Monochrome Outfits

There's a fun and interesting article about New Yorkers who wear only one color in New York Magazine. It's called "One is the Loveliest Color" written by Joanna Goddard.

Don't know their charts, of course, but I would imagine that the astrological reasons for this type of thing would be either a strong fear of change and need for habit and uniformity (Moon/Saturn) or a strong, obsessive Pluto. That's on the deep psychological level. Maybe there's a lot of planets in Fixed Signs. All characters mentioned are creative & individualistic. I would expect a strong Venus and Neptune for the creativity, and Uranus for Eccentricity. That covers pretty much all the planets so I guess I'm safe that at least some of my insights are accurate, lol.

It's fun to ponder why these people might prefer these colors. The article does mention years and time spans in a couple of the cases so let me ponder...

Valeria McCullough wears only Yves Klein blue. This is a very vibrant electric blue. Because of that I would expect Uranus, ruler of Electricity and Electric Blue, to be very strongly placed in McCullough's chart. She is a Shoe Designer so she must have a strong Pisces element in her chart as well.

I checked the chart of Yves Klein, the artist who had this special type of blue pigment manufactured. He painted almost exclusively with it. His Uranus was in Aries, unaspected to the rest of the planets in his chart which really emphasizes its presence in his chart. Uranus disposes to Mars in Pisces which squares his Saturn and Nodes in Gemini and Sagittarius -- a great aspect for manufacturing anything and turning it into a life project. And then he's got an awesome artistic Grand Trine between Venus-Jupiter to Neptune-Moon to Saturn. Really excellent aspect for an artist overall.

Rebecca Turbow wears only a light-medium gray right now. She is a fashion designer. She wore only Turquoise for 8 years and then switched to gray last September because she says she had a difficult year and needed to change. I wonder if this means that her chart was heavily affected by the Saturn-Neptune opposition in Leo-Aquarius. The 8 year Turquoise phase might be connected with a Sun-Venus cycle in her chart. How appropriate for a Fashion Designer.

Karim Rashid wears White half the time and Pink half the Time. He's an Industrial Designer. In College he wore only White. Then during a few years in Europe he wore only Black. When he returned to New York he switched back to White. He says he thinks he might like pink because his Mother dressed him in it when he was a baby because she wanted a girl. Emily Dickinson wore only White, was even buried in a white coffin. She was a Sagittarius so I suspect there might also be a Sagittarius element to Mr. Rashid's chart. The Pink in a man's chart might indicate a Retrograde Venus or Mars, maybe natally or maybe by Progression, or maybe both at once.

Elizabeth Sweethart is a Fashion Designer who wears only Kelly Green. She says that this is a compensation for living in New York which is so far away from Nature. I almost died watching all those dogs trying to pee on hard concrete myself. Sweetheart has been in New York since 1964 and it sounds like she's been wearing Kelly Green for almost as long. Maybe she's got a bowl shape chart or some other indicator, a strong lack in Elements maybe? Don't know, maybe all Earth or no Earth? Some people are attracted to the element that they lack, some are obsessively attracted to it.

Stephen Merritt is a Singer-Songwriter who wears only Brown. Hmmm, sounds like he's got an emphasis on Earth Signs in his chart, maybe a strong Saturn-Pluto. Maybe he's a very grounded person or maybe he just doesn't like to stand out in a crowd. He's close to his dog so I think he might be grounded. What the Hell is he doing in New York then? He says that brown doesn't show lint and dog hair.

I found the article through the blog: www.kottke.org. Here's the link to the article http://nymag.com/fashion/08/spring/44210/.