Basic facts about sun sign Virgo

Sun sign - Virgo
(August 23 – September 22)

DUALITY Feminine

TRIPLICITY (ELEMENT) Earth

QUADRUPLICITY (QUALITY) Mutable

Virgo is reserved, modest, practical, discriminating and industrious, analytical and painstaking, seeking to know and understand.

RULING PLANET Mercury: Ancient god of communication and commerce. In astrology, Mercury rules intelligence and reason, and predisposes toward a highstrung temperament.

SYMBOL The Virgin: Representing purity of motive, modesty, industriousness, and service of oneself and one’s talents toward helping others. The virgin is usually pictured holding a sheaf of wheat that symbolizes the utilization of ideas and skills to benefit (nourish) the world.

GLYPH (WRITTEN SYMBOL) The symbol represents a Virgin, for it is a pictograph of the human reproductive organs closed and untouched. In symbolic terms, the glyph is a straight line connected to two curved lines, one of which is crossed. This represents wisdom tied to feeling and emotion, and crossed by practicality.

DOMINANT KEYWORD I ANALYZE.

POLARITY Pisces:

Virgo is the sign of work and self-improvement. Its natives are perfectionists who dissect facts in order to find the truth and obtain all the information available. Pisces, Virgo’s opposite sign, is the sign of illusion and self-deception. Pisceans are prone to dreaminess, imagination, vagueness, self-delusion, and escapism.

PART OF THE BODY RULED BY VIRGO The nervous system and the intestines: Virgoans are prone to illness caused by stress and nervous tension. They are particularly susceptible to ulcers.

LUCKY DAY Wednesday LUCKY NUMBERS 5 and 3

MAGICAL BIRTHSTONE Sapphire: Brings tranquility of mind and protects against illness and injury while traveling.

SPECIAL COLORS Navy Blue and Gray: Classic colors of refinement and taste.

CITIES Paris, Boston, Heidelberg, Strasbourg COUNTRIES Turkey, Greece, Crete, West Indies

FLOWERS Morning glory and Pansy TREES Nut-bearing trees

METAL Mercury

ANIMALS RULED BY VIRGO Small domestic pets

DANGER Virgo people sometimes arouse anger and violence in others because of their tendency to interfere, their critical tongues, and their unemotional attitudes.