VENUS ENTERS VIRGO:
On Friday October 2nd at 4:48 P.M. EDT until October 27th at 9:41 P.M. EDT the goddess of love and money will travel through this detailed and somewhat critical mutable earth sign. This placement has a somewhat tarnished reputation in astrology. I don’t happen to agree. (Full disclosure, I have Venus in Virgo in my natal chart.) While it is true that there is a picky side to Virgo and it can at times be overly judgmental, it is also a very loving, protective and healing energy. Virgo rules nurses, and I’ve always said that while doctors, ruled by the opposite sign of Pisces, will cut you open and take out that damaged organ, it’s really the nurses that heal you, feed you, take your temperature and administer medicine, while the surgeon is sitting in her golf cart. While Venus is traveling through this mutable earth sign it would be a good idea to think out what you wish to say to a loved one. You may have the best of intentions but it may come across a bit too logical or emphatic. How you say something is just as important as what is behind the words, and often what someone needs is just a kind and understand presence, not a schoolmarm lecture. A gentle word can also soothe a savage breast.