VIRGO RISING

You have an active, alert and ingenious mind. You're methodical, analytical and practical in all you do. You're quiet, shy, unassuming and refined in your conduct and demeanor. Your personality is never coarse or crude. You're thoughtful and somewhat self-centered and sometimes indecisive and unsure, especially if Mercury is in a mutable sign. You're very restless and nervous, so you're seldom overweight and you always look younger than you are. You need to learn to digest every experience and assimilate it without rancor or resentment. You need to get rid of a negativity that stems from a feeling of inadequacy.

Decanates
Degrees	Planet	Traits
0-9.99	Mercury	You're very quiet, reserved and shy, but you need to overcome your self-centeredness by including others in your world. You need others' help to achieve your goals and objectives since you lack self-confidence.
10-19.99	Saturn	Your practicality and business ability are accentuated. You can be an excellent teacher. Your selfishness is strong if Saturn afflicts Mercury. You need to watch a tendency to negativity and depression.
20-29.99	Venus	You're artistically inclined and need a creative outlet. You're less self-centered and compulsive and more loving and friendly. You find everyday routine drab and uninteresting.

Virgo on the 1st House: Your mental acuteness is expressed in practical affairs and you're systematic and well-organized in developing and executing ideas. Your success is due to careful attention to fine points and details overlooked by others and no detail is too small to notice or explain. Since quality supersedes quantity, there are no flaws in what you do. You have the gift of eternal youth and an innate sensitivity. You have a greater sense of power than you're able to express, resulting in an inferiority complex and a feeling of inadequacy. You must learn humble service and patience since your fullest expression is through serving others.

Libra on the 2nd House: You tend to become involved in ventures with a partner, often a spouse. You're able to attract the money necessary to provide the beautiful and good things in life. You alternate between frugality and extravagance, and you're always trying to balance your financial and emotional checkbooks. You're neat and fastidious, liking things orderly and systematic, and you want a job that's clean. You have an innate sense of refinement and dislike anything coarse or crude. You're overcautious and selfish when you're in a negative mood.

Scorpio on the 3rd House: Your thought processes are creative, energetic and extremely resourceful and your speech and communication are frank and succinct. You have fixed opinions, prejudices and theories and it's difficult for you to change your mind. You may have problems with your siblings and you're not always understood by others, partly due to your silence in defense of yourself. You have the power to penetrate and persistence to stay until a problem is solved. You're able to find out anything you want to know without others finding out that you know.

Sagittarius on the 4th House: Your home must be spacious and comfortable and everything must be in its place. Visitors are generally well treated but family is treated even better. Your family gets along better than most. You have a great sense of security within your own domain. If Jupiter is afflicted, you can be quite critical, condemning and not easy to live with. You're philosophical and able to bring great understanding to others when you use your higher mind and intuitive perception. Your spirit must be grounded in order to gain experience.

Capricorn on the 5th House: You're prudish concerning sex and romance and, although you appear cold, you're highly sexed. You're not a giver by nature and you need more love in your make-up. You experience disappointment in love when you don't give of yourself. You're serious minded and extremely cautious in the realm of speculation. Your pleasures are serious and contemplative and your self-expression is earthy, practical and matter of fact. You're able to enjoy hard work and you often work in education. You do a good job of child rearing, but must learn to become their friend as they grow up.

Aquarius on the 6th House: You're creative and original in your work as well as methodical and you treat co-workers as friends. Although you like to be alone at times, you don't like to work alone. You enjoy group projects, but you lose interest if all members aren't willing to see it through to completion. You're humanitarian in your service. You have jittery nerves and a highly geared nervous system. Your state of mind has a direct bearing on your health and you become hypochondriacal when you're too self-centered.

Pisces on the 7th House: You appear calm and practical, but you can be at the mercy of your moods. You're apt to be self-centered unless you're highly evolved. You expand into new avenues, through partners who enhance your human understanding and emotional involvement. You attract people not nearly as well organized as you and you're apt to encounter peculiar and unusual circumstances and hard to understand people. Your self-undoing can come from not relating yourself to others properly. Your role is supporting and you must surrender yourself for others. In your willingness to become nothing, you become something. If you nag and become overcritical, no partnership can survive. Your ability to analyze and learn discrimination must be used wisely.

Aries on the 8th House: Your opportunity for regeneration and transformation is through decisive action and discriminating service to others. You often initiate projects and complete those that others began. When assimilating experience, you must separate the lesson to be learned from the circumstances used to teach it. Although you're adaptable and flexible, you have a strong yet unapparent streak of independence. You prefer to go your own way than to ask for help, but this often robs you of rewards you've earned and help you need. Legacies often involve extended litigation and disagreements arise over joint finances. If you're not careful, you're subject to accidents and fevers, which can change your life.

Taurus on the 9th House: Your philosophy is based on lasting beauty and practicality. You have a down-to-earth view of religion and social concepts. You have a subconscious fear you'll lose your grip on reality if you become involved in the super-physical. Your ideas of what should be often blind you to what is and rather than accept it as it is, you ignore what you don't like. You're not likely to change your views, especially on religion and philosophy. You tend to be mentally detached, yet curious about other philosophies. You insist on just handling of finances and resources. If Venus is afflicted, an adjustment must be made to your in-laws.

Gemini on the 10th House: Your profession must allow the use of your hands and mind to implement original ideas, which often bring you fame and recognition. If a job is boring, you become restless and unhappy, and you often have more than one professional activity. You may work in a communications related field. You want to be remembered for your genius. You're an excellent speaker if you can overcome your self-consciousness. You must have a hobby. Relatives play a big role in your life for good or ill.

Cancer on the 11th House: You have an unusually strong emotional attachment to friends and to groups and organizations to which you belong. You treat friends as family members, inviting them into your home, which is often a place of group activity. However, you find it difficult to be in large crowds and you have few intimate friends. Your goal is material security and you have a strong subconscious fear of lack. You have a strong money consciousness, but you spend excessively under emotional strain. You have an innate shyness and, although you appear calm, you're unstrung inside. Your first impressions of people are usually right.

Leo on the 12th House: You have astonishing strength that's not apparent until you're tested. The depth of your willpower is an unconscious support, but your self-undoing may come from hidden pride and egotism. You're the power behind the throne, not on it, and it's your job to strengthen and support others, bringing about your own transformation and regeneration. Your power lies in understanding the depth of your own nature and is a powerful aid in helping others to understand themselves. You need time alone and your self-sufficiency prevents loneliness when you are.