Labor Day: Why Would We Dream of Labor Lol?
France does La Rentrée right. How American’s Labor Day could learn from the French (and the Austrians as my picture shows).
“I have no dream job, I do not dream of labor.” – James Baldwin (Leo Legend)
We love a Leo around here, and Mr. Baldwin sums it up for us all.
Virgo season is a month that links us to introspection. To reflection. To looking inward. So, I ask: what is your relationship to work? To labor? To effort? To the product of our interior life and its action in our world?
Labor Day, What?
How, exactly, did we not only get a holiday honoring labor (WTF) but also one meant to get us off of labor (not really, but theoretically, as many still work on this day)?
Like, what kind of bad Jedi mind trick, black magic, American scam is this?
And more importantly: how do we change it?
Let’s let that Virgo vision lead the way for us all, because no, none of us dreams of labor. Even if this world requires it—and indeed, we want it. It feels good to produce. Discipline can be a great quality of Virgos, let’s have that. This labor thing though, how we are laboring, is something else.
No one would actually like to laze about all the time (look at those who have no want for money or material goods: the least happy of us all. It’s a lesson).
Let’s look at labor and how we—especially Americans—would do well to redo how we labor in our lives.
👉 Work to live or live to work? I know my vote (and how most of Europe and South and Central America do it lol).
Labor Day Origins and American Society
America is in the midst of profound changes (Pluto return gonna set us straight on the foundations that weren’t well built—you know, sexist, racist, controlling, euro-centered, oligarchy-ish, patriarchy BS). And our relationship with work is a core change going along with it.
We all want to be productive, to share and give, to be an active part of our world and contribute—to our families, friends, workplaces, and communities. We want to act local and global. That’s a fact. That’s who most of us are.
So how has it gotten so off track?
Well, that’s for sociologists, astrologers, therapists, and historians to confab about. HOWEVER, here we are about opening the convo so we realize we can have a world that feels better for us and everyone else.
Recognition is half the battle, so let’s start there.
Labor Day comes out of the Labor Movement—the fight for:
- Better working conditions
- Fair pay
- Safe environments
Since we haven’t fully achieved that, it seems that’s where we should start and end: making policies etched in stone and not reversible by bribes to greedy gov’t leaders and business folk.
The holiday was to give recognition to that fight, and to earn a well-deserved holiday. Which does seem fair—except that first part, almost 150 years later, still hasn’t been done.
So yeah, we gotta change that, my fellow stars.
The Robber Barons Are Back! (Actually, They Never Left. And They Are Inside Us.)
It’s almost like humanity has deeper issues we need to resolve lol.
Enter Virgo season: the roll-up-our-sleeves-and-get-to-it vibe. The “I’ve got a plan for that, and everyone will bloom”energy.
How great is that?!
Virgos: our beloved service-oriented, make-life-better, see-the-problems-and-fix-’em, big-hearted cleaners of all surfaces, issues, and people. They are the laborers of the zodiac that bring care, healing, and abundance.
(Before you think, well, what about Capricorns? Lol, not the same thing. If anything, Caps are the Robber Barons: macro-level work. Sorry, but you guys know it’s true. Virgos, on the other hand, are the masses: working, serving, doing.)
Virgo is on the service axis (with Pisces, their nodal compadre). Virgos will bring you soup, figure out deductions you missed, give you a tea remedy, and suggest a color that brightens you up.
We love a Virgo.
But much like our labor-obsessed world has gotten off track, Virgos show us how to get balance:
- Produce and be in joy
- Meet your needs and mine
That’s the Virgo win-win.
Labor is Birth
First off, labor is literally what gets us into the world.
That brutal pain women bear that still costs too many lives each year—even with our tech and science. Pain so intense it’s forgotten just so women can do it again.
And for us, the born? Trauma blocked out. (Every indication is: it’s the most horrible one of our lives. Lol and ooof.)
So why on God’s green earth is that most challenging, death-defying act the word we use for daily effort?
Maybe because life does require effort. Serious effort. The kind that brought us here.
But also… isn’t that too much pressure for each day lol?
Joy is also here. Let’s get more of that. Otherwise, what’s the point of labor?
👉 We deserve more than one day off. We deserve:
- Fair pay
- Time off
- Healthy homes, food, workplaces
It’s something Virgos would approve.
Let’s Rethink and Change Our Relationship with Labor, America
Virgos are awesome. They love holidays. They love labor. But our society? Too on the nose.
👉 Less labor. More joy.
Labor Day weekend is a chance to check in:
- What’s your relationship with labor?
- With work?
- With effort and its fruits?
We can change how we live, how we work, how society flows.
Pluto in Aquarius = power to the people. Changes can be swift (Aquarius is Uranus-ruled). Virgo’s ethic makes it doable.
But also: what’s your relationship with pleasure? With ease? With holiday?
La Rentrée (The French Do It Better)
The French call this season la rentrée—back to school, back to rhythm.
It’s a time of:
- New clothes (lol)
- Restarts, Beginning
- Gathering back home and to work after a long summer break
Oh wait, you didn’t have 4 weeks off + 5+ national holidays?
Yes, we can change that expectation too.
Celebrate effort with a break—just one longer than a day.
Final Word: Labor Day Virgo Vibes
No one dreams of labor, as Baldwin points out.
We’re here to dream of:
- Love
- Fun
- The sky and stars
- Roses and their scent
- Far-off lands and new creations
We are here to birth so many new things it will blow our minds!
So this Labor Day: let’s dream of labor that bears fruits as sweet as life itself. And also, let’s lighten TF up and have fun.
Come on, Virgos, you know you want to…
You can book a reading with me to connect with the Virgo in your chart and your relationship to labor and more.
Wants to know. Has some questions. Very Sag. Always up for pizza. Planning several trips. Big fan of joy. Wants to talk about it. All of them. Is sure we can figure out this whole living thing. Is rooting for you.
