What Venus in Virgo means
You notice the dripping faucet in a date's kitchen before you notice how you feel about them. Virgo, the mutable earth sign Mercury rules, sorts, measures and improves, and Venus here wants to fix what is off, in love as much as anywhere. That makes you the partner who keeps the household running, remembers allergies and shows up with exactly the thing someone forgot. Because Virgo faces Pisces, where Venus is exalted, tradition calls this sign its fall: romance has to pass a test of judgment before it can relax.
Criticism is where the care goes sideways. You may correct, advise and point out flaws when what you mean is I care, and you hold yourself to standards no person could meet. Big public gestures make you uneasy. You trust what someone does over what they say, and you would rather be useful than admired.
Venus in Virgo in love
Early on you are careful. You watch whether a date returns a borrowed book, whether they show up on time and what they do when plans fall through, and you say little about your own feelings. To a partner who wants fireworks, the first months can feel reserved. Years later the same caution has turned into a very dependable kind of love. You know your partner's habits, handle the paperwork they hate and notice when their mood dips before they do. What you need over time is to hear that the effort counts. Without thanks you can slide into silent resentment or nitpicking. With it, the relationship gets steadier every year, and the shyness of the first dates turns into an easy, dry humor that only close people get to see.
What attracts them
Competence draws you in, especially when it comes without fuss. Flowers sent to the office or a big declaration on date two read as noise to you. Vagueness is worse: someone who turns up late without a reason, or says they will call and does not, loses you faster than any awkward first conversation would. Anyone courting a Virgo Venus should be on time and specific about plans and should not brush off its advice as nagging, since advice is often how it flirts. Then let it help you pack for a move or plan a trip.
Men and women with this placement
Venus in Virgo man
A man with this Venus remembers which seat you like at the movies, checks the tire pressure before your road trip and fixes the drawer that has stuck for a year. He takes a long time to say how he feels and very little time to show it through help. He can be shy about romance or worry that he is not good enough. Gentle, specific praise relaxes him more than any grand gesture.
Venus in Virgo woman
A woman with a Virgo Venus has exact standards. She knows what she likes, down to the brand of soap, and she sees at once when something is off. In love she is loyal, discreet and practical, and she shows care by organizing your life a little. She can be her own harshest critic. A partner who keeps their word and never makes her chase small promises earns a great deal of trust.
Find your Venus sign
Enter your birth date. The calculator places every planet on the zodiac wheel for that day and tells you whether your Venus is in Virgo. If Venus changed signs on your birthday, add your birth time.
| Planet | Sign | Degree | Stands for |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sun | ♍︎ Virgo | 22°35′ | core identity |
| ☽ Moon | ♌︎ Leo | 11°58′ | emotional needs |
| ☿ Mercury | ♍︎ Virgo ℞ | 9°50′ | how you think and talk |
| ♀ Venus | ♍︎ Virgo | 10°20′ | love and taste |
| ♂ Mars | ♊︎ Gemini | 6°51′ | drive and anger |
| ♃ Jupiter | ♌︎ Leo | 5°40′ | growth and luck |
| ♄ Saturn | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 18°45′ | duty and limits |
| ♅ Uranus | ♑︎ Capricorn | 5°35′ | change and rebellion |
| ♆ Neptune | ♑︎ Capricorn ℞ | 11°48′ | dreams and ideals |
| ♇ Pluto | ♏︎ Scorpio | 15°42′ | power and renewal |
| ☊ North Node | ♒︎ Aquarius | 4°48′ | life direction |
| ⚸ Black Moon Lilith | ♐︎ Sagittarius | 5°15′ | what you refuse to tame |
Without a birth time we check the whole day in US time zones. If a planet changed sign that day, both signs are shown; add your time to settle it. ℞ marks a planet that looked like it was moving backward (retrograde). North Node and Lilith are the mean positions.
