Virgo rising
Its own mind
Virgo rising gives a critical, shrewd and ingenious mind that produces ideas in plenty, but it often lacks the drive to carry them out unless someone else gives it a push.
Virgo
Rising
The Virgo ascendant
Virgo was coming up over the eastern horizon when you were born. The old books call it the sign of the virgin: a quick mind that takes in knowledge almost without effort, and a gift for words.
Virgo rises today
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Virgo rising
at a glance
RulerMercury
Element and modeEarth, mutable
Symbolthe virgin
Opposite, on the seventh housePisces
Time to rise each day in London
Your rising sign is the sign that was coming up on the eastern horizon at the minute and place you were born. Astrologers read it as the way you meet the world: the first impression, the manner, and in the older books the look of the body too.
With Virgo there, the chart starts in a mutable earth sign ruled by Mercury. Pisces, its opposite, sits on the seventh house, the house of partners.
How Virgo
rising looks
After Max and Augusta Foss Heindel, The Message of the Stars, 1918
- The build
- Taller than average and slender in youth, often filling out around the middle later in life.
- The face
- Thin and sallow, with the upper part of the head much fuller than the lower; the Heindels read the large brow as a sign of intellect.
- The eyes
- Hazel or grey.
- The hair
- Brown.
- The walk
- Small feet with toes that turn inward, which gives a distinctive, careful step.
These are types, written a century ago. Planets close to the ascendant, and where Mercury stands, change the picture, and pure types are rare.
Virgo rising
personality
After the Heindels, chapters V and XIX
People with Virgo rising are quick and active when young. They learn easily and hardly seem to work for what they know; they take it in as if breathing it. Languages and public speaking come readily to them, and they write fluently.
There is a cooler side too. When they have been hurt they can turn cynical and cold, and find it hard to forgive. They tend toward extremes in what they eat, make a cause of hygiene, and can worry about their health more than they need to.
The Heindels saw them as splendid nurses, as long as they do not take on the condition of the person they care for. They cannot bear to see blood or touch anything dead, and they feel harm done to others more keenly than harm done to themselves.
The Virgo rising
mind
The Heindels read the rising sign as the shape of the mind, first by the sign itself and then by the group it belongs to.
The common signs
Its group, also called mutable
Like all the common signs on the angles, it is a changeable and versatile mind that moves quickly from one thing to the next and can stay on the surface.
Questions
It depends on where you were born, because signs take different lengths of time to rise. In London Virgo takes about 2 hours 50 minutes of every day to rise, more than the two-hour average, so it is a little more common there. In Sydney it takes about 1 hour 20 minutes, less than the two-hour average, so it is rarer there.
No. Being a Virgo usually means the Sun was in Virgo, which happens from late August to late September. Virgo rises every day of the year for a few hours, so a person born in any month can have it.
Mercury. The ruler of the rising sign is called the chart ruler, and where it stands in your chart colours the whole reading.