The 17th degree of Virgo
“A fair castle compassed about with walls.”
It denotes a person living in safety.Johannes Angelus, Astrolabium planum (1488), in Raphael, The Faces and Degrees of the Zodiac, 1879.
This degree covers 16°00′ to 16°59′ of Virgo.
When the Sun is on this degree
In 2026: 9 September in the tropical zodiac; 3 October in the sidereal zodiac. The date shifts by a day from year to year.
In the directory
- Antoine-Joseph Pernety: Saturn (sidereal)
- Wilhelm Pfaff: Saturn (sidereal)
- Allan Kardec: Moon (sidereal)
- Mabel Collins: Sun (tropical)
- Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers: Mars (tropical)
- Charles Webster Leadbeater: Moon (sidereal)
- Dion Fortune: Saturn (tropical)
- Franz Bardon: Jupiter (sidereal)
- Philip Berg: Mars (tropical)
- Peter Van Wood: Mercury (sidereal)
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