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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Signs · Beginner

Virgo

Also called Virgo sign

The sixth sign; astrologers associate it with detail, usefulness and improvement.

Astrologers associate Virgo with analysis, craft, service and self-criticism. Mercury is both its ruler and exalted here in the traditional scheme. In the tropical zodiac the Sun is in Virgo from about 23 August to 22 September, the exact moment varying by a day from year to year.

How it is worked out
Tropical longitude 150° to 180°; element earth, modality mutable, polarity yin; traditional ruler Mercury.
  • Kind: Tradition, Interpretation
  • Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
  • In this site’s birth chart: used

Related: Earth signs, Mutable signs, Polarity, Zodiac sign, Mercury, Exaltation

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