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Where it gets a little sticky is when we get into transmigration of the ‘soul.’ Do we ‘believe’ that some fundamental aspect of ourselves has existed in a lifetime prior to this one? As Newton identified: every action has an equal and opposite reaction. It even lives in the physical makeup of our reality. Whether you ‘believe’ in karma or not, it is simply a cosmic system of cause + effect. Whenever we are dealing with Saturn, I feel like it’s important to contextualize the situation in the law of karma. Perhaps, the key to ‘lifting’ Venus from her ‘fall’ in Virgo lies in the paradox of meticulous mastery vs. We don’t always think of relationship as a skill, but undeniably it does take practice and work. It might be boundary work, healthy communication, the energy spent on acts of service (very Virgo)… or? How do we scrutinize in a constructive way that doesn’t reduce ‘love’ down to a sum of its parts? What does it mean to be meticulous in relationship? Our relationships are a different matter. We love the feeling of a balanced checkbook.Īnd yet we all know that being a bit obsessive about money and material breeds many forms of neuroses. Meticulousness with our material resources is often looked upon fondly. As in, “am I going to make the ‘wrong’ choice?” I think this is what gives earthy Virgo its often airy feel: an indecisiveness born of inhibition. The unattainable perfect can be driven by a fear of vulnerability, a fear of failure, or a fear of loss of control. It feels relevant in relation to the perfectionist aspects of the Virgo archetype. One could argue that being careful creates the conditions for skillful action. However, it’s interesting to ponder the origins of this word and its latent associations with a kind of care that is derived from caution. It generally implies a level of mastery in one’s craft. We don’t think of someone who takes care in their actions as fearful.
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The modern connotation of meticulousness is often quite positive. The word ‘meticulous’ comes from the Latin root, ‘metus’ which means ‘fear.’