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Element: Earth
Modality: Mutable
Ruling Planet: Mercury
Part of Body: pancreas, small intestine, spleen, liver
Herbs:  Blackberry, Dill Seed, Fennel
Stones:  Sardonyx
Keywords: Critical, discerning, methodical, modest, service-oriented, cultured, discerning.
Business Types: Bio-tech, medicine, pharmaceuticals, farming, accounting, any work that serves others and involves exacting detail.

Virgo is often described as critical, methodical, and even "nitpicky". Virgo does suffer from some "bad press" over the past 100 years or so, some of it thinly-veiled sexism directed at the symbolism of this astrological sign, as has been charged by more recent feminist writers, however, there is some truth in the description. I have never been treated to as sharp and detailed a critique as I have when trying to make the case in a chat room full of Virgos that Virgos do indeed suffer from this trait.

Virgo people are some of the most selfless, dedicated, and hard workers in the Zodiac. Highly intelligent, they are great at storing and organizing information. Virgo is often associated with healthcare, healing and service work for this reason. They make fantastic doctors, nurses and alternative healthcare practitioners, and are often found helping and healing in other ways. They are also excellent managers, secretaries and organizers. 

As lovers Virgo has a totally undeserved reputation as reserved and cold. In fact, they are passionate, devoted, and occasionally kinky lovers. They have a wonderful sense of creativity, and have just enough independence to keep things interesting. The reputation of course comes from Victorian astrologers and their simple-minded association of "Virgo" with "virgin" goddesses. In fact, the original meaning of "virgin" did not mean "sexually chaste" but "a free woman in charge of her own destiny". This is much closer to the true behavior of modern Virgos.