Dear Virgo, you have somehow acquired the zodiac’s reputation for being the critic. It is slightly unfair. You don’t necessarily want to criticize everything. You just possess an an irritating sensitivity to discrepancy. You notice the crooked picture frame, the...
Aries Happy Halloween, Warrior Princess. Aries isn’t exactly famous for blushing behind a lace fan. There is instinct here, immediacy, hunger, and physical vitality. Traditionally, the sign is associated with Mars, which gives the sign its symbolic connection with blood, Continue reading Happy Halloween Everybody: Spooky Astrology (Updated Version)
As a Virgo, you are the final sign of the personal half of the zodiac, and there is meaning in this. Before the chart moves outward into partnership, society, and the complicated business of other people, you are the point...
As a Virgo, you have an instinctive understanding – the life around you eventually becomes the life inside you. The room you wake up in, the food within reach, the people whose moods fill the air, the objects crowding your...
As a Virgo, you carry a quiet magic. It is the magic of the well-placed hand, the corrected detail, the improved system, the medicine measured properly, the drawer finally organized in a way that makes civilization feel possible again. You...
I’ve been redecorating my living room. I started with a dark grey sofa and the original white walls, but I wanted the room to feel more dramatic, more cocooning, more like somewhere you could sink into rather than merely sit Continue reading Virgo Lessons Hitting Hard
Virgo is the industrious artisan of the zodiac, with hands ever busy, cross-stitching the fabric of reality itself, only to rip it up again because “it could be neater.” Mutable Earth is a paradox if ever there was one. Virgos...
Pisces the fish of the zodiac is forever flitting in and out of grasp. It is oft painted as commitment-shy. And yet, among its fellow mutable signs—Gemini, Sagittarius, and Virgo—there’s something strange. Virgo, though mutable in mode, feels somehow more...
Virgo is Hermione Granger with a bullet journal, a planner, and a deep suspicion of chaos. In a world of uncertainty, Virgo says, “Wait! Let me alphabetize that for you.” Because somewhere between the footnotes and the fine print is...
In Virgo, there is a maddening maze of neurosis, a kind of itch you can’t quite scratch, but you must clean under your fingernails before trying. It’s compulsion to create order in the soul, to perfect the person. Neurosis is Continue reading The Functional Soul: Virgo’s Neurosis
Some astrologers believe that Virgo and Scorpio are associated with the same basic principle, they were previously considered to be as one. Equally, they represent transformations of different sorts. Virgo is the reformed living, they transform the unworkable into the workable.
Virgo has the stereotype of the maiden, sweet symbol of purity, sure, but let’s not confuse purity with prissiness. This sign isn’t about pearl-white perfection; it’s about refinement through function. It’s not that they want everything clean for the sake...