virgo: rise of the understudy
sing the psalm of the taproot, the weed / sing the hymn of the dandelion growing in the field
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Chapter 3: Mercury
Section 1:
Never more than 28 degrees away from the Sun, Mercury is the smallest and fastest planet. Because of how it tags alongside the Sun, Mercury is rarely visible in the sky, often hidden by the Sun’s light.
Mercury’s speed is irregular, capable of fluctuating over days. To add to the irregularity, it is retrograde around 3 times a year.
Dignity: It is domiciled in Gemini and both domiciled and exalted in Virgo, a unique condition for a planet. Therefore, it is in detriment in Sagittarius and in both detriment and fall in Pisces, the opposing signs. By studying this matrix, we can see Mercury — like Jupiter — has a relationship to all 4 mutable signs.
It has night-time triplicity in air signs (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius).
Sect: Of sect, Mercury is neither night nor day. For its liminal nature, it rejoices in the first house known as the Helm, the place that holds the horizon, where the Sun rises and marks the dawn.
This liminality is enhanced by Mercury taking on the abilities of the planets it is physically close to. For example —
My younger brother’s cry makes me get up to go and rock him. After 26 minutes of fussing and appeasing, I return to the entry I need to make for class participation tonight by 12:
Mercury is a team player, taking on the characteristics of what she's aligned with. Mercury is world-building, collaborating, cohering: the writer, the archivist, the historian, the video game player wandering to learn lore.
Virgo the strict editor, Virgo the principled teacher, Virgo the brisk curt healer. For my 7th birthday, I wanted nothing more than a label-maker. I was frothing at the mouth at the idea of it.
Like me, Mercury goes back and forth over the sky as I pace my home: watching my brother sleep, watching the clock so I’ll start cutting the vegetables up as I read, watching the assigned text and hoping it will reveal its secrets to me.
The 3 retrogrades a year: to be back and forth, mutable, in the past and present? to always be imperfect and to come to see it as a gift instead of a curse? to be hidden and to see the gift in covertness?
Which one of the three makes me sound coolly profound instead of resentful on Mercury’s behalf? Because the more I read, the more I want to fume about the luminaries getting all the attention.
To practice, practice, practice. To refine, distill: pick through the rice, dice the onions smaller and faster, play the harp and soak your hand in the water for hours afterwards. To put your brother to sleep, sound smart every class, to always have fresh ideas and plaster on a confident smile even as you feel the well run dry while everyone looks on expectantly for you to say the thing that makes everything make sense.
Imagine the Oracle not having a prophecy to relay. Her knowledge is supposed to be a gift bestowed by the gods. Look at the life they’ve taken in exchange to make her a vassal. She doesn’t even have the time to grieve it. Look at how she never gets to claim ownership of her abilities.
I memorize my notes for the quiz tomorrow but my head is crowding with ideas entirely irrelevant to the quiz and to the CP entry. I know what I’ll ask the professor tomorrow after. Is it nicer to be the Sun than to be Mercury? Do you get to live without the bitterness of being the messenger, to get handed the paltry second-fiddle understudy role, when you’re cleverer than the heroine? What do the crew members think when they watch the cast dazzle?
I’ll ask them about what you do when you’re itching from the desire to perform but you’re only clever. Not gifted, not brilliant, not the child prodigy taken under someone’s wing at 5 but the precocious perpetually stressed Lisa-Simpson weirdo who decided to juggle 7 different hobbies and now feels like their window of excellence is closing shut in their face. All because they were greedy, because they lacked guidance, because it’s always been secretly more fun to draw patterns in the sand than a castle.
![Anne excitedly turns around and holds her basket aloft, with flowers in her hair (Anne With An E, 2017) Anne excitedly turns around and holds her basket aloft, with flowers in her hair (Anne With An E, 2017)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F624c73b5-1e1d-49d1-b4b8-98f6486926e9_500x250.gif)
Honestly, who wants to look at the world through a telescope when you have a kaleidoscope?
Who wants focus over discernment?