Venus in Virgo in numbers
- Share of birth dates
- 8.95%
- Typical stay in Virgo
- 25 days
- Retrograde at birth
- 9.8% of them
- Most common Sun sign
- Leo · 31.1%
Our count of all 35,064 birth dates, January 1, 1930 to December 31, 2025, at noon UTC.
Style, taste and money
Your taste is clean and functional: neutral colors, good basics, everything in its place. When you splurge, it goes on one well-made thing, linen sheets or a good kitchen knife, never a cart full of bargains. With money you are careful and well informed. You compare prices, read the reviews and keep a budget you stick to. Routine is part of the look too, from a tidy kitchen to a walk at the same hour every morning.
Venus in Virgo in the houses
The house needs your birth time and place; the sign is the same for everyone born in these years. What each house covers on its own: 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th · 7th · 8th · 9th · 10th · 11th · 12th.
Venus in Virgo in the 1st house
Clean shoes and a careful manner are what people notice first about you. You come across as modest and helpful, and your charm shows in small kindnesses like holding the door, while your looks get practical care, simple outfits in good fabric and a skin routine you have followed for years.
Venus in the 1st house in any sign: the full page.
Venus in Virgo in the 2nd house
A good deal found after a month of watching the price gives you a calm that impulse shopping never does. Money pleasure for you comes from a tidy budget, and you earn well from skill and care. A well-made tool or a kitchen gadget can make you happier than a luxury bag ever would.
Venus in Virgo in the 3rd house
A friend drafting a text to a crush comes to you for the wording, and you make it kinder. Your words are careful, and siblings and neighbors come to you for advice. You flirt by helping, maybe by setting up a crush's new laptop, and the short trips you enjoy have a purpose, like the farmers market on a Saturday morning.
Venus in Virgo in the 4th house
A spice rack in alphabetical order says a lot about your home. You want rooms that are clean and calm, with every drawer in order, and you show love to family by restocking the pantry and keeping track of appointments. A small vegetable patch behind the house can be a real pleasure for you.
Venus in Virgo in the 5th house
"You didn't have to do that," a date says when you return their car washed and with a full tank, and you did it gladly. Romance for you shows up in acts of care, and your creative side likes detail, a cross-stitch sampler or a garden planned on graph paper. A thousand-piece puzzle finished with someone you like makes a good night.
Venus in the 5th house in any sign: the full page.
Venus in Virgo in the 6th house
A clean desk and a day with no surprises are your idea of a good workday. You love useful work and a tidy routine, and colleagues trust you. A simple health plan you can repeat beats an ambitious one, and helping people, in a clinic or a community kitchen, can make you happy at work.
Venus in Virgo in the 7th house
A reliable, thoughtful partner suits your Venus, someone who notices when you quietly refill the coffee. You show love with practical help, and a marriage works when both people do their share. Criticism can creep in, so kind words matter as much as useful ones, on both sides.
Venus in the 7th house in any sign: the full page.
Venus in Virgo in the 8th house
You catch the error on the joint bank statement before anyone else sees it. Shared money works for you when the details are clear and honest, and intimacy grows slowly, with trust and care. You can be shy at first and then deeply devoted once you feel safe with someone.
Venus in Virgo in the 9th house
Study that has a use, like nutrition or a language, holds your interest longest. Travel pleases you when someone else enjoys the plan as much as you do, and a travel partner who reads the museum map with you can win your heart. A teacher who knows the details earns your respect.
Venus in Virgo in the 10th house
Clients notice that your desk is the calm one in the office, plants watered and files in order. Your career benefits from care and skill, and editing or design can fit you. Others trust you to get things right the first time, and a supervisor who thanks you for the details earns your loyalty.
Venus in the 10th house in any sign: the full page.
Venus in Virgo in the 11th house
A shared calendar you keep for your friend group shows how you care for friends. You remember who has a birthday and who needs a ride, and a club with a useful purpose, like a volunteer crew that builds wheelchair ramps, pleases you. What you want ahead is practical: steady work and friends you can count on.
