November 14, 2004
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It’s a Virgo thing.
Several of my readers here are Virgos. One or another of them, on
various occasions when I’ve expressed some preference or peeve that
resonated for them, has commented that it must be “a Virgo thing.”We Virgos have lots of preferences and peeves, I suppose.
Generally, we go way out of our way to get things “right”, and usually
on the first try. Several of the people who’ve been closest to me
in this life have said they hate arguing with me because I always
win. Most of them go on to say that it’s not because I cheat or
anything, but because I’m usually right. I do try not to argue
unless I’m fairly certain of my position.I try hard at whatever I do. Maybe that’s because of early
parental programming, and maybe that’s a Virgo thing, too. Over
the years I’ve become convinced that most of the defective products and
fouled up systems in this world are not from incompetence, but from
lack of effort. As I see it, just about anyone could do at least
as well as I do, if they’d just give it a greater effort. I know
beyond a doubt that I could foul things up royally if I didn’t try so
hard to get them right.So, given the effort I put into things, and the frequency with which
such efforts pay off in various things that work right after I’ve
created them or fixed them, I tend to get peeved when I’ve done the
best I can with something and it turns out not to work. Take
KaiOaty’s site for example. It was months in the planning and
tinkering. I had friends and family members test it, and I gave
it every test I could think of. It appeared to work and those
friends and family members expressed approval and admiration.It isn’t that KaiOaty’s site doesn’t work at all. It just doesn’t
work as smoothly as I planned for it to work. It seems to work
excellently for some people. I guess what’s irritating me now is
that I don’t know what to do to get it working better, for more
people. And that, I know, is a Virgo thing. Greyfox, for
example, would leave it be. He tells me that no matter what, “two
percent never get it.” That’s a military saying, probably Air
Force, and I think they say something like ten percent don’t get the
word the first time around, and two percent never get the word.
Maybe so.For now, I’m bumbling along, spending a disproportionate amount of time
and effort trying to serve the ones who didn’t get the word. I am
neither encouraged nor consoled by the nagging suspicion that at least
two percent of them aren’t going to “get it” when they get their
readings, either.Some good news:
Our friend Seph (SefiraMoon),
is back in Alaska on vacation from Iraq. He called today and
we’re meeting him for lunch tomorrow. Since I didn’t do a reading
yesterday, and may not do one tomorrow because I’ll be gone for much of
the day, I’ve posted one already today and plan to do another one after
I post this blog. New requests keep coming in, and that keeps me
busy and happy. I love my work. I just don’t enjoy some of
the work I have to go through to get to do my real work. That has
to be a Virgo thing.
Comments (13)
Speaking for myself, the reading you did for me a year and a half ago still resonates.
That doesn’t mean everything worked right for it, but that it still carries enough juice to make me look at it once in a while and share it with others because it still applies and still has something to teach me.
I hope this helps!
Yeppers, it’s a Virgo thingy. But you know what? I give up. I’ve decided if people don’t get it, too bad. No more I told you so or anything. Now all I do is just say oh well, you’ll get it right the next time
It has to be a Virgo thing. I swear that no matter how I explain things, or where I put it I still get the same questions every single day. I’ve even got a FAQ section that covers all those questions I get asked everyday. And I still get emails asking the same questions. I’ve thrown my hands up at this point. It’s one of those things I can’t fix.
I’ve not checked your other site. I think I will have to do just that! Keep warm, my friend!
Then, there it is. Some people WILL NEVER GET IT.
This has been an ongoing dilemma for me. And I’m a Gemini. Leo rising. Scorpio moon. (Pretzel machine, here I come …)
I’ve recently thrown my hands up and said, “Feck it.”
My Virgo daughter keeps me in line with her incessent questioning, and double checking of my answers. I love her for it. Keeps me honest … just like you.
Tell Seph I said hello when you have the chance.
Our charts must be quite a bit alike. We seem to always be on the same page eventhough I dont always tell you that it’s so. Did you hear they are finally making a movie of Janis Joplin’s life? Renee Z. is playing her. Maybe we should see it together. The three of us belong to the same circle of ghosts. That I am extremely sure of. I love you.
I surfed your way by means of the Xanga contest that neuroticfitchmom is hosting. Just dropped by to see what you were all about. Good luck in the contest!
Holy shit, Sarah’s girl is a Virgo! Suddenly it all makes sense!
I often say, “It’s a Virgo thing,” and laugh. My mom’s current husband is a Virgo, and the only decent one of the four she’s married. He’s got all these funny little quirks and peculiarities (by my Aries and her Leo standards), but since he’s a good guy and tries to make things right, we just smile, chuckle, and shrug.
I use to write web content for a job I had at a university Career Center. I’d go through stuff a million times to make sure it was as explicit and navigable as possible, yet we’d still get calls and emails from people who just didn’t get it or refused to even read the briefest of thing so they would get it. Drove me absolutely crazy. No matter how good you are some people are too lazy to look for themselves and would rather be spoon fed information. Sad but true.
I’m very Virgo…
Interesting stuff. I’ve known very few Virgos in my short time. But I’m definitely a textbook Cancerian who seems to get on famously with Capricorn (polar opposite), Aries, Scorpio, Taurus and Gemini.
I’m not just a textbook Cancerian, I actually used to pretend that each of my hands was a crab when I was very young (long before encountering astrology) before pitting them against each other in fights. My friends have always noted that I move from side to side when I walk and it’s hard to keep track of my position during an ambulant conversation. I’ll always take the long way around as long as there is even the slight possibility of discovering something that could not have been discovered otherwise. And although I can get along OK with other crabs – I prefer not to be around them. Especially female ones because they are exceedingly insane.
my brother/travelling companion…is, as you might remember, a Virgo.
he’s the most disorganized soul in the world. messy as hell. however, we’ve pretty much figured out that he and i both have attention deficit “issues”. [go figure] BUT…there is no one who can organize shit better than he. not his own…no no no. but when my parents were moving? he was there. looked at the trailer. dragged everything out. repacked it and, voila, instant extra space.
and take charge? that would be him. even though he’s no longer on the board at camp gaea, he’s still the one people come to with issues, questions, problems, what-have-you.
It takes effort on my part to realize that some people will not get it, no matter how much we set it up for them. BOO!