Chris Mooneyham
Roos Abels by Eniko Szucs for Numéro Russia #56
Rain pencil sketch by G Gundam series character designer, Osaka Hiroshi. This picture was scanned from my copy of Danisuta & Level-X’s collaborative “Danisuta Spectacle” doujinshi.
Rain & Allenby illustration by G Gundam series character designer, Osaka Hiroshi. This picture was scanned from my copy of Kami-Igusa Production’s collaborative “Free Drawing 3rd” doujinshi.
Mars in Virgo - Where can I rest the inside of my head?
“All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.” - Walt Whitman
The mind is stimulated, intensely active, and buzzing madly like a hummingbird with Mars in Virgo. The mind is the focal point of energy combustion, and residual energy from the physical body, nervous system and obstructed impulse is swept in by the high force velocity. When the individual is unsettled or anxious she can become terribly agitated by minor problems in her environment and any scope of malfunction or mistake that disrupts her schedule. While the aim is to maintain an exemplary routine of balanced order, she cannot seem to abstain from satisfying the short acting supplies of excitement and fanatical energetic streaks that border on panic. The energy flow swells the nervous system with Mars in Virgo, so anxious arousal accompanies juicy excitement and carnal inflammation. The combination of Mars and Virgo triggers a trance state of automatic, ritualistic focus and mental machinery that spins like cosmic clockwork. She concentrates so hard that she becomes lost inside her mind pipes, chasing encounters that test her will, discipline, self-control, and skillset. She approaches challenges with sharp strategy and precise preplanning that ensures she is always one mental step ahead. Mars fires the combat for battle, but these weapons are double sided in Virgo. The combat field is inside her head and daggers are shot throughout her body. She may struggle to demonstrate her best qualities during examination or competition due to nerves and apprehension draining her vital forces beforehand. There can be an excessive fixation and strict self-regulation in the pursuit of perfecting the mind, appearance, health or athleticism.
The condition of Mars in Virgo can harsh considering the egocentric demands of Mars that conflict with Virgo’s sacrificial service and selfless obligations. Impulse hits hesitation and assertion diffuses beneath doubt and self-blame. Rage can be deeply internalised and become sharp blades that slice critical wounds. She can project her inner state of dissatisfaction and disorder onto the surrounding environment and become frantically preoccupied with order, arrangement, and symmetry. This is until she undergoes routine burn out and reconditioning. Typical orderly arrangement goes affray, she exists surrounded by the chaos she feels inside, there can be complete physical exhaustion, lost appetite or digestive changes, and dull mental and physical paralysis. These are periods of internal detoxification where everything breaks down and reconstructs again. Contaminating thoughts, unmet and unrealistic desire, internalised energy, and the toxins of gluttonous behaviours such as substances and overeating are decomposed and renewed to breathe a fresh life force through the mind, spirit, and body. The individual is made to be very aware of the minutes passing and the time wasting. Like everyone, the individual can procrastinate, become unwell, and have sleepy days. However, there is a fierce internal reprimand and sense of guilt associated with lost productivity, satiating egotistic pleasure, inertia, and neglecting responsibilities. There can be a strong feeling of being dispensable and easily replaceable. It can make her shudder during instances she fears showing weakness, inability, or vulnerability. The individual may resonate in accident, health, and emergency services professions due to the ability to work better beneath higher pressure. There will either be an intrigue and delicacy with medical procedures and wounds, or fainting at the sight of blood.
Mars in Virgo people have an unusual eye for playing with the universe in its most pure, powdery and unviolated form. But these eyes can also become red and burn with critiques and the cracks emerging everywhere she goes. There can be the constant low volume state of hyper vigilance triggered by intrusive threats of impending disaster and anxious trembling between countless variables. This longstanding tension can cause the tendency for sleeplessness, trouble settling the mind, difficulty focusing, impractical self-expectations, somatic pain, and a sense that life is merely a leap from chaos to chaos. It’s also very possible for Mars in Virgo people to adopt basic habits that progress rapidly into compulsive routine. This is why it is so vital for the individual to integrate a routine of meditation, self-reflective writing, tranquil physical activity, prayer in nature, eating in tune with her body clock, and breathing exercises into the daily and weekly plan. These practices can generate the mindful sensation of her physical body becoming her temple, the inexplicable unity that she has with the mood and the vitality of the seasons, the peace of unity in the space between her thoughts. In doing so her nervous butterflies become marvellous flutters of inspiration, she can settle her mind amidst any storm, and she can discriminate between real and imagined threat. The desire for routine or daily sex as a momentary release valve for energy and tension can become more of a shared sensory dance, a physical and mental unity that absorbs into the satisfaction given and experienced by the partner. Mental stimulation and intellectual challenge is also imperative with Mars in Virgo such as crossword and puzzles. Though it’s also important to re-engage the unfulfilled child inside and rest the mind with a good dose of fantasy and fiction, a quiet reminder that not every mental pursuit is a test and reflection of value. The maiden is dressed in red with Mars in Virgo, her battlefield is the war on suffering, and the other battlefield waits in her mind.
-Cherry
art by Kurtis Rykovich