Venus in Virgo in the 12th house
Your Venus hides its soft side behind work, and few people see what you feel until you have sorted it out. A list on your nightstand helps with the sorting. A long walk by yourself clears your head, and so does an hour reorganizing a closet nobody else will see.
Which Sun signs it comes with
The Sun and Venus never stand more than about 47 degrees apart, so a Virgo Venus comes with a Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra or Scorpio Sun. Leo Suns account for about three in ten, with Libra Suns close behind. With a Leo Sun you shine in public and love in a modest, careful way. With a Libra Sun you charm easily and then judge partners more strictly than people expect. Virgo Sun with Virgo Venus makes the practical, service-minded style very strong. Scorpio and Cancer Suns add emotional depth to the carefulness.
Share by Sun sign, 35,064 birth dates from 1930 to 2025.
When Venus is in Virgo: dates and retrograde periods
A normal stay in Virgo runs about 25 days. In the middle of the last century Venus turned retrograde there every eight years and stayed much longer: from July 8 to November 9 in 1935, 1943 and 1951, and into September in 1959 and 1967. Since then the cycle has drifted back into Leo, which is why the share of Virgo Venus births has fallen from 9.6% in the 1930s to 7% in the 2020s. This year the visit fell between July 10 and August 6, 2026. The next visits are August 21 to September 13, 2027, and October 2 to October 27, 2028. With ℞ beside a Virgo Venus, the critic faces you first. You edit yourself before a date, rehearse what you will say and doubt you are good enough long before you find fault with anyone else.
Venus retrograde dates for 2026, the shadow period and the signs it touches are on our Venus retrograde page.
Venus also has a house in the chart, and the house most read for love is the 7th: see Venus in the 7th house.
| Entered Virgo | Left Virgo | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 2018 | Aug 6, 2018 | |
| Aug 21, 2019 | Sep 14, 2019 | |
| Oct 3, 2020 | Oct 27, 2020 | |
| Jul 22, 2021 | Aug 15, 2021 | |
| Sep 5, 2022 | Sep 28, 2022 | |
| Oct 9, 2023 | Nov 7, 2023 | |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Aug 29, 2024 | |
| Sep 20, 2025 | Oct 13, 2025 | |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Aug 6, 2026 | |
| Aug 21, 2027 | Sep 13, 2027 | |
| Oct 2, 2028 | Oct 27, 2028 | |
| Jul 22, 2029 | Aug 15, 2029 | |
| Sep 5, 2030 | Sep 28, 2030 | |
| Oct 9, 2031 | Nov 7, 2031 | |
| Aug 5, 2032 | Aug 28, 2032 |
Dates in UTC: days when Venus stood in Virgo at noon UTC. In US time zones a change can fall a day earlier; on the first and last day the exact time matters, and the calculator above checks it for your birthday.
Share by decade of birth. It rises and falls with the planet's cycle, not with fashion.
Venus in Virgo compatibility
Traditional matches start with earth: a partner whose Mars or Venus is in Taurus or Capricorn shares your practical idea of love. Cancer and Scorpio bring warmth and depth. Pisces, the opposite sign and the sign of Venus's exaltation, is the classic pull. Pisces offers devotion and imagination, and you offer order. Fire and air partners may seem careless to you, though a Gemini partner shares Mercury as ruler and enjoys your precision in conversation.
To compare your Venus with a partner's, enter both birth dates in the zodiac compatibility calculator.
Both partners with the Sun in Virgo: Virgo and Virgo compatibility.
