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The Sun in Virgo

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

  • Sun
  • Virgo
Element
Earth
Modality
Mutable
Ruler
Mercury
Dignity of the Sun
No essential dignity in the traditional scheme
Last in Virgo
until 23 September 2026, 00:05 UTC
Next in Virgo
from 23 August 2027, 08:14 UTC
Next visit lasts
about 31 days

How common

1 in 11

8.71% of 2,000,000 simulated births have the Sun in Virgo.

3rd most common of 12signs

In plain words

  • Sun in Virgo

    In Virgo, the Sun expresses itself 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 Sun in Virgo mean?

  1. What the Sun governs

    The Sun expresses itself

    Astrologers treat the Sun as the body that expresses itself. 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 Sun no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Virgo.

  3. How common it is

    About 1 in 11

    Sun in Virgo: 8.71% of simulated births, about 1 in 11; 3rd most common of 12.

How common is the Sun in Virgo?

How common is the Sun in each sign?

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

When is the Sun in Virgo?

Sun in Virgo, last pass
ended 23 Sept 2026
23 August 2026, 02:18 UTC to 23 September 2026, 00:05 UTC (about 31 days)
Sun in Virgo, next pass
from 23 Aug 2027
23 August 2027, 08:14 UTC to 23 September 2027, 06:01 UTC (about 31 days)

Last, current and next passes

  1. Sun in Virgo

    23 Aug 2026 → 23 Sept 2026 · about 31 days

    last pass

  2. Sun in Virgo

    23 Aug 2027 → 23 Sept 2027 · about 31 days

    next pass

  • Each year the Sun is in Virgo from about 22–24 August to 22–24 September (UTC dates, 1900–2050).

As of 16 October 2026, 15:22 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 Sun 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.

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1 Oct 2026

Your Sun is in Virgo, a feminine, mutable earth sign. The tradition lists no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall for the Sun here. Domicile is the sign a planet rules, its home. Virgo is where Mercury has both domicile and exaltation and Venus is in fall. Hellenistic astrologers note that the Sun, a masculine day-team planet, sits in a feminine sign, a partial match of gender they weigh rather than call a flaw. Sect is the tradition's way of sorting the planets into a day team and a night team. The planet to examine next is Mercury, the domicile lord. Mercury stays within about 28° of the Sun, so in your chart it is in Virgo or an adjacent sign. If it lies in Virgo itself, it holds both domicile and exaltation, a notably strong condition in the tradition's accounting. The Sun's own standing is read from that lord, from sect, and from aspects by sign.

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
  • Paulus Alexandrinus, Introductory Matters
  • Chris Brennan, Hellenistic Astrology: The Study of Fate and Fortune (2017)

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. 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.

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1 Oct 2026

Virgo is the sixth sign, a mutable earth sign with negative polarity. Modern psychological astrology reads a Sun in Virgo as an identity built through usefulness, refinement and attention to detail. Mutable earth is associated with adapting practical skills to the situation at hand, and with a purpose measured by how well things work. The tension these authors describe is self-criticism: a standard of improvement that is hard to satisfy and can be turned inward. Hellenistic astrologers give the Sun no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall in Virgo, the domicile and exaltation of Mercury. Their reading turns on Mercury's condition and on the Sun's house and aspects. The modern reading starts from the sign's character, not from that chain of dependence.

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)
  • Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I (dignities and sect)

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 popular secondary descriptions. Narrowed the Hellenistic "no rank" wording to "no domicile, exaltation, detriment or fall" so the claim matches the four dignities checked.

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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