Virgo zodiac sign: dates, traits, love and career

Virgo falls at harvest time, at the end of the northern summer. People born under Virgo are often careful, modest and helpful, and they notice what others miss.

Virgo at a glance

The dates follow the Western (tropical) zodiac. The Sun changes sign at a different hour each year, so if you were born around 23 August or 22 September, the exact sign depends on your birth year, time and place.

Virgo traits and nature

In short: Virgo people are usually careful, practical and good with detail. They can be hard on themselves, so rest and praise matter.

Virgo people usually like order, clear steps and work done properly. They are good at sorting, checking and improving things, and they often show love by being useful.

The same eye for detail can turn inward, so they may worry or judge themselves harshly. Rest, routine and a kind word help them more than they admit.

Strengths

• Attention to detail
• Reliability in daily work
• Practical help
• Clear thinking
• Modesty

Things to watch

• Worry
• Being too critical of self and others
• Trouble switching off
• Waiting for perfect before starting

Element, modality and ruling planet

Virgo is an earth sign. Earth signs are commonly linked with patience, practical sense and things that last. The other earth signs are Taurus and Capricorn.

It is a mutable sign. Mutable signs close each season and are said to adapt and pass things on. The other mutable signs are Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces.

Its ruling planet is Mercury, on which traditional and modern Western astrology agree. Its opposite sign is Pisces, often read as its complement.

Virgo in love and compatibility

In love Virgo is often shy at first and then steady and thoughtful. They show care through small acts: remembering, fixing, planning. They value a partner who is honest, tidy in their promises and patient with their worries.

The table reads the match with all 12 signs by a common rule: the same element and complementary elements (fire with air, earth with water) read as easy, signs a square apart as tense, and signs that share nothing as mixed.

This is a general guide from the sun signs alone. How two people get on shows in their full birth charts; in India, marriage matching uses the Moon sign and nakshatra in Kundli milan. Kundli matching by date of birth · Love calculator

Virgo career themes

Fields commonly linked with Virgo: Health care, Accounting and audit, Research, Editing, Quality control, Data and analysis.

These are tendencies of the sun sign as commonly described, not predictions. Your rising sign, Moon and the other planets shape each person far more than the sun sign alone.

Western Virgo and the Vedic sign

Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, tied to the seasons: Aries always begins at the March equinox. Indian astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, tied to the stars, which now sits about 24° behind (the Lahiri ayanamsa). That is why most people’s Vedic sun sign is the sign before their Western one.

In 2026 the Sun enters sidereal Kanya rashi on 17 September. So of the people born 23 August to 22 September, those born 23 August to 16 September have the Sun in Simha (Leo) in Vedic astrology, and those born 17 September to 22 September have it in Kanya. These are the Sankranti dates.

Your Indian rashi (janma rashi) is a third thing: the sign the Moon was in at your birth. The Moon changes sign about every two and a quarter days, so it needs your date, time and place of birth: use the rashi calculator.

More on this site

• Virgo horoscope: today, weekly, monthly and yearly
• Zodiac sign calculator: by date of birth, with cusp days flagged
• Rashi calculator: your Vedic Moon sign
• Kanya rashi (the Vedic Virgo)
• Virgo tarot card

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