Putting together an outfit that feels like me has alway brought me pleasure. I like surprising myself with how porous and vast my aesthetic can be while still resonating with some inner chord that felt like “Chloe”. I want to wear pieces that are unexpected or make someone go “Wow, I love your outfit” (I am often successful). Growing up in a conservative town, my outfits were always an equalizer, a sign that something about me could be seen and appreciated. It has since morphed and grown to accommodate m clarified sense of style, but letting it continually change is part of the fun.
I’ve always considered my interest in style as vital and consequential— the opposite of frivolous. When I began studying astrology, I had a language for why that was true. As a Leo Rising, ruled by the Sun, I appreciate being noticed on my terms, appreciated for expressing myself. With a rejoicing Venus in the 5th, that would come through adornment, beauty, art. Part of what I try to teach through my Creative Practice Consults is that artistry exists in everything we do— even putting together an outfit for lounging around the house. Those quotidian gestures, like considering how to dress ourselves on a given day, transmits a signal, fills our inner well, stokes the muse.
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Lately, I’ve been studying what astrology says about our style: how we can both use our clothes to honor and remediate the planets as well as look at our own charts to better understand and embody our distinct style.
Today, I thought I would write about why our style matters. And if this topic really interests you then stay tuned. I have an exciting new offer coming to help you use astrology to make your style more authentic and meaningful.
Why Your Style isn’t Frivolous
It Connects Form and Function
There is something so special about when our insides match our outsides. Think of going to a concert in fishnets and lipstick versus traipsing around your house in a slip or a colorful robe. You could, theoretically, do either of these activities in any outfit but there’s something vital to feeling an alignment between your aesthetics and your purpose. This purpose can run the gamut: to feel intimidating, soft, intelligent, alluring, authentic. It could be to move your body freely on a walk. It could be to feel like you belong at the party or the office. The planets are helpful tools for invoking certain feelings or archetypes within yourself because they show up both metaphysically or materially. You can pray or light a candle to the Sun if you want to feel confident and important, but you can also wear warm, dramatic colors, gold jewelry, glittery statement pieces— all Solar aesthetic choices. All of the planets offer colors, jewels, and style choices to help you embody your shifting moods and desires.
It Aids in Planetary Remediation
You can also use planetary dressing strategically to strengthen the parts of yourself with which you may not be naturally comfortable. If you know your chart or have had an astrologer read it, you may know that your Moon may be afflicted or your Mars is in fall, thus making them ripe for remediation, defined as the use of personal actions and planetary sympathies to juice up a deficient part of your chart. Or, if you understand the planets, you can wear creams, pearls, and relaxing outfits, all Lunar things, to give you a better sense of comfort, protection and inner nourishment. The mundane act of choosing your clothes can align you with celestial energies and help strengthen your chart, affecting your life in ways well beyond your wardrobe.
It Makes Each Day a Devotion
One of my favorite ways to use planetary fashion is to align my outfits with the planetary days. Each day of the week is ruled by a specific planet and for years I have been using this scheme to inspire my daily attire. Tuesday is Mars’s day, so I wear red; on Saturn’s day, I wear my dark, witchy outfits. You can see these weekly choices as a form of theurgy, or planetary worship. I’m telling the planet that I see them, respect them, honor them enough to affect my daily life.
As I discuss in my newsletters on the Third House, these little actions and daily activities, including our style choices, matter. They build a life. Over time, they can shift us immensely towards that which we aspire to and help us win the favor of the gods.
It Fills Your Artistic Cup
A big lesson I’ve been sitting with this past year is that creative inspiration does not simply come when I beckon. If I have been too in my head, too in the practical, “doing” mindset, I have less to offer the Muses to spin into gold. If my inner well is dry, in other words, then why would I expect flowers to grow from its waters? I think we block the gifts of creativity by confining it to discrete artistic acts— a painting, a song, a poem— instead of viewing creativity as a manner of seeing, a way of life. The meals I orchestrate each week, from choosing recipes and following cravings, going shopping, arranging when I will make what, is surely an act of creation. Spending my day off in a soaking pool and reading at a coffee shop is real because I made it so. Similarly, my creative impulse loves arranging outfits using all the above factors— planetary days, mood, remediation, etc— to manifest something beautiful and me. Try devoting some time to putting together your outfits each day for a week. See what it makes you feel. See where the inspiration leads you.
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It’s Fun!
First and foremost, all of the above considerations are optional. I get use out of them but surely can’t follow all of them all of the time when picking clothing, nor do I want to. There’s simply a deep joy present in beautiful, weird, interesting clothes, out of seeing what works together and how the subsequent outfit makes me feel. Clothing and style being fun for you is enough for it to matter. Are we not here to see and feel and enjoy our lives? To be curious? To figure out what we love and then have as much of it as possible? Venus, a feminine planet, rules both true love, spiritual devotion and adornment, leisure, style. It all comes from the same impulse, the same source. Don’t overthink it. Pleasure matters.
Styling with the Stars
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been poring over ancient texts, making Pinterest boards and deeply considering what sort of aesthetics and vibes embody each of the traditional planets. Though I have been using color and stone correspondences to dictate my weekly outfits for years, I hadn’t yet considered how to dress for the planets beyond that in part because no one else has done the work before. Plenty talk about embodying your Venus sign on Instagram, but what does it really mean to dress like Saturn or Jupiter?
My new guidebook, “Styling with the Stars,” aims to help you understand planetary style, as well as add a creative layer to your devotion and manifest your unique style. I walk through the fashion of each of the planets, providing color palettes, correspondences and Pinterest boards to stoke your inspiration. Not only do I outline how to use this guide to make every day a sartorial devotion to a specific planet, I also provide ideas on where to look in your own chart to begin mapping your own signature style. What makes an icon is their ability to be one of one, to follow their own muse, to create a trend all their own. My research has proven that astrology is invaluable in informing your own iconic looks.
Stay tuned for more info and content around astrological aesthetics. I’m so excited to share what I’ve learned with you <3
Until next week,
Love,
Chloe