For The Broken Hearted During Virgo Season
September 2020
I'm in the mood today to write about organizing heartbreak, and you may say to me:
but Aliza, how can that be? How do you organize heartbreak?
To which I answer: 'TIS VIRGO SEASON, dear star lover. There's no limit to what you can put in its place.
No matter what is breaking in you, the stars move and then move again. They give us answers, and if we can't find them, we probe deeper. It's what we do.
Astrologers are talking about the angsty frustrating Mars Saturn square, and astrologers are talking about Jupiter going direct this month, and astrologers are talking about what they always talk about: you and me and the stars. The FACT that it's Virgo Season, the Season of the Fix, can get lost in all that heavenly drama.
So don't forget that there's something that needs sorting. Something that needs fixing. Maybe that something, that someone, is you. And maybe not. Maybe it's the way you see things, too close, too precise, too detailed, or too large, too broad, too rest-of-your-life-forever.
When I was working on my second book (coming out next year), I got supplies. I got extra ink and extra paper for the printer because only essential supplies shipped out asap because Covid. I print everything out and edit and I do this over and over. I still have stacks of paper over there, the book in all its previous shapes. And I planned this book. I mapped it out. The map is a metaphor in it, along with the road, your spiritual road, quest. I can't wait for you to hold it. You hold me when you hold it.
So now it's Virgo Season and you're hurting again or someone you know is hurting. It doesn't stop, does it? Seems like there's always a fresh supply, like dung or tears. Never runs out.
I want to encourage you to make a stack, not of dung or tears or things to do or even heartbreaks but a stack of one. One thing. One thing you'd like to fix, to put in its place before Virgo Season ends. One thing. Do you know what it is? Do you know *where* it is? I encourage you to find it right away. Don't let Virgo Season get away without this work.
The other day I was tweeting out that there was something other (better?) than healing. That it was radical and luminous and that we need new words to describe how we get on in life. That we don't trust people. That we ache. That we're ashamed. And we get on in life. And I was interviewing this therapist and she was talking about trust and talking about healing and I wrote her later to say this: maybe healing isn't the point. What if there is something else. She never wrote back.
It's Virgo Season, my loves. You have every right to pluck your harvest. It's like the Seven of Pentacles in the Tarot. Whatever you've been growing, that time is now. Take it from the dirt. Lift it up. You can sacrifice it to the god of your choice or consume it yourself, and I'm sure there are other options.
And then seek and find that one little detail that needs fixing and fix it. And fix it again. Until perfection. You can do it. I believe in you.
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