Mars is the planet of war. It symbolizes how a person fights, how they assert themselves. When a person’s Mars is in Virgo their modus operandi will be characterized by the Virgoan traits of precision and cleanliness, due diligence and detailed analysis, professional competency and technical wizardry.

Virgo is a great Mars placement for any job that involves fixing things by paying attention to the smallest of details. Brain surgeons, acupuncture doctors, nurses, forensic researchers, computer repair people, plumbers, and auto-mechanics often have this placement. Aviator Amelia Earhart has Mars in Virgo and she did much of the maintenance on her airplanes. (Source) Astrologer Sue Tompkins says Mars in Virgo “conjures up the notion of military service, ambulance driving, or involvement with organizations such as the Red Cross.” (Source) Prior to taking to the wild blue yonder, Earhart worked as a nurse’s aid for the Red Cross during World War I.

While Mars in Virgo is great for nurses, analysts, and forensic researchers, it’s not such a good placement for chief executives. Barack Obama, for instance, has Mars in Virgo. Fittingly, his weapons of choice are the “Predator” and “Reaper” drones, two weapons which offer the illusion of precise, clean warfare. Mars in Virgo loves, loves, loves, checking things off their to do lists and, indeed, Barack Obama spends a great deal of time pouring over the details of his “disposition matrix”, better known as his “kill-list”. (Source) Analyzing loads of data and then killing the single bad guy in a “surgical” strike is completely in line with the modus operandi of Mars in Virgo albeit in a very sinister fashion. It’s also no where near as clean or precise as Obama and friends would have us believe.

Journalism is an area where this mercury ruled Mars can really excel since good journalism requires both forensic research and plenty of editing, two areas that Virgo is a natural at. Former Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings has Mars in Virgo. (Chart) Hastings had been working on an expose of CIA director John Brennan when his brand new Mercedes mysteriously exploded at a Los Angeles intersection in June 2013. (Source)

Mars is about to begin a 6 week transit through Virgo. It’s probably no coincidence that last time Mars transited Virgo in late 2011 and through the first half of 2012 an epidemic of detergent theft swept the country. To Virgo cleanliness isn’t just next to godliness, it darn near is godliness. From Yahoo News:

Police believe thieves are using the soap on the black market, which retails for $10-$20, to buy drugs. On the black market, Tide is often referred to as “liquid gold” and can go for $5-$10 per bottle. So why is Tide the only detergent being targeted? Authorities list several reasons: Tide is instantly recognizable because of its Day-Glo orange bottle; it is one of the most expensive brands of laundry detergent; and it does not have serial numbers, so it cannot be tracked. (Source)

What’s interesting from an astrological perspective is that the thieves were behaving a bit like forensic researchers (Virgo) in that they selected the one detergent that can’t be tracked due to lack of a serial number. Mars in Virgo pays attention to the details even when acting naughty.

On the upside, Virgo is probably the Mars placement most likely to read up on massage or acupressure techniques as these methodologies have so many health benefits, including many that are now being scientifically documented by way of double blind studies.

Virgo is the Mars placement most likely to suffer from a bit of nervous anxiety but also the Mars placement most likely to know which forms of yoga or vitamin regiments will help liberate repressed energies in a healthy and functional way.

Should they truly fancy you, they might even offer to do your laundry. (If they’ve really learned to use their Mars in Virgo skills, however, they sure as hell won’t be using Tide detergent regardless of whether it was bought on the black market or at the Big Box store. Mars in Virgo subscribes to the motto of “all natch-ah-ral, no chem-i-cal”. Tide is a detergent loaded with chemicals, not an all natural soap. A person expressing their Mars in Virgo in a mature fashion will either find a way to pay for the organic brand or make some up on their own using all natural ingredients:

Making your own is also a great way to save money. Mars (fighting) in Virgo (precision) enjoys balancing the checkbook almost as much as it enjoys cleaning the carpets.

About the Author: Matthew David Savinar is a California licensed attorney (State Bar #228957), voluntarily inactive as of June 2013. He can be reached for questions, comments, or astrological consults at his contact page.