Virgo through the Houses

Posted on 21 Feb 2010 by in Signs through the Houses, Zodiac Signs • 53 Comments

Virgo in the 1st house

Do not wish to be anything other than what you areParticular about appearance. Neat appearance. An eye for detail. Noticing details on clothes. Perfectly groomed eyebrows. Noticing pores. Attention to nails and belly button lint. Worrying about appearance. Worrying about not looking perfect. Seeking to look perfect through plastic surgery. Schoolmarms. “Plain Janes.” Dressing appropriately for the occasion. A love of fine tailoring. Doing the “right” thing. A conscientious approach to life. A timid, shy, standoffish person. A humble, helpful, unselfish person. A critical, nitpicking, fault-finding person. A person who strives for physical perfection. A person who strives for perfection on the job. A perfect work performance. A perfect report card. A flawless attendance record. A person who is focused on everyday work and everyday routines. A person who does best when adhering to a routine. A person who is body-conscious. Perfecting the body through daily exercise. A person who is health-conscious. A person who is preoccupied with illness and health. A hypochondriac. Someone who carries around hand sanitizer and Airborne. Workaholics. Taking on the appearance of someone with a particular occupation. Looking like a (fill in the blank). Knowing how to adapt your appearance to the situation. Adapting your manner and approach to the situation at hand. An adaptable person. A cynical outlook. A skeptic. A pessimist. A worrywart. Worrying about job performance. Small problems are overwhelming. Overwhelmed by the details. Worrying about health. Worrying about worrying too much. Meeting life with a specific skill set. An analytical approach. The ability to perceive flaws. A helpful approach. Crafting your life. Liking small animals. Liking clean animals. Preferring cats to dogs. A practical approach to life. A practical approach to appearance. Consistently working to perfect every aspect of your life. Consistently working to perfect your appearance. Working on the body. Working on your health. Treating life like a job to perform. Life is work. Liking to have something to do. Liking to be busy. A dutiful approach to life. Lack of spontaneity. Overly concerned with acting appropriately. Teacher’s pet (not on purpose). Clear perception. Noticing the details. Perfecting the details. Wanting a perfect life. (Madonna, Tom Cruise, Kurt Cobain, Bruce Willis, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Emma Watson, Woody Allen, Tiger Woods, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Hugh Hefner, Dolly Parton, Ernest Hemingway, and JRR Tolkein)

Virgo in the 2nd house

Specific, detailed collections. Keeping collections efficiently organized. Organized personal finances. A financial planner. Earning a living by being efficient and precise. Knowing precisely how much money one has in the bank. Having a precise inventory of your possessions. Having a shopping routine. Routine spending. Efficient spending. Thrifty. Coupon clippers. Buying fine-quality, hand-crafted things. Liking to buy things that have exquisite detail. Preferring to buy hand-made, hand-crafted objects. An appreciation of craftsmanship. An appreciation of quality. Buying only what you need. Shopping with a list. Critical of purchases. Finding fault with purchases. Rarely spending money because nothing is good enough. Efficiency is a survival need. Being healthy is a survival need. Developing specific skills is a survival need. Survival skills. Someone who earns a living by teaching survival skills. Someone who earns a living from being a craftsman. Someone who sells handicrafts for a living. Earning a living from Etsy.com. Efficient use of money. Short-sighted spending habits. Spending money on health products. Job-related spending. Spending money on doctors and alternative therapies. Crafting the perfect financial portfolio. Earning a living by pursuing a craft. Being perfect is a survival need. A practical approach to finances. Practical possessions. Worrying about finances. Worrying about possessions. (Johnny Depp, Marilyn Monroe, Justin Timberlake, Woody Allen, Andy Warhol, Edgar Cayce, Ted Bundy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Donald Trump, Robert Downey Jr., Richard Branson, and the Olsen Twins)

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  • Anonymous

    Virgo in the 8th sounds kind of sexy to me.

    • Anonymous

      I have Mars in the 6th house. Does that matter?

      • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

        Maybe a little. Mars in the 6th would bring energy (and sexual energy) to 6th house matters, so it some of the Virgo/8th house descriptions would apply. You probably find yourself getting turned on by everyday work situations and everyday working people.

    • Anonymous

      I agree, and I actually have that placement…who would’ve thought Virgo could be sexy!

      • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

        I think that Virgo is one of the most misunderstood signs.

  • Anonymous

    Oh dear, My 8th house is shared by Virgo & Leo..lol what a combo! Liking sex to be a show, and wanting to be damn good at it..Virgo also in the 9th and before I even read the ninth house description I definitely thought to myself (about the 8th house) Practice Makes Perfect! Lol…I love “The Secretary” fantasies can revolve around being a secretary to a powerful boss ;) I almost went to school to study Sex Therapy, I love reading about sex, how to improve it, new toys, positions, the history of sex, the benefits of sex. The ninth house doesn’t really vibe to me…my mercury is in the 11th conjunct Saturn in Sadge…I have been a part of the ‘health conscious movement’ I like the challenge of new fasts, diets etc…just for the experience. But I think my Gemini 6th house doesn’t allow me to stick to such fads for too long…I just like the experience of them & knowing that I can accomplish them.

    • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

      That’s really interesting. I didn’t write much about the health implications of Virgo on the 9th but your description is perfect. I did write “health movements” for the 11th house. I think that “health philosophy” or a “lifestyle of healthy living” would fit for Virgo/9th too.

      My boyfriend has Leo and Virgo in the 8th as well ;)

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000922953913 Levi Fuentes

        Is he a late – Sagittarius rising or a Capricorn rising?

        Interesting notes with Mother Teresa: she was a Virgo Sun, Taurus Moon and Sagittarius Rising; she has a Jupiter in Libra but it’s placed in 9th House Virgo, conjuncts her Midheaven, sextile her Venus, bi – quintile the Moon and semi – sextile Mars. Her Sun was in the 8th House and her Moon was in her 5th. According to some sources, she “back-slided” on her faith for many years; she even had moments when she questioned God. In the end, her faith was restored and became extremely powerful.

        Observation: I’ve noticed that some of the world’s great politicians, public figures and greatest minds either have Aquarius Sun / Rising Sagittarius, Moon Aquarius / Rising Sagittarius. Here’s the list:

        Oprah Winfrey – Aquarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon and Sagittarius Rising
        Ronald Reagan – Aquarius Sun, Taurus Moon and Sagittarius Rising
        Ellen DeGeneres – Aquarius Sun, Aries Moon and Sagittarius Rising
        Thomas Edison – Aquarius Sun, Sagittarius Moon and Sagittarius Rising
        Charles Darwin – Aquarius Sun, Capricorn Moon and Sagittarius Rising
        Princess Diana – Cancer Sun, Aquarius Moon and Sagittarius Rising
        Caroline Kennedy – Sagittarius Sun, Aquarius Moon and Sagittarius Rising

        • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

          Capricorn rising.

          I’ve noticed the Sag/Aqua emphasis too. The other placements seem to be heavy Scorpio and Pluto, and 9th house placements – for politicians.

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000922953913 Levi Fuentes

            LOL what’s ironic is that I have Sun in Sagittarius / Moon in Aquarius / Rising in Sagittarius, with Juptier in Virgo in the 9th House.

            Could it be that I could be like another Mother Teresa or a Princess Diana or even Oprah?

            • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

              Do you want to be like those people? Are they your role models?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000922953913 Levi Fuentes

      LOL I have the same postion – even though I have an 8th House Leo starts at 3° 44′ and 9th House Virgo starts at 13° 55′, my 8th House lapse Leo and Virgo and my 9th House lapse Virgo and Libra (love the picture of Mother Teresa – great woman), I’m pretty much the same except I have Jupiter in Virgo in the 9th House at 13° 58′.

      I would have to say I have a blend of both the 8th House Virgo and the 9th House Virgo – I need to see a practical use for a subject to see the big picture but I also am a very thorough, precise, analytical researcher. I believe in not only being practicality but I also believe in being compassionate and doing the right thing. I don’t support religions that support being critical, nit-picky and fault-finding.

  • Tara Gates

    I just LOVE that picture of Virgo in the 8th! It’s keeping me going all week! Enjoying the series. Profound revelations. Thanks.

    • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

      I’m so glad you like it :D Thank you for reading my blog Tara.

  • Christine

    Virgo ruling the 12th —

    I AM very picky about my sleeping arrangements! I never knew what to attribute that to. I used to think it was a Venusian thing, but I guess it’s a Virgo ruling the 12th thing! :D

    I have Venus in the 6th house and it’s pretty much the opposite of Virgo on the 6th, which is what I wish I had. Everything I read about Venus in the 6th says to avoid sweets. It just makes me feel like I’m going to be a fatty. I don’t even like sweets that much. :(

    • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

      Mm…there are plenty of other meanings for Venus in Pisces in the 6th besides eating sweet treats- the need to work in an imaginative and creative environment being one of them.

  • Wg.

    Yikes–sounds like a bad placement! Virgo in the 7th here….

  • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

    It's not a bad placement- just a picky placement :D

  • joswanprince

    I always associate myself with that “heart” pic on 5th house ^^.

  • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

    I love that pic :D

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  • Mert

    Virgo in 7th house…. really relationship seems a like job to me so i’d prefer dreaming ideal love and one night stands

    • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

      Real relationships take work.

