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The Grammar to Glamour Pipeline

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?

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