♍ Virgo – Earth • Mutable • Negative / Yin / Feminine
♍ Virgo – Earth • Mutable • Negative / Yin / Feminine
✧ Basic Information
Symbol: ♍
Dates (Tropical): August 23 – September 22
Dates (Sidereal): September 16 – October 15 (Fagan/Bradley)
Ruling Planet: Mercury
Exalted Planet: Mercury
Detriment Planet: Jupiter
Fall Planet: Venus
Element: Earth
Modality: Mutable
Polarity: Negative / Yin / Feminine
Associated Body Part: Digestive System, Intestines
House Association: 6th House – thematic overlap
🗣️ I AM Statement
“I analyze, therefore I am.”
This encapsulates the sign’s core existential function.
🔑 Core Traits
- Detail-Oriented
- Analytical
- Helpful
- Modest
- Cautious
🌿 Strengths
- Discernment
- Service
- Organization
🜄 Challenges / Shadow Aspects
- Perfectionism
- Overthinking
- Criticism
🜚 Behavioral Patterns & Archetype
Keywords: Precise, Humble, Efficient
Archetype: The Alchemist
The sign of Virgo often acts from a place of instinct and expresses its energy through practical, grounded means.
🌌 In Relationships
- Compatibility: High with Taurus, Capricorn, Cancer
- Learning from: Pisces, Gemini
- Love Language Expression: Acts
🪷 Spiritual Pathways
- Associated Chakras: Solar Plexus, Root
- Esoteric Function: Purification
- Soul Work: Trusting intuition and releasing control
✍🏼 Journal Prompts
- How do I embody the essence of Virgo in my daily life?
- What triggers the shadow expression of this energy in me?
- Where do I resist or over-identify with this sign?
🛠️ Use in Practice
This sign brings its qualities to any planetary body or point it touches.
Examples:
- Mars in Virgo (Mars + Virgo) → Action takes on a tone of detail-oriented, analytical, helpful — drive expressed through The Alchemist.
- Moon in Virgo (Moon + Virgo) → Emotional world feels precise, humble, efficient; needs are met in the manner of The Alchemist.
🌠 Fixed Stars & Notable Degrees
| Degree | Fixed Star | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 5° Virgo | Zosma | Sensitivity to suffering and drive to serve |
🕯️ Affirmation
“I refine my life with love. My clarity brings harmony and healing.”
🔖 Tags
ZodiacSigns #Earth #Mutable #AstrologyArithetic
🧮 Zodiacal Arithmetic
| Quantity | Value |
|---|---|
| Sign number | 6 of 12 |
| Ecliptic longitude span | 150°00′ – 179°59′ (tropical: 0° Aries = March equinox point) |
| Glyph / Unicode | ♍ (U+264D) |
| Element · Modality · Polarity | Earth · Mutable · Feminine / nocturnal (even sign) |
| Ptolemaic class | bicorporeal (double-bodied) |
| Domicile ruler | Mercury |
| Exaltation | Mercury at 15° Virgo |
| Detriment (ruler of opposite sign) | Jupiter |
| Fall (opposite of exaltation) | Venus (Pisces exaltation opposite) |
| Triplicity rulers (Dorothean) | day Venus · night Moon · participating Mars |
| Decans / faces (Chaldean order) | 0–10° Sun · 10–20° Venus · 20–30° Mercury |
| Opposite sign (180°) | Pisces |
| Square signs (90°) | Sagittarius, Gemini |
| Trine signs (120°) | Capricorn, Taurus |
| Sextile signs (60°) | Scorpio, Cancer |
| Quincunx / inconjunct signs (150°) | Aquarius, Aries |
| Semisextile signs (30°) | Libra, Leo |
| Natural house | 6th House |
Longitude conversion: a body at d° of Virgo has absolute ecliptic longitude λ = 150 + d. Conversely, sign index = ⌊λ / 30⌋ + 1 and degree-in-sign = λ mod 30.
🌠 Vault Fixed Stars in Virgo (computed)
| Star | Designation | λ J2000.0 | λ 2026.0 | Ecl. lat. | V mag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regulus | α Leonis | 29°49′ Leo | 0°11′ Virgo | +0.46° | 1.4 |
| Phecda | γ Ursae Majoris | 0°28′ Virgo | 0°50′ Virgo | +47.14° | 2.44 |
| Thuban | α Draconis | 7°27′ Virgo | 7°50′ Virgo | +66.36° | 3.68 |
| Suhail | λ Velorum | 11°11′ Virgo | 11°33′ Virgo | -55.87° | 2.21 |
| Zosma | δ Leonis | 11°19′ Virgo | 11°41′ Virgo | +14.33° | 2.53 |
| Denebola | β Leonis | 21°37′ Virgo | 21°58′ Virgo | +12.27° | 2.13 |
| Alkes | α Crateris | 23°41′ Virgo | 24°02′ Virgo | -22.71° | 4.07 |
| Copula | Messier 51 (Whirlpool Galaxy) | 25°07′ Virgo | 25°29′ Virgo | +50.93° | 8.4 |
| Alkaid | η Ursae Majoris | 26°56′ Virgo | 27°18′ Virgo | +54.38° | 1.86 |
Positions precess ≈ 50.3″ per year (≈ 1° every 71.6 years). The table above in “Fixed Stars & Notable Degrees” is the author’s interpretive list and is kept as written; use this computed table for exact degrees.
Classical dignities, triplicities and decans are offered as optional correspondences beneath this vault’s own sign definition above.
Sources (sign arithmetic)
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.12–I.17 (signs: tropical/equinoctial/solid/bicorporeal, masculine/feminine, triplicities, exaltations): https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Ptolemy/Tetrabiblos/1B*.html
- Dorotheus of Sidon, Carmen Astrologicum (1st c. CE), Book I — triplicity rulers (trans. D. Pingree 1976; B. Dykes 2017)
- William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), Book I (houses, orbs p. 107, essential dignities table p. 104) — public domain; orb table transcribed at https://www.renaissanceastrology.com/aspects.html and https://www.skyscript.co.uk/aspectorbs.html
- Swiss Ephemeris fixed-star catalogue
sefstars.txt(ICRS/Hipparcos-based positions, proper motions, magnitudes): https://github.com/aloistr/swisseph/blob/master/ephe/sefstars.txt — ecliptic longitudes computed for this vault with Astropy 8.0 (GeocentricMeanEcliptic, mean equinox of J2000.0 and of 2026-01-01) - Unicode Consortium, Miscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–26FF) and Alchemical Symbols (U+1F700–1F77F, incl. Unicode 15.0 dwarf-planet glyphs) code charts: https://www.unicode.org/charts/