When Sabrina Carpenter dropped news of her August 29 album release, Man’s Best Friend, we’re certain she expected a buzz—but probably not a full-blown controversy. The original cover art, with the pop star down on all fours before a suited man, sparked instant backlash.
Alternate covers soon appeared—one cheekily “approved by God,” as Carpenter announced on her Insta. Yet the scandal only amplified the rollout of her hotly anticipated seventh studio LP. For a headstrong Taurus whose birth chart is packed with planets in rebellious Aquarius, it was par for the course. Her astrology reveals a firecracker personality who deftly turns scandal into strategy, then turns that into a zeitgeist spectacle.
With Carpenter’s sun sign in earthy, glamorous Taurus, she’s anchored in sensuality. Ruled by the planet Venus, Taurus revels in beauty, pleasure, and slow-burning magnetism. Like others who share her sign, including Megan Fox and vintage pin-up icon Bettie Page, she skillfully weaves sexuality into her identity. Carpenter teases and tantalizes while remaining fully in command, often in her signature no-pants-and-towering-heels look.
The grounded energy of Carpenter’s sun sign is a welcome balance for her hazy Pisces moon. In astrology, the sun reveals how we shine in the world while the moon is in charge of our feelings. With boundary-challenged Pisces helming her inner world, it’s no surprise that Carpenter’s lyrics read like confessions of her emotionally messy moments. In “Taste,” she sings to her ex’s new GF, “You’re wonderin’ why half his clothes went missin’/My body’s where they’re at.”
Dreamy Pisces is also the sign of fantasy. The “Espresso” crooner seems perfectly comfortable being an object of desire. Yes, even for the fuckboy who’s “thinking ’bout me every night.”
And while Carpenter seems to have a bone to pick with a wide swath of the male species, astrology tells a different tale. Her Venus sign (the planet of love) is believed to be in maternal Cancer. If so, she might actually have a thing for a man-child—a guy she can boss around, nurture, and keep under her thumb. “I like my men incompetent,” she sings, perhaps not ironically, in “Manchild.”
Digging into her Mars sign, tension (in the right measure) could also be one of her turn-ons. The lusty planet of aggression falls in romantic Libra in Carpenter’s birth chart. Anyone who’s listened to the Short n’ Sweet singer’s lyrics knows that the line between love and hate is thin for her. Her forthcoming album is sure to be packed with more of the hilariously cutting revenge songs we are all clamoring for.
As Carpenter embarks on her sold-out arena tour this fall, she has lucky Jupiter on her side. The planet of global expansion is currently soaring through Cancer and the trailblazing, record-breaking first house of her astrological chart. This fame-boosting transit is next-level “girl meets world,” and it couldn’t come at a better time for her. The boy-men will come and go, but that’s fine. In this era, Sabrina Carpenter only needs to be her own best friend to keep on rising up the charts—sky-high heels not required.
