2027 Forecast

August 23 – September 22 · Earth · Mutable · ruled by Mercury

Virgo

Virgo covers August 23 – September 22 and is the 6th sign of the zodiac: earth, mutable, ruled by Mercury. Its keynote is precision, usefulness and noticing what is off. In 2026 the Sun spends 30.91 days in it — the 5th longest of the twelve, because the signs are not equal in length.

Sun enters 2027
Aug 23 8:14 AM UTC
Sun leaves
Sep 23 6:02 AM UTC
Season length
30.9 days 30 d 21 h 48 min
US births
8.94% 2nd most common of 12

Times: NASA JPL DE440. Births: US Social Security Administration, 2000–2014.

The Virgo man The Virgo woman

For Virgo today: Virgo horoscope today, Virgo compatibility and Virgo birthstones.

The animal each of the twelve signs is paired with, and why the two calendars disagree: spirit animal by zodiac sign.

The same sign on the horizon instead of behind the Sun: Virgo rising — a different reading, and one that needs a birth time.

150°–180°

Exact times

Virgo season 2027: the exact start in your city

The Sun enters Virgo at 8:14 AM UTC on August 23, 2027 — 4:14 AM in Santiago, 4:14 AM in New York, 9:14 AM in London and 5:14 PM in Tokyo — and leaves it for Libra at 6:02 AM UTC on September 23, after 30 d 21 h 48 min.

City Sun enters Virgo Sun moves on to Libra
UTC Mon, Aug 23 Thu, Sep 23
Honolulu United States 10:14 PM Sun, Aug 22 · UTC−10 8:02 PM Wed, Sep 22 · UTC−10
Anchorage United States 12:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−8 10:02 PM Wed, Sep 22 · UTC−8
Los Angeles United States 1:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−7 11:02 PM Wed, Sep 22 · UTC−7
Phoenix United States 1:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−7 11:02 PM Wed, Sep 22 · UTC−7
Denver United States 2:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−6 12:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−6
Chicago United States 3:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−5 1:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−5
Mexico City Mexico 2:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−6 12:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−6
New York United States 4:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−4 2:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−4
Toronto Canada 4:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−4 2:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−4
Bogotá Colombia 3:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−5 1:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−5
Lima Peru 3:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−5 1:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−5
Caracas Venezuela 4:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−4 2:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−4
Santiago Chile 4:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−4 3:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−3
Buenos Aires Argentina 5:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−3 3:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−3
São Paulo Brazil 5:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC−3 3:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC−3
Reykjavík Iceland 8:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC 6:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC
London United Kingdom 9:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+1 7:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+1
Lagos Nigeria 9:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+1 7:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+1
Paris France 10:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+2 8:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+2
Berlin Germany 10:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+2 8:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+2
Johannesburg South Africa 10:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+2 8:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+2
Cairo Egypt 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 9:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+3
Athens Greece 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 9:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+3
Istanbul Turkey 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 9:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+3
Moscow Russia 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 9:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+3
Nairobi Kenya 11:14 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3 9:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+3
Tehran Iran 11:44 AM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+3:30 9:32 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+3:30
Dubai United Arab Emirates 12:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+4 10:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+4
Karachi Pakistan 1:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+5 11:02 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+5
New Delhi India 1:44 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+5:30 11:32 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+5:30
Kathmandu Nepal 1:59 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+5:45 11:47 AM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+5:45
Dhaka Bangladesh 2:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+6 12:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+6
Bangkok Thailand 3:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+7 1:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+7
Jakarta Indonesia 3:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+7 1:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+7
Singapore 4:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+8 2:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+8
Beijing China 4:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+8 2:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+8
Manila Philippines 4:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+8 2:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+8
Perth Australia 4:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+8 2:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+8
Seoul South Korea 5:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+9 3:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+9
Tokyo Japan 5:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+9 3:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+9
Adelaide Australia 5:44 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+9:30 3:32 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+9:30
Brisbane Australia 6:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+10 4:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+10
Sydney Australia 6:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+10 4:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+10
Auckland New Zealand 8:14 PM Mon, Aug 23 · UTC+12 6:02 PM Thu, Sep 23 · UTC+12

Sun’s ingress from the NASA JPL DE440 ephemeris; Swiss Ephemeris agrees within 5 seconds. Local times: IANA time zones, to the minute.

DatesAugust 23 – September 22
SymbolMaiden
ElementEarth
ModalityMutable
Ruling planetMercury
House6
PolarityNegative
Lucky numbers5, 3
Lucky dayWednesday
ColorNavy, gray
BirthstoneSapphire, carnelian
Best matches Taurus, Capricorn, Cancer
Hardest matches Libra, Aries, Aquarius
Rules the bodyDigestive system

Calculated, not approximated

Exact Virgo dates for 2026

Sun enters Virgo August 23, 2:19 AM UTC
Sun leaves Virgo September 23, 12:05 AM UTC
Length this year 30.9 days

The usual "August 23 – September 22" is an average. The Sun enters Virgo at 150° of ecliptic longitude, and the exact minute of that crossing — given above for the coming season — moves a little every year, which is what a boundary birthday needs.

