The 8th degree of Virgo
“A man sitting under a tree.”
It denotes a shepherd or shepherds.Johannes Angelus, Astrolabium planum (1488), in Raphael, The Faces and Degrees of the Zodiac, 1879.
This degree covers 7°00′ to 7°59′ of Virgo.
When the Sun is on this degree
In 2026: 30 August in the tropical zodiac; 24 September in the sidereal zodiac. The date shifts by a day from year to year.
In the directory
- Fabre d'Olivet: Neptune (tropical)
- John Varley: Neptune (sidereal)
- Carl-Friedrich Zimpel: Saturn (tropical)
- Paschal Beverly Randolph: Mercury (sidereal)
- Nicholas Roerich: Mars (tropical)
- Clifford Bax: Jupiter (sidereal)
- R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz: Moon (tropical)
- Raymond Buckland: Sun (tropical)
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