Mars in Virgo is very good for practising your music. Especially if like me you play largely from memory. I am polishing up the Xmas Carols on the flute. My specialty when it comes to (effing) Christmas Carols are Australian Bush Carols (or some such.) The Three Drovers, Orana, etc. They are getting increasingly obscure it seems, but are quite pretty tunes and it strikes me somehow quite Protestent. Hmmm. Oh well. They are what they're mean't to be, which is fairly cheesy.
Whether anyone knows they are Christmas Carols will be the test for those throwing money at me for playing them. I think at one stage they may have been obligatory in some people's lives and they differ from Little Town of Bethlehem (oh) in that if you recognise them, they are unmistakably Australian. If you like that sort of thing, which frankly, when you're here and in it, is probably not terribly much. One really needs to travel to appreciate Australia. Travel a long way away for a very long time.
Mars in Virgo. It's not rocket science. You can imagine . . . the energetic use of your self-discipline for the next 7 or so months. Practise, practise, practise what you're good it for the next six months and you'll be sublimely good at it for life. You will understand it inside and out and if you can understand one thing completely, you can understand many, many, more almost instantly.
A quote: (No! Never.)
Self-discipline is crucial to a simpler more contented life.
Tenzin Gyatzo.
Mars will be in Virgo until about July next year. That's next year. Ages away. Huh?
There are no decent recordings of these carols on youtube. A situation . . . . Off for more practise. The only problem with music is it can be so hit or miss. I find focusing on something small and obscure and trying not to think anything usually yields the best results. This is I suspect is the Tao of music--not making an effort.
