Virgo
August 23 to September 22 · ruled by Mercury
Precision · Service · Discernment
✦ The character of Virgo ✦
Virgo sees what nobody else sees: the detail that is off, the flaw in the plan, the exact word. Modest and hard-working, it would rather be useful than admired. Its mind analyses everything, itself included, with a rigour that can become its own torment. Beneath the reserve: an immense devotion.
Virgo in love
In love, Virgo proves rather than declares: a thousand discreet attentions are its grandest confessions. Slow to open up, it looks for what is true and flees the theatrical. Its trap: analysing the feeling instead of living it.
Virgo at work
At work, it is silent excellence: analysis, health, organisation, writing, crafts of precision. Give it a system to perfect and everything will finally run.
Its strengths
- An eye nothing escapes
- The reliability of work done well
- The art of improving everything it touches
Its challenges
- Endless self-criticism
- The perfectionism that paralyses
- Saying what it feels, not only what it thinks
The Hermit
In the tradition, Virgo answers to The Hermit. A time of fruitful solitude. This card colours the way the sign moves through the world.
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