Virgo

What Virgo tends to be like

Virgo loves to get things right. Virgo notices the loose thread, the wrong number and the simpler way to do the job, and is modest about it, often too modest. Virgo is kinder in deeds than in words. Virgo shows it with a list, a lift to the station, a thing quietly fixed before anyone asked. Virgo likes order it has made itself and dislikes praise it has not earned. On a good day Virgo is the friend who actually helps and the colleague whose work nobody has to check. On a harder day Virgo worries over a small flaw, its own or somebody else's, until it looks huge. A good day for Virgo is one where something was made right.

In love

Virgo loves by paying attention. Virgo remembers how you take your tea, notices what you need before you say it, shows affection in deeds rather than speeches, and needs a partner who sees the care in the small things.

At work

Give Virgo a problem with details in it and the time to get them right. Virgo is at its best doing precise work, improving what exists and following a method that holds. Vagueness and hurry wear Virgo down.

Creativity

Virgo makes things well. Virgo edits more than it drafts, prefers the clean line to the grand gesture, and finishes a piece by taking things out.

With family

At home Virgo quietly does the hundred small things everyone relies on and few notice. Virgo worries on everyone's behalf, keeps the lists, and needs to be told, now and then, that enough is enough.