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♍︎ Virgo
Craft, discernment, useful service.
The Sun crosses Virgo each year around August 23 – September 22, the span most people mean when they say they “are” a Virgo. On the clock it occupies the 150°–180° arc of the gold ring, traditionally ruled by Mercury.
In Virgo right now
| ♀︎ Venus | 5° Virgo |
| ☋︎ South Node | 1° Virgo |
In the classical scheme Virgo combines the earth element with the mutable mode, on the negative, receptive half of the wheel: a grounded, practical, slow-to-move key. Being mutable, it bends, blends, and changes shape to fit the moment.
Season anchors the sign: it closes summer with the harvest. Tradition hands its rulership to Mercury, the craft side of the messenger, sorting and refining, and assigns it the belly and digestion in the classical body-map.
Read well, Virgo shows as an eye for the fixable detail; read badly, it slides toward criticism turned on itself.
The planets in Virgo
- ☉︎ Sun in Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon in Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury in Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus in Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars in Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter in Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn in Virgo
- ♅︎ Uranus in Virgo
- ♆︎ Neptune in Virgo
- ♇︎ Pluto in Virgo
- ☊︎ North Node in Virgo
- ☋︎ South Node in Virgo
See all twelve signs, or watch them turn on the live clock.