Sabian Symbols · Virgo · Degree 4 of 30
Virgo 4°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “Children of different backgrounds play together, easy and unbothered by the lines the adults around them draw.”
THE SYMBOL
“Children of different backgrounds play together, easy and unbothered by the lines the adults around them draw.”
Virgo 4° · 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.
Note: the 1925 original for this degree used dated racial imagery; the picture above keeps its meaning in respectful, modern terms.
What this degree describes
This degree insists on something plain and true underneath every social division adults invent: kinship that has not yet learned to sort itself, joy that does not check credentials before joining a game. Virgo is often mistaken for a sign obsessed with categories and correct order, but this degree shows the deeper commitment underneath that reputation, that the actual order beneath all the surface distinctions is simpler and kinder than the ones people build. Nothing here needed to be taught; it only needed the adults to step back.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows a genuine, uncomplicated ease crossing lines that others treat as fixed, a real gift for finding common ground before anyone points out the differences. Venus or Jupiter here can indicate warmth that includes rather than sorts. On the eleventh house, it can describe friendships or communities built on exactly this kind of instinctive, pre-verbal welcome.
What line, drawn by people older or more anxious than you, have you never actually felt the need to honor?
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