Venus Rx + Mars Opposing Mercury/Moon = Horror-movie Haircut

Something I’ve joked about Venus retrograding in Virgo are potential disastrous results of picking a new hair style or having one implemented - your idea of style is different when Venus retrogrades (your style function is operating differently than normal). A friend recently had a very expensive negative experience with a new ‘do during the Rx, and while I didn’t laugh at her experience (really, I didn’t), it fed the urge to joke about the possbilities during the Rx.

So, even as I laughed at myself, almost unable to contain my excitement to see what could happen next, I the other day purchased some clippers and went at my hair. I note now that Mars was in my 8th opposing my natal Mercury-Moon in Sagittarius - and so I can’t say I didn’t see all this coming.

I started to grow my hair out a while ago, and learned that there’s a nice period when it’s shoulder length that it’s wavy as all get out and I like that - it becomes a mane. But, after that, I also learned, it needs to go. So, I got the clippers and went to work. As much as cutting hair can be, it was brutal. And given my mood and obvious level of thoughtless, mindless determination, I’m surprised that I hadn’t sat down with a bottle of liquor beforehand. (You might’ve wondered if you’d seen me.)

I was unable to work the clippers like I’ve seen them done in dozens of movies, leaving me sad, confused and frustrated. Practically overflowing with urges to cut off most of my hair and being unable to do it. So what did I do? I went for the scissors.

I was grabbing and chopping wherever the hair was, um, I guess I was working with the techinical term “too long,” and at the end, it was standing every which way and I realized I needed to wash it to see what needed to be done next. After a shower, it looked like I’d just gotten back from SuperCuts. Some rough edges, but actually kind of good-looking, or as good-looking as $15 would have gotten me. I expected to do such a horrible job that the only thing to do was shave my head entirely, something I’ve been afraid to do my whole life for a few reasons but am now tempted to do. The next day, I have to tell you, a cashier at a grocery store whispered to me that (I’m paraphrasing here) my current particular configuration of facial hair and style of haircut add up to me being a sexy man in her estimation. Can you believe that? I just chop up my hair like an out-of-control-type person and am suddenly sexy? I guess the haggard, runs-with-scissors-when-drunk look works for me?

An appropriate move for a Mars-Uranus in the 1st kind of guy, right? Talk about the multidimensionality of the symbols (http://tdjacobs.com/Articles.html) - I’ve been working with what past-life trauma to the head can do to a person, looking at the symbolism and various possibilities for healing the fears associated with it. Oh, so cutting my own hair impulsively and, even though it’s in Libra, not caring about the result, is a proactive approach to this conjunction?

Rad.

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August 26, 2007 By Tom Jacobs