My professor will probably think I’m asking pointless questions or trying to show my curiosity off or something. They’ve already complained I don’t let others speak enough but it’s not like I’m the one stopping the kids. In fact, the students are asking me not to skip class because they rely on me to answer every question. They don’t wanna do the reading every day and deal with the teacher’s expectations. I’m the only mule here!
I should have written this when my analysis was still fresh I knew it I knew it I should have picked it up 2 nights ago when I was mulling the reading over and was full of ideas at 3.37 am but I was trying to fix my sleep schedule to be healthier and now I’m pulling things out of my ass and it’s so transparent I’m tacking on every buzzword I remember from class.
— with malefic planets, Mercury takes on their malefic nature. A conjunction with Saturn passes on the cold, dry, melancholic nature so it emerges as a deadpan communication style, a desire for depth, a brusqueness to speech that others may interpret as harsh and blunt but is only intended to be direct.
Mercury has a melancholic nature of its own but if interacting with other planets, it can take on their nature.
Like all planets, Mercury’s functionality is dependent on its placement. When fortunately placed (like a dignified Mercury at the midheaven unaspected by malefics), it bestows a range of gifts, from a gift for public declamation to skill with the divining and occult arts. Mercury is an auto-didactic student, picking up things by themself, so they manifest as a variety of personalities, from politicians to astrologers to Marco polo travelers to book-keeping merchants to artists skilled with their hands —
This time, my reread is interrupted by my stray cat yowling for dinner. I have it boiled in advance so I just have to shred the meat. As he eats, I grab time to water my plants and prune some leaves. Of course, someone in the group chat is arranging this month’s nth unplanned hangout so I can’t attend. I text back a no but what I really want to say is that shit like this makes me feel disrespected. When I ask to meet, I plan around violin recitals, tutoring gigs, full-time jobs. The stars align more often than our schedules but I bust my ass to be considerate and this is the thanks I get in exchange. The minutiae of my daily life are apparently not important because they’re not striving towards a greater purpose. It’s boring for my friends to track my scattered responsibilities so they just choose to forget instead.
On the way back, I clean up some of the toys scattered around the lounge, my mood sour. I notice a wet patch on the carpet and make a mental note to clean up the pee puddle later.
The CP is still staring me down from my screen. I wish I had someone to talk my idea out with. It helps to have a sounding board to filter out the tangents from the central points.
The TA for the course doesn’t say it but they only give an A if the CP is completely original. What a stunted imagination it must take to believe only originality is the signifier of greatness. Mercury would agree. Just look at collage art, sampling in music, homage in film. It takes skill to transform the functionality of an object to your ends. Everyone thinks you’re a parasitic thief leeching off the great divine One but I’d like to see our ecosystems survive without scavengers.
![Arrietty turns a hair peg into a hair clip as she closes it around her pony tail while looking into a mirror (Arrietty, 2010) Arrietty turns a hair peg into a hair clip as she closes it around her pony tail while looking into a mirror (Arrietty, 2010)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff2c9db44-b83b-457c-8d58-7326bd9a5946_500x259.gif)
Originality is only valued as a pathway to visibility, and visibility is not indicative of impact. What if I don’t want to be visible? What if I like being left to my own devices, not out there for Fate to toy with? What if I like being the understudy and not the chosen one? The heroes are always supposed to be conduits for something more. I like my license to defy at will too much to accept this surrender to something else.
My hands are itching to open up my blog and hammer out a new entry on the valorization of originality but I refrain. Ughhhhh, why is it always better to dream about the idea than to actually do the task?
Virgo as Mercury’s home
Mutable signs are double-bodied in-between transitory signs closing one season and beginning another. Gemini closes spring and paves the way for summer, Virgo closes summer and paves the way for autumn, Sagittarius for autumn and winter, Pisces for winter and spring.
The twoness of mutable signs is depicted in the iconography associated with them: the Gemini twins, the Virgo woman in a field ready for harvest with an animal by her side (such as a bird on her shoulder), the Sagittarius centaur and the two fish of Pisces.
