Sonya Renee Taylor

right?

People take pure and then mean that means perfect.

And then Virgo is like perfectionistic and always trying to get it right and needing to figure out all the things.

And that is part of the dynamic that can be the sort of more human version of how that energy gets expressed.

But it's higher energy.

Is Virgo not the virgin and pure as in perfect, but pure as in the essence of the thing?

I think about

how perfume is pure, right?

How all the notes and aspects of it or pure vanilla, right?

It means we haven't diluted it.

That's what it means, right?

It means we haven't added a bunch of other stuff to it.

It's pure essence.

The other thing that Virgo as the Virgin represents is not perfect, but sovereign.

What ultimately Virgo desires

is for every aspect of ourselves to be fully present in ourselves.

it means not I didn't give myself away to you.

It means I fully belong to myself, all the parts of me, the imperfections, the misalignments, the confusion, the whatever aspects of me without judgment are welcome here.

And when they are all welcome here, I am a whole being fully embodied in the pure essence of my beingness.

And from that place,