This past week I watched someone rearrange an entire week so that a family member with developmental needs could continue attending the one event he looks forward to all year.
It meant hours of driving each day. Preparing meals. Helping with bathing and nighttime care. Quietly reorganizing one life around another.
If you’ve cared for a child, an aging parent, a partner recovering from illness, or someone living with a disability, you probably know something about this kind of love.
It can be exhausting.
It can be inconvenient.
It can ask more of us than we think we have to give.
And yet, at its heart, it rarely feels like service.
It feels like love.
I’ve been thinking about that as Venus enters Virgo this week.
Whenever Venus appears in astrology, we’re talking about love—what we value, what we cherish, and the ways we give and receive affection.
Virgo is often described as the sign of service. But I’ve been wondering whether service is actually only what we see on the surface.
Venus is traditionally exalted in Pisces. There, love is boundless. It is devotion. Everything is seen as the Beloved. Virgo stands opposite Pisces—not as its opposite, but as its complement.
If Pisces is devotion before it takes form, Virgo is devotion embodied.
Virgo asks, How shall I love this, here, now?
Virgo is love preparing breakfast, changing a bandage, remembering the medication, driving three hours a day because someone you love wants to go to camp.
Service is simply what love looks like once it enters the world.
Giving Love a Form
Last year, sitting with my partner, I found myself in tears over the wars. The violence. The divisions that seem to deepen by the day.
I found myself quietly singing, "What the world needs now is love... sweet love."
I couldn't solve any of those things.
But I could share my love.
Even if it was only with a few people.
Perhaps my work is to become one small node of love in the world. While I'm still learning how to fully embody that, these newsletters became one way of giving that love form.
Perhaps that's why Venus meeting the South Node has been sitting with me so deeply.
The South Node has a way of revealing the patterns we've lived with for so long that we no longer question them. Patterns that once served us well, that helped us survive. But over time, they can become familiar grooves we slip into automatically, even when they no longer support our growth.
As Venus meets the South Node just two days after entering Virgo, I find myself wondering:
Have I become so focused on the expression of love that I've forgotten the source from which it springs?
Service can slowly become duty. Care can become obligation.
We become dependable. Indispensable. Sometimes even taken for granted.
Not because love disappeared. But because somewhere along the way we lost contact with it.
These newsletters can't become another obligation. They have to remain an expression of love—a way of staying connected to life, to my own heart, and to whatever I experience as Source.
As the lunar nodes prepare to leave the Virgo–Pisces axis after nearly eighteen months, Venus reminds us once more:
Love is the root.
Everything else is its expression.
With love,
Meghna
P.S. I'd genuinely love to hear what this stirred in you. If it brought up a memory, a question, or a different way of seeing Venus in Virgo, just hit reply. I read every response.
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