Virgo’s Prudent Heart is well known. She can walk into chaos, facing tasks of overwhelming difficulty, and make them quietly doable, organizing them into simple steps. She knows that anything is easy to do if you break it down, piece-by-piece. That’s why one of my client always pays her bills on a Virgo Moon. What seems daunting on any other day, becomes in Virgo a kind of meditation. The numbers become orderly, compliant, like a line of ants, each one carrying its bit to the proper destination.
A few years ago, on the day the Sun entered Virgo, I finally succeeding in backing up my computer. I know… you’re thinking, “You hadn’t backed up your computer before that?!!” For years, this had been my guilty unmet obligation. Maybe there’s one like it on your “To Do” list too. Mine required purchasing a writable CD drive for my aging computer. I tried doing this a couple times before. The specs on ports and system requirements had always swirled before my eyes; none of the boxes at the computer store seemed to match. The sales clerks always shrugged, “Umm, gee, I don’t know.” But finally in that Virgo season, with crisp efficiency, a bright-eyed clerk led me straight to the only hardware that would work. At home, it plugged in easily, and within thirty minutes, the thing that had nagged at me for years was done.
I danced. I soared. I sat on my porch and enjoyed the vastness of what hours before had been a crowded world. I felt a new freedom. And gradually I realized that this was Virgo too. It’s the less publicized Virgo, the ancient mystery Virgo, the Virgin Virgo, harassed by no one, pure and unafraid. Known as Diana to the Romans, Brigid to the Celts, Artemis to the Greeks, she’s both hard-working and free. She roams with elemental forces, knows the secrets of roots and herbs, keeps the rhythms of earth and Moon, heals animals, assists in childbirth, climbs mountains, keeps hearths warm, and is entangled by nothing. This is Virgo with the Wild Heart.
Even as she works with diligence, she is amazingly free. If you hold a pencil just so this month, through sensitive fingers, the wild-hearted Virgin will let you hear the forest whispering inside. She’ll walk you barefoot through the house, and point out the earth breathing beneath the floor. In An Unspoken Hunger, Terry Tempest Williams gives voice to this side of Virgo: “I felt innocent and wild, privy to secrets and gifts exchanged only in nature… Hands on the earth, I closed my eyes and remembered where the source of my power lies. My connection to the natural world is my connection to self—erotic, mysterious, and whole.” Be sure to enjoy both of Virgo’s hearts this season—the prudent one and the wild.
Your Personal Season
Last month in Leo you were creative, self-expressive… this month you’ll be inspired to scrutinize your world. At the year’s half-way point, in Virgo, you discern what is useful and valuable from what is not–like the Virgin, separating the wheat from the chaff. Virgo’s spirit is a collective one, but where you’re most moved to apply it will be personal, based on Virgo’s placement in your chart. Here’s where the Virgin’s spirit is released. In Virgo’s house, you’re reaching towards perfection—you’re called to refine something, reorganize something, dedicate yourself to meaningful work. This is not a bondage, but a joy! The sign on your sixth house cusp may suggest the style you prefer to use while roaming freely with the goddess. (For more information about both the personal and collective cycles, check out my monthly workshop Twelve Moons.)
Thanks for your insights — it’s all true. In fact, a few years ago I finally started
saying, ” Thank you, Goddess” instead of addressing the Big Guy, ‘cos
it’s past time to start balancing things out — and
that’s my natural affinity. My Methodist preacher grandpa
would have been appalled.
Also, from a very young age,
I finessed most of these indoctrinations by spending time alone in the woods & fields of our 40-acre farm near the Carolina mountains — the old Cherokee hunting grounds … but that’s another story. Hoping this lunation will be filled with
Joy, especially for you >>>>> Luke
A week into, I’ve read your delineation of Virgo & you’ve certainly expanded my concept — one doesn’t hear about her wild & free side much.
This explains much to me & frees my concept to a great degree. Ages ago, when my chart was first cast, this Moonchild found that my Venus was in Virgo, In an astro-book about the same time, the writer said, “Venus is least at home in Virgo than in any of the other signs(!) This info was quite disappointing to an impressionable 19-year-old.
In the light of your fine essay,
I’m thinkin’, “No wonder the Gypsy, the unfettered Bohemian, is such an enduring touchstone in how I conduct my days.”
Ms. Gerhardt, you’re da bomb!
I found from my Venus research that Venus in Virgo is quite sensual. It was the one Venus sign that was most comfortable being naked… though most preferred to be in that state unobserved! Venus in Virgo is very close to nature, which makes this an important “goddessy” Venus placement!