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Ruled by Mercury.
I analyze.
Servant or slave.
Mutable Earth. Physicality, practicality, stability, seriousness, all characteristics of earth, diversify in Virgo, into networks and arrangements of objects, ideas, data, numbers, or facts. Virgo is the harvest, the dusty late summer, when things dry out and the corn is ready.
Virgo (Sixth house, or planets in Virgo) creates an emphasis on mundane order. This can manifest as efficient, helpful, serviceable, and useful benefits for the community.
Elizabeth Regina I (September 7, 1533-1603), daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, reigned over and transformed England for 45 years and died a virgin. Her restraint, judgement, monumental learning, steady hand, and inner torment all tell a Virgoan story. It was observed that at the age of 6 she had the gravity of a person of 40.
Virgo, when active in the chart, is focused, refined, detailed, kind, caring, cool, clever, skilled, sensible, wry, wise, a healer, a hard worker, a designer, writer, mathematician, reserved, a purist, modest, pragmatic, discriminating, intuitive, has a sharp memory, compassionate, sensitive, philosophical, intellectual, witty, orderly, unpretentious, yielding, strategic, scientific, artsy-craftsy, mechanical ability, enterprising, friendly, always learning, good with the hands, productive, conservative, focused, linear/flexible, and helpful.
Unfavorable Virgo can be manipulative, wimpy, picky, fussy, dour, boring, staid, obsessive, brittle, unfocused, mired in detail, too selfless, easily used, too-high expectations, depressed, perfectionistic, doesn't stand up for self, thinks too much, lonely, too many rules, a martyr, bad planning, diffused resources, lives in fantasy, argumentative, nervous, low self esteem, impatience, exaggerating, lazy, mental conflicts, pessimistic, or doesn't understand pleasure.
Domains of Virgo are data management, libraries, languages, medicine, research, the arts, music, culture, teaching, counseling, writing, monasteries.
Virgo, ruled by mental Mercury, is a flexible, practical energy. Developed Virgo is compared to Egyptian perfection, with delicate detail incised in stone. Mercury shares rulership with Gemini and Virgo, and when not held down by earth or unrooted in the air, Virgo/Gemini can shine.
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Virgo experiences the connection between spirit and matter, but finds devotion difficult due to the Mercury influence.
Lessons for Virgo include widening horizons, setting higher goals, consistency, staying focused, completing things, and learning to raise their values from an earthly to a spiritual aim.
Virgo is symbolized by a virgin, holding a sheaf of wheat. This describes gathering, pulling together of resources. It also is purity, safety, and impregnability. Virgo is the first sign symbolized by a human figure. She holds a sheaf of wheat, representing the harvest, and the ordering, of her season.
The virgin symbolizes a 'temenos,' or sacred space - protected dry ground, that with the water of its axis, Pisces, can achieve soaring heights of meditation and spiritual penetration.
In the Near East the Virgin was considered to be continually anxious to experience new phenomena, ripe for the plucking, in search of new ideas and experiences. This differs sharply from the prim western concept of Virgin Birth; these twin personae are typical of Virgo's Mercury rulership.
Like all three earth signs, Virgo has a tendency to stay put, in one way or another. With Virgo, if afflicted, it's often a mental immobility, causing the native to fritter away energy in insignificant trivia, or to stay forever in dusty, uninspired obscurity.
Virgo rules the hands and digestion.
The hands articulate mental forms, like Gemini's language, related to Virgo through Mercury.
For Virgo, the Shadow takes the form of a profound doubt that life will be OK unless you keep everything "Just So." Your fear of collapse and confusion makes Other too confusing, too unsettling, and can allow you to be messy or indiscriminate in specific parts of your life. Work with your shadow, and the people you project it onto, by learning to trust, and not trying to control every tiny detail. The more you deny your Shadow, the more it will manifest itself and attract what you will interpret as disruption or pain.
D. H. Lawrence, a noted Virgo, typifies the gentle, lyrical, sensitive, romantic, intelligent, and retiring Virgo.
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Aug 19, 2006Comments: 0 · Posts: 800 · Topics: 31
jk
so yeah virgos rule digestion hands down... those picky eaters they hmph
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Nov 04, 2005Comments: 233 · Posts: 8226 · Topics: 348
in my limited experience... they are not at all the 'boring' and overly straight people that astrology sometimes paints them to be ...by far.