      • Mert

        “Not getting married because there’s “something wrong” with everyone” haha i liked that too much cuz it is like my motto when i look for a reason when it comes to rel =)

        • http://astrofix.net/ Michelle

          It’s good to be picky … up to a point ;)

      • Mert

        “Not getting married because there’s “something wrong” with everyone” haha i liked that too much cuz it is like my motto when i look for a reason when it comes to rel =)

  • Sarah

    I just want to say that your intepretation is dead on about virgo in the 7th house. My ex boyfriend still critisizes me for how messy I am, he always did all the cleaning in the house and I can barely pay attention to that sort of thing.

    • Michelle

      That’s funny! When I first wrote this post I had a photo of a disheveled George Clooney with his immaculate girlfriend (he’s Pisces rising). 

  • Jamaal Harmon

    12th house Virgo (Sun in 12th house). I do enjoy dream work. Picky sleeper. The temperature has to be just right. Growing up my mother told me that I was the only child that would go to bed if I was sleepy. Everyone else would any place. Pretty interesting read.

    • Michelle

      Thank you for reading :)

  • David5379

    its coming back to an older post, I know,
    the other day I was waiting for my friends to pay for the food they had just eaten, and was sitting on the curb waiting for them, the first of them came out and we dont know each other very well so it was his own opinion im sure, and he just looked at me and said “… you just look so.. innocent” and when my two friends came out they said the exact same thing when they saw me waiting, I was kind of upset because I wasnt sitting in any sort of way and wasnt even doing anything to make them say that, I get the comment that I look innocent a lot, its because im virgo rising im sure, but its annoying to get that as a guy though, the only recurring comment I hate more is that I look tense, and I swear every time someone says it I am in the middle of a daydream (to be fair I do worry a lot), I dunno, just some virgo rising things that annoy me

    • Michelle

      I can relate…it is annoying ( I also have Virgo rising). I feel like the Virgo rising masks the real me, and so many people seem to operate only at that surface “mask” level.

      • David5379

        ya its amazing how long some people can go on such a shallow modus operandi, thats why sometimes im thankful for virgo rising, with so much analyzing its kind of hard to exist as such a level, in middle school i was an analyzing machine, for hours on end i would just think and make sense of things(abstract things, mercury in pisces i suppose), but now ive made sense of most things and i dont need to go back on the structure i have already calculated thus far, unfortunately this outward mantle of intense mental process is still on display, ive had people who had never before met me or spoken a word to me or heard from me tell me im too tense, and every time im in a relaxed daydream, the worst was this school speaker on bus safety, he told me i looked to tense and to relax, i had just laughed at his previous joke and didnt understand how he could think i looked to tense when i was laughing, i purposefully slouched as much as possible, and laughed a bit longer and he still kept telling me i needed to relax. I could keep going on, and ive gone off on several tangents then edited them out several times over in this one post, and i can get lost in the details and several complex implications and frustrations from it all, but in short having a virgo rising(square pluto at that) is pretty damn annoying for someone annoyed by nonsense, especially with my sun in opposition to this ascendant. Now if i want to be left to my daydream i just try and look angry, everyone leaves me alone then and wont make comments to interrupt me from my relaxed daydream about how tense i look, its pretty funny too because people start looking scared of me, if i didnt look intense before if i do it on purpose no one will bother me

        • Michelle

          Eventually you just have to let it go. You can only control how people respond to you so much. 

          Doing things like slouching or attempting to appear more easy going are anti-Virgo. Even if you had Pisces or Sagittarius rising, people would still misinterpret who you are. There’s no point in trying to please people who don’t get you, or in making yourself uncomfortable as you try to prove that you are comfortable (the irony!)

          • David5379

            ha, you know, i kid you not, ive come to a similar place several times, and i thought to myself maybe i am just more comfortable being tense, tense is bad when it keeps you from being relaxed and natural, but for me i come off as tense in my most relaxed waking moments, so if i can get to such a relaxed placed while being tense…
            once we were doing this breathing exercise, and first off you had to see how many times you normally breathe in a minute, when we counted i thought mine would be pretty low because i consider myself a relaxed person, turns out it was one of the higher ones, witch is considered bad and means your breathing wrong, then they taught us how you were supposed to breathe, and while everyone was sitting there taking these deep slow breathes they swore it cleared there head and relaxed them, for me it was actually kind of uncomfortable and i couldn’t really daydream even while breathing like that, i was pretty angry i had one of the higher breathing rates but then i realized, you know even though im always tense looking and give off an aura of vague worrying, and even have the breathing rates of a worrisome person, i was a more relaxed person than anyone in that room, i daydream all day every day, i forgive people before its even possible to even discern that they have done what i suspect is possible, i let slide and forget about so many things, and i daydream so much and so well i can talk to someone while i daydream, hell i dont even know most of the streets of where i live as i should because as soon as i get in a vehicle i stare out the window and daydream, I can be considered to literally have one foot out of reality at all times, and when ive barely woken up, and have this groggy half asleep look to me and am at my most nearly relaxed barely out of deep sleep, at those times i appear my most tense and disciplined, so maybe im more comfortable as this tense worrisome appearing person, ide even venture to say its probably healthy for me.

