Cast & Chart

Placement

Sun in Virgo

A chart describes tendencies in a symbolic tradition. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children.

In an older source

They are the most critical of all individuals, but they usually turn this criticism also upon themselves.

Alan Leo, Astrology for All (1899)

About this entry

Virgo belongs doubly to Mercury, as house and as exaltation, in both Ptolemy (Ashmand's 1822 translation) and Lilly 1659, so the Sun is a guest in a sign strongly claimed by another planet. Adams 1928 remarks that no other sign has for ruler the planet exalted in it. She then reports a speculation about an unseen planet named Vulcan as the true lord of the sign.

Lilly gives the Sun a small stake here, the first ten degrees as a face. Face is a minor division, so the degree of the Sun decides whether it applies at all. Past the tenth degree he lists nothing for the Sun in this sign.

Alan Leo 1899 reads the Sun in Virgo as a mind that takes itself apart, careful and precise and hardest on its own errors. The 1697 English Manilius places philosophers, orators and notaries under the Maid, with no planet named. Modern columns keep the precision and usually lose Mercury's double claim, which is the old reason for it.

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