A woman in a long dress stood up facing away with, stars clouds and the expanse of space in the background
Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22

Living La Vida Loca is really proving its name. Your schedule is like crazy and it has caught up with you. You are feeling worn out and tired and itÕs understandable given all the social events that you have been attending. ItÕs time to give your body some rest before it completely conks out on you. Differentiate between important occasions where your presence is needed from those that you can afford to pass up.

Whose fault is it? Who started it? What's happening now? Unraveling the long story can be involved, but right now, and although it's show time, retrograding Mercury may want to turn back from the brink and towards the negotiations table. But today's developments can take us to the brink. Will we go towards war or peace? The coming oppositions of Mars and Jupiter and the Full Moon show that tensions are becoming more obvious, aggression can multiply, and the zeal for righteous war is at a high pitch.

(August 23rd – September 22nd) Beautiful Virgo, Mother, and Nurturer to us all;

The Sign of the Virgo is the sign of the ultimate mother, the kind, grounded, analytical compassionate and understanding soul. Virgo is the other sign which is represented by a human form, a virgin, whose innocence expands the world around us with their new perspective. In essence, the Virgo represents the Triple Goddess energies of the Maiden (Virgin) the Mother, nurturing and understanding, and the Crone, all-knowing and wise. If you were born under the sign of Virgo then you are the type of person who has an energy that is super focused as well as ordered. You are the mathematicians, the counselors, the computer geniuses. You have a way about you that is bordering on obsessive about certain elements in your life which are important to you. You have a somewhat restless and nervous way of being so you spend a lot of your time trying to settle that energy down and organizing it into something productive. With the sign of Virgo, there is a consistent drive to perfect and to accomplish more and more. You are an organized person and you spend your emotional life attempting to bring order to what you see as chaos all around you. This is the sign of the hyper-intelligent always being aware of who is giving and who isn’t and you know how to help. Others love to come to you for advice because you are able to see through emotional turmoil and focus on the heart of a problem thus making it possible to make productive changes.

You are not a judgemental person, primarily because you understand the need to solve the problems of life like a puzzle and that is more like a game to you. However you can be analytical of others when you find that their behaviour has no real rhyme or reason. This bothers you significantly and you often feel as though others operate from an entirely different planet than you do which is sometimes bothersome to you. You believe that life is a rational place and that everyone should be approaching it in the same way as you and when they don’t you can get pretty confused. Without facts, you don’t like to make decisions which sometimes helps you and sometimes hinders you if you are becoming too dependent on facts. There is a benefit in life to being able to make quick decisions sometimes so try not to let your need for facts delay the big moments in your life. On the opposite end of the spectrum, make sure that you have lots of information when you make BIG decisions.

The qualities of a Virgo are feminine and mutable, run by the Earth with the ruling planet of Mercury which is why communication can be sometimes challenging for Virgos because they communicate in a different way than others, yet they are the ones who can help others the most when they are feeling stuck. The keyword for the Virgo is 'I Analyse,' because it is their lesson in life to determine what life is about. The part of the body which is ruled by Virgo is the Nervous System as well as the intestines. They tend to be prone to sickness which is caused by nerves and stress as well as ulcers because they spend a lot of time weighing out the pros and cons of situations and worrying about what step to take next.

By Florance Saul
Mar 23, 2012