The Moon in Virgo
The Moon crosses Virgo in about two and a half days, roughly once a month. This page says what the tradition makes of that position and gives the exact local times of the next six crossings.
- Ruled by Mercury
- No dignity for the Moon here
- About two and a half days a month
The Moon in Virgo
Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899. Public domain, and the full text is readable online.
In a birth chart
Feeling filtered through the practical mind, and turned first on itself.
Leo gives this Moon good intellectual powers, a good memory and easy learning. The occupations he lists run from grain and food to drugs and medicine: farmer, miller, grocer, confectioner, chemist, herbalist, analyst, doctor, dispenser. He says it makes a trustworthy servant and is fortunate through those under it.
Taken alone he calls it quiet and easy going, somewhat irresolute, and neither ambitious nor pretentious. It has many friends, often female friends, and belongs to companies and societies. The same care that makes it useful is what turns into worry when it has nothing to work on.
The doctrine of dignities, standard in Western astrology since the Hellenistic period
Where the tradition places it
The tradition gives the Moon no special strength or weakness here.
There are only four signs where the Moon has a formal dignity. It rules Cancer, is exalted in Taurus, is in detriment in Capricorn and is in fall in Scorpio. In the other eight, including this one, the tradition treats it as a guest that takes the colour of the house it is standing in.
So the reading of these days comes from the sign itself rather than from the Moon's standing in it, which is what the section below sets out.
The doctrine of the elements and the modes, and habit built on top of it
What these days are used for
Sorting, mending, and health.
- EarthSolidEarth holds still. The tradition gives these days to making something that will last, to money and to the body, and to work that shows a result.
- MutableTurningA mutable sign ends a season, so the days are read as turning: the impulse is to change, to sort, and to let go.
The tradition gives these days to detail, to putting an untidy thing in order, and to the body's maintenance rather than its pleasures.
This is tradition and habit, not a measured effect. It is here because it is what the sources say, and each part carries the name of the source it came from.
The next six Virgo Moons
| Enters Virgo | Time | Leaves for Libra | Time | Stays |
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The three that come up most
Questions people ask
How long is the Moon in Virgo?
About two and a half days each month. The exact length changes a little because the Moon's speed changes, and the table above gives the real figure for each crossing.
Is a Virgo Moon the same as being a Virgo?
No. A Virgo Sun means the Sun was in Virgo at your birth, which is late August to late September. A Virgo Moon can happen in any month of the year.
Does the Moon sign depend on where I was born?
The sign itself is the same everywhere at the same moment, because it is measured from the centre of the Earth. What changes with your place is the local clock time it starts and ends, which is exactly what decides your sign if you were born near a crossing.
Positions and times are calculated in your browser with an open astronomy library and match published ephemerides to the minute. The birth chart reading is written from Alan Leo, Astrology for All, 1899, which is in the public domain. The dignities and the doctrine of the elements are standard traditional astrology. Tradition is labelled as tradition throughout, and the sources page sets out what is calculated and what is not.