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Astro-Beauty; Which Fashion Trend Do You Think Sucked/Sucks?

June 30, 2009 in Astro-Beauty by Mystic Medusa | 34 comments

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There are naturally a lot of peeps in the fashion industry just looking to blame the Global Financial Cock-Up for their ills BUT some say that it’s fashion itself which got too whacked out of proportion…ie; not just pricie but poor value for $$$, not just trends shifting seasonally but insulting merde being served up to an apparently gullible group of buyers happy to look ridiculous just to be in fashion.

Pluto in Saggo from the mid-90s totally manifested as a rise in fabulous sportswear and designer jeans that one could wear anyplace…a definite decrease in formality & more Saggability a la the idea that a fit person can wear more or less anything and look fine. No need for fancy tailoring. And that if you’re active, you don’t need/want to be constrained.

But as Pluto heads into Capricorn & capitalism (apparently) reinvents itself, is fashion kaput? Which fashion trend totally sucked and were you personally reviled by? Is there any fashion trend that actually feels holistic & that you bond with? I’m drawn to the idea of non-leather shoes (eg; Stella McCartney)  but i’m very Aqua like that. Leather feels old & had it to me now.

And, trend forecasters, what will Pluto in Cap do to fashion? There is, obviously, already a massive increase in the people doing and fascinated by craft. ie; d.i.y.

New Vocabulary For Pluto In Capricorn

March 6, 2009 in Astro-History, Astro-Passages, Metaphysical Quirks by Mystic Medusa | 9 comments

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“…The word is bankster, derived by a marriage of banker and gangster.

It was coined, as far as I can deduce, by an American immigrant, a fiery Sicilian-born lawyer by the name of Ferdinand Pecora. He was the chief counsel to the US Senate Committee on Banking set up in the early 30s to probe the origins of the Crash of 1929.

He exposed quite a lot of the Wall Street practices that Harvard’s Professor William Z Ripley had condemned in 1928. The believable Ripley called them – get ready for these Americanisms – “prestidigitation, double-shuffling, honey-fugling, hornswoggling and skullduggery…”

BBC Magazine

Wall Street’s New Bonus Outrage

Pluto in Capricorn & the G.F.C.

February 19, 2009 in Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 39 comments

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G.F.C. for Global Financial Crisis sounds vaguely unwholesome. Too much like K.F.C. Has anyone got a more evocative term?

Anyway, Alan Greenspan backing bank nationalisation in the USA feels super-revolutionary. Forced growth indeed. Am not trying to turn this into an economic-political blog at ALL but this is radical & Pluto is only, i don’t know, TWO degrees of Cap right now.

My son was telling me last June that he’d met some financial planner some place who said there would never be a recession for all these reasons. And I said, with all my astro-authority that come December (Pluto into Capricorn) there would be the beginning of a recession/depression/financial shite unlike any we had ever seen before. And he was like “Woah, you sound like some scary soothsayer dude…” But, yah.

And then the other day he asked when it would get better – the G.F.C. – astrologically. And the first thing that came into my mind was that the actual trending  upward again, post-reformation et al would most likely be when Uranus went into Taurus  & began to trine Pluto…”So,” said my son, brightening, “is that soon?”  He trusts Taurus energy, has it rising and thinks every Taurus he knows “really has their fuqing shit together.”

“2018,” I said. “BUT,” I had to add this whilst running after him. “But Neptune in Pisces sextiles from January 2012 and that could be really good.” He looked really doubtful. “It’s still a long way away….And isn’t Neptune drugs and artists?”  He listens! Finally i said that i think it will improve when Saturn (ruler of Capricorn) goes Direct in May. He rolled his eyes. “Is there anything next week?”

Pluto A La Mode

January 20, 2009 in Astro-Beauty, Astro-Fashion, Astro-Passages by Mystic Medusa | 43 comments

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Vogue Italia

Italian designers are channelling Pluto In Capricorn brilliantly.

This is from an Associated Press article about the men’s fashion collections.

“…In these shaky economic times, Italian designers have chosen rags over riches for their fall-winter 2009-2010 menswear collections, currently previewing on the Milan runway…Gone are the trademark flashy fabrics, dandy designs and macho models, replaced by classic sporty styles in sensible wool, worn by almost boringly average young men….

‘At a time like this, you have to think positive and work hard,’ said Stefano Gabbana in a chat with reporters…

Miuccia Prada on Sunday evening used her minimalist wand to combat the crisis with one of her most essential collections ever. The almost all black and gray show featured jackets and coats with neither lapels nor buttons, slim slacks and plain sweaters. The only details in the collection were the myriad of studs, which dot white shirts, slacks and classic footwear, like mini nails securing the outfits to the body….”

Three tiny things I have noticed since Pluto went properly into Capricorn & the G.F.C etc:  Nobody I know is complaining about having to work too hard , staff in upmarket stores have lost all vestige of their previously sometimes snippy airs & holidays are passe. It’s now all about weaving mini-breaks into one’s day. ie; sleep, the gym, some relaxing scouring of the house from top to bottom.

Note also the models above. Other than their beauty & the interesting trend of monochromatic make-up with big hair concealing beige bandanna things, they could almost be three elite cleaners.