Virgo serves up a dish of perfection

Virgo's feet, always on the ground and carrying buckets of clean-up-your-act tools, are the coming attractions this week.

Venus skips from Leo to Virgo at 3:11 p.m., PDT today. Venus has to work to feel at home in Virgo--the goddess doesn't do housework. But Venus adds some enjoyment to Virgo--an exotic spice added to the whole grain organic rice, scented candles to the Martha Stewart table, silk added to the comforts of just cleaned and pressed sheets.

But for any real fun, Venus in Virgo must be helped out of her shy shell. Loneliness is her lot unless she breaks through her insistance on orderliness--just a cover for insecurity anyway.

Enter Mars in Cancer the crab, stage left. He's been waiting for his wholesome Venus beauty to come down to earth. More than anyone, he can understand her hiding-in-a-shell behavior. He'll quietly draw her a bath while she finishes the how-to book on sensual massage. A very compatible pair. They hold each other like earth holds water. Like the conch shell contains the ocean.

The Sun follows Venus into Virgo on Tuesday at 4:21 a.m. Virgos carry an underlying "knowing" of the perfection inherent in all life. That's why they're always striving for the best, always trying harder.

Mercury has finally finished re-modeling the cave, flies direct to join the Moon in Leo, and gets messages back on track at 2:55 p.m. on Friday. We're cleaned up, re-booted, and ready for new beginnings.