a bit of art imitating life, Van’s character was supposed to die in the first season, but the“Yellowjackets” crew were so impressed with Liv Hewson’s performance that they decided to keep the character alive.
Lottie
Ruled by two planets, Saturn and Uranus, Aquarius rides the line and the lightning between chaos and control, utopian/dystopian dreamscapes, madness and genius, the established and the unknown, a borderland embodied by combat boot wearing, bear slaying, bone gifting, darkness worshipping cult leader Lottie.
As a fixed air sign, Aquarians are emotionally detached and utterly uncompromising. This equates to a bonafide recipe for the venerated figure head of a an “intentional community” or a cannibal sect, leveraging faith to gain followers and exploiting the vulnerability of others to secure power.
Not for nothing, the scar on her forehead feels like an unholy anointment and brings to mind Charles Manson (Aquarius moon). The Aquarius archetype is associated with progress and preoccupied with the future and true to form, Lottie is cursed/blessed with the gift of precognition.
Travis
Ruled by dreamy, disorienting planet Neptune, Pisces people live in the liminal, struggling to distinguish fantasy from reality and edging always and over the line between solid and soluble, darkness and light.
We see this in a tripping balls Travis who imagines that he “disappears” when he and Jackie are having sex and questions if any of the survivors are really “real.” Don’t blame the drugs, blame the planetary placements, folks.
Hot take: Jesus Christ was a probable Pisces and Travis comes within a knife’s edge of being a sacrificial stag. Obviously a carrier of deep emotions, Travis resorts to the Piscean defense mechanisms of escape, faux stoicism and wearing his hair long enough to hide hid face/feels.
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