The Sun in Virgo: August 22nd to September 22nd
- Jennifer
- Aug 18
- 8 min read
“Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty."
— Marcus Aurelius
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🌿 Virgo Season | 22 August – 22 September (London time)
Each year, The Sun moves through the twelve signs, casting His light on different parts of our lives. The Sun is our source of vitality and direction. He shows us the way forward, asking us to live in truth and to shine as who we really are. When The Sun steps into Virgo, our attention is drawn to the small things: the details, the habits, the acts of care that shape the whole.
Virgo Season marks a turning point in the year. The brilliance of summer is still with us, but we can feel the shift as the light begins to soften, the evenings get shorter, and autumn draws near. This is the threshold season, where we prepare, gather, and take stock.
Virgo is the Earthly temple of Mercury, and here His sharp mind takes on an earthly, embodied form. Virgo is discerning, careful, attentive. It teaches us to notice the details and to tend them with love. This is not about nit-picking or control but about refinement, about choosing what serves and gently letting go of what does not.
The Virgin Goddess who stands at the heart of this sign is not untouched or naïve. She is whole unto Herself. Complete. Her purity is not about perfection but about clarity of purpose. She reminds us that every act of devotion, cooking a meal, cleaning a room, tending a body, caring for a friend, carries the same sacred weight as prayer. Daily life is the temple.
This is the season of harvest, both literal and symbolic. We gather the fruits of what we have sown, discerning what is useful and what must now be composted back into the earth. Virgo also marks the beginning of descent and the first steps into the darker half of the year. There is a quiet initiation here, a preparing of the soul for what lies ahead.
Virgo asks us to walk with humility, resourcefulness, and care. To offer our hands in service. To bring order to the small spaces of our lives so that we are steadied for the larger shifts to come. But it is not only practical, it is also magical. Virgo holds the mystery of transition, the moment where one cycle ends and another begins.
This season asks us to tend to ourselves with devotion. To see that our daily actions are not separate from our spiritual path but are the path. To embody the Goddess within us: whole, steady, devoted, and alive to the sacred in the smallest things.
How can we get the best out of the season?
🌿 Practices for Virgo Season
Virgo Season is about remembering that life itself is holy, and that the smallest things - folding laundry, tending a garden, stirring a pot of soup - are acts of devotion. This is where we learn that our everyday life is the ritual.
Here are some ways to work with this season and invite growth:
1. Take Stock
Sit with a notebook and make a quiet inventory. Where is your energy going each day? What habits nourish you, and which ones drain you? Virgo helps us see clearly. Once you’ve noticed, refine gently. Don’t overhaul everything just choose one or two small adjustments that can ripple outward over time.
2. Make Work into Ritual
Choose one ordinary task - washing dishes, making your bed, sweeping the floor - and treat it as sacred. Breathe as you do it. Move slowly. Notice how devotion transforms the mundane.
3. Learn Something Useful
Virgo is ruled by Mercury, God of the Mind and the Hands. Try learning a practical skill that makes you more resourceful. It could be cooking a new recipe, mending clothes, or deepening your knowledge in a subject you love. Growth here is about usefulness, not status.
4. Serve with Love
Offer your time or attention where it’s needed. It might be helping a friend, volunteering, or simply listening more deeply. Service isn’t about sacrifice it’s about remembering we are part of a larger whole.
5. Harvest and Prepare
Virgo marks the turning toward autumn. What fruits of your labour can you gather now whether literal or symbolic? Maybe you organise your cupboards, save money, or write down the lessons of the past season. Preparing is a form of self-care.
6. Purify and Simplify
Clear a drawer, donate what you no longer need, or even try a simple detox of your body or your digital life. Virgo loves to strip away the excess so that only what matters remains.
7. Balance Effort with Rest
Virgo can push us to do more, but the Goddess also reminds us to pause. Schedule moments of stillness. Rest is part of devotion. Without it, the flame you tend will burn out.
8. Touch the Earth
Spend time in nature. Walk barefoot on the grass, tend a plant, sit beneath a tree. Virgo is an earth sign; grounding here helps you feel steady as the season shifts.
✨ A contemplation for Virgo Season:
“What if every action I take is already prayer?”
The Sun in Virgo through the Houses
♈ Aries Rising – 6th House (work, health, daily rhythm)
Within: You may feel a sharper awareness of how your routines affect your energy. Small inefficiencies or unhealthy habits stand out more clearly. There may be a drive to bring order to chaos.
Without: Changes at work, shifts in schedules, or health-related themes in your environment may draw your attention.
Practice: Choose one daily act of care such as stretching, preparing a nourishing meal, or a mindful walk and consecrate it as sacred ritual.
♉ Taurus Rising – 5th House (creativity, pleasure, children)
Within: A longing to express yourself in practical, embodied ways. You may notice a pull towards creativity that brings both joy and usefulness.
Without: Children, creative projects, or playful invitations may take centre stage. Opportunities for pleasure that carry a deeper purpose could appear.
Practice: Set aside time each day to create something with your hands and draw, cook, garden, or play. Let devotion and delight intertwine.
♊ Gemini Rising – 4th House (home, family, foundations)
Within: You may feel called to clear and reorder your inner world with old memories surfacing, or the need to create emotional stability.
