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Sign 6 of 12 in the horoscope

Are you really a Virgo?

By the horoscope, yes, and your sign stays yours. The stars behind it have quietly moved along, though: Virgo runs from 23 August to 22 September 2026, and on those dates the Sun passes through Leo and Virgo. This is the sky behind your sign.

An engraved plate of Leo, the Lion, in the style of an old star atlas, with its real stars traced over the figure
Leo, where the Sun spends 25 of Virgo’s 31 days, engraved in the old atlas style with its real stars traced over the figure.

Virgo against the sky, 2026

The horoscope says
23 August to 22 September · 31 days
The Sun is really in
  • Leo 23 August to 16 September · 25 days
  • Virgo 17 September to 22 September · 6 days

The Sun reaches the constellation Virgo on 17 September, in time for the sign’s last 6 days.

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Why the sky behind Virgo has moved

Virgo’s dates were set more than two thousand years ago, pinned to the March equinox, when the signs took their names from the constellations the Sun was crossing. Since then Earth’s slow wobble, called precession, has carried the equinox about a twelfth of the way round the sky, roughly one day’s worth every seventy years. Your sign has kept its dates, and the stars behind them have simply moved along: that is why the Sun now spends Virgo’s days in Leo and Virgo.

These dates are computed for 2026 from the constellation boundaries the International Astronomical Union fixed in 1930. A boundary can fall a day earlier or later in another year, so for the particular day, and hour, you were born the calculator will check it for you.