When the Sun enters Virgo, every year 1900–2050 (UTC)
When the Sun enters Virgo, every year 1900–2050 (UTC) Virgo season started as late as Aug 24, 8:41 AM UTC in 1903 and will start as early as Aug 22, 10:03 AM UTC in 2048; in 2026 it is Aug 23, 2:19 AM UTC. A common year moves the ingress about 5 h 47 min later and a leap day pulls it back about 18 h 8 min, so it saw-tooths between August 22 and 24. The season itself has run from 30 d 21 h 0 min to 30 d 21 h 58 min — a spread of 58 minutes over 151 years. Aug 22Aug 23Aug 24Aug 25latest 1903latest 1903earliest 2048earliest 2048202620261900192519501975200020252050Source: NASA JPL DE440 ephemeris, Sun’s ingress at 150°astrohot.com

Virgo season started as late as Aug 24, 8:41 AM UTC in 1903 and will start as early as Aug 22, 10:03 AM UTC in 2048; in 2026 it is Aug 23, 2:19 AM UTC. A common year moves the ingress about 5 h 47 min later and a leap day pulls it back about 18 h 8 min, so it saw-tooths between August 22 and 24. The season itself has run from 30 d 21 h 0 min to 30 d 21 h 58 min — a spread of 58 minutes over 151 years.

Calculated from the Sun's actual motion

The zodiac signs are not equal

Virgo lasts 30.91 days
Rank by length 5 of 12
Share of all births 8.94%
If signs were even 30.44 days · 8.33%

Virgo runs 30.91 days in 2026 — in the middle of the range, between the long summer signs and the short winter ones. Only just longer is Taurus at 30.96 days; just behind is Aries at 30.45.

With US births also peaking between July and September, Virgo took 8.94% of them in 2000–2014. All twelve lengths, and why they differ, are on the zodiac dates page.

Share of US births by Sun sign, 2000–2014 — Virgo highlighted
Share of US births by Sun sign, 2000–2014 — Virgo highlighted Virgo: 8.94% of the 62.2 million births, with each birth assigned by the Sun’s ingress time — the 2nd most common of twelve. Leo leads with 8.96% and Capricorn trails with 7.63%. An even split would give 8.33%. LeoLeo: 8.96%8.96%VirgoVirgo: 8.94%8.94%CancerCancer: 8.84%8.84%GeminiGemini: 8.56%8.56%LibraLibra: 8.52%8.52%TaurusTaurus: 8.29%8.29%ScorpioScorpio: 8.18%8.18%AriesAries: 8.14%8.14%PiscesPisces: 8.04%8.04%SagittariusSagittarius: 7.95%7.95%AquariusAquarius: 7.93%7.93%CapricornCapricorn: 7.63%7.63%Source: US SSA births 2000–2014 via FiveThirtyEightastrohot.com

Virgo: 8.94% of the 62.2 million births, with each birth assigned by the Sun’s ingress time — the 2nd most common of twelve. Leo leads with 8.96% and Capricorn trails with 7.63%. An even split would give 8.33%.

Rarely covered

The three Virgo decans

Ten degrees each. Modern astrologers give them to the three earth signs' rulers — Mercury, Saturn and Venus; the older Chaldean order, used on our birth date pages, gives the Sun, Venus and Mercury.

Decan 1 · 0°–10°

Sub-ruler: Mercury

Double Mercury — the most analytical and the most self-critical.

2026: Aug 23 – Sep 2 · Chaldean order: Sun

Decan 2 · 10°–20°

Sub-ruler: Saturn

Disciplined and serious. The hardest worker of the three.

2026: Sep 2 – Sep 12 · Chaldean order: Venus

Decan 3 · 20°–30°

Sub-ruler: Venus

Warmer and more aesthetic. Precision applied to beauty.

2026: Sep 12 – Sep 23 · Chaldean order: Mercury

Virgo personality

Analytical
Critical
Helpful
Anxious
Meticulous

Strengths

Spots the flaw everyone else missed, and fixes it rather than pointing at it.

Weaknesses

Applies the same scrutiny to itself until nothing is ever finished well enough.

Virgo is the one mutable earth sign — and that pairing is the whole explanation. The element sets temperament: earth signs test everything against what can be touched. The modality decides what happens when circumstances change: mutable signs adapt to it.

No other sign is mutable earth, so Virgo cannot stand in for the other earth signs — which share the temperament and divide the work between them differently.