Without: Home projects, family dynamics, or issues of belonging may arise. The house itself may demand attention requiring repairs, tidying, grounding.
Practice: Tend one corner of your home as a sacred space. Clean, bless, and arrange it as a sanctuary for yourself and your spirit.
♋ Cancer Rising – 3rd House (communication, siblings, local life)
Within: Words carry weight. You may feel more reflective about how you speak, write, or think. Mental clutter asks to be cleared.
Without: News, sibling dynamics, or neighbourhood happenings may be busy. Conversations may take on a more practical, serious tone.
Practice: Begin a daily writing ritual: journaling, prayer, or sending a thoughtful message. Let your words become offerings.
♌ Leo Rising – 2nd House (resources, self-worth, values)
Within: Questions of worth and value arise. You may notice how much your sense of security is tied to the way you care for your body and belongings.
Without: Money, possessions, or themes of nourishment may demand attention. Opportunities to invest in what truly matters may come up.
Practice: Create a simple ritual of gratitude for food or income. Bless what you receive, however small, and notice how it shifts your relationship to abundance.
♍ Virgo Rising – 1st House (self, body, identity)
Within: This is your season. You may feel both exposed and renewed, as if the light shines more brightly on who you are becoming.
Without: Others may look to you for clarity or service. Themes of health, body image, and self-expression may arise.
Practice: Each morning, light a candle for yourself. Whisper an intention, and carry its flame within you through the day.
♎ Libra Rising – 12th House (spirit, solitude, hidden life)
Within: A need for quiet, reflection, and inner retreat. Old patterns or hidden fears may rise to the surface.
Without: You may notice endings - projects wrapping up, cycles completing - or a greater sensitivity to the struggles of others.
Practice: Set aside a daily moment of silence. Sit with your breath and listen for the whisper of The Goddess within.
♏ Scorpio Rising – 11th House (friends, community, vision)
Within: You may feel reflective about the groups you belong to and the bigger vision that guides your life.
Without: Community projects, friendships, or collective needs may pull at your time.
Practice: Offer one practical kindness to a friend or group, whether a meal, time, or skill. Let service be your form of belonging.
♐ Sagittarius Rising – 10th House (career, calling, public life)
Within: A strong pull to align your work with your values. You may feel restless with structures that don’t reflect integrity.
Without: Shifts in career, responsibility, or visibility may arise. Others may notice your diligence.
Practice: Dedicate one hour a week to refining your craft or calling. Excellence itself becomes an offering to The Gods.
♑ Capricorn Rising – 9th House (wisdom, faith, long journeys)
Within: A hunger for knowledge and meaning stirs. You may feel more called to study, teach, or explore philosophy.
Without: Encounters with teachers, travel, or opportunities to share wisdom may arise.
Practice: Read a paragraph of a sacred or inspiring text daily. Reflect on how its wisdom lands in your own life.
♒ Aquarius Rising – 8th House (shared resources, intimacy, transformation)
Within: Deep themes around trust, fear, and surrender may come forward. Old wounds around sharing or dependency may stir.
Without: Matters of inheritance, debts, or shared finances may surface. Intimate connections may ask for honesty and refinement.
Practice: Write down one fear or attachment each week. Burn or bury it as an offering back to the earth.
♓ Pisces Rising – 7th House (relationships, partnerships, mirrors)
Within: Relationships become mirrors of your devotion. You may notice patterns of care, service, or sacrifice more keenly.
Without: Partnerships - romantic, professional, or otherwise - may demand your attention, clarity, or refinement.
Practice: Speak a daily word of appreciation to someone close. Let relationship itself become a sacred practice.
✨ Virgo Season reminder:
The Goddess teaches us that devotion is not separate from daily life. Every choice, every word, every small act can be prayer.
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✨ An Invitation
Virgo Season is not the same for everyone. Where this light falls in your chart depends on the unique pattern of The Gods at the moment you were born, and the way They are speaking with one another now. What unfolds for you will be different to what unfolds for anyone else.
If you don’t yet know where Virgo lives in your chart, I’d be honoured to help you begin. I can send you a free digital picture of your birth chart, just share your details with me here, and I’ll send it to you as soon as I can.
Remember, what you are experiencing now doesn’t come from Virgo alone. It’s the whole sky speaking, all the conversations The Gods are having with each other, and how They are weaving into your own life. Everyone’s journey is utterly unique, and the chart shows us the thread that runs through.
If you’d like to go deeper into this, whether to explore Virgo Season more fully, or to receive a more general reading about who you are and the path you are walking, you can book a one-to-one consultation with me here. I’ll sit with your chart as a living conversation with The Gods and translate what They are whispering to you.
There’s much more on my website about what to expect from a reading, as well as the story of my own transformational journey if you’d like to explore further.
A note on AI & my writing:
I use ChatGPT as a writing assistant—not as a writer. These are my thoughts, ideas, and words, shaped by my lived experience and deep love for self-work, self-awareness, the spiritual journey, and astrology. AI helps me refine, structure, and nudge me toward better phrasing, but the voice you’re reading is mine. I use it as a tool to help me put into words everything I believe is valuable in sharing my insights. Honesty matters to me, and this is simply one way I bring my thoughts to life.
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