Western zodiac
Virgo
Virgo Aug 23 – Sep 22 (approximate) · Earth · Mutable
Traditional ruler: Mercury
You improve whatever you touch.
Virgo energy is read as precise and quietly devoted — you may show love through fixing, planning and noticing. The growth edge is accepting good-enough, in others and in yourself.
Dates are approximate — sign transitions vary slightly by year and time; your exact sign is calculated astronomically.
Virgo in detail
Strengths
Precision and quiet usefulness — precision · service · quiet mastery.
Shadow / growth edge
Letting good enough be good enough — especially about yourself.
Relationships
You show love through service and noticing; the practice is receiving without improving.
Work and ambition
Editing, systems, health, detail — excellence is your default setting.
Virgo as Sun, Moon and Rising
The same sign plays three different roles depending on where it sits in a chart:
- ☉ Sun — your core identity
- A core built on craft — love, for you, is maintenance done well.
- ☽ Moon — your emotional needs
- You need order and usefulness to feel settled; anxiety is your signal to make something better.
- ↗ Rising — how you meet the world
- You come across as composed and capable — people hand you things to fix.
Famous Virgo charts
- Michael JacksonAmerican singer, songwriter, record producer, and dancer
- Mother TeresaAlbanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary
- Jorge Luis BorgesArgentine writer, essayist, poet and translator
- Michael FaradayBritish scientist (1791–1867)
- Freddie MercuryBritish singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band Queen
- Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969
Where does Virgo appear in your chart?
You may carry Virgo as your Sun, your Moon, your Rising — or in none of the three and somewhere else entirely.