You fell in love the day they fixed something without being asked: a hinge, a spreadsheet, a bad week. Grand gestures leave you unmoved. Kindness, reliability and attention win you every time.
Venus in Virgo is careful about whom it lets in and clear about what it wants. Competence wins you: the person who can fix the bike, cook the fish, read the contract and still be kind to the waiter.
The list of things they mentioned
You remember the name of their dentist, which side of the bed they sleep on, and which cereal they buy when they are sad. You keep a list of things they have mentioned wanting, and on their birthday they open the best present anyone has ever given them. Well-made things, clean lines, work done properly: you spend carefully, and a thoughtful present from you beats an expensive one from anyone else. Your love comes as errands: the prescription picked up, the car’s oil checked, the lunch packed with a note in it.
The checklist
The tradition calls Virgo Venus’s fall, the sign opposite its exaltation in Pisces: where Pisces loves without conditions, Virgo loves with a checklist. The eye that notices every need notices every flaw, a partner’s first and then your own. You hide your needs behind helping, and struggle to take affection you did not work for. You need order in love, too, and a partner who is late without calling, or promises and forgets, wears through your patience in weeks.
When someone does something kind for you, say thank you and nothing else: no protest that they should not have, no paying it back tomorrow.
Devoted, daily
Years in, you are devoted in a practical, daily way: the packed lunch, the hinge oiled before it squeaks, the appointment you remembered so they did not have to. Mercury, exalted in this sign, hosts your Venus and keeps the love thoughtful. It notices, it remembers, it fixes. The love that asks nothing is beautiful in a song. The love that remembers the dentist is the one people live on. You like a partner who lets you look after them properly, and who notices the care without making a fuss of it.
Were you born with Venus in Virgo?
Venus comes to Virgo about once a year and stays about three and a half weeks, or as long as four months when it turns retrograde there.
Venus’s every stay in Virgo from 1920 to 2030, from the minute it entered to the minute it left, in Universal Time (UTC). Born on a first or last day? Then the hour and the place decide it, and your chart settles it.
1920s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| August 12, 1920, 4:31 a.m. | September 5, 1920, 11:53 a.m. |
| September 26, 1921, 4:08 a.m. | October 20, 1921, 5:35 p.m. |
| July 15, 1922, 3:22 a.m. | August 10, 1922, 9:30 a.m. |
| August 27, 1923, 11:59 p.m. | September 21, 1923, 3:29 a.m. |
| October 7, 1924, 2:16 p.m. | November 2, 1924, 2:44 p.m. |
| July 28, 1925, 5:25 a.m. | August 22, 1925, 12:28 a.m. |
| September 11, 1926, 4:37 p.m. | October 5, 1926, 9:07 p.m. |
| July 7, 1927, 6:54 p.m. | November 9, 1927, 1:26 p.m. |
| August 11, 1928, 3:29 p.m. | September 4, 1928, 11:05 p.m. |
| September 25, 1929, 4:13 p.m. | October 20, 1929, 5:12 a.m. |
1930s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| July 14, 1930, 4:34 p.m. | August 10, 1930, 12:54 a.m. |
| August 27, 1931, 10:42 a.m. | September 20, 1931, 2:15 p.m. |
| October 7, 1932, 5:46 a.m. | November 2, 1932, 4:01 a.m. |
| July 27, 1933, 4:45 p.m. | August 21, 1933, 12:23 p.m. |
