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The Sun in Virgo
The Sun moves into Virgo tonight -- around 10 PM (Mountain Time) -- Wednesday, August 22, 2018. (4 AM Thursday, August 23, UTC.) So look for a change in the general mood over the next few days, from Leo's playful creativity to Virgo's no-nonsense practicality.
In other words, it's time to go to work. Virgo is an exacting, industrious energy that keeps the wheels of life turning by tending to all the trivial but necessary chores that make life happen.
It may lack Leo's popular appeal, but without it, life's routines fall apart and just getting through the day becomes a slogging, frustrating mess. I may diss on Virgo a lot, but its contributions to the quality of all life have value beyond words.
but it knows how to get the job done.
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The Virgo Personality
The Virgo spirit is logical, efficient, organized and dedicated to selfless service. If you were born under the Virgo Sun, your personality is meticulous and exacting. You are a perfectionist ... detail-conscious and discerning -- concerned with the work you do in the world. This is almost always some form of service and selfless effort extended for the benefit of others.
You are painstaking and fussy. The little things count with you. You know what it takes to turn a mundane effort into a masterpiece -- and you aim for that level of excellence every single time.
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You are often taken for granted.
You are supportive and conscientious -- and you don't ask for a lot in return, sometimes not even thanks, recognition or credit. Unfortunately, this springs from an inborn inferiority complex you may struggle with all your life.
You can easily overextend and overwork yourself in your efforts to do for others. And another reason you may not get as much notice or appreciation as you deserve is because the work you do often involves little favors to make the lives of those who are important to you easier.
It takes the form of daily routines and mundane tasks like housekeeping chores, errands, support services, etc., the kind of work that keeps life running smoothly, but which doesn't get noticed unless it doesn't get done.
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You concentrate on everyday things.
Because this work is not much fun, others are perfectly happy to pass it along to you, and then take it for granted, because you are so dependable at meeting your responsibilities.
The trouble is, the work you do then kind of fades into the background in the lives of the very people who benefit from your efforts, and unfortunately, you are likely to get overlooked as well.
You are always doing some kind of work.
You turn in an efficient, even brilliant performance of routine responsibilities and mundane tasks, whether or not the work you do actually results in money in your bank account. When you are at work, no detail is too small to slip past your critical, perfectionist's eye nor any flaw too small not to need correction.
You are a workaholic who likes to bring order out of confusion, but you can become so engrossed with trivialities that you are blinded to the significance of the larger whole. You actually feel most alive when you are involved in some kind of serious, hard work.
Taking care of business is Virgo's way of life.
You can also lose sight of the forest while looking at the trees, but you plod on, taking care of business with amazing fortitude and patience. You have a high regard for order and routine. You want things done just so. And your inclination to constantly fuss and fret can drive other people crazy.
This is, in fact, a picky, fastidious, critical energy combination. You call it being "particular" and "doing the job right." The people around you may have different descriptions of it, some kindly ... some not.
You are the Zodiac's most analytical sign.
You are analytical, logical, organized, discriminating and critical. You seek very detailed knowledge regarding the things you do, the things you give your attention to.
You catalog and concentrate this knowledge into some sort of structure that then has practical application. When you are being completely true to yourself, you are efficient, concentrated, even obsessively engrossed in what occupies your attention at the moment.
You need to love yourself more ...
You are extremely selfless, shy and emotionally contained, even in close partnerships. There is not a lot of romantic energy or interest at your disposal. You express love and intimacy in other ways, namely through the work you do and by being there for the others in your life.
You may find it difficult to communicate and articulate your inner thoughts and feelings, but you like to be noticed and complimented for the small, valuable services you perform for your loved ones, even though you can be painfully stingy about dispensing compliments to others yourself.
When you complain about how you need more love in your life, the actual fact is, you yourself need to be more loving. That includes being more loving to yourself, too.
... and care for yourself the way you do others.
You also take it upon yourself to be concerned with health issues and the health of others who are important to you. Your particular kind of nervous tension and inclination to overwork often manifests itself in physical problems, and in your fashion you assume these things will eventually show up in everyone you know and will need to be attended to.
You would say that only seems logical. But your unusual focus here can turn into hypochondria, and the strong mental energy you have at your disposal can eventually create these very health problems you're afraid of where none existed before. You might need to have a stronger respect for the mind's creative power.
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