Deadly Dichotomy:
Jupiter In Virgo (part 1)
By Linda Brady

Uranus is in Pisces. On August 27, 2003 Jupiter moves into Virgo. This creates an opposition. So even though we call the last two thousand years the Age of Pisces, we cannot forget its complement: Virgo. Through the tension of these oppositions Jupiter will expand our understanding of both signs. In the next year of Jupiter's journey through Virgo we can learn the differences and similarities, and find the freedom that comes from the integration of Virgo and Pisces. Jupiter will provide the discrimination to look at what side of this opposition we project and how we can claim it. When we do not understand one energy in an opposition we will project it outside of ourselves. So we understand one sign, and project the other.

Pisces in many ways is difficult to maintain in our everyday world. We can easily lose our spiritual and compassionate feelings when we are cut off on the beltway and almost killed, or we read about a murder in our neighborhood or when our boss lays us off indefinitely. It's spiritual, loving, compassionate, godlike, forgiving, flowing, adapting, faithful, gentle and emotional energies seem irrelevant in life's more meaningful experiences.

So Virgo becomes the counterpoint to Pisces. Virgo's theme song is about being perfect. It is also service oriented, analytical, logical, organized, efficient and practical. When it is operating from its more problematic side, Virgo is hypercritical, extremistic, obsessive, worrying and self critical. When we cannot live up to the idealistic, spiritual planes of Pisces, we go to its opposition and become more Virgo. It is easier to be critical than loving, logical rather than empathic, worrying rather than having faith, super organized rather than believe in serendipity, extremistic rather than adapting, obsessive rather than flowing and self critical rather than being gentle and compassionate. How often when you are cut off on the beltway, is your immediate reaction: "I can really understand that you must be having a problem: you must be preoccupied to have cut me off. It's okay. I forgive you for doing that." I would guess rarely. I would guess that you would at least be critical and pass a quick judgment about that driver's competence, if not his mother's marital status when he was born.

Over the last 2,000 years. We have learned that being perfect was the ideal and that to be Christ like, we too, needed to emulate His perfection.

So how did we maintain that desire for perfection. Because we were astrologically young we needed a philosophy that was simple to understand: to be perfect we must be good. We had spiritual teachers and an organized system of rules and regulations, that told us what was good and what was wrong. We did not have to take much responsibility. And that was a good thing since we were living a rather childlike existence and needed to understand the rules. The Virgo part of this age required an efficient and thorough program to clearly explain what needed to be done and how we needed to act. The rightness and wrongness of our behavior had to be fully understood, so that we could regulate our behavior accordingly. This model is simple but extreme, with only two options available in most circumstances. It was intellectually easier to make a choice, yet emotionally the stress could be very intense. Let's try a little experiment. Think about a decision that you need to make. Now think about two possible options and know that you have to choose one of them. Pay attention to your feelings. Now think about that same decision and know that you have three or four possible options. Pay attention to your feelings. What is the difference? My guess is you feel tighter, more restricted and more stress when it was only two possibilities and much lighter and expanded when there was more than two. Now magnify that experience to more significant life altering decisions: decisions that are more emotionally or morally charged. I think you will begin to see and feel how much right/wrong, either/or thinking has injured us over the years and over lifetimes. It may be easier, it is certainly not better. Yet that is what we have lived through for two thousand years of Pisces/Virgo experience: either/or, right/wrong, good/bad processing of our lives.

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