| September 11, 1934, 3:32 a.m. | October 5, 1934, 7:56 a.m. |
| July 7, 1935, 8:33 p.m. | November 9, 1935, 4:34 p.m. |
| August 11, 1936, 2:11 a.m. | September 4, 1936, 10:02 a.m. |
| September 25, 1937, 4:03 a.m. | October 19, 1937, 4:33 p.m. |
| July 14, 1938, 5:44 a.m. | August 9, 1938, 4:26 p.m. |
| August 26, 1939, 9:24 p.m. | September 20, 1939, 1:02 a.m. |
1940s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| October 6, 1940, 9:10 p.m. | November 1, 1940, 5:24 p.m. |
| July 27, 1941, 4:12 a.m. | August 21, 1941, 12:29 a.m. |
| September 10, 1942, 2:38 p.m. | October 4, 1942, 6:57 p.m. |
| July 7, 1943, 11:56 p.m. | November 9, 1943, 6:25 p.m. |
| August 10, 1944, 1:13 p.m. | September 3, 1944, 9:16 p.m. |
| September 24, 1945, 4:06 p.m. | October 19, 1945, 4:09 a.m. |
| July 13, 1946, 7:22 p.m. | August 9, 1946, 8:34 a.m. |
| August 26, 1947, 8:17 a.m. | September 19, 1947, 12:01 p.m. |
| October 6, 1948, 12:25 p.m. | November 1, 1948, 6:42 a.m. |
| July 26, 1949, 3:43 p.m. | August 20, 1949, 12:38 p.m. |
1950s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| September 10, 1950, 1:37 a.m. | October 4, 1950, 5:51 a.m. |
| July 8, 1951, 4:54 a.m. | November 9, 1951, 6:48 p.m. |
| August 9, 1952, 11:58 p.m. | September 3, 1952, 8:17 a.m. |
| September 24, 1953, 3:48 a.m. | October 18, 1953, 3:27 p.m. |
| July 13, 1954, 8:43 a.m. | August 9, 1954, 12:34 a.m. |
| August 25, 1955, 6:52 p.m. | September 18, 1955, 10:41 p.m. |
| October 6, 1956, 3:12 a.m. | October 31, 1956, 7:40 p.m. |
| July 26, 1957, 3:10 a.m. | August 20, 1957, 12:44 a.m. |
| September 9, 1958, 12:35 p.m. | October 3, 1958, 4:44 p.m. |
| July 8, 1959, 12:08 p.m. | September 20, 1959, 3:01 a.m. |
| September 25, 1959, 8:14 a.m. | November 9, 1959, 6:11 p.m. |
1960s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| August 9, 1960, 10:53 a.m. | September 2, 1960, 7:29 p.m. |
| September 23, 1961, 3:43 p.m. | October 18, 1961, 2:58 a.m. |
| July 12, 1962, 10:32 p.m. | August 8, 1962, 5:13 p.m. |
| August 25, 1963, 5:49 a.m. | September 18, 1963, 9:43 a.m. |
| October 5, 1964, 6:10 p.m. | October 31, 1964, 8:54 a.m. |
| July 25, 1965, 2:51 p.m. | August 19, 1965, 1:06 p.m. |
| September 8, 1966, 11:40 p.m. | October 3, 1966, 3:44 a.m. |
| July 8, 1967, 10:11 p.m. | September 9, 1967, 11:58 a.m. |
| October 1, 1967, 6:07 p.m. | November 9, 1967, 4:32 p.m. |
| August 8, 1968, 9:49 p.m. | September 2, 1968, 6:39 a.m. |
| September 23, 1969, 3:26 a.m. | October 17, 1969, 2:17 p.m. |
1970s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| July 12, 1970, 12:16 p.m. | August 8, 1970, 9:59 a.m. |
| August 24, 1971, 4:25 p.m. | September 17, 1971, 8:25 p.m. |
| October 5, 1972, 8:33 a.m. | October 30, 1972, 9:40 p.m. |
| July 25, 1973, 2:13 a.m. | August 19, 1973, 1:10 a.m. |
| September 8, 1974, 10:27 a.m. | October 2, 1974, 2:27 p.m. |
| July 9, 1975, 11:06 a.m. | September 2, 1975, 3:34 p.m. |
| October 4, 1975, 5:19 a.m. | November 9, 1975, 1:52 p.m. |
| August 8, 1976, 8:36 a.m. | September 1, 1976, 5:44 p.m. |
| September 22, 1977, 3:05 p.m. | October 17, 1977, 1:37 a.m. |
| July 12, 1978, 2:14 a.m. | August 8, 1978, 3:08 a.m. |
| August 24, 1979, 3:16 a.m. | September 17, 1979, 7:21 a.m. |
1980s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| October 4, 1980, 11:07 p.m. | October 30, 1980, 10:38 a.m. |
| July 24, 1981, 2:04 p.m. | August 18, 1981, 1:44 p.m. |
| September 7, 1982, 9:37 p.m. | October 2, 1982, 1:32 a.m. |
