Virgo

• Ruling Planet: Mercury
• Element: Earth
• Phrase: I analyze
• Colors: Earth tones, sepia, olive green
• Modality: Mutable (changeable, flexible)
• Love Compatibility: Capricorn, Pisces, Gemini, Cancer, Scorpio
• Friend Compatibility: Sagittarius, Gemini, Capricorn, Taurus
• Symbol: The Maiden or The Virgin
• Polarity: Receptive
• Medical astrology: Digestive system 
• Zodiacal House: 6th house of routines
• Season: Summer
• Keywords: Discerning, editing, meticulous, pragmatic, healing, spiritual, particular, analyzing, thinking, comprehending, communicative, craftsperson, detail-oriented, clear, concise, refined, working, managing, service

Virgo Personality

Virgo is the part of the zodiac that helps discern, categorize, and make sense of things in the material and physical realm. Your sign has spiritual energy to it that is often seen in the way of spiritual service or work that you do in the world. You tend to be very giving of yourself, but also have high expectations from others in return. 

You are an earth sign, and this is a key element to how you approach and pace your life. You take in information and use that to your advantage to better understand people, situations, and yourself. What you discover can be interesting, confusing, and a host of other things. Sorting all of this data using your thinking mind helps you make sense of life. 

How you manage your life day-to-day is important to how you feel overall. You prefer to do things your own way and the right way. Your tendency towards taking care of animals and others often associates your sign with acts of service and care. 

When you decide to take on a project, you tend to put your entire self into it. You work extremely hard to produce results that you can be proud of. This makes you great to have on a team as you often know exactly how a situation needs to be altered or shifted to make it just right. 

You are excellent at refining and sculpting the life that you want. You don’t necessarily rush, but you also are not afraid to make decisions when the timing feels right. More intuitive than you might admit, you really do come to believe in magic when you can explain the serendipitous moments that seem to infiltrate your life. 

Virgo in Love

Being a Virgo in love is a deeply satisfying and sensuous experience for you. Your tendency is to fall for someone’s mind first and intrigued by their appearance second. You are ruled by the planet Mercury, which is associated with communication and intellect, putting more emphasis on how the conversation feels between you and someone else. 

Your relationships often start off as long talks and getting to know someone. You like to exchange information, share interests and stories. When you feel comfortable with someone, then you are ready to go deeper and into more commitment. You do also tend to follow your heart and intuition when seeking out partners or dating but listen to your intellect first and foremost. 

You have a great reputation for being an attentive lover in the bedroom and paying meticulous attention to what your partners want. Seeing the person you care about satisfied brings you satisfaction as well. You are very dependable in relationships and will often provide physically and financially, with emotional support unfolding a little bit further down the road. 

In general, your relationships are long-lasting and meaningful. One-night stands are not necessarily your thing, but you aren’t a prude by any means. You just prefer to get to know someone before sharing your body with them. When you catch feelings for someone, you always find a way to let them know and are sweetly romantic in this way. 

Virgo Career + Money

Possible Careers: Massage therapist, acupuncturist, scientist, secretary, archivist, herbalist, medical astrologer, data-analyst, botanist, nutritionist, naturopathic doctor, nurse, librarian, sculptor or photographer, health-related careers, food stylist, professional organizer, veterinarian or vet tech, editor, craftsperson

Virgo is very much associated with the body and the daily needs of the physical, emotional, and spiritual self. This leads you into careers that have to do with healthcare, alternative healing, and nutrition. You are able to study and learn huge swaths of information, names of plants, medicines, or body systems, and organize the data effectively to develop treatment plans. 

You may be drawn to a wide range of service industry types of jobs, environments where you can know the rules and follow a structured plan or order each day. Routines tend to be comforting to your psyche. 

You have excellent attention to detail, which makes you well suited for anything that involves tracking and analyzing data, but also extremely creative careers. Your craftsmanship skills tend to be bar none, whether that is making food, furniture, jewelry, art, etc. it is always done with the utmost quality. 

For you, a career is less about money and more about versatility and skills. You like to put your mind and imagination to use. As a mutable sign, you are adaptable and take great care in the things you are putting your energy towards. You always seem to make enough money while at the same time constantly expanding your abilities and repertoire. 

Virgo Psyche + Life Path

A Virgo often first pursues their life path through a lens of needing it too perfect and is learning to let go of control. Embracing the weirdness and wildness of life allows you a glimpse into the chaos, creativity, and uniqueness that is available for you to explore. You understand the benefits of doing things ritualistically, with care and intention — but are also learning to let the edges fray at times as well. 

Your symbol is The Maiden or the Virgin, which is a sign not of sexual purity, but of independence and nurturing. The Maiden is resourceful and knows how to put the earthy abundance that is available to good use. Your alignment with nature, the body, and the environment are intrinsically linked and show you how much beauty there is on your path and existence. 

Your life is like one perfect ritual already, and everything that happens — the ups and downs, the perceived successes and failures, are all a part of the journey you are on. You bring the sacred into the mundane and know that the human body, the earth, the plants, and the physical beings here, are embodiments of universal forces and divine energy.