Decorating for the holidays is, without a doubt, one of the most exciting parts of entering the holiday season. To help you create the ultimate personalized holiday aesthetic, we consulted expert astrologers across North America from Los Angeles, CA, to Clearwater, FL, to get their best eye-catching holiday decorating ideas inspired by the zodiac signs. Whether you’re looking for ways to update tried-and-true holiday decor, or are looking for design inspiration, here are their best tips for how to create a dazzling festive display in your home.
Play to your sign’s aesthetic
Capricorns, claim your power, and celebrate the original reason for the season—the winter solstice. Welcome the increasing sun with hundreds of gold lights, dozens of big, round gold ornaments, and gold, sparkly decor pieces. –Susan Gidel
Create a seasonal display with inspiration from your zodiac sign
We all have our unique style when adding festive cheer to our living spaces, so why not incorporate your zodiac sign into your seasonal displays? No matter your sign or your decorating style, enjoy the season with your loved ones, reminisce, and make some new memories for years to come.
Aries are natural-born leaders known for being fearless and impulsive. You love the smell of bright-colored, scented candles and lots of lights. Your tree is decorated with large ornaments and usually has a bold theme.
Taurus are known for their attention to detail and their high standards. You like to decorate with themed pillows, blankets, and greenery like poinsettias and evergreens. Your tree decoration would focus on red and gold colors with wooden ornaments in between.
Geminis like to talk, are quick-witted, and tend to be extroverted. You love whimsy conversation pieces; think whimsical animals made out of lights or glass baubles. You love to decorate your tree with multi-colored lights and glittery ornaments.
Cancers have deep emotions and a love for family and tradition, which means you’re likely to decorate your home with classic Christmas colors. Your home feels cozy with a real old-fashioned tree with candy cane and gingerbread decorations throughout the house.
Leos are known for being dramatic, competitive, and confident. You love big, bold displays, and decorate your tree with lots of gold and oversized glam and glitz. Most likely, you will also have the most prominent outdoor display on your street.
Virgos are traditionalists and very hands-on when decorating. You get excited about the holiday season by adding fresh wreaths and other greenery to your decorations. Your tree most likely has a farmhouse theme with handmade ornaments and neutral colors.
Libras are social butterflies, nostalgic, and minimalists at heart. You are aesthetically minded when it comes to decorating and have an eye for balance and symmetry. Much like Virgos, you like fresh wreaths and handmade ornaments, and your tree is decorated in classic colors.
Scorpios are intense, moody, and mysterious. You can’t live without dark chocolate treats, and they are essential in your decorating theme. You might opt-out of having a traditional tree and alternatively decorate ladders and wooden tree-shaped mobiles with vintage ornaments and baubles.
Sagittarians are passionate, bold, and charismatic. You get bored quickly by repetitive decorating schemes and love to have tabletop figurines like reindeer and snow globes. Pops of bright colors and warm wintery accents are your go tos as well. Twinkling lights, garlands, and wooden ornaments will adorn your tree.
Capricorns are grounded, loyal, and love the finer things in life. You take your inspiration from the natural elements and love wood figurines like nutcrackers, paper lights, candles, and wreaths. Your tree is full of bright lights, ornaments, baubles, and beaded garlands.
Aquarians are known for being creative, intelligent, and nontraditional. You love ethical and sustainable decorations with natural fibers and textures, like pinecones and burlap. You decorate your tree with rope garlands and ornaments in a soft beige and blue color scheme.
