Per the book:
"Lessons:
Beware the Virgo Intellect Behind Virgo's serene face is a shining mind. This mind will illuminate all the problems in your life. Especially the ones you don't want to see.
Virgo was invested to create order and inject calmness into chaos. Virgo won't do anything to you she's not willing to do to herself. And Virgo will do anything, including organizing her own life. Now she wants to organize yours.
Lesson: If you succomb to the Virgo seduction, Virgo will organize you beyond recognition.
Beware the Virgo Helpfulness
Helpfulness is how Virgo ride the enterance ramp into your mind. It starts out innocently. Say you're in a scuffle with an ATM machine. It keeps spitting out your card and beeping at youin a menacing manner. You try again. The same thing happens. Then you hear a voice coming from somewhere behind.
Voice: Have you tried sticking it in the stripe-side-down?
You: No, I hadn't thought of that.
Voice: Let me show you.
You: (with bemused gratitude when the screen flashes the PIN prompt) Thank you
Voice: Im glad to be of help.
Suddenly you shudder. You feel a chill go down your spine and half expect to see a black limo with tinted windows pulling up along side you. Was it your imagination, or did you hear the phrase Mafioso used when coaxing into a car those inconvenient people who will soon be wearing concrete boots. "Lets go for a ride"
Lesson: If you let Virgo seduce you with helpfulness, you will find your life is in danger. In danger of being taken over by a Virgo.
Do you want to manage the Virgin? Managing others is Virgo's career. Not only does she love her job with a passion that is immoral, but she's also a 168-hour-a-week workaholic. Manipulating Virgo is also quite a task because the Virgo cleverness will spot your efforts to be cunning.
On the flip side, Virgo's compulsion to help you vaults hert into performing feats you'd have to scam all the other signs into doing. Virgo revels in life's tedium: She years to run errands, balance bank statements, and find missing socks. Just ask. Is there a prive for this helpfulness besides your soul? Yes. You'll run on Virgo's schedule. Not only are there no free lunches; there is also no free time.
Manipulation through Communication: How to use Verbosity on Virgo.
Lesson: Virgo may actually listen to you if you use Virgo words.
Attract Virgo with Sexy words. The words schedule, work, polished, detailed, and organize fall into the category of sexy words to a Virgo. So knock yourself out.
Seduce Virgo verballyYou can always get what you want from Virgo if you use certain phrases, especially ones in which you confess your ineptitude.
Try saying things like the following:
You: (squinting at your computer screen while looking confused) Im really stuck. Can you think of a better way to set up this spreadsheet
OR
You: Im making a mess of this. Will you help me pry the spoon out of the garbage disposal?
Then whatever ytou are doing will be out of your hands and into Virgos.
Lesson: Act confused, and Virgo will volunteer to become your non-wage slave.
Communicate with precision.
Lesson: Be precise and logical when talking to Virgo. Do it by learning new Virgo words. Virgo requires precise speech from you, but you don't get it in return. Virgo invents definitions of his own, and you wont find them in Websters of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Virgo's Achilles Heel: Fixing things
The Virgin fixes things like broken alarm clocks, cracked automatic fountain pens fillers, and warped human beings. The compulsion to fix other people's problems makes Virgo the object of interplanetary persuit. Why submit to life's details if Virgo is there to ask:
- Did you check the oil?
Did you use the correct postage on that letter?
Did you remember to pack an extra pair of hiking boots in your backpack?
Some Virgos are so addicted to helping that they do it for a living. It's nice that Virgo's work is also her hobby. Take advantage of it.
Taking shots are Virgo's Achilles heel: Encouraging the Helper to Help you YOUR way
Allow Virgo to help you his way...at first. First, indulge Virgo by letting him do favors for you that he'd like to do, but that you don't need. For example, Virgo is convinced you should reshelve your books. You'd rather h ave a new filing system for your paperwork. After the Virgin has rearranged your books according to subject matter, set him to work on the filing cabinet.
Lesson: Let Virgo have his way at first; then you can have your way with him next.
