A closer look
Venus retrograde occurs roughly every eighteen months when the planet of love and aesthetics appears to spin backward in the sky, a period during which modern astrologers aggressively warn their followers against getting drastic haircuts or plastic surgery. The prevailing theory suggests that your cosmic aesthetic judgment is severely impaired during this six-week window, virtually guaranteeing that your impulse to bleach your eyebrows or get impulsive lip fillers will end in an absolute cosmetic tragedy. It is genuinely impressive how an entire community has successfully weaponized planetary orbits to convince women that a botched set of bangs is an unavoidable act of celestial sabotage rather than just a tragically terrible choice
