Excerpts from Esoteric Astrology by Alice Bailey,

“VIRGO” (pp.251-285):

1. Virgo symbolizes the whole goal of our evolutionary process which is to protect, nourish and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality. This necessitates persistence, endurance and continuity of effort.
   
   
2. The keynote of Virgo that best symbolizes its meaning is: “Christ in you the hope of glory.”
   
   
3. In Virgo the purpose for which our form life exists begins to be realized by a person. His desire to satisfy his personal needs decreases. The indwelling Christ in him begins to assume increasing control. Eventually inner spirituality is released from the slavery of the matter, and starts to reveal its real nature to the world.
   
   
4. Christ displayed his Virgo aspect at 12 years of age, when he said: “I need to take care of My Father’s business” – meaning the subordination of the form life to the will of the indwelling Christ. The culmination of this process was his baptism, when “Divinity descended onto him.”
   
   
5. Virgo brings the liberating light to physical plan. It works with the matter of our physical, astral and mental bodies. (Via the 3rd Creative Hierarchy). Virgo stimulates the “dead lives” that make up the Matter into activity and usefulness of Christ life, which is its stimulating agent.
   
   
6. It symbolizes depth, darkness, silence and warmth. It is a deep valley of experience, in which God’s plan (the mystery and secret of ages) slowly matures and is brought to light. Virgo is the womb of time. It is a place of gentle, slow yet powerful crises and periodic developments that happen in the dark and yet lead to light. God’s plan matures, and through pain and discomfort, struggle and conflict – is brought into manifestation at the end of appointed time.
   


7. In Virgo one can see a blended dual light. Two lights are seen – a bright and strong one of the matter, and the small and dull one – of the Christ Life. This dual light is distinguished from that of Gemini by the growing of one and decreasing of another light.
   
   
8. The central idea of occultism is that every atom has in it a germ of that which responds to spiritual energy. In Leo we build a perfect vehicle that can display the germ of the soul in Virgo. Up to this stage Christ life is latent and unexpressed in Matter. Virgo is a stimulus behind discipleship – the desire to be born, and to attain spirituality.
   
   
9. The germ of the soul is developed by Virgo with the help of Jupiter, which is the 2nd ray agent of the Christ sprit.