Keep Virgo busy Virgo's must feel useful. Constantly. Play to it.
You: Will you wait for the telephone repairman on Saturday while I go shopping?
AND
You: Would you like to volunteer to be the bookkepter for the neighborhood investment club?
Virgo will say yes to both.
Lesson: The Virgo idea of hell is to have an empty to-do list and a blank appt calendar.
Complain to Virgo Virgins are problem solvers; they quaff complaints the way alcoholics slam down cocktails. Therefore, its no surprise that Virgos have lots of problems. But they never have enough and are on the make for more. Share your own and those of your friends, family, and coworkers.
Lesson: Aim complains and problems in Virgo's direction. She doesn't mind. She gets off on it.
The Vices of Virginity: The Virgo Lover
Your Virgo is smart, well mannered, devouted, housetrained, and sexy in a quiet way. Virgo is an earth sign, which means the sign is earthy. Sexual. No wonder everyone wants to seduce the Virgin.
Being a salacious sign, Virgo is turned on by many things.
Ask Virgo about Work
You: Your job must be interesting.
Virgo: It is. I design accounts payable systems for natural gas pipelines...
Virgo then goes into great detail about his job, his day at work, the fax machine's paper jame - and all with an expression of rapture usually seen only on the faces of canonization candidates.
Lesson: Asking Virgo about his work is the equivelent of a champagne and black lingerie seduction.
Demenstate your intelligence.
Blow the dust off your diplomas. Frame your Mensa membership. If you have neither, display a few volumes of an encyclopedia, preferably on your bedside table. Virgo will be ensnared.
Lesson: Virgo is turned on by three digit IQs.
Make a good impression on dates.
Make a good impression when treating Virgo to a romantic evening. Virgo is no slave to Emily Post etiquette, but she does like the nicities of romance. Small things count. Like punctuality and communicating well with the waiter.
It's date night with Virgo and you'll stop at nothing to impress. True, you didn't have the exact change for the parking meter. But that didn't hold up thing too long; you were only seven minutes late for your dinner reservation. Later when you tipped the waiter, you did forget the tip should've been for 15% of the bill before tax. But you made up for all that by having to walk only three blocks out of the way to find the car. You made a nice impression. Where's Virgo? Virgo has moved in with you. You're irresistable. You need help.
Lesson: Virgo lovers are turned on by incompetence.
Keeping the Virgo lover interested.
Put fun in Virgo's schedule Self sacrificing Virgo is addicted to delayed gratification and will take anything except a vacation. You want to have fun. Your idea of fun is watching movies, or exploring art museums or frequenting flea markets. Virgos idea of fun is to work and keep a sharp eye on wandering trivia.
You: Let's do something amusing today. How about seeing the Bauhaus exhibit?
Virgo: Im working. Besides, we dont have any social engagements until next Friday.
You: Havent you noticed the new entry on the calendar? We're due at the art museum in an hour.
Lesson: Trick Virgo into having fun by slipping amusements into a slot on the calendar.
Act incompetent Say you're cooking dinner, and youve looped the linguini around the pot handle.
You: This is such a tangle. I cant seem to unravel the pasta.
Virgo: Yes, its a mess.
As Virgo details the linguini, it should remind you
Lesson: Virgo salivates to correct your mistakes. Make them, and let her.
Virgo DONTS
Dont take Virgo criticism personally Virgo's vision is especially keen when it comes to spotting flaws. Everything is capable of improvement. Especially you. Don't take it personally.
Dont disturb or disorganize Virgo's belongings.
Organization is as precioous to the Virgin as harmony is the Libra or a high yield stock portfolio is to the Capricorn. True, Virgo lovers like to fix your mistakes. But dont mess with theirs. Keep the CDs in Virgos music collection in order. Tidy the Virgin's kitchen pantry. Arrange the laundry by color while its still in the laundry basket. Virgo will be enthralled.
Dont alter Virgo's routine. Or environment.
Virgo will critisize you if you do certain things. Virgo is the expert analyst. When it comes to analyzing, Virgo doesn't go both ways."