Virgo horoscope

From the Moon. This is the single biggest difference between a Vedic reading and the Western one most people have seen: Jyotish treats the Chandra rashi — the sign the Moon occupied at birth — as primary, and reads the Sun sign as a secondary indicator of vitality and standing. So a daily Virgo rashifal is written for people whose Moon is in Kanya, not for people born between Aug 23 – Sep 22. If you know your Moon sign, read that one. If you do not, cast a free Kundli and it will tell you, along with your nakshatra.

Because there are two zodiacs and they no longer line up. Western astrology uses the tropical zodiac, which pins 0° Aries to the spring equinox; Vedic astrology uses the sidereal zodiac, which is fixed to the actual stars. The equinox drifts against the stars by about one degree every 72 years, and the gap has now opened to roughly 24 degrees — that offset is the ayanamsa. So tropical Virgo runs Aug 23 – Sep 22 while sidereal Virgo runs Sep 17 – Oct 17, and the Sun's actual entry into Kanya is Kanya Sankranti. Both sets are given on this page: the tropical dates because they are what you recognise, the sidereal ones because they are what the reading is computed from.

Mercury. In Jyotish Mercury owns Kanya, and its moolatrikona — the stretch where it is most comfortably itself — falls at Mercury, 16°–20°. That matters practically: a Virgo reading is really a reading of where Mercury sits in your chart, which house it occupies, what aspects it, and whether it is currently running a dasha period. The sign sets the terms; the lord decides the outcome.

Three, always. Uttara Phalguni (padas 2, 3, 4, ruled by Sun); Hasta (all four padas, ruled by Moon); Chitra (padas 1, 2, ruled by Mars). The arithmetic is exact rather than approximate: 27 nakshatras of four padas each is 108 padas, and 108 divided among 12 rashis is nine padas per rashi with nothing left over. Two of these nakshatras are split across rashi boundaries here. Your nakshatra decides your Vimshottari dasha sequence, so it matters more for timing than the rashi does.

Dual signs close each quarter and correspond to the cadent houses. They carry both qualities and are read as transitional — matters begun here tend to happen twice, or in two phases, and the classics treat them as the natural signs for teaching, trade and negotiation. Kanya is one of the four dvisvabhava rashis, along with the three at 90, 180 and 270 degrees from it. In practice this is what an astrologer reads before anything else when choosing a muhurta, because it decides whether a thing started under that sign is likely to move, hold or repeat.