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You know the Dark Moon Drill;
Cleaning, uncluttering and organising always makes you feel a whole heap better + it’s more effective at this time of the lunar phase a.k.a. month.
Yes, that is Penelope, above. But I always wear that sort of outfit to clean as well. Gingham is so practical, no?
This is Isabella Rossellini, writing about her mother, the Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman:
“Never leave a room empty-handed,” she would often say to me, meaning that there’s always a glass in the living room that needs to be taken to the kitchen sink, a magazine in the bedroom that has to be returned to the living room, and so on. She taught me how to be orderly and how to clean house efficiently…
“…When my stepfather, Lars, bought the Théâtre de Montparnasse in Paris, my mother rushed in to clean it. “That poor house-keeper,” she told me, referring to the lady who generally did that job, “she had to work with the dirtiest rag and the most plucked-out broom. How can she do a good job? I told Lars, ‘Make sure she has what she needs. You cannot clean with an unclean rag or sponge; that just lets you spread dirt around — push it a little bit here, a little bit there. It doesn’t help eliminate it….’”
“…I love cleaning. For both Mother and me, cleaning and organizing are soothing, though because it feels good we may do too much of it. It can get obsessive, and we have to watch out for that. My mother even had to go to a doctor — she couldn’t stop cleaning, and everything got a little out of hand. The doctor diagnosed that she was allergic to dust, which is why she felt so strongly about getting rid of it, but I know that wasn’t it…”
She was seeking that “high” that cleaning gives. I know what it feels like; I’m always on the lookout for dust in secret places where I haven’t looked before to see if any has landed there. If I see it, I can’t stop thinking about it until I get rid of it. Dust brings out the hunting instinct in me, and I know I got that from Mamma….”
Allergy? High? Yes, of course, and she was a multiple-conjunct Virgo: Sun, Venus and Mercury.
How I love the idea of an all white interior. It appeals to my Moon in Libra like MAD. But then Mars in Virgo (opposite Saturn!) envisages several hours a day gliding around, tight-lipped and eagle-eyed, my neurotic hands gripping the spray and wipe as i wipe off MARKS OF GRUB. Or worse GRIME.
Oddly enough the only person i know to actually DO an all white interior decor is the Sagg Fascinator and this is in spite of grown-up musician children, grandchildren, cats, dogs and an insane, chain-smoking (cigars), right-wing, Scorpio, hunter boyfriend. She has NO Earth element in her chart whatsoever so I can only imagine that practical aspects did not concern her.
Come on, which sign could hack it? In real life? Maybe whichever sign would be an expert painter and able to repaint every few months. That would work. It wouldn’t be Cancerians because they would have too much stuff. They’d have “knick knacks” and sentimental tickets to things they remembered all over that mantlepiece. Pisces would scribble some inspirational slogan in lipstick on the mirror or put a rainbow sticker in the corner. It would remind Aries of a hospital room so no way. Leo – not enough bling. Scorps need red/purple. Sagg – LOL!
I am thinking an Aquarius who is really into Reiki and just sort of needs a SPACE into which to propel his/her thoughtforms between astral travels might like it. But they would have to drink their wheatgrass in the kitchen. A control-freaky Capricorn would do it – just to show that they could. Thoughts?
I blame my Mars in Virgo but I love cleaning. Or my umpteen planets in Pisces? Yes, Pisces. And the people I know are neatly divided into two camps:
Group One:
Those who loathe cleaning, bitch entertainingly about hating it, dread it and/or have even mounted a fairly spirited feminist argument against it. eg; that it saps their creativity.
Group Two:
Those who love cleaning and have turned the whole thing into a sacred art form that will usually involve some form of ritual candle burning, essential oil spraying, smudging and/or house blessing.
For instance, i was talking to the Piscean Beauty Fanatic the other week and was beside herself with glee as she was about to spend the whole Saturday cleaning. And yes, she does have a life – a business, pole dances & yoga for fitness & does a lot of Reiki/aura-soma style stuff.
I think that it does help if you have any sort of Feng Shui-Geomancy-Sacred Space style belief system. So you’re not just cleaning, you are instilling sparkling fresh Qi into your home environment, sorting your life (symbolically) as you sort your shite and setting your mind at ease.
But weirdly, the Solar Virgoans (sun sign virgo) seem to often resent it – it’s Moon in Virgo that gets off on it i.m.o.
Pisceans who have an ill-deserved slovenly reputation in astrology are often completely into zooshing up their environment & can happily compulsively clean for hours in between bouts of debauch. Same with Libra. I think because Pisceans are magical thinkers and Librans love scented symmetry.
Taureans and Cancerians would rather cook than clean – if you’ve really done a decent job sacred cleansing, there’s no WAY you want to stuff up the kitchen a.k.a. symbolic gleaming abundance pod. Aries & Gemini clean if there is a mission/reason to do so.
I suspect Leos & Capricorns to be naturally slovenly and deep down feel strongly that there ought to be Help. Good Help to slink around with white gloves dusting & offering to fetch the Leo/Cap a glass of champagne from the fridge that Good Help has just disinfected and vanilla-wiped.
Virgos often also hoard, the enemy of a clean and uncluttered space unless it’s something like bulk loo paper. ie; practical.
I think Sagg & Aquarius avoid it along the lines of some obscure tribe in Woop-Woop don’t do it as it is actually considered more cosmic to just sort of let dust evolve in its own style, dust being also an aspect of the cosmos…the particles that are us one moment are also the dust the next, quantum meta-physics and all…the Sagg once showered in a shithole on top of a barge in Borneo so is not concerned with a mild “ring” around the bath now because that’s your shit. Aquarius can also mount a reasonable Zen argument on top of all this.
There you have it; Pisceans & Librans clean for leisure, to sacredly space out, sort the Feng and settle their minds. Am I right or am I wrong?
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