March 6, 1999
Virgo Deluxe
my queston is regarding my natal chart. i am a triple virgo with
6 planets in virgo
(8/25/68 8:25am Laredo.tx) i have a major stellium in the first house (7 items)
what does this denote spiritually? it really makes me sad to hear about
virgos being the computers of the zodiac ( analytical, picky, fussy, etc.)
could you give me some insite on this odd astrological configuration?
8/25/68
Very pleased to meet you, mam!!!!!
This is one of those charts that really make me wonder about my own mundane birthchart. I have a lot of important Virgo and 6th House activity...but this extraordinary array of Virgoan energy is quite remarkable.
The first thing you must do is to get aquainted with something a bit more substantial than the usual astrologic cookbook. I highly recommend Steve Forrest's THE INNER SKY. The Virgoan enterprise (as is true for each sign) is extremely more three dimensional and full blooded than such an anemic description as the one you cite. Of course...all it would take would be a sort of meditative understanding of what's beating in your own heart to get in touch with the true Virgo energy. That's what astrology IS, after all.... Such a particular symbolic concentration is the equivalent of a constantly recurring dream of great richness and intricacy.
I don't feel that I can do justice to the concept of Virgo in the confines of this particular page...but if pushed I would have to cite the fact that Virgo is the archetype of the Platonic ideal / idea. Virgo lives a life of the mind, completely in the realm of essence as opposed to existence. Virgo understands the perfection of anything as a conceptual phenomenon. The beautiful paradox is that Virgo, while living in the realm of Real Existence on Earth...as we all do (even the quadruple Pisceans among us)...acts according to those ideals. The Shadow side of this is nit-picky perfectionism and hypercriticality (of self AND others). We've all got Shadow in abundance so there's no need to elaborate.
Now...in this particular chart...there is an extraordinary peculiarity that I feel needs to be particularly emphasized. I'm referring to the extremely close conjunction of Pluto, Venus and Luna. Ordinarily when I see the Moon and Pluto in conjunction I'm reminded of the rape of Persephone by Hades / Pluto. In your case I see something quite a bit related to the marriage of the maiden to the king of Darkness, but it's decidedly different. This is the Triple Goddess Archetype herself that, in essence, is a powerful component of your Psyche. Luna representing Mother / Demeter, Venus representing Maiden / Kore / Persephone and finally Pluto representing not the god Hades...but the Dark goddess Hecate. I seriously advise you to begin studying those myths from every source you can, including works by Kerenyi, Neumann and Jung. Don't forget to read the originals as well, especially in places such as Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is important work, and without it you're doomed to accept everyone else's ideas and opinions about this material, which concerns YOU in a particularly vital way.
Although this is definitely constellated in your 1st House...it's not meant to be a license to act out the material you find, or worse, to end up identifying with the stories. That only ends up in a dangerous kind of inflation. Men and women who identify with their 1st House or their Persona become like a Tin Man who doesn't ever give a damn about getting a heart. It's very, very dangerous because it's so seductive. Your body ends up being more important to you than your soul. The modern form of that particular archetypal disaster is the anorexic photo model.
The temple Virgins were divine prostitutes. They offered themselves in service to the gods of their temple. What must be understood is that they weren't simply giving away the store. They actually were able to act in such an amoral (not immoral...) way only because they belonged to NO ONE but themselves. The psychology was such that they experienced what it meant mean to BE your own true self and live from the depths of your own SOUL. What anybody else might think, want or believe was immaterial. Prostitution, as we presently know it, is actually a caricature of this antique reality. In modern times...a prostitute may be psychologically offering her body and soul in service of a particular god...but the problem is that the god in question is only a human being. To worship a human being is a sacrilege.... Not because of some intellectual or arbitrary law, but because the psychologically genuine experience indictates that particular, full blooded sensation. (Why do you think America went to war with Germany in the 40's? And for that matter...why do you think Hitler was worshiped in the first place? Believe me...the parallel is not insignificant.) In antiquity, temple prostitution was the genuine article, meaning that the Virgin's offering was actually felt and experienced from that perspective. There was no question of a human being acting in the capacity of a god / pimp. I'm not saying that you must prostitute yourself. But you MUST see that any service you provide to the community regardless of whether it is a volunary or commercial contribution...will either feel like sleeze or will feel like a divine vocation, depending very much on the issue of whether or not you really do find your own soul and protect it from ANY exploitation of ANY kind from ANYBODY.
kristo