COMPATIBILITY ANALYSIS
Aries likes to generalize, hates to bother with details, and is bored by meticulous analysis. Virgo is meticulous, likes to analyze details, and abhors generalities. That gives you some idea of the distance between these two
It’s true that both of them lean toward purity of purpose. Each wistfully longs for the beauty of the spirit and seeks a shining ideal. Aries and Virgo ride together on a mutual search for truth and loveliness, but when their snowwhite steeds reach a fork in the road, they take off in different directions. The Rams blindly and instinctively believe they’ll find what they’re looking for, despite all disappointments and the apparent impossibility of success. Virgos have little or no hope of ever actually discovering the Holy Grail, and even if they did, you can be sure they would find a chip in it.
Still, regardless of all these splitoffs in their personality patterns, the Ram and the Virgin, when their paths cross, can find a strange comfort in their relationship. If it’s business, admiration and respect and a mutual desire to help one another will nearly always result from the association. If it’s friendship, it will probably take a business twist somewhere along the way. In the family circle, there’s also much warm satisfaction possible through this blending of the two divergent natures, influenced by the 68 Sun Sign Pattern vibration. Aries and Virgo often confide things in each other they would never tell anyone else. They seem to
Yet, no matter how close Aries and Virgo may be, Aries will feel deeply Virgo’s frown of displeasure when he (or she) is late for an appointment, goofs off, or becomes careless and irresponsible. It’s never as easy for the Ram to enjoy work as it is for the Virgin. What Aries views as harmless procrastination, Virgo interprets as an almost sinful waste of valuable time. Of course, after office, study, or family obligations are properly attended to (all of which may take endless time and attention), when there are no guilty twinges because everything is nicely snuggled away in its own cubbyhole the Virgins often lead rather interesting and, in rare cases, even shockingly unorthodox private lives, when they lose those compulsive worries.
Sooner or later, after these two have spent a reasonable amount of time together, the Rams will be sure to remind Virgo of his or her inclination toward unnecessary worry and receive a reply like, “What compulsive worries? I don’t allow things to bother me to excess.” Whereupon Aries is likely to retort, “Oh, no? How about the morning last week when you missed your daily shower because you couldn’t find the Ivory Soap, and you won’t use any other kind spilled a drop of ink on your shoe, and found a fly in your soup at lunch? You had a splitting headache and nervous indigestion for days afterward.” The Virgo rejoinder probably will be, “That is somewhat exaggerated and incorrect. The indigestion lasted only three hours and fortyfive minutes, and it was caused by that dreadful, greasy soup I ate, not by my nerves. The headache lasted sixtyfive minutes not several days and was the result of my not getting enough sleep the night before, not from compulsive worries. I missed my shower, not because I couldn’t find the particular bar of soap I always use, but because I was late for an appointment. As for the ink, naturally I was a little upset about ruining a twentytwodollar pair of shoes I’ve only worn for a couple of years. I can’t afford to be as casual about money as you are.” That last remark is Virgo’s tactful way of accusing Aries of being extravagant.
Virgins are careful to maintain scrupulous politeness when they’re annoyed, so their irritability is softened by their typical courtesy. Because Virgos are so analytical and fond of clarity, Aries people are inclined to look on them as picky and cold. Far from being cold, however, Virgos are the most inwardly sentimental of all the Sun Signs. (The important word in that sentence is “inwardly.” It causes all the misunderstandings.) Their very discrimination itself implies high ideals for things and people to live up to, and when they don’t well, anyone would be cranky once in a while, from being so constantly disillusioned. Virgos are frequently nervous around Aries people because the Virgins dislike being openly firm and dealing with a Ram requires, at times, being openly firm. The Arian impulsiveness can cause Virgo to feel secretly inadequate because of being helpless to change a situation, so they’ll sometimes try to cover the feeling with a judgmental attitude a kind of silent disapproval. It doesn’t really matter what kind it is. Any kind of disapproval
the Rams to coax them into losing many of their inhibitions and dropping a few layers of their usually sedate behavior. All it really takes for this combination to blend smoothly is for each person to spend more time concentrating on the virtues of the other, rather than dwelling on the differences. The clerk in the supermarket who frowns at the cash register and crankily scolds you for not taking your place in line is probably a Virgo. But the softly smiling, mildmannered, and bright clerk who courteously answers your questions about where the soybean patties are kept and when the fresh melons will be available, and cheerfully helps you pick up the things that spilled from your cart is probably also a Virgo.
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