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Moon in sign

The Moon in Virgo

Virgo is mutable earth, ruled by Mercury. This page covers what that means for the Moon, how often it happens, and when.

  • Moon
  • Virgo
Element
Earth
Modality
Mutable
Ruler
Mercury
Dignity of the Moon
No essential dignity in the traditional scheme
Last in Virgo
until 9 October 2026, 08:10 UTC
Next in Virgo
from 3 November 2026, 08:27 UTC
Next visit lasts
about 2.3 days

How common

1 in 12

8.38% of 2,000,000 simulated births have the Moon in Virgo.

within noise of an even split of 12

In plain words

  • Moon in Virgo

    In Virgo, the Moon feels and responds in a careful, detail-minded way.

Generic readingA generic description in the style of modern astrology, the same for everyone who has this placement. Not a prediction.

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What does the Moon in Virgo mean?

  1. What the Moon governs

    The Moon feels and responds

    Astrologers treat the Moon as the body that feels and responds. It does that in every sign; the sign changes only the manner.

  2. What Virgo adds

    In a careful, detail-minded way

    Virgo is a mutable earth sign. Fire, earth, air and water are the four elements; earth is classically cold and dry. Modalities group the signs by their place in a season: mutable signs close a season. Its ruler is Mercury. Traditional astrology gives the Moon no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Virgo.

  3. How common it is

    About 1 in 12

    Moon in Virgo: 8.38% of simulated births, about 1 in 12; within noise of an even split of 12.

How common is the Moon in Virgo?

How common is the Moon in each sign?

An even split of the 12 signsBars start at zero.Share of simulated births with the Moon in each of the 12 signs. Share of 2,000,000 simulated births (1950–2024), tropical zodiac.

When is the Moon in Virgo?

Moon in Virgo, last pass
ended 9 Oct 2026
7 October 2026, 02:52 UTC to 9 October 2026, 08:10 UTC (about 2 days)
Moon in Virgo, next pass
from 3 Nov 2026
3 November 2026, 08:27 UTC to 5 November 2026, 14:38 UTC (about 2 days)

Last, current and next passes

  1. Moon in Virgo

    7 Oct 2026 → 9 Oct 2026 · about 2 days

    last pass

  2. Moon in Virgo

    3 Nov 2026 → 5 Nov 2026 · about 2 days

    next pass

  • A visit of the Moon to Virgo lasts about 2.3 days at the median, from 2.0 to 2.5 days (2,018 visits, 1900–2050).

As of 16 October 2026, 13:56 UTC. Dates are UTC, tropical zodiac, read from the ephemeris's table of sign entries. This page refreshes hourly.

How do different traditions read the Moon in Virgo?

AI-written text that an AI research review then checked against sources. No person has reviewed it; the notes and references behind each check are under its label.

Hellenistic

The astrology of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 7th century CE, as recorded by authors such as Vettius Valens, Dorotheus and Ptolemy.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

Virgo is a feminine, mutable earth sign, and the tradition lists no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall for the Moon there. Domicile is the sign a planet rules, its home. The Moon is a feminine, night-team planet in a feminine sign, so gender and sect match; sect is the tradition's sorting of planets into day and night teams. The Moon also rules the earth signs by night in Dorotheus' triplicity scheme, a modest second line of support. Virgo is where Mercury holds both domicile and exaltation and where Venus is in fall. Hellenistic astrologers therefore look to Mercury, the lord of the sign, and ask where it is by sign and house. A lord with high standing can steady a placement that has none of its own. Mercury stays within about 28° of the Sun, so its position follows the Sun's.

A note on “detriment”: the early Hellenistic texts note a planet opposite its own sign without naming it. The term is defined only in late and medieval sources, and scholars disagree on whether the idea was implicit earlier.

Sources

  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I
  • Dorotheus of Sidon, Carmen Astrologicum
  • Paulus Alexandrinus, Introductory Matters

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Checked sign element, modality and gender, domicile, exaltation, detriment and fall against the project data and Ptolemy, plus sect and sign relationships; all consistent. triplicity lords match the Dorothean table (secondary sources; Carmen Astrologicum itself not opened); gender/sect match claims rest on Ptolemy and a secondary source. Detriment is stated as a table fact where it appears; its Hellenistic status is disputed (secondary source only). Source works confirmed to exist and to treat the topic (Valens Book I opened; others via secondary pages).

Sources consulted

Modern psychological

The 20th-century Western approach shaped by Alan Leo, Dane Rudhyar and Liz Greene, drawing on Jungian psychology.

AI-written, checked by AI

1 Oct 2026

Virgo is a mutable earth sign, and the Moon placed there is the emotional function working through practical habit. Modern psychological astrology reads the need as order: tasks done well, a clean and manageable environment, and feelings that can be sorted. Mutable earth is associated with adapting small routines to circumstance. The tension described is worry, in which attention to what could be improved crowds out ease. Hellenistic astrologers assign the Moon no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Virgo and read its condition through Mercury, the planet governing the sign. They add the Moon's phase and house. The modern tradition describes the placement as a psychological pattern, whereas the Hellenistic reading stays with the planet's technical standing.

Sources

  • Liz Greene and Howard Sasportas, The Luminaries: The Psychology of the Sun and Moon in the Horoscope (1992)
  • Stephen Arroyo, Astrology, Psychology, and the Four Elements (1975)
  • Robert Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)

What was checked

An AI research review checked this text against sources on 1 Oct 2026. No person has reviewed it.

Reviewer's notes

Sign/element/modality, ruler and dignity claims checked against the project reference data and Wikipedia; the per-sign tendencies attributed to modern authors are confirmed only against a popular secondary description, not the books. Narrowed the Hellenistic "no rank" wording to "no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall"; the Moon also has a minor night-chart triplicity rulership of earth signs, which the text does not deny.

Sources consulted

Where they differ

Hellenistic astrology reasons from technique: essential dignity, sect and configuration by sign. Modern psychological astrology reasons from element, modality and the planet's function. They start from different questions, so the same placement can read differently, and neither reading is the verdict. Both use the tropical zodiac here.

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