Virgo Sun, Leo Moon

You’ll do all the work, gladly and very well. And then, please, someone needs to notice. A Leo Moon gives a modest Virgo a heart that really wants the thank-you card.

The sociable Virgo

With a Leo Moon you tend to be the lightest and most fun-loving of the Virgos. You don’t mind the limelight, you’re warm and generous at parties, and you’ve got imagination along with your eye for detail. You also hold firm principles, have a keen sense of what’s fair, and go to great lengths for those you love.

What drives all of this, and what’s easy to miss, is a real need for recognition. Virgo says it’s happy to help, and Leo is keeping count. Feeling unappreciated may be the thing you fear most.

The child and the adult

You can be insecure and charming at once. In a relationship you’re passionate and modest, adoring someone and wanting to be adored, and the rational adult inside you often loses out to the playful child who wants affection. When you feel unsure, you might go haughty and untouchable. The right word at the right moment can melt all of that in a second.

Sometimes you act as though good people automatically get rewarded. When the reward doesn’t turn up, you may sulk and let your partner know, in subtle ways, that they’ve failed you. It’s worth noticing too that Virgo’s old feeling of not being enough can make you look up to partners a little too much, and work too hard at pleasing them. A relationship is meant to be a partnership. It isn’t a position you have to keep earning.

Being served, and serving

Your emotional life gets simpler once you stop being embarrassed by this mixture of humility and grandness. You can be both. Say “I worked hard on this and I’d love you to notice,” which takes about four seconds and heads off a week of chill. Then practice receiving: when someone does something for you, don’t fix it, don’t improve it, just enjoy the fuss.

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