How these two meet
The kitchen at half past nine on a weeknight. Virgo is reorganising the second drawer, which was already reorganised in March, because the March system did not survive contact with actual weeks. Cancer is in the doorway with a cup of tea, deciding whether to say the thing.
Cancer does not say the thing. Cancer says a smaller adjacent thing, which is a habit and not a decision, and Virgo answers the smaller thing accurately and in full, and the actual thing goes back into the queue where it has been since April.
The Moon crosses the whole zodiac in 27.3 days and never looks the same twice, so whatever Cancer is holding will not be the same shape by Sunday, and Cancer knows it, which is one of the reasons for the queue. Mercury turns back three times a year over ground it has already crossed, so the drawer will be reorganised again.
There is no fixed modality anywhere in this house. Nothing holds still long enough to be dealt with, the thing in the queue included, and that is not a failure of nerve on either side. It is the absence of an entire way of being.
For Cancer, the work is saying the actual thing at half past nine, while it still has the shape it has now.
For Virgo, the work is leaving the drawer and standing in the kitchen doing nothing, so that there is somewhere for the thing to be said into.
And a third: the queue is not a queue. You have both been treating it as storage.
The question
How many of the things you have started are still running?
One conscious action
the thing in the queue
Each of you name one thing that has been waiting to be said since before the summer. Do not say it yet. Only name that it exists.
Then pick a day this week. Naming the day is the part that is missing, and it is the part neither of you does.
The Moon changes shape every night and Mercury goes back over the same ground three times a year, and nothing between you is built to sit still and wait to be dealt with.
So which of you is going to be the one who holds, given that neither of you is made for it?