Virgo
Virgo is the zodiac sign for people born between August 23 and September 22. Element: earth; modality: mutable; ruling planet: Mercury. The cusp dates shift by a day from year to year, so if you were born near a cusp, check your sign with the calculator.
Personality
Virgo is the sign of precision and useful work. Virgos see how things are put together, notice inconsistencies and know how to finish properly what others have done only roughly.
Strengths: attentiveness, hard work, common sense, real help instead of talk about helping.
Weaknesses: a critical streak and anxiety. Virgos correct where support was expected and hold themselves to a standard that doesn't exist, hence chronic dissatisfaction with the result.
The Gemini man and woman
The Virgo man is neat, reliable and reserved in his feelings; he shows them through actions rather than words.
The Virgo woman is practical and attentive, keeps the household running and doesn't know how to ask for help.
Career and money
Work that requires precision and system suits them: medicine, analytics, editing, accounting, quality control, science, administration.
Virgos count and plan their money; they rarely take risks and rarely go broke, but they tend to undervalue their own work.
Compatibility
Traditionally, the easiest matches are signs of the same element and of compatible elements; for Virgo these are Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio and Capricorn.
The most challenging are signs in square and in adjacent positions: Gemini, Leo, Libra and Sagittarius. The opposite sign is Pisces: strong attraction and an equally strong struggle.
These are general rules of aspects, not a verdict. Each pair is covered separately in zodiac compatibility.
The sign in the birth chart
Your Sun sign is just the position of the Sun at the moment of birth. A full birth chart also includes the sign of the Moon (emotions), the Ascendant (first impression) and the positions of the other planets.
That's why a person may "not seem like an Aries": they have an Aries Sun, a Cancer Moon and a Libra Ascendant, and what comes across is nothing like a Martian manner. Horoscopes in the media work only with the Sun sign, hence the feeling that they aren't about you.