Venus in Virgo Applied to Sherry's Natural Mate
When Sherry was born, the "Goddess of Love" was in Virgo the Virgin. Uh oh--does Sherry have a tragic yen for folks who are celibate? Poor Virgo! The jokes abound here, and it's all a big misunderstanding. Virgo isn't about prudery or sexual inexperience. It's about Perfection--and, years ago, virginity was an almost universal metaphor for that pristine condition. What turns Sherry on romantically in the long run is someone who is constantly pushing toward some ideal, some perfection. The natural lover is not a peaceful, easy kind of person, but rather one who carries a kind of inner tension and drive, actually a kind of perpetual uneasiness. It's doubtful that Sherry or anyone else would read those lines and say, "Yeah, that's me." But they're true anyway. Look at it this way: Sherry would be bored with anyone who was "mellow" all the time. Sherry needs that sense of a growing edge. And nowhere is that drive, that "divine discontent," more central than in the relationship itself, where the natural partner is someone utterly committed to dealing realistically, responsibly, and effectively with the endless "project" of making the partnership richer, more truthful, and more intensely alive--a joyful, exhausting, ambivalent process, but one without which Sherry can't easily live.