Pisces’ are imaginative, intuitive, and deep thinkers. You love the holidays, nostalgia, and whimsical shows throughout your house. Green and red colors dominate in bows, throw pillows, plaid blankets, and nick-nacks. You decorate your tree like a Christmas Wonderland, nothing is too much, and everything goes. –The Spiritual Planet
Align the element of your sign with your holiday decor
Water signs will relax and thrive in pastel colors, natural fabrics and love a water feature where they can settle to meditate. Fire and Earth signs are drawn to deep rich colors, luxurious fabrics such as velvet and silk, and love to be the talk of the neighborhood so they can bask in the pride of their beautiful home. Air signs are busy people always on the go. They aspire their home to be tidy, fairly minimalistic with a bohemian style, and most likely showcase fabulous art on the walls. –Barefoot Psychics
Incorporate the element of your zodiac sign into your holiday decor
Fire signs (Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius) should create a statement with a dramatic holiday candle arrangement. Earth signs (Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn) should bring the outside in with pine, garland, and festive reefs. Air signs (Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius) should step outside the red and green holiday box and pick a sky blue as your holiday theme, while water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces) should stage a winter wonderland with snow globes, faux icicles, and snowflakes. –Astrofashionista
Tie in your festive display with decorations that speak to your traits and preferences
Aries: Decorate however you want during the holiday season – the more authentic, the better. In keeping with Mars energy, plastering mantles with intense, motivating colors, like bright red or yellow candles, or active adornments with moving pieces, like spinning Christmas tree ornaments or dancing reindeer holograms, will leave you feeling spunky and satisfied.
Taurus: Don’t skimp out on plants. Houseplants provide a balanced groundedness amid seasonal excitement and chaos. Feel free to adorn your home with herbs, grasses, flowers, bamboo, anything with roots and chlorophyll, but remember to embellish them with some festive lighting fixtures or tie them with a bow.
Gemini: Have a centerpiece. The most important piece of holiday decor for a Gemini is literal talking pieces that spark quality conversation. Interchangeable features that are wide-ranging in mood or theme deeply delight a Twin, so you can honor a cherished memory with photographs one day and then pull out a modern sculpture the next day.
Cancer: Texturize. No Cancer can deny the joy of bundling up in a blanket or soft fabric, especially during the holidays. Figure out a way to incorporate swaths of velvet into the scene, hang fabric on the walls, or find a way to include soft quilts into your home decor.
Leo: Whether you’re shy and watching from the sidelines or fully out there blaring like the sun, having eccentric items around will elevate the mood. Incorporate one-of-a-kind figurines, unique artifacts, handmade objects, portraiture, and photographs into the space. Putting personalities on display adds a quality of aliveness and is similar to receiving an extended warm hug from all the characters you love the most.
Virgo: A Virgo loves an intricately made object, like a sophisticated wreath, but it also must be hypoallergenic, functional, off the floor, and easy to clean. Detailed patterns that dazzle the eye, like houndstooth stockings, or a beautiful woven basket, are not only wonderful additions to your holiday decor but also serve as beautiful storage containers.
Libra: Seek input. Opinions help the vision come alive for Libra. Balance is also important, so incorporate an equal amount of light and dark decor elements in the space.
Scorpio: Go extreme on the theme. A Scorpionic approach to holiday decor is going for a maximalist aesthetic. If you like metal, put brass or gold everywhere, don’t be conservative.
Sagittarius: Experimenting and trying something new is the best approach for holiday decor. Traditional holiday appearances don’t connect with a Sagittarian’s adventurous core energy, so find something unexpected to go into the space.
Capricorn: For Capricorn, incorporate beautiful stained woods or solid metals carved into hard angular shapes like triangles and squares appeals. Use frames or framing techniques when you’re decorating.
Aquarius: Bring out the seasonal collections. Astrologically, Aquarius functions more as a collective – it’s sensitive to groupings and how multiple objects work as a whole. For holiday decor, consider focusing on a large group of items of the same color or aesthetic and weave these objects throughout the house to create a unified theme.
Pisces: Fluidity is your friend, Pisces. Diversify and don’t stick to categories. Putting disparate things together works out well with Piscean energy. Flowing elements, like snowglobes, lava lamps, neon water tanks, fountains, or round transparent objects flow perfectly with the whole ensemble. -Clarissa Dolphin, Sidereal Soul
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