The two halves show two equally powerful opposing impulses that must be reconciled for the sign to come into itself. In Virgo, the woman is the human, the rational intellect. In contrast, the bird is the animal instinct, the wild natural wisdom. The woman’s perspective is the detailed close-up; the bird shows us the larger picture in flight.
Virgo is a feminine/receptive sign. As an earth sign, it is characterized by its cold-dry melancholic nature.
In Gemini, he is Odysseus, travelling the world, backed by Athena in his cleverness, both gifted and supported. In Virgo, she is Penelope, guarding the castle alone, sewing the tapestry by day and unravelling it by night so she may avoid the suitors, celebrated for her power but all alone.
Penelope the queen writing letters every day, humbled by the whispers of her wanderer husband’s humiliating antics, still begging him to return. Penelope feeding the men who harangue her staff, who threaten her people with violence. Penelope, gritting her teeth, playing the part of a reticent fool woman, held captive by a love that refuses to die. Faithful to a faithless husband, quiet scholar learning to play the part of meek wife to the braggart trickster, helpless queen keeping suitors at bay, irate with being desired.
Penelope seeing in Odysseus the destructive nature of curiosity: the uncaring thoughtlessness, the desperation to experiment and provoke, to know and to take that knowledge without accounting for humanity. Penelope loving his foolhardy brilliance anyway, sharing her counsel so he would be a better ruler, being his moral compass.
![Bo-ra looks around the table at the kids, evidently aggravated at how little they know (Reply 1988) Bo-ra looks around the table at the kids, evidently aggravated at how little they know (Reply 1988)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef62129c-8bd3-40bc-bc73-efb0576199f2_540x400.gif)
However, knowing comes with a cost that Mercury must learn to minimize. History has shown us the destructive capacity of the scientific method again and again: in scientific racism, in eugenics, in profit-driven capitalism that used scientists and now ignores their warnings of climate collapse.
Mercury is a guide in how curiosity can mutate if it never learns to be wrong, the reminder knowledge is only a tool and not a god to be worshipped, a warning in how there can be too much. Knowledge can muddle the senses or be distorted to our own ends. It can’t exist without a hand guiding it. In Virgo, Mercury is a taxonomist, so excited to categorize that she may forget to question the framework she’s been handed. If she’s not careful, Jupiter spawns the system of science established under something as small as her findings; Venus governs the laws passed under its mantle.
With this sense of responsibility, with such glaring consequences of knowledge, we must choose to complicate each narrative. It’s not easy going against the order we’re attached to. We love our easy gods, our simple myths, our heroes and our villains to be unrelated. But I think in Virgo, Mercury would like to get its hands dirty more it admits.
![Gabriella looks around nervously as she stands in front of the karaoke mic (High School Musical, 2006) Gabriella looks around nervously as she stands in front of the karaoke mic (High School Musical, 2006)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59ca8df4-1743-4d92-81fa-4c2c69a007f2_500x280.gif)
To summarize from this chapter, we must structure how to understand the role and function of a planet. Because sign, house and aspects can come together in a confusing picture, we must break it down to its smallest details.
What are the planet’s goals? What is it hoping to accomplish by sign, by house? Judging by aspects, who are its friends, supporters, challengers in the pursuit of those goals? If this is a play, is your planet the hero chasing adventure? The love lead smitten by the main character? And what if you’re the understudy? Who tells that story?
What challenges is the planet facing in accomplishing its goals? Is the house a drain on its strength? Is the sign hostile to its hopes? Is a planet in an overcoming square holding it by the neck and tsk-tsking? The understudy is overcome by the lead. The understudy is peregrine: a wanderer who’s good but not good enough.
What strategies does the planet use to overcome those challenges? Think of them as a living breathing person. The sign is the modulation of their personality, the costume they wear to perform a role in the play. The house is the terrain, the setting. The aspects determine their relationship to the other cast-members.
What are the lessons learned by the planet? Which of your experiences about being alive and material does it symbolize?
