…But, I wasn’t a vibrant child. I was usually crying. And the crying probably started after my second grade teacher called my mom to tell her that I needed to stop singing in class. What kind of adult tells a child to stop expressing joy? Apparently, teachers who don’t feel any joy themselves. (Side note: my natal Chiron is in the sign of Gemini.)

Today’s post brings a glimpse of the dreamier (and less dreadful --sorry fashion industry) fashions of Saturn in Pisces, a vibe we can expect to see for the next three years as Saturn swims through the Piscean waters from March 7, 2023 through May 24, 2025 and August 31, 2025 through Feb 13, 2026.

That’s one of those things people tend to say whenever someone is faced with doing something or accomplishing a goal that is really difficult.

To some extent we are conditioned to think that if we “fail” we don’t want it bad enough. But I don’t think that’s it. What needs to be asked instead is WHY? Why do you want this thing, and what can accomplishing this goal help you feel?

Saturn is one of my favorite planetary mentors. This sobering Sally sets us up to build strong foundations for the successes we desire — and the potential we are meant to grow into. It gives us homework we can’t pay someone to do. We have to do it ourselves. So, if you want easier assignments, be the teacher’s pet.

The Saturn transit known as the Saturn Return, that takes place from ages 27-31 when transiting Saturn returns to it’s natal degree in the birth chart, is the biggie, the whopper, the earth shattering, life changing, can’t-go-back-ever time of your life that you’re either going to love or hate and you better make all the right decisions…

This is the story of “Why You’ll Never Catch Me in a Peacoat” originally published on my blog in 2015, and recently updated. I thought reposting it would be the perfect compliment to Venus’s current transit through Capricorn from December 9th, 2022 – January 2nd, 2023.

In the practice of numerology, we each experience the vibrations of a yearly personal number. This number influences the energetic pace and themes of your individual year during the period of a calendar year. When the calendar year changes, so does your personal number. What is your personal number for the year?

For most of my adult life my consumption of clothing was driven by the need to belong to other people, not myself. I purchased clothes I thought would convince others to accept me and that would also help me become more of my authentic self (instead of just being myself in exactly what I wanted to wear.)

Sometimes, the first step in making a style change is the dreaming, the marinating in what can be, the construction of a vision, while remaining in ‘comfort’ with and cushioned by the familiar.

Inspired by a recent writing on Pluto Retrograde by my long-time sacred arts and astrological mentor Briana Saussy, in this post we will explore the year’s Pluto Retrograde and it’s relationship with protecting + reclaiming power… through wardrobe.

Let’s talk about taxation without representation.

No, not that US history stuff. Rolls eyes.

Style stuff!

And, being taxed by the stuff in our wardrobes without feeling represented by anything in our wardrobes!

I believe, as artists and architects (how Saturnian!) of our lives, often with businesses intertwined, every Saturn transit affects our art/life-making from the subject matter that influences us to the work we engage in.

When any planet retrogrades we are offered the time and space to review, revise, correct, reveal (with mindfulness) and repair. Considering the themes governed by each house below, what might be up for review and rearranging, repair and recharge, revision and reconnection during this Mercury Retrograde in Gemini within your style, comforts and creative expression?

Neptune is the governing planet of dreams, illusions, visions and fantasies. It clues us in on the sources of our inspirations and desires — for art, travel, pleasure and heightened sensory experiences (#alltheVenusthings).

In the sign of Cancer, the New Moon is going to highlight themes of self-mothering, the mother, roots, self-care, nurturing, security, protection, comfort and the home.

And someone with a natal Moon in Cancer…

Under the bright light of this Full Moon in Aquarius, the sign of collective energies, rebellion and future advancement…you may find yourself asking:

What do I want to transform?

Where can I benefit from boundaries?

What role does community play in my life?

In the 8th, we meet with themes of death, rebirth, transformation, taxes/taxing, other people’s resources, secrets, the underworld—and the heavens, and power struggles…all outcomes or results of those seventh House themes and journeying. The 8th House presents us with experiences that…

Energy is in a constant state of change. And so is fashion.

And so, are some outdated life patterns getting left on the cutting room floor of the astrological happenings this year?

When it comes to style Virgo is the perfectionist. I always think of a career tailor or haute couture seamstress; someone who dedicates their life to this service of beauty and someone who cares about the details, never leaving one undone.