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If I took a straw poll of which planet most closely corresponds to the concept of glamour, I imagine that the two top candidates would be Venus and Neptune. I’ve written about glamour and Venus in the past, calling out Venus’ counter-clockwise rotation and association with art, finance, and love; malleable constructs whose definitions shift with cultural tides. Venus IS a culture-maker. It makes concepts that would otherwise be taboo socially acceptable. Venusian sex appeal is sanctioned because Venus is a thing to covet. Is this a spell in itself? How come Venus gets to move all weird while Uranus’ sideways-rolling is highlighted as evidence of its transgressive nature?

Nyssa GrazdaJune 22, 2024Mercury, magic, magician, glamour, scholarship, middle ages, etymology, astrology, esoteric

Venus and Pluto's Final Conjunction in Capricorn

Venus and Pluto conjoin today on the 27th degree of Capricorn. This is a transit which occurs nearly every calendar year. Sometimes twice! It is not what would be considered a “rare” alignment. However, what has received surprisingly minimal press is that this is Venus and Pluto’s final conjunction in the sign of Capricorn until January 2256. Which for us mere mortals means this is their final conjunction in the sign of Capricorn, ever.

Nyssa GrazdaDecember 31, 2022astrology, venus, pluto, transit, capricorn, magic

Reflections on The Lovers year

At the beginning of the year, I naively mused “I wonder what this Lovers year will teach me about love?”, supposing that I might stumble upon some grand romantic takeaway. Of course, had I been focusing on correspondences, I would have spent a lot more time thinking about what to use the sword for.

Nyssa GrazdaDecember 15, 2022astrology, tarot, kabbalah, the lovers, magic

Cusps

Cusps are one of those perennial hot-button topics, like the yearly rediscovery of the constellation Ophiuchus, or the persistence of “in retrograde” verbiage, that finds astrologers leaping from their chairs to pen strongly worded objections to anyone, anywhere, using the term for identification.

Nyssa GrazdaSeptember 5, 2022astrology, cusps, progressions, transit

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