Star Struck Style

I published a post the other day titled “Make the Most of What You Have” where I promised that I would stop shopping for more clothes once Mars moved into my second house. I also admitted that I just bought another pair of Levi’s. I own several versions of the same style: 501s or 505s. They are essentially the same pants, but one has a button fly and the other has a zipper.

Anyway, I got up this morning to read that these pants are currently “having a moment” according to this article in the Guardian. That made me think about where Jupiter and Saturn are currently sitting in the sky, and how those two planets impact trends.

First of all, it’s no surprise that the most normal jeans in the world are in style while Jupiter transits conservative Cancer. With my Capricorn sun, Cancer moon and Libra rising, it also doesn’t surprise me that I’ve made these trend-defying pants my style signature since the early eighties. Yet with Saturn backtracking into the anything-goes sign of Pisces for a while, it’s honestly futile to say that any particular style of jeans is more fashionable than the rest.

That probably will change once Saturn moves into Aries permanently next year. For the first half of 2026, the combination of Jupiter in Cancer and Saturn in Aries should see a more classic silhouette dominate fashion for a while. Defined waistlines and sharper shoulders have already made a mark on recent runways as the trend toward oversized clothes seems to be waning. I can’t see the wide-legged pants many designers are showing getting a lot of traction in the marketplace in the current economic climate, anyway. It costs more to produce bigger clothes. Why would anyone running a clothing company add that extra cost to their business when consumer confidence is low and the uncertainty of tariffs looms over the entire global economy?

Whatever happens, I don’t expect a single style of jeans to become ubiquitous in the not-too-distant future. However, I don’t see these regular-looking jeans going anywhere for while. Maybe things will change once Saturn moves into Gemini in a few years from now. In the meantime, I’m just going to keep doing what I’ve always been doing: wearing pants that look good on me regardless of whatever anyone else is wearing. There’s a reason that I’ve spent the last four decades in the gym . . .