My love letter to a Virgo

Embrace the messy action, do something worse :)

Embrace the messy action. 3 simple words that inspired so much self reflection. Where do I start. I am a Virgo. Not just a Virgo Sun, a Virgo stellium. For those that don’t know, the term “stellium” refers to the instance of having 3 or more planets in a specific sign. As you can imagine, having so much planetary energy in one sign can really ramp up the power! My placements include Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter and the Sun. I like to (and will going forward) refer to myself as a Super Virgo. So when I say I relate to all things Virgo, I’m not lying.

Messy action. My old self would have heard the message and wanted to dive deeper. To gain knowledge, yes. But also in a quest to avoid listening to the advice and instead to perfect what messy action is (in my brain, not in actual real life). So I decided, for once, I’m not going to look up where it came from and learn everything there is to know about it, I’m going to embrace what I received and credit it to my beautiful friend Sandra.

One of the things I love the most about astrology is that it allows you to understand your perceived strengths and weaknesses and work forward from that point. So you may have tendencies towards analysis paralysis, it doesn’t mean that is who you are. What it does mean is that when that tendency creeps up, you can recognize it, acknowledge it and move in a different way. Which is how I have been and will continue to live my life going forward.

I’m having a flash back of leading a course structured around how the planets impact the signs, and vice versa. Every time I would hit Virgo, my advice was always “learn to chill”. And I said that with love, always, because I know how hard it is. Me and my fellow Virgo’s will tell you (or probably won’t because it might be considered a weakness) that we have a tendency to overthink. We get caught up in the details, often (depending on other placements) to our own detriment. I can’t tell you how many times I have been SO excited about something, started it, overthought the hell out of it, and then quit. Not because the passion was gone, simply because my overactive, analytical brain decided it was too complicated, I hadn’t learned enough, didn’t know enough; really who was I to be speaking on this?

Don’t get it twisted, we have super powers. Because we can be self-deprecating by nature, this is of course going to come last :) We can analyze a room upside down and backwards before most people have even hung up their coats. And if you don’t think we’re listening? Trust and believe, we are. We’ve heard everything you’ve said with your mouth, face and body language and have entered it into the super computer for further analysis and filed it away with coloured tabs and an index for later use.

Now here’s the thing. Virgo placements can be GREAT at astrology (again, depending on other astrological placements). We love to learn and are generally very intelligent (and I say this with a giant cringe because we’re typically also very humble). But delving deep into a chart, all those placements and calculations and charts, oh man. The best! Gemini Moon and Pisces Rising have taken over and I’ve lost the plot a little here.

Back to the beginning. Embrace the messy action. Thank you again to Sandra. These 4 words have summarized my quest for the last too many years to count. My Virgo friends, embrace the messy action. The world around us suggests that we try to do one thing better each day. I challenge you to do one thing worse. I’m laughing as I type this because my old self would have told you to kick rocks (in my head, filed away that you’re crazy). But honestly. Do something worse than you normally would. I’ll give you an example. I am currently working on breaking into a space of being seen. Terrifying, especially because there’s no place Super Virgo’s love more than the background. I recorded a voice note with the intent on posting it on instagram. I had it all ready to go, about the press “schedule”. I decided to give it one last listen. Oh my God, why am I breathing so much? Why am I breathing so loud!? Instant panic, delete, delete, delete! Thankfully, because I’m on this journey, I saved a draft before total crash and burn. This is where the beautiful words “embrace the messy action” entered my life. Because I am on this journey of doing something worse, I asked for help (omg, another cringe thing for a Virgo). Instead of giving up, I was given the gift of mess, with the intention that if you don’t try, you can’t get better. So the message was rescheduled (ahhhh!) and I’m hiding my phone from myself for the rest of the day. Side note, if you’re into breathing noises, my instagram handle is @myinnersky222.

So, am I going to re-read this 356 times before I post it? Probably. But am I going to post it, hell yes! It turns out that doing something worse, over time, may actually result in doing something better, who knew! If you’re reading this, know that I’ve embraced the mess, strived to do something worse and did the damn thing….and you can too!

Oh, and one last piece of advice. If you can sort it out, have a child with some Aries placements…they’ll point out all your flaws ;)