A fearless perfectionist
Virgo tends toward caution, thoroughness and being useful. Aries is about charging ahead and looking after number one. Put together, they make someone who’s both careful and impatient, often the bravest person in any Virgo crowd. You take on hard problems with real energy, and you do them well.
Work can be deeply satisfying, but only while it’s a challenge. Once you stop learning, or can’t make a big contribution, you may drop it overnight. Some people call you a demanding boss or a know-it-all. You’d say you simply noticed what needed fixing, and you’re usually right, which doesn’t help.
Hot, cold and self-contained
You’re sociable, but very much your own person, and you naturally assume that things run better your way. In relationships, a meeting of minds tends to come before anything else. Finer shades of feeling can go right past you, and your feelings may run hot on Tuesday and cool by Thursday.
A partner’s most likely complaint is that you weren’t paying attention. You don’t mean to hurt anyone. It’s just that your current project occupies the front of your mind, and whatever they said at breakfast didn’t make it through. Your curiosity, your odd sense of humor and your enormous reliability make up for a lot of this, and you tend to be far easier to live with when your work’s going well.
Don’t let the modest Sun sign fool anyone, either. There’s a lot of passion here, once you follow your impulses instead of analyzing them.
A habit worth building
Try putting your partner on your list, literally if it helps. A person who’s good at noticing errors can learn to notice a slightly flat voice on the phone, and ask about it. When you’re about to move on to the next thing, stay for one more question. People close to you don’t need you to be gentler by nature. They mostly need to know they’ve got your full attention some of the time.