If Mercury would love a newer smarter way to do things, what would hold it back? I think Virgo balks because it knows it must turn away from divinity, away from one trusted source of knowledge, and towards other people to create information with. As the sign that follows Leo and opposes Pisces, Virgo is the skeptic thrown out by the cult. It breaks the rules to create them anew, driven by the desire to perfect the framework, unable to work with people who can’t acknowledge the limitations and the faults of their ideology.
As brands of loneliness go, this one is much harder to brave than people realize. You’ve given up the framework you used to build your entire life, the framework you gave so many others that you now feel responsible for. Worst of all, you’re lonely without the hivemind, alienated from everything that gave you purpose. The Pisces seventh house tends towards porosity in relation; Virgo takes on the mantle of guide because it sees its own easily influenced nature and rises to protect others from being misled — even if it means a legacy of being condemned by history as the scholar turned traitor.
![Robin and Starfire hug while standing at the edge of a canyon against a dark sky (Teen Titans, 2003) Robin and Starfire hug while standing at the edge of a canyon against a dark sky (Teen Titans, 2003)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9519202b-adb4-47e2-b831-4aba7cc45b7c_600x450.gif)
On the surface, Virgo is unfriendly to benefics. It’s where Venus falls, where Jupiter is in detriment. But it allows Venus daytime triplicity and gives the night-time to the Moon. Jupiter’s quest for meaning can be an enormous duty that crushes the excitement and play of Mercury, who’d rather be exploring for exploring's sake instead of what it all means. If Mercury is the question, Jupiter is the answer. Mercury enjoys the disruption of asking, where Jupiter likes the stabilization of answering. One takes things apart, disobeying like Prometheus. Another assembles them together into a whole.
Knowledge is terrifying. What if you don’t know it all? What if you’re wrong and they’re right? What if life really is easier when obeying someone who says curiosity is a sin? It’s a burden even as it’s liberation, bringing loneliness and despair. When I became a feminist and realized how harrowing survival would be, I wished I had never found the truth out. When the new perspective alienates us, we try to dive back into ignorance. But knowledge is supposed to be useful, not easy. We plant the harvest to feed ourselves, not for the sake of pleasure or fun.
It’s a gift to collect history in your body, to learn the earth and how to move through it. We are made by our memories. It is a gift to learn how the soil turns over, how to play with speech, how to tend to wounds with herbs. Mercury alters our ideas of pleasure by bombarding us with questions. Just because it’s greedy in a different way from Venus doesn’t mean Mercury doesn’t covet too.
When it feels like knowing too much has put distance between us and those we love, the first tendency is to deny what we know. We try to make ourselves smaller, less aware, less hopeless. We scramble for solutions to bridge the gap. Maybe we could be more generous with our beliefs. Maybe we could be quiet and pretend. Maybe we could keep the new possibilities we’ve learned about to ourselves.
But to deny and erase our knowledge would be to erase our experiences and our memories. If the world saw it fit to give them to me, to share her secrets, why should I hide it? Our memories have created us. To want to remake our selves to be accepted back into the fold is to inflict violence on ourselves so others won’t do it.
I like to think Virgo’s sextile to Cancer means something. After it’s cut off from divine light, after it’s been cast out of Eden and begins the thankless work of striking out and figuring things out yourself, after the loneliness and confusion, I’d like to think Virgo’s past becomes a legacy its students and friends rally around. Someone just had to be the first: the first to defy a god and choose people, to find humanity worthier. Besides, what has pandering to divinity and greatness gotten us? Arachne was better than Athena and was punished for not pretending otherwise. Ariadne helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur and was stranded on an island. Cassandra was condemned to a lifetime of mockery and disbelief by the sun-god.
![Glimmer stands in the middle of a whirling storm, weaves a spell and pushes it out towards her father, her eyes glowing (She-Ra: Princess of Power, 2018) Glimmer stands in the middle of a whirling storm, weaves a spell and pushes it out towards her father, her eyes glowing (She-Ra: Princess of Power, 2018)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_lossy/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F247b3dcd-a7c8-4b3e-81f7-500b801c55d0_500x250.gif)
Virgo is faithless because it finds better tools for survival than faith. You may call it cynicism but I call it devotion in practice. Virgo knows it’ll work, hopes it’ll be fine when uncertain and learns to be compassionate if it doesn’t.
