ALMUTEM
Mars in Virgo
Mars represents your energy, your desire and the courage to act. In Virgo, it expresses itself with an eye for detail and a practical streak.
Mars passes through Virgo — mutable earth, house of Mercury — as a peregrine, with neither home nor dignity, governed by the lord of method. Here the burning fire is set to disentangle small things: the force turns to a trade of precision, the blow becomes a measured incision, the surge submits to rule and detail. Mercury hones the edge of Mars for fine work — surgery, the exact tilling, the patient mending of what wears out. It inclines to the sharp criticism that cuts away faults, to painstaking labour, to the censure that lets no error pass. It gives a sure hand for the cutting instrument and for the task that demands discipline. It tends to irritation with another's imperfection, to energy spent on particulars, to the nerve that gnaws within. Like the reaper who parts grain from chaff, it distinguishes and discards without pity. The danger is that of a force spent trimming edges: fierce against trifles, mean where it ought to be broad.