You are the Human Embodiment of the Seasons & Natural World

So, act like it. A GD miracle you are.

Turns out my Personal Styling instructor in college was right about me.

I distinctly remember her using me as an example of seasonal color analysis and proclaiming “Especially with your hair like that” which was kind of her to say, because it was an attrocious DIY bottle blonde and matching DIY pixie cut.

I have been doing color analysis on and off again for a year or so, but really didn’t want to PUSH it out there because I felt like a fraud.

“What’s YOUR season?”

A question that I was rightfully asked often, and one I had the integrity to answer with

“….I don’t know.

I have suspicions!

Its reaaaaaally hard to be objective with yourself, which is why I strongly advise against DIY analysis for most folks. I can tell you that I am neutral though!”

Neutral.

An answer I felt comfortable with after of years of dying my hair colors like hot pink, mint green, orange, and spending late night hours playing with elaborate makeup as a teen and early adult (shout out to Kevin Aucoin Making Faces and Face Forward).

The reason its hard to be objective with ourselves is because we often see the version of us we WISH we were, through rose colored glasses. The parts of us that don’t quite feel like they measure up to some arbitrary rule we put in place some time ago.

In my case, I wished I were a Bright Winter.

The party palette.

I wanted to embody black, neons, brights, high intensity.

Colors that were leaping and energetic, ones you could not ignore. Ones that spoke to my Leo rising and Leo Venus in the 1st house. Drama, fun, creativity. Colors that are diametrically opposed to how quiet and introverted I can be.

I’m a Muted Summer, a blend of both summer colors and autumn. Hazy.

Colors that are either here nor there.

Quiet, understated, soothing, ones that whisper through the fog, never knowing what they say because you can’t see them clearly.

Ones I actively choose against for most of my life.

But, when I stop to think about it, at the same time, those are the colors I historically gravitate to most. The ones that are “yes …and”.

Yes, its gray …AND a hazy blue-green.

Ones that feel mysterious and shrouded, not giving away their secrets. Ones that can slip away and hide in the dark, undetected.

When we purchased our first home, I was dead set on making it super colorful. Mint green cabinets, checkered floors, bright and cheerful wall color. I was on a personal mission to show the people who came into my interior design boutique, who would never see my humble home, that saturated, bold, fun color was nothing to be afraid of.

But, as it came time, I kept finding myself making excuses for not choosing a bold color. Not going to the paint store.

Resale value, you know.

One day, the softest whisper of a greige-lavender-taupe found its way across my eyeline and I felt certain. It was the type of color that shifted with the time of day, the seasons. It never looked the same at two points of the day. Sherwin-Williams Twilight.

It felt serene, like when you made a fort as a kid and no one knew of it but you. A safe space to unwind and watch the world go by undetected.

Looking back, all of our rooms were in my seasonal color palette. My body knew.

After moving to Texas, one of the things I miss the most about the midwest is the coloring and feeling at end of summer when we are transitioning into fall; the prairie has been dried and bleached by the sun, bending and waving in the wind. The nights and morning are cool, giving way to hot afternoons under hazy skies.

It too, is neither here nor there.

I was born at the end of August; a Virgo, the harvester of wheat and knowledge.

What a privledge to embody my favorite seasonal transition of year, the time I was born, and be a reflection of the natural world in human form.

This is why I love seasonal color analysis so much.

I was the kid who built forts and watched the world go by, my youth was feral and wild and completely engulfed by the natural world.

When I look at people, I see certain landscapes, weather, times of year within them and its another way to honor how much I love and appreciate the earth.

We all get to walk around with our own special blend of that and I think its so beautiful.