Saturn in Virgo & Food

Virgo fundamentally is about choice, being the sign of working on the details to make a better bigger picture. What needs to be done when and in what order? it asks…and answers.

Virgo’s view of the body, as a machine made of many constituent parts, can take food into serious consideration. Any concern over the purity of one’s food are running Virgo in their lives. It can certainly be overdone (eating disorders) but can also be used to serve a body by making it work better (health conscious people you think must live only in California).

My approach to Virgo choice stuff, including the 6th house, has to do with increasing awareness of the body’s reactions to what’s eaten. If Virgo energy is allowed to grow itself away from whole-body awareness and only take into account the mind’s rules and concerns, there’s disconnect, and disconnect = your being becoming out of whack in one way or another.

I advise people to be aware of the reactions to what they intend to eat, and I myself choose food before purchasing based on how on board my body is about that food. My brain will say, “You can’t possibly be thinking of eating [name of food product],” yet if the rest of me votes a thumbs up, I buy it.

Saturn’s transit through Virgo means that the work of the moment (Saturn) involves figuring out what it means to be mature enough (Saturn) to take responsibility (Virgo) for how our lives work (Virgo), including our bodies. One big arena of how it works or doesn’t is in what kind of fuel we choose to give our bodies. Your energy level, moods, sleep cycle, libido and everything else are influenced by what kind of food you eat.

Saturn’s retrograde right now, and this is the perfect time to check in with what your body wants you to feed it. How does your body feel when you eat something? Does it make you feel like you want to feel? After you open the door to awareness, take this into the store with you and let your body guide your purchases.

Most of us are surrounded by easy availability of food that we know is no good for us. Saturn in Virgo is asking if you can be responsible enough for yourself to have the integrity to choose what feels right for you. I have no doubt that everyone can hear what their bodies are saying, it’s only a matter of how willing we are to listen.

Tom is available for 60- and 90-minute intuitive karmic astrology consultations. See his website for more information.

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April 12, 2008 By Tom Jacobs