Mercury in Virgo Sidereal

Budha piles up honors here. Kanya, the sidereal Virgo, is at once its own sign and its sign of exaltation. One reading even divides the sign: exaltation over the first fifteen degrees, moolatrikona over the next five, ordinary own sign over the last ten. Another does not make this division and gives a single portrait for the whole sign: learning, many qualities, ingenuity, patience. You give willingly and you live at ease. Fear is absent. Ingenuity shows in the shelf assembled without instructions or the breakdown repaired with a paperclip.

Budha rules this sign. To read the sign itself, open Virgo sidereal; to read all about Budha, see the Budha guide.