The first thing I want you to do, as soon as you read this, is to look back and contemplate the year you have just manoeuvred through. One of the things about being a Virgo is, there’s not a lot of looking back. There’s plenty of self-reflection but here I mean, taking stock of and even celebrating the moves you have made and the evolutions you have climbed through. It's important that you do this. The pace at which you grow and move outpaces most of us. A Virgo can focus more on what's next or what hasn’t been done than on what mountain just moved. And after a whole year of elevating your own experience and expression of Virgo, with the South Node in your sign, a lot has happened. Do take note.

"The pace at which you grow and move outpaces most of us. A Virgo can focus more on what's next or what hasn’t been done than on what mountain just moved."

This mastery of you continues until late June this year (June 30) and won’t happen again for nearly 20 years. Again, the medicine is in your opposite sign of Pisces and giving yourself the space to transcend the day-to-day grind and pierce the intangible, here there is the potency of your imagination and visions, the dreams. Less gripping on, more opening like a lotus, relaxed. Anywhere that your schedule is so stacked it's making you unproductive, anywhere where you have been hiding in being ‘busy’ but not actually moving the needle on the things that set your heart on fire, you’ll have noticed. And hopefully, you’ll have used your refining magic and your action-taking magic and shifted into more resonant ways of being. What truly matters to you and how are you going about living into more of that?

"You define the expectations that you live by, you set the standard that you hold yourself to."

One of the broader astrological themes collectively is a shift into action, execution of ideas and making the moves. And it feels timely that this really takes hold this year, after such elevating and freeing breaks in any patterns that were keeping your fist clenched or body tense. You define the expectations that you live by, you set the standard that you hold yourself to. And hopefully, there’s a lot of room for gentleness and being (Pisces) rather than doing, doing, doing (Virgo). As an Earth sign, you are naturally resonant with the water signs, the combination of the two is a fertile one that immediately makes one think of seeds sprouting and gardens flourishing. Your ruler, Mercury, will have all three retrogrades in all three of the water signs this year and this feels significant, as if reflecting in the terrain of each water sign holds fertile manna for you. With Pisces this may unfold in your dreamworlds, in Cancer, your visceral emotions and in Scorpio, the depths of your being and hidden feelings. In all though, the theme is in feeling what arises, not simply defaulting to analysing it.

Virgo 2026 words to live by

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Want to understand why the zodiac signs are the way they are? Look no further than our comprehensive guide to the personality traits of each zodiac sign. Plus, you can find all the answers to the year ahead in our 2026 astrology forecast.

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