Musings of a Yorkshire Astrologer

by David Fisher

Who shall I " have a go at" this time? The sign Virgo, I think. It may have been the late Roger Elliot who once remarked that Virgo types are not exactly a barrel of laughs, although there are notable exceptions such as Stephen Fry, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.

I have noticed certain rigidity among the Sun Virgo people, which makes them ideal candidates for the Civil Service. They play everything "by the book"; there is no room for flexibility. There's a bloke at the local Jobcentre where I sign on every fortnight and the first time I saw him the word "Virgo" sprang to mind. Many of the staff there are able to unwind, but not this man. With his colleagues one can enjoy a little lighthearted banter, but I have noticed that if I try to engage our Virgo (?) friend - I don't know his birth date - in a bit of humour, his facial features begin to register panic, as if he cannot find it in himself to descend to that level. Of course, no one is denying that Virgo people are usually excellent workers, but they have great difficulty detaching themselves from the job and trying to "lighten up" a bit.

Virgo women are little bettering this respect. There is a kind of mystique attached to them, which one eventually realises is largely self created (e.g. Greta Garbo and Agatha Christie). At my last place of employment there was a typist with whom I got on very well. But after knowing her for about 25 years, I realise I don't really "know" her at all. She would sometimes mention her parents and siblings, but to me and the rest of her colleagues, her life outside work was a closed book. Shyness perhaps? Not entirely, because she took part in amateur dramatics years ago.

There is something about Jehovah's Witnesses or at least their religion. They interpret each part of the Bible in its most literal sense; in other words they "play the Book by the book". Surely the marvellous thing about the Bible is that it can be read on so many different levels, which is why it is the world's most popular literary work. Incidentally, Jehovah's Witnesses are also "anti astrology". At a party organised by a lady astrologer years ago I was confronted by her older brother, a Jehovah's Witness, who kept ramming home the same phrase to anyone her knew to be an astrologer, "Astrology is the work of the Devil." I don't know what his astrological make up happened to be - perhaps with his penchant for "ramming home" he was Sun Aries - but he failed to formulate a logical argument as to why astrology was evil.

Finally, isn't it odd that St Valentine's Day occurs when the Sun is in the sign Aquarius, regarded as perhaps the least emotional of the Zodiac signs? Why not in Taurus or Libra, the signs ruled by Venus?

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