The sky holds a great focus on Virgo right now with
Saturn's move there on Sept 2nd and a New
Moon/Solar Eclipse at 19 Virgo today. In practical,
perfectionist Virgo we find the personification of work as
service, a topic that will be emphasized for the next two
and a half years as Saturn travels thru Virgo.
What exactly does work as service really mean?
Certainly not everyone views their work as an act of
service. Yet, once you recognize that everything in life
is interdependent, work becomes the act of serving others
that expresses yourself and your gifts. A Virgo's urge for
perfection is clearly expressed in their emphasis on
providing service to others.
Growing up my stay-at-home Mom would complain about doing
the laundry and having to pick up after us. Dad would drag
in the door and barely move from his chair all night.
Adults seemed to be burdened and always complain about the
work they had to do.
By the time I was in my mid 30s, I had two jobs - office
worker by day, housewife and mother by night. I was acting
out the "work is work" approach they taught me. Dad always
said, "Work is work and then you come home and do what you
love." Ugh!
Yet, work is not something separate from living. It is, in
fact, a key component of your life. You spend so many
hours working, if you don't feel fulfilled, you are
wasting you precious life.
But you've got to earn a living, you say? If you do not
feel satisfaction and fulfillment in your work, you are
"earning a dying." Why can't work give you energy,
increase your joy of living rather taking it away?
Work that gives you life? No, it's not an oxymoron. When
you are doing what you love, what your heart calls you to,
and using your unique skills and abilities, you feel
fulfilled and enlivened not drained and burdened.
I know this because since I left my corporate job in 2003
to do astrological consultations and writing full-time, I
have found joy and fulfillment in my work and all areas of
my life have been thriving as a result.
Do you wake most mornings dreading to face your work day?
You are probably not giving your gifts, not doing your
mission, and not providing your unique service. You may be
facing "work as work." In fact, if you are not doing what
makes your heart sing, you dishonor yourself and the whole
world is suffering. It is missing an important part - your
unique skills and abilities.
Whatever you are doing, consider that if you are giving
your life energy to it, it must be important. If it is
important, do it to the best of your ability. That is
"work as service."
If you don't feel good about what you are giving your life
energy to, consider how you may be wasting your energy,
begin listening to your heart's calling, and create a plan
to step into that calling.
Some of you know that I am founder and director the
Holistic Entrepreneur Alliance, a holistic business
networking group that meets in MD and VA. Many of our
members have come to the group suffering from a "work as
work" career and ready to step forward into "work as
service."
It is my vision that, with Pluto entering Capricorn in
late January until 2024, we will see a huge transformation
in how and where work is done. The Soul-less,
narrowly-defined, cubicled jobs inside corporations and
other large organizations will be come less and less
desirable. Entrepreneurs, sole-proprietors and loosely
organized business alliances will thrive. I call it the
"Era of Soul-Driven Livelihood."
The Virgo's urge to serve is based on the reality that
through service to another we recognize what we have to
offer and moving toward personal wholeness.
Let me close with the wisdom I found inside an Honest Tea
bottle cap a couple days ago which says it all.
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for
others and the world remains and is immortal."
--Albert Pine, Biographer of Mark Twain
