Taurus 12° (May 2)

EL gets word from Christina about Twinkie. [whatever that means]. I will start making a few trips from town to storage to town in an effort to get ahead of things. Have Raina and Tony coming for tea. And then Richard calls to say he is arriving a day early oh no. That’s tomorrow. Oh help. Okay well no time for the weary. There is leftover chicken parm in Truro which is fine for lunch although the breading does chafe on its way down. I will work so late and teatime gets switched to five o’clock. All I can do is walk down the road, as I did my first night here, now, on my last, and pop in on the local pubs—it’s not bad and it’s not far—and have a bit of shepherd’s pie. The race, as they say, is on. I swear to god a prostitute from the upper Cape tried to pick me up tonight. She even apologized and moved to the other end of the bar when she sensed she wasn’t getting anywhere. Putetown.

Virgo Woman

She is not what she appears to be and in oh, so many ways. Seemingly unassuming, she presents as an affable creature, laughing readily, and appearing game to realize fun plans and notions. She exudes a childlike aura, yet one suspects she is tender and vulnerable beneath it all. As inviting as she can be, she should make clear that she’s not to be toyed with (well maybe just a little).

Virgo must address being something of a people pleaser but that’s just half that story. She’s always also exacting an agenda all her own—in a nod to her sign’s mottoes, I work and I serve, she knows how to work others so to serve her own purposes. She can consider herself a collagist,

putting together the pieces of her own successes. A lender she may never be, but a borrower she is for certain. She takes whole pages from the books of those to whom she attaches. She draws on the mythic Pandora, made from clay by the potter god, Hephaestus, whose physical feature were borrowed, modeled on the best attributes of all the other goddesses. Pandora means “all-given.” It is one thing to be an amalgam of all our experiences and influences, it’s quite another to mold it all into something unique in personality and style, which can be her great superpower. 

            Virgo is the mama’s girl. It is indeed coded into her astrological DNA. The virgin of the Virgo is Kore, the maiden-form “daughter” of the mother earth goddess of the harvest Demeter, who was also called Pandora, here, “all-giver.” Kore was abducted by Hades (Pluto) and, in despair Demeter imposed a scorched-earth policy. Virgo’s bond with her own mom is typically loaded, while her emotional struggles tend to hinge on loss and disenfranchisement. There is value in mining this bond for meaning. Self-diagnosis and -healing are other Virgo superpowers, while, on the shadow side, she must beware of arrested development and a surplus of self-help. She is prone to a “Wendy complex,” playing den mother, being too much in service to others, lost boys, in particular; ultimately, she can turn this into playing patroness in positive ways.

            Virgo is a facilitator. As the mutable-earth sign, she can mold situations to her own specifications and in such a subtle, steady fashion that others scarcely notice. She must learn to consider all angles of a situation, consulting many others in signature fashion, before making final moves. She can suffer from a victim mentality, especially in familial settings where she can feel slighted or put upon by a sibling. The opposite sex can seem very much so; and it can be difficult for the straight Virgo to negotiate the world of would-be coupling. She often gets stuck in a sisterly role and her perspective on relationships can be overblown; meaning she might believe she’s in one when she’s not. Regardless of her own sexual identity, she tends to forge bonds with gay men. Positively channeling that Wendy energy, she makes an indispensable major domo, or any such role as “the soul of the operation” Virgo must temper a tendency to live vicariously through others, typically artists and other creatives. It won’t happen overnight, nothing does for Virgo, but, though she bides her time,  she must ultimately step out of the shadows of her associations, allowing them to be launching pads for her own creative efforts, working the many connections she will have made in her extraordinary efforts on others’ behalf.

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