The Atlanta Character You Are Based On Your Zodiac Sign

Donald Glover's mercurial FX comedy "Atlanta" is a tough show to pin down. On paper, it seems relatively simple: An intelligent but aimless man named Earn (Glover) finds himself managing the career of his cousin Alfred (Brian Tyree Henry), AKA Paper Boi, an up-and-coming Atlanta rapper and part-time drug dealer. From that starting point, Glover and his collaborators — most notably his brother Stephen and director Hiro Murai — create a kaleidoscopic portrait of Black life in America and beyond in the 21st century. Hilarious and haunting in equal measure, the show's style is expansive enough to include both the absurdist comedy of a rival rapper's invisible car and the Southern Gothic horror that is Teddy Perkins.

Beyond its central quartet — Earn, Alfred, their stoner-philosopher friend Darius (LaKeith Stanfield), and Earn's off-and-on girlfriend Vanessa (Zazie Beetz) — "Atlanta” hosts a wide cross-section of its titular city's citizens, from mooching ex-cons to wealthy businessmen. But which character best fits your personality? We can look to the stars for guidance, but be warned: Like in the show itself, the results may not be pretty, but they will be honest. Here's the "Atlanta" character you are based on your zodiac sign.

Tauruses are homebodies — creatures of comfort. They enjoy the finer things in life, which you might not expect from a sign with a symbol as large and reckless as the bull. But underneath that rough exterior, bulls can be surprisingly gentle, and a Taurus' stubborn nature can likewise be soothed with sensual pleasures. Touch and taste are what they seek.

Alfred's friend Tracy, played by Khris Davis, shows up in the first episode of "Atlanta" Season 2 — fresh out of jail and making himself right at home on Al's couch, much to the chagrin of Earn. Like the symbolic bull, Tracy's size and swagger conceal a taste for beauty and self-care, exemplified by the titular hairstyle in the episode "Sportin' Waves." He describes the process he takes to get the perfect waves in his hair so lovingly that Darius can't help but try to peek under Tracy's durag to see how they're coming along. Later in the same episode, Tracy heads to the mall for a pedicure to remedy his "vampire toes." He's comfortable in his own skin and unapologetically himself, with a confidence that seems custom-designed to rub Earn the wrong way. The two are compelling opposites, as demonstrated in the episode "Money Bag Shawty" when Tracy claims that he, not Earn, is Alfred's manager in order to impress some dancers at a strip club.

Cancer is represented in the zodiac by the crab, a creature whose insides are protected by a hard outer shell. This manifests in human Cancers as self-preservation, cautiousness, a preference for staying at home, and a powerful intuition. But like real crabs, what lies underneath a Cancer's exterior can be much softer and more vulnerable.

Alfred "Paper Boi" Miles, played by Brian Tyree Henry, is "Atlanta's" resident Cancer. Alfred has many protective layers, from his Paper Boi persona to his seemingly perpetual marijuana high. But there's also a fierce intelligence that sits behind Alfred's eyes — a constant skepticism about the world that he's found himself in. One of Henry's many gifts as an actor is how well he's able to convey Alfred's shifting moods with little more than his subtle facial expressions, as when a would-be tryst in Amsterdam at the start of Season 3 ends with two Dutch women destroying Alfred's hotel room. He's often as much of an audience surrogate as his cousin Earn. Put together, the two make a pretty perfect pair, with Glover's verbal comedy matching Henry's physical comedy. Season 3 finds Alfred touring in Europe, enjoying his rising fame as the layer between himself and his Paper Boi persona grows thinner. Hopefully, his intuition will always stay as sharp as his lyrics.

To be a Virgo is to be a perfectionist – exacting, studied, and systematic. But while that description may make one sound like an unfeeling robot, Virgos often have a deep well of emotion inside. They yearn to make a difference in the world the best way they know how, through tangible, real-world action. Perhaps that's why a barber is such a fitting job for a Virgo: Focused and calculating down to the very last follicle, yet warm enough to make customers comfortable in their chair.

