Virgo Sun Sign

Virgo Sun sign: the quick answer. Virgo is the sixth sign of the tropical zodiac, tied in the tradition to the harvest, analysis, service and careful craft.

• Dates: about 23 August to 22 September. The exact day the Sun changes sign shifts by a day between years, so check a birthday near the edge with the Sun, Moon and Rising calculator.
• Element: Earth
• Modality: Mutable
• Ruling planet: Mercury
• Symbol: the Maiden

What the tradition associates with Virgo

Astrologers associate Virgo with attention to detail and a wish to be useful. As an earth sign it is linked with the practical and material, and as a mutable sign with adaptability: Virgo is said to improve things by adjusting them.

The strengths usually named are precision, reliability, discernment, a helpful nature and a quiet sense of humour. Mercury, the ruling planet, links the sign with analysis, language and method, and sets Virgo’s mind apart from the more sociable Mercury of Gemini.

The growth edges are self-criticism, worry and a perfectionism that can make a good result feel unfinished. Kindly put, the same eye that spots what could be better can be turned on oneself. The practice suggested is to decide in advance what good enough looks like, and to notice what has gone well.

Virgo in relationships

In relationships, astrologers describe Virgo as thoughtful and dependable, showing care through practical help. The tradition says Virgo takes time to open up but is loyal once it does. The growth edge is to offer appreciation as readily as suggestions, and to let a partner be imperfect.

Virgo at work

At work, Virgo is often linked with analysis, editing, research, health and wellbeing fields, administration, technical and craft roles. The tradition suggests Virgo does well where accuracy matters and works best with clear standards. Setting limits on scope, and sharing tasks, is the usual suggestion for the growth edge.

Your Virgo Sun with your Moon and Rising signs

The Sun is read as core motivation, the Moon as emotional habits and the Rising sign as your manner. A Virgo Sun with a Sagittarius Moon is described as exact in method and expansive in feeling; a Virgo Sun with a Leo Rising as a modest worker with a warm, visible front. These are illustrations of how astrologers combine signs, not claims about real people.

To find all three, use the Sun, Moon and Rising calculator. A Rising sign needs a birth time, so if you do not know yours, the Sun and Moon are still worth reading.

The myth and the constellation

Virgo is the second largest constellation, with the bright star Spica, often pictured as an ear of grain in the maiden’s hand. In one Greek telling the maiden is Demeter, goddess of grain, or her daughter Persephone, whose yearly return marks the seasons; in another she is Astraea, the goddess of justice, who left the earth last of the immortals. Babylonian astronomers called this region the Furrow and linked it with the barley goddess Shala, so the harvest theme is very old.

Virgo in Western and Vedic astrology

The signs on this site are tropical: they are tied to the seasons, with 0 degrees Aries at the March equinox. Vedic astrology (Jyotish) uses the sidereal zodiac, measured against the stars, with the Lahiri ayanamsa, which is about 24 degrees in 2026.

Virgo is Kanya in Vedic astrology, also ruled by Mercury. Most people with a tropical Virgo Sun have a sidereal Leo (Simha) Sun, apart from about the last six days of the season, which fall in sidereal Virgo.

The Sun spends about 30 days in a sign and the gap is about 24 degrees, so roughly four in five birthdays fall in a different sign in the two systems. Neither is wrong; they answer different questions. To see your own result, try your sign in both systems.

The Vedic site has its own guides: Virgo Sun sign in Vedic astrology and Sun in Virgo in the Vedic zodiac.

Frequently asked questions

Astrology here is offered as a tradition for reflection, not as a prediction or a substitute for professional advice.