Primary source

Why Mercury rules Virgo, in Ptolemy’s words

Tetrabiblos, second century AD
“Mercury never has greater distance from the Sun than the space of one sign, and is beneath all the other planets: hence he is nearest to both luminaries, and the remaining two signs, Gemini and Virgo, are allotted to him.”
Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, book I, chapter XX, translated by J. M. Ashmand from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus (London, 1822) — read the original text. Ptolemy wrote in Alexandria, and his reasoning is from the northern hemisphere, where Cancer and Leo are the summer signs. He knew seven planets, and this scheme of rulers is still the one astrologers use.

Primary source

What William Lilly wrote about Virgo in 1647

The sign’s nature
“It’s an earthly, cold, melancholly, barren, feminine, nocturnall, Southerne Signe; the house and exaltation of [Mercury], of the earthly triplicity.”
The person it describes
“A slender body of meane height, but decently composed; a ruddy browne complexion, blacke hayre, well-favoured or lovely, but no beautifull creature, a small shrill voyce, all members inclining to brevity; a witty discreet soule, judicious and excellently well spoken, studious and given to History, whether Man or Woman; it produceth a rare understanding, if [Mercury] be in this Signe, and [the Moon] in [Cancer], but somewhat unstable.”
William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), book I, chapter XVI — read the original text. Christian Astrology was the first astrology textbook of its kind printed in English rather than Latin. Lilly used these descriptions mainly for the sign rising at a birth or at the moment a question was asked; reading character from the Sun’s sign alone was popularized by newspaper horoscopes in the 1930s. Spelling and punctuation are as printed, with the long s and u/v modernized; signs and planets printed as symbols are given in square brackets.

The Virgo man and woman

Virgo man

Helpful, precise and quietly critical. Shows love through practical acts.

Virgo woman

Capable and self-editing. Notices everything, including things she would rather not.

Astrology gives Virgo no gendered meaning; the two sketches follow how the sign is usually written about.

Virgo in each area of life

In love and relationships

Shows love through practical help. Criticism is often affection badly aimed.

As a friend

The one who actually helps — with the move, the form, the difficult email.

At work

Exceptional where accuracy matters. Struggles to delegate and to stop editing.

Career that suits

Health, editing, analysis, administration, research — anywhere accuracy is the product.

With money

Careful and detailed. Knows the balance to the penny.

As a child

Anxious, tidy and eager to be useful. Needs reassurance that good enough is allowed.

As a parent

Attentive and practical. Risks correcting more often than praising.

Health and the body

Digestive system — Virgo rules it, and anxiety shows there first.

Virgo compatibility with every sign

Ranked by the angle from Virgo on the wheel; how the angle is read is explained on the compatibility hub.

WithAspectAngleScoreElement
Taurus Trine 120° 88% Earth
Capricorn Trine 120° 88% Earth
Cancer Sextile 60° 82% Water
Scorpio Sextile 60° 82% Water
Virgo Conjunction 0° 78% Earth
Pisces Opposition 180° 75% Water
Gemini Square 90° 62% Air
Sagittarius Square 90° 62% Fire
Leo Semi-sextile 30° 58% Fire
Libra Semi-sextile 30° 58% Air
Aries Quincunx 150° 55% Fire
Aquarius Quincunx 150° 55% Air

Famous Virgos

Beyoncé, Keanu Reeves, Freddie Mercury, Agatha Christie

Virgo accounts for 8.94% of US births, so a list of famous Virgos is trivia rather than evidence.

Today's horoscope Calculated from where the Moon actually is right now. This week The lunar events falling in the next seven days. Virgo birthstone Composition, hardness and origin of each stone.

Common questions about Virgo

What are the exact Virgo dates?

August 23 – September 22 as usually published. In 2026 the Sun enters Virgo on August 23 at 2:18 AM UTC and leaves on September 23 at 12:05 AM UTC.

Who is Virgo most compatible with?

By aspect, Taurus, Capricorn and Cancer — they sit at the easiest angles from Virgo.

What is a Virgo decan?

A ten-degree third of the sign with its own sub-ruler: Mercury, Saturn and Venus in the modern scheme, the Sun, Venus and Mercury in the older Chaldean order.

What body part does Virgo rule?

Digestive system — Virgo rules it, and anxiety shows there first.

Is the Virgo man different from the woman?

Not in the chart: the Sun in Virgo works the same for everyone. The difference is in how it is written about — the Virgo man is usually read through Mars, which spends 10.1% of days in Virgo, and the Virgo woman through Venus, at 8.9%.

Other signs

Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces

Sources

  1. Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, book I, chapter XX, translated by J. M. Ashmand from the Greek paraphrase of Proclus (London, 1822)
  2. William Lilly, Christian Astrology (London, 1647), book I, chapter XVI

Statements of fact on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. How we choose and check sources: editorial policy.

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