VIRGO   - Period of  23 August - 22 September    

Ruler – Mercury

Keyword – I analyse

Colour – saffron, grey, green

Scent – roses, camellia, herbs

Gemstone – agate, jasper

Trees – Nut trees

Food – root vegetables

Virgo is the sixth sign of the zodiac.
The symbol for Virgo is the Virgin, denoting the puritanical demeanour usually common to those of this sign.

In Virgo the Sun is orderly and thoughtful.
With the Sun in Virgo you are predisposed to be hardworking, conscientious, and well-organised.
Modest, discriminating and thorough, everything you do, you do well.
Practical and down to earth, you are a diligent worker with a competent, discriminating intellect.
You are highly analytical and exacting, especially adapted to handling projects with painstaking perfection.
Thus, you are fond of good workmanship and the utmost in quality.
You are dependable because your approach is always one based on common sense and a realistic and analytical assessment of the problem.

You give much attention to detail, but you can carry this to extremes, becoming fussy and critical, sometimes interfering.
Large-scale projects can overwhelm you because of your insistence on perfection.
Unless you can deliver such quality, you may become frustrated and discouraged.
There is always the tendency and danger with Virgo that the big picture idea will be missed in search of minute details.
You expect yourself and everyone around you to be perfect, often setting yourself up for disappointment.
Your outlook is too negative and picky sometimes.

Modest and unassuming, you are usually content to live in the background.
Your attitude, at times, can become puritanical and prudish.
You consider yourself an ordinary person, and you are never given to any airs of pretentiousness or showing off.
There may be a tendency for you to see your role as one of service and "behind the scenes" support activity.

You have a serious attitude toward refining your mind and acquiring knowledge.
With your highly varied interests, you can gain a remarkable amount of data about different subjects.
You instinctively know that you must grasp all parts before you can fully understand the whole.
Systematising and detail organisation are your strengths.
You are idealistic, but always practical and reasonable.
You're not likely to make general statements based on too few facts.

You may be somewhat health conscious, for you have an instinctive sense of balance in diet.
You're very sensible in taking care of your health, and for that matter, the health of others.
Often, the Virgo becomes exceptionally neat and orderly, even a bit neurotic about cleanliness.
You're likely to be susceptible to stress related problems because you do tend to worry too much.  

Anatomic:  The nerve system and the intestines. Virgo’s are often vegetarians and are extremely interested health in general.

Bachremedy: Centaurium; gives willpower, energy and determination.  

Keywords: Virgo is practical, responsible, sensible, logical, analytical, highly discriminating, a careful planner, precise and punctual, dedicated, perfectionist, critical, health conscious, somewhat introverted.

Element: Earth: (the way you react);These people are “down to earth”, and although they are often considered ‘dull’ by other people, there is a reassuring solidity and trustworthiness about them.
In the first place these people see something and then start to analyse it on scents, colour, beauty etc. in order to get to a certain value.
Always looking for material and other certainties in life – here and now!

Quality: Mutable: (the way you deal with situations);It seems that these persons easily step over their problems, as if it is not there – able to live on their lives and even sometimes really think that a problems is solved the moment he noticed it.
They all have an adaptability. They often appear selfless.