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Look, we all know how difficult it is to buy presents for Virgos. A Virgoan trying to gift another Virgoan is a study in anxiety and neurotic nit-pickery: Too itchy, too cheap, too costly, too synthetic, not sending out the right message, too naff, too trendy, not quite right so right after my hyperventilating flip out in the mall lavatory, we’ll go spend another four hours getting the Right Gift and no, a voucher is never acceptable.

So all hail the Detectair: ideal for a chic hypochondriac, trend-aware Virgo of either gender.

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“…the Detectair vest contains sensors that detect the ambient air quality and displays the data on the garment itself by illuminating a pattern of embedded LEDs across the chest

The LEDs visualize an individual’s quality of breathing based on the toxicity levels in the air. Small vibrators alert the wearer when they have entered into a dangerous and unhealthy environment.

…The collar itself  functions as a protective mechanism akin to a medical/dust mask. In an unhealthy atmosphere, the wearer can shield her face/mouth by pulling the collar around the neck and face.”

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US Vogue Steven Klein

So once again we ascribe Zodiac principles to Haute Fashion – see the Saggo Tennis Pro Astro-Gaga – and so what of this lot? As I always ascribe Saggability to sporting looking peeps,  I am going to say that the girl in the bathing suit is a Sagittarius from outer space and that she has somehow misread the briefing notes on the flying saucer (Saggos don’t give a shit about reading the instructions, they find them so boring and irrelevant) so she’s in a back garden full of Virgoans instead of at the swimming stadium. Your thoughts?

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Oh well Virgoans are about to go absolutely ape. Not only is Saturn out of their sign so they can go nano-seconds at a time without guilting themselves, they’ve got asteroid Pan (asteroid number 4450) and Dionysus (asteroid number 3671) in their sign with NO Saturn to be a spoilsport banging on about carbs post 6pm, liver function, sane adult relationships and so on. Pan and Dionysus are the good time guys of the Zodiac.

What else…Ceres is close to the Sun in Scorpio…I so need to keep a closer eye on Ceres and in fact, it is one of my 2010 resolutions. Monitor Ceres.

Circe is in late Scorpio squaring Neptune – yay! Psycho-sexual flirtations and bewitchery…Venus, Sappho, Pallas & Saturn all lurk together in lovely Libra – v.good brainiac and thinking weekend if one is  not too distracted by all the pandemonium.  Lilith, Psyche and Pandora join the Auspicious Aqua-Weirding.  There is BIG emphasis on Libra and Aquarius this weekend – high minded relationships, free love and new ideas infusing into everything.

Ishtar is in early Saggo trine – ta-dah! – Mars in Leo.  Hot. The Queen and her Warrior. Primordial life force rules.

515R19RtexL._SS500_A la Bookslut & Anne Rice in the Guardian  Angels are the new Vampires.

This makes perfect sense to me as Angels seem v.v. Saturn in Libra – clean, fluffy, godly and all. Whereas Vampires could very easily vibe Virgoan and a bit neurotic. All that fussing about blood types, diet, purity, having to keep totally regular hours or else they will disintegrate or whatever. So bring on the Angels!!

And I would have gone ape over these Joey W Hill books when i was 14. Is that like a Lilith style of succubi writhing around with a studly looking clearly hovering on the verge of falling Angel???

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Oh dear, the grim reaper strikes again. I so wasn’t going to do this but then i altered my mind…Poor Patrick Swayze – he was a truly fab & talented multiple conjunct Leo — Sun-Mercury-Pluto.

This is also interesting for Astro-Fiends: at the time of his passing, he had Saturn on his Virgo Asc & squaring the Gemini midheaven exact. As I say, interesting but not at ALL a usual manifestation of a Saturn square…

Let’s think more of his talent and multi-Leo hotness at his best. I know two women – both Virgos – who went really over-the-top bats for him. One had what was basically a shrine to the guy. The other cherished quite convoluted and naff fantasies based on his persona in Dirty Dancing, which she liked to share with peeps when she was a bit drunk.

I sometimes wonder whether Virgos are actually pre-ordained to get hideous crushes on Leos…They loathe their ego, hubris and general glitz factor but are also drawn to it??? There is an old astrological saying and i never know where it comes from: Virgo is the Handmaiden to Leo.

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So i was in a cafe, reading a puff piece on Cameron Diaz in US Vogue & this is her make-up artist & close friend Gucci Westman describing one aspect of their dynamic:

“She’s a Virgo, I’m a Libran. We have a funny relationship. When we are working together she will try to tell me what to do, but I don’t listen to her. She’s the kind of person who will do the dishes in a hotel. She’s incredibly capable and she’s very good at multi-tasking. If there’s something she doesn’t know how to do, she will make it her project to learn it and learn it really well. She just pushes herself and doesn’t believe anything can stop her.”

Okay, some of that is mega-Virgo. In fact, it all is apart from the last six words. Virgos drive themselves and are often SO successful because they DO believe in stuff that can stop them, they worry themselves into a lather but by Mercury, if something comes up, Virgo will have a plan ready to deal with it. Virgos are perpetual boy-girl scouts in the “be prepared” sense of things.

Years ago i knew a Virgo who had to have an operation she deemed life-threatening and she put a Christian crucifix in one side of her bra and a Pagan pentagram in the other. Just in case. She was SO prepared. And she survived, btw.

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By frenemies, I don’t mean that teen-girl kind of friendship where you have a mate but you secretly hate one another and conspire to give her bad hair advice. I mean when a once close-friend becomes a kind of casual enemy or you just simply break up but it’s never addressed. In actual love relationships, it has to be thrashed out. And there’s always sex & maybe children or shared $$$ to ensure some sort of dialogue. But with friends, the calls just get further & further apart and the must-do-lunches more poignantly ludicrous.

Apart from the obvious divisive factors – one person doing smug married shite and the other crazy-bats single nympho shite -  my theory is that you get waves of friends of one particular sign or astro-signature at certain phases in your life. I had a whole lot of Virgo friends who went during my (still ongoing) Uranus-Venus transit & now I have Scorpios. Or they’ve got Scorp Rising. I only just realised: My Life In The Bush of Scorpions.

So, do you agree with the phases of friends & how do you know when a friendship is kaput? Which sign makes the worst ex-friend? ie’ Bitchiest, most judgemental and, weirdly, still sorta stuck in whatever was going on back in the day?

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This is from a story that ran yonks ago in Salon, about a Taoist who started a brothel purely to study astrology. Or so he says. Quite amusing. You can read it here. And here is a sample of this seduction tips.

“…Leo: the back. “Tell them, ‘You’re the most wonderful person in the world.’ Rub on their back in a forceful, strong way, and they’re yours. They’re the easiest sign to get in bed because they believe any compliment. And once you’re having sex, they like to put on a show.” Both dominatrixes in Hayes’ stable are Leos.

Virgo: the stomach. “They want stability in their relationships — unless they’re going through their ho-ish phase.” Virgo the virgin has a ho-ish phase? “They’re strange, they’ll just sleep with you without emotion. Me, I marry for love. For them, it’s more of a security thing; they’re practical….”

The only bit that felt new to me when i first read this is the claim that Cancerians never or very rarely work in or patronise the sex industry. I have actually heard this consistently over the years. I know most Playboy playmates – at one point were Librans. But then again, they’re often so photogenic & tend to be over-repped in the model world as well. I met a gigolo at a party once who insisted that Leos were statistically more likely to become porn stars. Are there any studies done re this? I began my research just before and my browser nearly crashed with all the filthy pop up windows…