A good barber inspires loyalty, but that loyalty can be a double-edged sword, as is the case in the "Atlanta" Season 2 episode "Barbershop." Alfred has an ostensibly easy errand: Get a haircut from his barber Bibby (comedian Robert S. Powell) in advance of a photoshoot later that week. But the task soon goes from simple to Herculean when Bibby is called away to his girlfriend's house mid-cut. Before he knows what's happening, Alfred is whisked away from the barbershop to accompany Bibby across town. They visit the barber's girlfriend, steal lumber and Zaxby's leftovers from a construction site, pick up Bibby's son, and commit a hit-and-run. After a long, infuriating day, Al finally gets his $20 haircut. Was it worth the trouble? Alfred's pained look when trying out a new barber at the end of the episode says it all.

Like their scorpion symbol, a Scorpio will bide their time quietly before striking. While its strength and passion often get it confused for a fire sign, Scorpio is actually a water sign, governed by intellect and intuition — a calculating predator whose ruling planet Pluto (yes, still a planet as far as the zodiac is concerned) represents both constructive and destructive transformation.

It's that transformative force that marks the grotesque Teddy Perkins as the key Scorpio of the "Atlanta" universe. Introduced in Season 2, Teddy is a former musician who lives in a decrepit Georgia mansion — a place that he believes will one day become a museum dedicated to himself, his shut-in brother Benny, and the memory of their monstrous father. Into this house of horrors walks Darius, lured there by the promise of a free piano but finding much more within. By the time he leaves with his new piano, Darius has witnessed the destruction of the Perkins family from within by murder-suicide. 

Transformation rules the "Teddy Perkins" episode outside of its narrative as well: First, in the creation of Teddy himself — a high-voiced cross between Michael Jackson and Howard Hughes played by Donald Glover under heavy makeup — and second, in the way that this horror-steeped episode helped transform the series into something even more ambitious than it already was.

There's a lot going on inside a Capricorn. Like Scorpio, it's a fundamentally misunderstood sign, often thought of only in terms of conservatism and restraint. That prudence is certainly an element of the Capricorn spirit, but there's more to it than that — a wild side that's ready to burst forth at a moment's notice. As astrologer Aliza Kelly once wrote, "Capricorns are said to age backward: They become increasingly youthful, optimistic, and playful as they mature" (via Allure).

That description certainly applies to Van, Earn's co-parent and sometimes partner, played by Zazie Beetz. Van begins the series as the responsible yin to Earn's insecure yang, the mother of his child with a stable job and a stable home. It's only after she's shocked out of her routine in the Season 1 episode "Value," first by an emotional night out with her Jayde and then by losing her teaching job the next morning, that Van begins to grow beyond the role that she previously assigned to herself. A lesser show might have kept her as a symbol of domesticity, or as a motherly killjoy for Earn and the guys, but Van eventually becomes as much of a searcher, a lost soul, and a wild child as anyone else.

Pisces is the final sign of the zodiac calendar, and as such, it contains all the wisdom collected by the eleven signs preceding it. At least, that's the idea, but as often happens, the truth is more complicated. A Pisces' strong intuition and visionary qualities leave them a little less suited to handle adversity. Mystical connections and romance abound, but when it comes to the nitty-gritty, the water sign is often at sea.

Donald Glover's Earnest "Earn" Marks is the Pisces of "Atlanta," a young man dreaming of ... something. He just doesn't quite know what yet. That indecisiveness, that striving for a goal that isn't always clear, is Earn's calling card, especially in Season 1, when he becomes Alfred's manager mostly by repeatedly claiming to be. Earn was raised in Atlanta but went to school at Princeton. He returns to ATL as a stranger in many ways and must reinsert himself back into the community. Of course, his on-and-off relationship with Van and the raising of their daughter Lottie is also a textbook example of Pisces' preference for fantasy over reality. Earn is very smart, though, and as Season 3 begins, we see him growing into himself as Alfred's manager, channeling his visionary energy into actual, tangible results.