Mercury, your ruling planet, is the major influence on your life and on your mind in particular, where it increases your analytical abilities and your understanding of how something works. In less favorable aspects Mercury can also encourage mental anxiety and you may get bogged down in detail and unable to see the wider perspective.

The Sun encourages your determination to succeed and an enthusiasm for the task. The influence of the Sun in boosting your image of yourself and your openness to others, is dependent in some measure on other solar elements in your birth reading.

The Light Moon, if working with Mars, assists Virgo to use nervous energy with the considerable mental abilities that Mars, Virgo's ruling planet, encourages. In these circumstances lucid arguments, verbal or written, can be presented without undue sharpness or having to insist. The Light Moon, however, is also associated with disruptions and fluctuations, and at other times anxieties may threaten to sabotage insights or encourage 'headless chicken' thinking. The presence of the Dark Moon can reduce empathy and compassion and if a subconscious drive for power is present, this can be an ugly combination. However if others are not involved the Dark Moon can bring a clarity and self-reliance to Virgo's personal decision making.

Venus encourages your modesty, and your unassuming nature is an attractive trait to others. In less favorable conditions, modesty may slip into inhibition, especially in intimate situations with a lover or partner. Your awareness of this is half the battle and you may gain help from another solar influence.

Mars influences our masculine qualities, whether we are male or female. You are likely to experience an increased capacity for work, especially the work of your mind, and be more decisive at work or feel the confidence to be benignly assertive. This confidence may go with you into the bedroom, too. However, at other times you may experience a rise in aggression that comes from increased tension and restlessness.

Jupiter boosts your proclivity to be pragmatic, especially in the workplace, reinforcing your 'cool' approach, which you may take advantage of in every work-related situation. Here is a great opportunity to write that paper, apply analysis to the problem, or work on a mind-related activity you've been afraid to try. Any negative from Jupiter is likely to be weak, but may involve the temptation to be conceited.

Saturn reinforces your serious approach to life, especially in the area of caution and conscience, and may increase your tendency to expect others to be as hard-working and as meticulous as you. Your tendency to be hard on yourself may increase, and if you are experiencing a period of anxiety, your self-confidence can be severely dented. In more favorable conditions, Saturn can have a stabilizing influence on your tendency to become overanxious, lending perspective.

Uranus influences your good feelings concerning your original approach in areas of study, research or design, or in more 'domestic' situations, such as hobbies. However, in less favorable conditions, you may experience a build-up of nervous tension, especially if you feel 'snowed under' by obligations to others, and seem unable to get time to yourself.

Neptune stimulates your imaginative or creative energies, which may be anything from cooking to spacecraft design, so go to it. In less favorable conditions, there may be a problem with doubting yourself, including your past decisions or future plans.