A discreet refinement: impeccable dress, tact, and an eye for detail, with harmony sought through precision rather than show.
Mercury orders, Venus beautifies: a discreet elegance made of precision, tact, and a taste for careful work.
Spotting the detail that makes a whole harmonious, and adjusting it with perfect tact.
Being critical of themselves and others, to the point of never finding the result beautiful enough.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
September precedes October; yet, for the Greeks, two adjacent signs exchange no glance.
Supple soil, initiating breath; the messenger holds the east, the goddess of Cyprus the birth sign, and both closely escort the Sun in its annual course. At first contact, the person seems discreet, polite, precise; they notice a mistake on the menu, offer to help tidy up, speak in a low voice.
The 2nd place for the birth Sun: possessions, earnings, assets. This combination often has a careful relationship to money and objects: it chooses beautiful, lasting things, compares before buying, manages its budget with elegance. It has an eye for quality, a fabric, a binding, a piece of ceramics, and can make a living from it. Personal worth is measured by what it produces that is beautiful and useful.
High standards are the downside. Virgo sees flaws, Libra dreams of aesthetic perfection: the person may endlessly retouch a decoration, a letter, an outfit, or judge harshly those who lack taste. They also hesitate over expenses. Pisces in the west would offer another path: dreamy, forgiving partners, who remind them that beauty can be imperfect.
In relationships, Libra with Virgo rising is attentive and modest.
Their signs of affection are tangible and fine: a bound edition found at a secondhand bookseller, a meticulously composed dinner, an evening organized to the minute. Pisces in the west would attract sensitive, artistic, slightly disorganized people. They would want to organize them; welcoming their whimsy without correcting it would make the relationship gentler.
Their talents are used above all where aesthetics is measured to the millimeter: typography, graphic design, sewing, jewelry, painting restoration, wealth management, image consulting.
They work with care and discretion. The Sun in the 2nd house would draw them toward trades tied to the value of things, appraisal, expertise, the art trade. Their risk would be underestimating their rates and talent, through excess modesty.
At home, every object has its place: tidy drawers, folded linens, a few beautiful pieces well displayed.
The person likes flea markets, artisans’ shops, purchases carefully thought out and long pondered. They keep their accounts with care. Accepting a bit of disorder at an impromptu party, and letting guests help, would let them enjoy their own parties more.
Mercury, who rules the east, would wander through Libra with no privilege, although air suits him; his changeable nature would be tinged there with diplomacy.
Ptolemy grants him a major dignity only in Gemini and Virgo. Aphrodite is enthroned there at home; the Sun, for its part, declines there.
Shortly before dawn, the ear of wheat of Virgo rises in the east, closely followed by the still invisible solar disc. The Sun then resides in the 2nd place, reserved for the means of living; some Greek authors saw in it the granary that feeds the life of the 1st place.
The Sun sign depends on the day of birth; the rising sign, on the time and place.
Virgo takes about 2 hr 45 min to rise in Paris: with the Sun in Libra, the rising sign is Virgo for a birth during that rise.
A air sign, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
The Libra signA earth sign, mutable; descendant in Pisces.
Virgo risingMercury rules Virgo: its place in the chart (sign, house) colors the rising sign.
The page of Mercury| Sun in Libra | Virgo rising | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| September 25Start of the sign | 4:49 AM to 7:34 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
| October 8Middle of the sign | 3:58 AM to 6:43 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
| October 21End of the sign | 3:07 AM to 5:52 AM | 2 hr 45 min |
Legal time in Paris; elsewhere, latitude and longitude shift these times. The rising sign calculator takes them into account.
Often, yes. A Virgo rising sign adds to Libra a keen sense of detail and a demand for quality. The person wants everything to be beautiful and right, which yields remarkable results, but also hesitation and endless touch-ups. They would do well to accept that a finished piece of work beats a perfect one.
Because the Sun sits there in the 2nd house, in whole signs, the sector of resources and possessions. Self-esteem would come through what one produces and keeps: a deserved salary, a well-chosen object, a reputation for taste. The person would love beautiful things, but would choose them with caution, as a connoisseur more than a spender.
It rules the rising sign and colors the way of presenting oneself. With the Sun under the scales, speech turns diplomatic; in the ear of wheat of Virgo, its second throne, it becomes surgical; in Scorpio, piercing. It complements Venus, ruler of the Sun, on the way of speaking and judging.