Your Virgo Ascendant

Your Virgo Ascendant indicates your ability to adapt to changing circumstances and different people. The willingness of Virgo Ascendant individuals to adapt however, is invariably accompanied by a word or two of complaint. Nowhere is the critical facility associated with Virgo more observable than when this sign rules the Ascendant. Always seeking perfection, you can find it difficult to accept situations or people as they are. Even if you criticize without totally realizing what you are doing, or without meaning to be harsh, you must learn to be more sensitive and restrict your passion for constantly finding fault. Virgo indicates that practicality and conservatism are prominent characteristics. Though you may be inhibited by flamboyant displays of affection and act excessively puritanical in public, you can nevertheless be quite sensual and sexually-oriented in private. A contradiction in your personality is that you can be totally organized and attentive to details in some areas, while at the same time be appallingly disorganized and sloppy in other areas. Another potential trait is a proclivity for being health conscious. If your natal Sun or Moon is in one of the Water signs (Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces) or in Capricorn (which tends toward excessive worry), your concern with health can extend to the point of hypochondria.

Virgo is ruled by Mercury, planet of communication and mental processes. If intimidating factors in your individual personality are not present to subdue the tendency, you are likely to be extremely talkative and prone to gossip. You are endlessly curious about everything that goes on in your immediate environment, and at times, you may seem to be everywhere at once. Ideas and projects seem to take up every waking moment. Not only do you desire to collect and communicate your own ideas and information, you effortlessly attract information and news from everyone else as well. You readily absorb stores of information that you are happy to share with anyone who takes the time to listen. Many Virgo Ascendant people are super salesmen, efficient negotiators, and eager travelers. You like to keep busy and useful. Sitting around doing nothing makes you nervous and irritable. You may enjoy collecting recipes, postage stamps, and medical remedies. Respiratory illnesses, nervousness, and allergies are apt to be common physical complaints.