Virgo rules over...

Direction: All earth signs relate to the south. Virgo describes south by west.

Anatomy: Virgo principally governs the abdomen area including the diagphragm and the soft tissue that lies beneath it, and the spleen. Cancer takes rulership of the stomach, although Virgo has some significance here, and resumes the major rulership over the organs that lie below the stomach, including the belly, bowels, and small intestines.

Illnesses: Virgos have a sensitive digestive system so their natural interest in herbal remedies and dietary intake make them well equipped to understand their bodily needs and self-medicate accordingly. A disturbed digestive system will have a strong effect upon their all-round physical health and if they are suffering from worry, anxiety or illness their disease will manifest most readily through ailments connected to the belly and bowels. Thus this sign is prone to general belly-ache, stomach ulcers, wind/cholic, gastro-enteritis, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation and obstruction in the bowels. It is also traditionally associated with worms in the guts (and internal parasites generally), dysentery, and melancholy hypochondria which results in depression, lethargy, and heightened anxiety over worries that may be difficult to identify through reason alone.

Culpeper attributes 'hardening of the spleen' as a medical problem associated with Virgo; the spleen being seen as the seat of the melancholic humour and associated with the retentive virtue. All earth signs, being of the melancholic humour, suffer from retentive illnesses such as constipation and blockages. It is from this that the traditional medical term 'hypochondriac melancholy' arises - the hupokhondrion being the abdomen area beneath the breastbone, including the spleen, which the Greeks originally defined as the seat of the melancholy humour. Hence, hypochondria as applied to Virgos refers to anxieties and illnesses that express themselves through a gut reaction rather than suggesting a groundless conviction that one is likely to become ill where there is no due cause.

Places: Like all the earth signs, Virgo governs places that are low down and near to the floor. It also rules places connected with agriculture, harvest and agricultural storage, in particular dairies, granaries, malt-houses (and breweries), cornfields, hay-ricks, greenhouses, places connected to barley, wheat or peas or where cheese and butter is churned or stored.

Inside the house it signifies areas and objects used for study, accountancy, or storage; the former includes libraries, book cases, or places where books, pens and reading/writing instruments are kept, (typewriters, word processors and computers), study halls, office areas and items used for book-keeping. The latter includes cupboards, pantries, closets, cabinets, drawers, medicine cupboards (and drug stores generally through its association with health).

Virgo will also signify objects or areas that serve a purely utilitarian purpose - places or things that are used to store, restore, or repair, such as sewing instruments and machines (also knitting and spinning equipment), tools, and servants quarters in homes that have them.

Modern authors associate the sign with places connected with pets, small animals and veterinary services.

Countries & cities: Include Turkey, Southern Greece, Athens, Iraq, Baghdad, Croatia, Africa, Jerusalem, South-west France, Toulouse, Paris, Lyons, Rhodes, Heidelburg in Germany, Basle in Switzerland, and Brindisi in Italy.

Colours: Lilly associates Virgo with the colour black speckled with blue. Other authors have associated it with white. In general Virgos avoid strong dynamic colours in decor and personal attire, preferring subtle hues and muted greys and earthy tones.

Stones & Metals: Stones and metals fall under the rulership of planets, not signs, but through its association with Mercury, Virgo is often linked with agate, sardonyx and stones of diverse colours. Agate seems particularly suitable, since its metaphysical property is said to aid digestion and offer eloquence in writing.

Link: http://www.skyscript.co.uk/virgo.html

I like neon green and black!

Posted by firebunny
I like neon green and black!

Would you visit any of those places or wear any of those gems?

Probably! I like Europe and Africa. Southwest France tops the list.

I dont wear gems. Im a guy...

Posted by firebunny
I dont wear gems. Im a guy...

Become a Virgo Pimp.
You get to wear flash clothes and can get away with wearing as many gems as you can afford! 😄

Don't forget the hands ....we rule them too..😉

Posted by SirHorns

Posted by firebunny
I dont wear gems. Im a guy...

Become a Virgo Pimp.
You get to wear flash clothes and can get away with wearing as many gems as you can afford! 😄

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Not my fashion sense. I like simple clothes. Simpler = classier. 🙂

Posted by AVG
Don't forget the hands ....we rule them too..😉

Gonna have to get into a slap fight or thumb war with Gemini over ruleship of the hands, man.

Posted by SirHorns
Direction: It is also traditionally associated with worms in the guts (and internal parasites generally), dysentery, and melancholy hypochondria which results in depression, lethargy, and heightened anxiety over worries that may be difficult to identify through reason alone.

Lovely. That's what we're all about 😄

We're the minion's in Dante's Gluttony level of hell.

minions*

black and blood red are my favorite colors.

love Paris.

Melancholia? I look melancholic in most of my photos.