Hi, again--I'm just reviewing last night's posts, and came across this one.
I agree with this , we all have different placements both feminine and masculine energies.....The Virgo constellation was a composite of all goddesses in all cultures including Athena Yh but a lot of people who are very pressed about gender roles will look for the most irrelevant reasons to prove you wrong like it’s a competition on who’s the most in every aspect of astrology, well I understand cos our society sees femininity as attraction so I have noticed a pattern in the fire / air sign females resenting we water / earth signs cos we’re known to be the feminine signs......to me it all boils down to how you carry yourself at the end of the day
I think it's great if you find Virgo as an emblem of ultra-femininity to be meaningful in your life. At some level, we all personalize astrology.
However: Unless we want to get all post-modern about this, at some level, purported factual statements are factually accurate, partly accurate, or inaccurate.
Blame it on my Virgo rising (plus Saturn in Virgo!) but I should point out that there is a field called cultural astronomy that looks at how cultures across different places and historical periods. Many cultures did not "connect the dots" of stars into our familiar western constellations. They imagined different constellations; or possibly in a few cases, very few at all. So a culture that never visualized the constellation Virgo would not see it as representing its goddess.
Also, goddess were not always feminine and healing characters. Some were downright harmful. Some could be both beneficial and harmful, so they had to be appeased (such as through rituals) so that their beneficial natures would predominate. I'm thinking of figures like the Greco-Roman Eris who rejoiced in strife and bloodshed. Ceres could cause drought and withhold the harvest.
Also keep in mind how women go through different stages as we age. Developing their femininity is not uppermost in the minds of women attracted to a mission greater than themselves, for example.
Also, femininity is construed very differently in different cultures, so there is a danger in applying a western Hollywood image of femininity on cultures whose mores may be very different. Examples would include societies where women tattoo their faces with black marks; or where the
sine qua non would be the ability to bear a lot of sons. I'm also thinking of African carved figurines of older women with flat pendulous breasts. Not enticing by western standards of youthful femininity, but in those African cultures such an elderly woman is praised as being a mother to her people.
Our ascendant degrees are very close. At age 73, my hair has yet to go grey. Virgo rising was more troublesome when I was a young professional, as I was constantly mistaken for a student. I started to dress up, despite a very casual work environment, so that wouldn't happen so often.