Rāśi
Virgo
Virgo is the sixth sign, symbolised by the maiden
See where Virgo falls in your birth chart — the sign, house and nakṣatra it occupies.
Virgo is the sixth sign, symbolised by the maiden. It carries precision, service, and discrimination — analytical, modest, and happiest when improving something concrete.
Parashara describes Kanya as a dual earthy sign, female, vaishya, rising head-first, variegated in hue, dwelling in grain fields, a maiden bearing grain and fire. Its lord is Budha, exalted here at the 15th degree with moolatrikona to the 20th and own dignity beyond; Shukra is debilitated at the 27th.
— Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra ch. 4 (Rāśi Svarūpa)
A dvisvabhava prithvi-tattva sign where Mercury is simultaneously lord, exalted (deepest 15°) and moolatrikona-placed — the densest dignity stack in the zodiac — while Venus falls. On the platform's node convention Rahu's moolatrikona is also treated here. For Kanya lagna Venus (2nd and 9th lord) is the working benefic despite her fall risk in the lagna itself, a tension the classical texts resolve through neecha bhanga and varga verification.
Your placement is shown in the band above: this states where Virgo falls in your chart and links each term to its page.
Interpretation — what the placement means for your life and timing — belongs to your personal reading, not the reference library.
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