Welcome to Venus of the Mind
A newsletter for those who like to look good and think deep.
Updated on February 13, 2026.
Dear Aesthete,
Venus of the Mind is a weekly newsletter designed for lovers of beauty, culture, and magic; for readers who like to look good, think deep, and find enchantment in the quotidian.
Here, at the nexus of aesthetics as philosophy, (a)esthetics as a trade, and aestheticism as a way of life, everything intersects in the name of beauty. No subject is off limits from Venus’s reach.
As a licensed master esthetician with over a decade of professional experience within and outside of the beauty industry, in my studio practice — as in all of life — I see beauty as being relational in its essence.
Beauty can be both inherent and cultivated.
Beauty is simultaneously memetic and amorphous.
Beauty is passed on as material heritage and genetic memory.
Humans invest in beauty as social capital.
We grapple with beauty and the demand it places on us to contend with what we experience as ugly.
What holds our attention as “beautiful” reflects back to us our beliefs, our history, our conscious aspirations, and unconscious desires.
Beauty culture shapes the ongoing refashioning of the self from birth to grave.
Beauty culture itself is mutable, subject to time, geography, politics, collective survival, and competing visions of the world we all share.
Your Reader’s Experience
Venus of the Mind houses beauty and culture newsletters designed for aesthetes.
Where to start your next reading adventure?
First, contemplate “On Beauty & Being Here.”
Then, take a romantic stroll that will have you “Wandering in Italy.”
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Onward,
