Sun in Virgo
What Sun in Virgo means, the traditional facts behind it, and when the Sun is actually in Virgo.
What Sun in Virgo means
Your Sun in Virgo finds identity in usefulness and craft — you notice the detail others miss and want to make things work well. Virgo is an earth sign, so meaning grows through steady improvement rather than grand gestures.
A sign placement reads the same in every house system.
These interpretations are drafted with software assistance and edited by our writers. Astrology is a symbolic language, not a science — take what's useful and leave the rest.
The sign: Virgo
- Element
- Earth
- Modality
- Mutable
- Polarity
- Yin: inward, receptive
- Ruler
- Mercury
Essential dignity
The Sun holds none of the four major dignities in Virgo: no rulership or exaltation, no detriment or fall.
The four major dignities, from Ptolemy's table as Lilly gives it (1647).
When the Sun is in Virgo
The Sun is in Virgo every year from about August 23 to September 23. The exact moments this year and next:
| Enters | Leaves |
|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2026, 02:19 | Sep 23, 2026, 00:05 |
| Aug 23, 2027, 08:14 | Sep 23, 2027, 06:01 |
Times in UTC, to the minute.
See where the Sun falls in your own birth chart
How this page is made
Sign facts and dignities follow the traditional tables; dates come from our own ephemeris engine. Exact about the astronomy, honest that astrology is a symbolic language.