Monday, August 23, 2010

FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: The Virgo identity has been claimed by many cultures. She is Ishtar to the Babylonians; to the Greeks she is Zeus' daughter, Justice; and to the Indians she is Kauni, the mother of Krishna -- and the list goes on. Maybe her universal appeal has something to do with the fact that we all come from mothers and continue to be shaped in some way by the feminine forces of the universe. Those forces are encouraging our growth big-time this week, as events conspire to remind us that nobody's perfect. Furthermore, the ones who profess to "have it all going on" are the first to suspect of being seriously troubled. And though it's not usually a good idea to dwell on our various problems, it wouldn't hurt to take a personal inventory of our top issues of concern for the purpose of addressing a few of them. There's no time like the present -- the sun will be on your side! Yes, the annual solar transit through Virgo begins this week. The Virgo sun marches into our world like a benevolent but bossy mother, prompting us to straighten up, figure it out and generally get our acts together.