| July 10, 1983, 5:25 a.m. | August 27, 1983, 11:44 a.m. |
| October 5, 1983, 7:35 p.m. | November 9, 1983, 10:52 a.m. |
| August 7, 1984, 7:40 p.m. | September 1, 1984, 5:07 a.m. |
| September 22, 1985, 2:53 a.m. | October 16, 1985, 1:03 p.m. |
| July 11, 1986, 4:23 p.m. | August 7, 1986, 8:45 p.m. |
| August 23, 1987, 2:00 p.m. | September 16, 1987, 6:12 p.m. |
| October 4, 1988, 1:14 p.m. | October 29, 1988, 11:19 p.m. |
| July 24, 1989, 1:31 a.m. | August 18, 1989, 1:58 a.m. |
1990s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| September 7, 1990, 8:21 a.m. | October 1, 1990, 12:13 p.m. |
| July 11, 1991, 5:06 a.m. | August 21, 1991, 3:06 p.m. |
| October 6, 1991, 9:15 p.m. | November 9, 1991, 6:36 a.m. |
| August 7, 1992, 6:25 a.m. | August 31, 1992, 4:09 p.m. |
| September 21, 1993, 2:22 p.m. | October 16, 1993, 12:13 a.m. |
| July 11, 1994, 6:33 a.m. | August 7, 1994, 2:36 p.m. |
| August 23, 1995, 12:43 a.m. | September 16, 1995, 5:01 a.m. |
| October 4, 1996, 3:22 a.m. | October 29, 1996, 12:02 p.m. |
| July 23, 1997, 1:16 p.m. | August 17, 1997, 2:31 p.m. |
| September 6, 1998, 7:25 p.m. | September 30, 1998, 11:13 p.m. |
| July 12, 1999, 3:18 p.m. | August 15, 1999, 2:12 p.m. |
| October 7, 1999, 4:51 p.m. | November 9, 1999, 2:19 a.m. |
2000s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| August 6, 2000, 5:32 p.m. | August 31, 2000, 3:35 a.m. |
| September 21, 2001, 2:09 a.m. | October 15, 2001, 11:42 a.m. |
| July 10, 2002, 9:09 p.m. | August 7, 2002, 9:09 a.m. |
| August 22, 2003, 11:36 a.m. | September 15, 2003, 3:58 p.m. |
| October 3, 2004, 5:20 p.m. | October 29, 2004, 12:39 a.m. |
| July 23, 2005, 1:01 a.m. | August 17, 2005, 3:05 a.m. |
| September 6, 2006, 6:15 a.m. | September 30, 2006, 10:02 a.m. |
| July 14, 2007, 6:23 p.m. | August 9, 2007, 1:10 a.m. |
| October 8, 2007, 6:53 a.m. | November 8, 2007, 9:05 p.m. |
| August 6, 2008, 4:20 a.m. | August 30, 2008, 2:41 p.m. |
| September 20, 2009, 1:32 p.m. | October 14, 2009, 10:46 p.m. |
2010s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| July 10, 2010, 11:32 a.m. | August 7, 2010, 3:48 a.m. |
| August 21, 2011, 10:11 p.m. | September 15, 2011, 2:40 a.m. |
| October 3, 2012, 6:59 a.m. | October 28, 2012, 1:04 p.m. |
| July 22, 2013, 12:41 p.m. | August 16, 2013, 3:37 p.m. |
| September 5, 2014, 5:07 p.m. | September 29, 2014, 8:52 p.m. |
| July 18, 2015, 10:38 p.m. | July 31, 2015, 3:27 p.m. |
| October 8, 2015, 5:29 p.m. | November 8, 2015, 3:31 p.m. |
| August 5, 2016, 3:27 p.m. | August 30, 2016, 2:06 a.m. |
| September 20, 2017, 1:15 a.m. | October 14, 2017, 10:11 a.m. |
| July 10, 2018, 2:32 a.m. | August 6, 2018, 11:27 p.m. |
| August 21, 2019, 9:07 a.m. | September 14, 2019, 1:43 p.m. |
2020s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| October 2, 2020, 8:48 p.m. | October 28, 2020, 1:41 a.m. |
| July 22, 2021, 12:37 a.m. | August 16, 2021, 4:27 a.m. |
| September 5, 2022, 4:05 a.m. | September 29, 2022, 7:49 a.m. |
| October 9, 2023, 1:11 a.m. | November 8, 2023, 9:30 a.m. |
| August 5, 2024, 2:23 a.m. | August 29, 2024, 1:23 p.m. |
| September 19, 2025, 12:39 p.m. | October 13, 2025, 9:19 p.m. |
| July 9, 2026, 5:22 p.m. | August 6, 2026, 7:13 p.m. |
| August 20, 2027, 7:43 p.m. | September 14, 2027, 12:25 a.m. |
| October 2, 2028, 10:08 a.m. | October 27, 2028, 1:52 p.m. |
| July 21, 2029, 12:21 p.m. | August 15, 2029, 5:06 p.m. |
2030s
| Entered | Left |
|---|
| September 4, 2030, 2:50 p.m. | September 28, 2030, 6:34 p.m. |
