Sabian Symbols · Virgo · Degree 24 of 30
Virgo 24°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A shepherd tends a single small lamb, gentle and completely attentive to it.”
THE SYMBOL
“A shepherd tends a single small lamb, gentle and completely attentive to it.”
Virgo 24° · 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
Devotion narrows all the way down here, to one small, dependent creature and the person who has made its care their whole focus. This is Virgo's service reduced to its simplest possible form, no institution, no audience, just consistent attention given to something that genuinely could not manage without it. There is nothing complicated about the image, and that is the entire lesson: sometimes the most meaningful service is the smallest, most singular one.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows real devotion to one particular person, creature, or cause, attention given completely rather than divided across many claims. The Moon or Venus here can indicate a caretaking instinct that is happiest focused narrowly rather than spread wide. On the sixth house, it favors work or care built around genuine, undivided attentiveness to what depends on you.
What single, small charge in your life deserves your full, undivided attention right now, instead of a share of it?
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