Each mutable sign carries the grief and relief of a long-awaited long-dreaded ending. In Virgo, you learn there's no such thing as arrival. You keep going into autumn. You keep harvesting every year and have varied results each time. There's no magnum opus, no masterpiece, no legacy. You are always in the process of becoming. You can be freed from the tyranny of the final result, be free to love the journey.
We live in cultures that look for one face to crown: the director for the film, the writer for the book, the artist for the portrait. Because accomplishment and reward can only belong to one person, there’s a fight to claim credit. We don't believe in collective work, even when it exists out in the open. Genius must be singular to be respected, must be Leo to be truly brilliant, must be original for the auteur to be known. There can be no team behind the director, the writer, the artist. With these conditions, working to contribute to someone else's work is to choose invisibility, dependence and subservience.
To be human is to always be some god’s borrower. Mercury is deft because they live as a borrower: always be ready to remake and rebuild. To have mutable adaptability, only carry what you can take on your back.
In Virgo, Mercury knows everything ends — even the slow ripening vitality of summer. We take the wheat and shed the chaff; we remember its generous sense of time and grieve the loss but are relieved the months of hard work are behind us.
What's worse: limitation or limitlessness? What's worse: curiosity or certainty? Deception or visibility? In Virgo, I'm tearing apart at the seams from the multitudes I hold. In Virgo, I'm spilling like ripe fruit, pantry too full from the harvest, earth too wild with flowers. We fold the binary in half and toss it over our shoulders for luck.
My knowledge isn’t the problem. I just need someone to share it with. In Libra, the Sun falls. Think of what we could build if we stopped wanting to be godlike. Think of what we could have if we aspired beyond greatness.
![Scooby licks Velma in a boat when they discover she’s the villain (Scooby-Doo! In Where’s My Mummy, 2005) Scooby licks Velma in a boat when they discover she’s the villain (Scooby-Doo! In Where’s My Mummy, 2005)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0d8bc6b4-244a-4f14-ae10-976a7021a2f5_299x168.jpeg)
Virgo has Penelope’s conflict: to love the summer Odysseus brings but to dread the work it takes to make him stay. In Virgo, Mercury is reflective, holding the fear of having already witnessed the peak of beauty and perfection in her hands. Everything is too brief. That’s why we love it so deeply. That’s why we love it at all.
There’s no going back but do you really want to? Wouldn’t you rather wander the imperfect transforming earth than having a fixed paradise? It’s not uncertain but receptive. Wouldn’t you like to love something responsive to your attention and care? Something that is as changed by you as you are by it?
Will anything look as alive as a summer bloom again? What do you look at when you’ve already seen godliness? But the woman in the field looks across to Libra rising over the horizon. It may not be the gold of wheat but you’ve already had enough of that for a lifetime. There will be beauty in decay. There will be life again, just in different colors and in new patterns. There’s something to learn from dying too. It’s just a new place to arrive.
Author’s notes:
“The anthropologist Mary Douglas sees a joke as ‘a play upon form’, as a rite and ‘an anti-rite’. The pleasure lies in the way that it plays with our sense of what might be allowable: ‘the joker as god promises a wealth of new, unforeseeable kinds of interpretation,’ she writes, ‘a joke implies that anything is possible’. And, perhaps, it also implies that anything can be made to happen simply by expressing the wish for it.
In the earliest surviving comedy in the Western canon, Aristophanes’s The Acharnians (425 BC ), Dikaiopolis issues an order to his associate Euripedes. The tragedian replies: ‘Sorry, it’s not possible.’ The comedian’s response? ‘Do it anyway.’ In this comic universe, the counterfactual comes good. Comedy sometimes implies that the world will become the world we want—the best of all impossible worlds.” — Comedy: A Very Short Introduction, Matthew Bevis.
