I am a Virgo too or more precisely a Leo/Virgo cusp born on 23 August...not sure why the avatar shows Leo

 As I understand it the key word for Virgo is I Analyze.  We analyze facts and concepts in life.  Analyzing leads to assimilation.  We are scientists, we constantly observe and test, form conclusions and learn and then add that knowledge to our world view.  We are the scientist that picks up the facts and puts them into the puzzle to form the bigger picture.  Some scientists only use facts, and quite a big picture can be formed from just the facts, but as we Virgos are also perfectionists [not neat freaks] we can't have holes in our worldview, and lets face it there is a lot that can't be measured or seen.  There is the abstract, the conceptual world as well.  Some concepts we experience are love, the divine, the occult, anything intangible.  They are obviously there, so we can and ought to find a way to include all concepts into our fact based world view.  We want the complete picture, therefore only what is blatantly incorrect or that which doesn't work should be excluded.

Because we are so perfectionistic we tend to have a more complete world view than other signs.  All that analyzing and assimilating is like the alchemical process of refining something down to its purest essence.  That is not to say we are always right [a hard thing for a Virgo to admit] there is always something more to learn or some adjustment to be made [a good scientist is always testing his theories], but it does make us really good teachers because we understand.  We don't 'know' like the Aquarius who seems to know without having experienced it all first [this label is not the best but think eccentric-no offense to Aquarians!!!], instead we have taken the time to make sense of it all after coming accross it first, and then fit all those pieces nicely into that jig saw puzzle.  

Scientific Method!

I hope this helps in your world view!

Everyone has a Sun Sign and a Rising sign, as you may know, and each plays a part in you Chart and overall personality... including much much more, that we won't get into now. Your Sun sign is how you are seen and what you put out there, your Rising sign has more to do with how you feel on the inside, and may have difficulty expressing...in some cases.

Like myown, that is I am sun sign Virgo and Rising Libra, they fight constantly.. lol  

I hate things to be disorganized and yet I dislike doing the cleaning myself, unless.. I'm the one who made the mess, in which case I am very anal. I also work my bottom off and although I claim that I do it for the love of working the detail, which is true.. I believe EVERYTHING to be so UNFAIR when i do not get recognized! Why on earth would a Virgo be so worried about be acknowledged for the work they have done, most of us are happy just knowing that it was done right!

The mixture of our signs is what completes are chart, there is more than one aspect of your personality, not to mention upbringing, (evironmental) that makes us who we are, don't stress if you are not the perfect Virgo... (Like I am) okay that's a bit far. lol  A combo like Virgo-Libra is hard to deal with and personally I have to keep acknowledging my inconstincies to make sure that I am not contradidicting myself.. a common problem.. (I was also raised by a Libra) Talk about bickering!!!