- Always remember:
be your Venus.
- [All] Be your Venus!
- Be your fire!
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^- I'm obsessed with astrology.
^I probably looked up my birth chart
for the first time last year.
^- I've been studying astrology since I was around 16.
^I have a pretty casual relationship with it
and I use it a lot to like connect to my friends
and my co-workers and sometimes it's nice
when you have like a crush to find out
like where's your Venus at, baby?
How do you communicate?
^- Christina has tried (laughs) to get me into astrology.
^She's pulled up my birth chart,
^she's tried to explain it to me
^but it's not something that I have ever really understood.
- I'd say my style is usually pretty clean and minimal.
I wear a lot of things from thrift stores
so a lot of it's vintage.
- I typically wear clothes that I feel like
walk themselves into a room.
I love pieces that I consider like signature
statement pieces.
- I tend to wear all black but I like to layer it up
and I like to have bits and pieces that feel edgy.
- Today we're gonna be meeting with Rebecca Gordon
who's been studying astrology for over a decade
and she's gonna tell us about ourselves in ways
we might not have thought about before.
^- I'm Rebecca.
^I'm a professional astrologer,
^also columnist and author.
I grew up with astrology.
My step-mother's an astrologer so since I could speak,
I was learning astrology.
A birth chart is a snapshot of the sky
at the exact moment you were born.
Nobody else in the entire planet
has the same birth chart as you.
When I'm doing a style chart, I take out all of the planets,
and I only look at three things:
I look at the sun, the ascendant, which is the rising sign,
and Venus.
What are your staples?
You probably have like two or three of them,
that's your sun sign.
Your rising sign tells me about how the sun sign
does it's job and your Venus sign tells me
about your personal magnetism, your powers of attraction.
Now I recommend everybody dress as their chart
because that shows us that the inside of us
is displayed on the outside.
- Hi, Rebecca!
- [All] Hi!
- Hi, everybody!
I've prepared each of your astrological charts
and your personal style charts.
You are all actually pretty much dressed
as your chart right now.
This is yours, Christina.
- [Kuwilileni] Oh, pretty.
And Emily.
- [Emily] Oh!
- And Kuwilileni
- [Kuwilileni] Nice.
- So now we're gonna be meeting with stylists
who are going to actually dress us.
So what do you think they should be looking for?
^- I'm Sam.
^- And I'm Lunden
- [Both] And we're stylists.
- My typical aesthetic is to incorporate
vintage and second hand into pretty much
everything that I do.
- My goal is just to make sure every client looks sexy
and feel comfortable in what they wear.
- First of all, let's start with your sun sign
which is a gemini.
When I think of gemini, I think of mixed prints,
fun, flirty, lots of accessories
and also always an interesting hairdo.
I would recommend to our stylists to bring more
gemini in for her.
I want to see more mixed prints, more fun.
Gemini sun, Scorpio rising so we're bringing in
a quality of shadow here and bad girl as well.
- Oh!
I like this.
Bad Tina!
- I see your Venus is in the sign of Taurus.
Quality is everything when it comes to a Taurus.
I would love to see you mixing this all up in one look.
You're the person that could do it.
- And what about Kuwilileni?
- Sun sign's Gemini which is fun, flirty, mixed prints.
You're Sagittarius rising.
This is the globetrotter look:
eclectic, bohemian, jewelry from all across the globe.
So your Venus sign is an Aries:
bold, powerful and fiery Aries.
I would say my challenge would be for you as well
to amp up on your Venus sign:
more clean lines and bold geometry.
- And what about Em?
- Black, black, and more black.
Here we're talking about the dark and powerful
statement piece.
The next party is you're Taurus rising.
This is not just any black clothes.
This is top of the line, high end designer black.
Your Venus is in Sagittarius.
Sagittarius brings me to world travels,
bright pops of colors.
I'd like to see more of a glam influence
with the tor-ian element.
On top of that we're gonna add in some pops of color.
- Oh God!
- Romance is dead for Emily.
(all laugh)
- It's true.
Romance is truly dead for me but I am happy
to try these tips.
- I promise you, you're going to have so much fun with this.
- In terms of getting styled by Lunden and Sam,
^it was really exciting to see what they picked out for me
^just because that outfit was something
that I would never have worn myself.
- So the final look that Lunden and Sam put together
was so cute.
I feel like it was me if I had a little bit more money
and smiled more.
^It was just like super fun and flirty.
My only negative comment on it would be that
it felt like there was a lot going on.
Like at one point I had like two bags on
and a ring on every finger.
- I just could never see myself wearing that red blazer.
Parts that I did enjoy were mixing up the structure
of what I was wearing.
^I don't usually do crop tops because I don't like
^to show a whole lot of my skin.
They put like high waisted pants
with like a big thick belt underneath a crop top.
That kind of spaced me out a little bit,
made me look just a little bit taller.
- She has arrived!
- Even if I didn't feel totally myself in the outfit
they chose for me,
it did give me really good ideas of how I should tie
all of those elements together.
I definitely want to play more with leather.
- I think I dress a lot to my Sagittarius
and my Gemini so I was hoping to see
a lot more of the Aries.
It didn't feel like I'm a boss.
I take up space.
I'm courageous.
- The final look that I got was most reflective
of what was available for the size that I am.
It was a little frustrating because I wanted
that cool street style edgy moment
and I just think that it's really hard
for Lunden and Sam to find these pieces
when designers don't make them.
I did really like the final result.
I just wish it was a little bit more street style.
- Even if you don't really believe in astrology,
there are elements to everyone's personality
that you are particularly proud of and with fashion
sometimes you want to highlight those parts.
- You dress yourself to remind yourself
how beautiful you are and so why not
have astrology walk hand in hand with that.
- I thought it was interesting that Christina
and Kuwilileni and I all had very similar
risings and settings and all of the different
astrological elements that I knew nothing about.
- Gemini, Gemini.
Venus and Taurus there and Taurus rising here.
- Did we just become best friends? (laughs)
- I love it.
We're like --
- We're the craft!
(all laugh)
- When I came into this room,
I didn't expect to become closer to you two
but I already am like oh I know so much more about you
and how you walk through the world.
- [Christina] So many strings connecting --
- [Kuwilileni] I know.
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