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First:
Glimmer from the She-Ra reboot is at her most Virgo when she’s being mentored by Shadow Weaver (particularly in s4, ep 10). She starts her reliance from a place of helplessness and insecurity, feeling second best to Adora (whose popularity she feels is undermining Glimmer’s authority as Queen), so she makes strategic alliances to keep power even when it harms her interests. Her friends realize Shadow Weaver is isolating her but Glimmer cares too much about being the most powerful to listen.
The ideal student is too lonely to challenge the teacher, too isolated under the excuse of keeping the genius pure. Virgo intelligence comes from constantly interacting with the environment, not from studying in some lonely damp room. They are at their most brilliant when helping others, learning from their peers, always studying life as it unfolds.
For Virgo, understanding they can be wrong becomes easier when they learn there can be multiple solutions to a problem because the problem presents itself differently to everyone. They’re liberated when they stop grasping for objective reality. Do you want control over information or do you think controlling information will help you have control over the self?
Second:
Catra is chipped by Horde Prime as punishment for defiance. When Adora returns to rescue her, Catra acts like someone converted to a cult by an evangelist, which she’s an obvious reference to. Our first interactions with authority are often religious; we’re taught to surrender, to disregard our own expertise and center divine omnipotence, that knowing means nothing if you don’t know it all.
She says over and over how glad she is to have ‘stepped into the light of Horde Prime’, because now she can forget all the hurt Adora caused her. She can be free of knowledge and surrender to someone else’s authority. That’s a Virgo story that often goes untold: knowing this much is overwhelming and alienating. Knowledge without direction ends up confusing people so they prefer to not know, because there seems to be no end in sight to the craft of knowing. Information is always changing, contradicting itself. There are so many consequences to being the authority on something that can turn around and be false tomorrow. Is there any truth? Any meaning?
And what about knowledge of people? Familiarity breeds contempt, after all, and knowledge of people exists because of familiarity with them. Expertise is built on constant revision. How do we forge relationships with people when we know all the worst parts of them? Forgiveness feels impossible when you remember so well. Wouldn’t it be easier to forget everything? It’s so tempting to turn to someone else, ask them to think for you and tell you what to do.
In Leo, we have awareness. In Virgo, we have to experiment and cogitate, weave the endless thread into a tapestry into a loom. Then in Libra, we use the analysis to deliver a collaborative judgement. So Virgo asks: how do you put knowledge into action? What do you do with knowledge you can’t? We think if we knew less, we’d be less critical, kinder, easier to love. But our kindness to others is also only possible through attention and consideration. Knowledge is as integral to love as it is to hatred, to union as to severance. These are all only tools, powerful as they may seem, and we can use them better if we keep trying.
(Sometimes, I think Venus falls in Virgo because she cares too much there, to the point of irritable exhaustion. Relating is easier and more pleasurable when you’re thinking about yourself as much as you’re thinking about the other. Venus struggles to be interested in things that aren’t pleasurable, so she doesn’t enjoy the Virgo ethos of everyday practice and habit-making.
Be interested in yourself too. It doesn’t make you self-centered, if that’s what you’re afraid of. It’ll help you appreciate your mistakes and therefore, other people’s.
Judging yourself won’t protect you from other people’s judgement. Judging others won’t protect you from caring for them. Making mistakes is part of the scientific method. How will you test your framework for rigor if not by recklessly disobeying it every now and then?)
Be mercurial. Ask your own questions and be skeptical. You won’t do half as much damage as you think, and your fear is proof of how deeply you care. No lone mistake destroys anything long-lasting. Bad things happen because a group made deliberate strategic choices, not because of curiosity. Virgos are great at the religious repentance, atonement and guilt but they forget the tenets of compassion and self-forgiveness. To be human is to err. That’s how we learn. That’s how we grow closer to each other.
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Miscellaneous observations:
Both Sun-woo and Bo-ra from Reply 1988 are the two faces of Virgo.
Shifu and Oogway are the Virgo-Pisces axis.
Virgo the interviewer deflecting the spotlight away from them, Virgo the potter pushing earth into a new shape in collaboration with chance, Virgo the predictive-text friend showing you love by offering up the words you’re looking for.