Sabian Symbols · Virgo · Degree 21 of 30
Virgo 21°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A girls' basketball team runs a coordinated play, each player moving exactly where the pattern needs her.”
THE SYMBOL
“A girls' basketball team runs a coordinated play, each player moving exactly where the pattern needs her.”
Virgo 21° · Sabian symbols, devised 1925 (Marc Edmund Jones, clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler)
Remember to round up: a planet or point at 9°30′ takes the 10° symbol, not the 9° one.
What this degree describes
Individual skill only matters here in service of shared timing: a team like this wins not because any one player is unstoppable alone, but because everyone has learned precisely where to be when the ball arrives. Virgo's discipline usually looks solitary, but this degree insists the same precision can be built collectively, five separate practices converging into one moving structure. There is real joy in the coordination too, the pleasure of a pattern executed cleanly by people who trust each other's timing completely.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows real ease contributing individual skill to a tightly coordinated group effort, timing that depends on trusting others as much as trusting oneself. Mars or Jupiter here can indicate a genuine talent for team dynamics, especially in structured competition. On the eleventh house, it favors belonging to a group whose shared discipline outperforms any single member alone.
What pattern are you currently part of, where trusting someone else's timing matters as much as trusting your own?
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