Famous people and celebrities with Venus in Virgo
- Eminem, American rapper, record producer and actorOct 17, 1972
- Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer, songwriter and poetSep 21, 1934
- Jason Statham, English actorJul 26, 1967
- Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actressAug 20, 1992
- Andrew Garfield, English and American actorAug 20, 1983
- J. K. Rowling, English authorJul 31, 1965
- John Lennon, British musicianOct 9, 1940
- Robert De Niro, American actorAug 17, 1943
- Julia Roberts, American actressOct 28, 1967
- Neil Armstrong, American astronaut and lunar explorerAug 5, 1930
- Robin Williams, American actor and comedianJul 21, 1951
- Elinor Ostrom, American political economistAug 7, 1933
- Bryan Adams, Canadian singer-songwriter and musicianNov 5, 1959
- Anne Bancroft, American actressSep 17, 1931
Birth dates from Wikidata, only entries with a single sourced date. We list a person only if Venus was in Virgo for the whole of their birthday in every time zone. A placement describes a style in the astrological tradition; it does not explain anyone's success.
More Venus signs
How common each Venus sign is, and where Venus is today: Venus signs.
In tarot, the Golden Dawn gave Venus the card The Empress: its meaning upright, reversed and in love.
Other planets in Virgo: ☽ Moon in Virgo · ☿ Mercury in Virgo · ♂ Mars in Virgo · ♃ Jupiter in Virgo · ♄ Saturn in Virgo · ♅ Uranus in Virgo · ♆ Neptune in Virgo · ♇ Pluto in Virgo · ☊ North Node in Virgo · ⚸ Black Moon Lilith in Virgo. Three or more of them together: stellium calculator.
Virgo elsewhere on the site: Virgo zodiac sign (the Sun in Virgo: traits, dates, love) · Midheaven in Virgo · Virgo compatibility by birth date · Moon sign calculator · earth signs · The World (the tarot card of earth) · in tarot, The Hermit (the Virgo card) · The Magician (the tarot card of Mercury, ruler of Virgo).
Venus in the sky now: where every planet is today · transit chart calculator (today's planets against your birth chart) · Virgo horoscope 2027 (the year ahead for the Sun sign) · all planet sign calculators.
Venus in Virgo in a full chart with a birth time on record: Kim Kardashian's birth chart · Kylie Jenner's birth chart · Robin Williams's birth chart · Demi Lovato's birth chart · Blake Lively's birth chart · Julia Roberts's birth chart · Bella Hadid's birth chart · Amy Poehler's birth chart · Tracee Ellis Ross's birth chart · Austin Butler's birth chart · Gwen Stefani's birth chart.
Questions people ask
Is Venus in Virgo bad?
Tradition calls Virgo the fall of Venus, its least comfortable sign. Romance has to get past your judgment first, so you warm up slowly and then stay loyal for years.
Why is Venus in fall in Virgo?
Virgo is opposite Pisces, the sign where Venus is exalted. Pisces dissolves limits; Virgo analyzes and sorts, which is a harder fit for the romantic side of Venus.
How does a Venus in Virgo show love?
Through useful acts. You book the dentist appointment a partner keeps putting off and pack snacks for the drive. The words come later, and less often.
Is everyone with Venus in Virgo a Virgo Sun?
No. Fewer than a quarter are. The most common Sun signs with this Venus are Leo and Libra.
What does a Virgo Venus find attractive?
Someone good at what they do, who keeps their word and does not make a show of it.
Does Venus stay long in Virgo?
Not usually: about 25 days. In some retrograde years of the mid-1900s it stayed four months, from July to November.
When will Venus be in Virgo next?
August 21 to September 13, 2027, by the noon UTC rule, then October 2 to 27, 2028.
What signs match well with Venus in Virgo?
Taurus, Capricorn, Cancer and Scorpio in a partner's Venus or Mars. Pisces, across the zodiac, attracts you most and tests your patience with its vagueness.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine: the open-source ephemeris library behind our planet positions, dates and statistics
- Wikidata: birth dates of the famous people listed
- How we create our readings: our own calculation of sign dates, positions and the 1930 to 2025 statistics
Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Planet positions come from the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac), and the statistics from our own run of every birth date from 1930 to 2025. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science; read a placement as a set of questions about yourself.