            • Michelle

              I look worried too. I have frown lines between my eyebrows, and yet, my blood pressure is 90/60. 

              • David5379

                ha, my mom is a gemini rising, she has unusually high blood pressure and has to take medicine for it now, she went on a trip to el paso to see all her friends, and every year when she goes its a week of nothing but non stop meeting up with friends and family, and she considers this her moment to recharge, and i actually think she probably has high pressure because she needs to be doing things constantly, if she had a job like a waiter or something and was always talking to people i bet she would be a lot more happy and healthy in general, instead all she can resort to is being glued to facebook, a sorry substitute i say
                as far as my health goes im pretty hardy, although i have stomach problems, if i worry too much i can definatly start to feel it tear my stomach apart, but ive only worried myself into that state during really hard times in my life, for the most part though i just have to eat slow when im eating with other people, if it wasnt for my weak digestion i would say i am totally free from any ramifications of being such a tense person, to my health or my psych 

                • Michelle

                  Maybe she needs to find someone she buddy-up to go to the gym with. Then they can chat and walk at the same time. Kill two birds with one stone.

                  • David5379

                    no, i dont think its that kind of abundance of energy, and she wouldnt be able to work out at that because she has back problems anyway, but if she was dealing with lots of people as a job i know she would love it

  • Anonymous

    Sun is calling from the 10th house, and Virgo is intercepted. (Other house systems have also shown Virgo ruling my 11th.)

    I grew up in a political family and really hated the BS that came with one’s “public image.” I didn’t like to be pushed into a spotlight against my will, or to feel stifled by strangers’ expectations of me. I moved far from home and have been happy to have a bare-bones life. More than anything I want the freedom to live according to my principles. Sometimes I think I’d be happy just toiling away on my beloved projects, making a modest living, in obscurity, and then when I die my friends and family and other loved ones will have many things to remember me by – all my creative works. I used to think I need some kind of public recognition to feel successful, but now I know to be careful what I wish for. Just like when I was a kid, feeling stifled by the spotlight, I work best alone in my privacy. The “trappings of success” are exactly that – when you place you’re motivated by external sources, you doubt your own ability, and you end up using the money/approval as validation, instead of just working for pure love of it. 

    • Michelle

      What is your North Node/South Node axis?

      • Anonymous

        NN in Gemini, 7th house.

  • Sherribil

    I am virgo 12th house. All of this is me: “Obsessive-compulsive about sleep because I’m an insomniac.Dream analyst. Love spirituality.Someone who studies spirituality. A
    healthy relationship with ghosts and other paranormal phenomena.
    Inwardly critical and fault-finding.” I’m definitely not a clean freak :) Self-deprecation is the
    self-undoing.I am definitely guilty of the workaholic thing if I don’t watch it. I am trying to be disciplined at meditation. Someone who
    meditates daily. I’m better at being health conscious lately.

     

  • Di

    I resonate with Virgo 5th house thanks Michelle!

    • Michelle

      Anything in particular?

      • Di

        Deriving pleasure from being a student, skillful risktaking, practical fun, attracted to efficient workaholics.. check check check!  

        I would be interested in figuring out what a creative routine is.. I am having Saturn through my 6th right now and feeling that a routine is so so necessary, I want to rise and sleep at the same time every day, preferably rise before sunrise.  Looking forward to Mars through Virgo for months and months to help me sort this out. 

        Your Signs through the Houses series is helping me sort out my chart… I have intercepted houses so I have duplicated signs which puts Leo at the cusp of my 5th, but I resonate much more with Virgo there..

        • Di

          From being a *good* student, excuse me. Yes this is true for me, I am joyous when I have been productive.

        • Di

          From being a *good* student, excuse me. Yes this is true for me, I am joyous when I have been productive.

          • Michelle

            I could use some help with routine – looking forward to transiting Saturn in my 6th house (though that’s many years away ; ) )

        • Michelle

          What is your ascendant?

          • Di

            10 degrees Taurus :)

            • Michelle

              Using whole signs, Virgo would be on your 5th house cusp.

      • Di

        Deriving pleasure from being a student, skillful risktaking, practical fun, attracted to efficient workaholics.. check check check!  

        I would be interested in figuring out what a creative routine is.. I am having Saturn through my 6th right now and feeling that a routine is so so necessary, I want to rise and sleep at the same time every day, preferably rise before sunrise.  Looking forward to Mars through Virgo for months and months to help me sort this out. 

        Your Signs through the Houses series is helping me sort out my chart… I have intercepted houses so I have duplicated signs which puts Leo at the cusp of my 5th, but I resonate much more with Virgo there..