[hat from tea house vacation, got the scarf @ goodwill, got the dress @ savers (the tag says: ONZ), coin necklace gifted about a decade ago, heart necklace by mondo mondo, skirt grifted from my aunt (likely from anthropologie because she loves that place), got the bracelet in Accra, got the other bracelet at a local vintage shop, tube top by maise willen (acquired from my first and likely last SSENSE sale experience)]
in my experience of being a human who is non-binary/uninterested in the gender binary, i have my own set of characters/expressions/"genders" that persist:
- witchy free-spirited punk
- looking like a tree
- a character i lovingly call "mr. diaspora" AKA the diaspora mutt
- ti grande dame
- young flirty on-the-go mercury energy (any outfit where i am wearing a certain pair of flats that i have makes me feel like i'm abt to go on a bunch of mythic adventures in the span of 24 hrs)
- a general air of "monastic personality" (i used to call this "stoic pious man," we can also just call it being a saturnian).
in an old drafted fitchive post from last aug/sep, i talked about practicing glamour and learning how to exist within a female body. at the time my only real goal was to try out outfits with "salma hayek boobie top" energy and to transition out of the more masculine-leaning expression of style of the preceding era of my life. i've had an on and off relationship with rejecting styling myself in any way that felt too explicitly "feminine" or aligning with the traditional "woman" archetype over the past decade. i just find people's attachments to gender stereotypes & bioessentialism really annoying...
anyway, during the last few+ years, i've been working out / negotiating my relationship with womanhood and how being incarnated within a female body connects me to it, no matter how i feel about myself internally. i opted to see adding a more "feminine" expression back into my life as taking up the skills of the trickster mercury and pairing it with the power of glamour that my water sun, mars, very dominant neptune, and venusian chart gift me.
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i love this fit because it's so earthy!! i've got a taurus ascendant & a virgo venus—i need that earthy glamour, like...Earth is mamas and i'm in love with her! the magnlolia tree is the main character in these photos. i feel like a little Earth spirit wandering the Mystery and befriending trees along the path. the circles and dye-work on the skirt feel so lunar and lunar vibes always reminds me of this tweet about the moon being wild, a witch/haunter/huntress AND a mother. put some respect on her name. this cancer season + processing the transition of my grandma has me thinking a lot about care and Mother Love/Grandma Love. those are some powerful ways of being.
