Sandhill cranes travel 4,000 miles from their nesting areas in Alaska and eastern Siberia to the southern United States, and common cranes (Grus grus) and demoiselle cranes (Anthropoides virgo) cover similar distances in the Old World.
Or to the joyous thrust of the basses in the Amen coda of Aston's "Gaude virgo mater Christi," as they repeat a phrase in which one interval keeps widening, from a third to a fourth and, finally, to a fifth.
"I'm very Virgo and structured and clerical about things, so I'm fascinated by those girls," he said.
For Mr Rajapaksa, a Virgo, the stars are benign.
Astronomy takes care of the here: a planet orbiting a yellow star embedded in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way, a galaxy that is itself part of the Virgo supercluster, one of millions of similarly vast entities dotted through the sky.
He is also more popular than Mr Gore with those who fall under the signs of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio and Capricorn.
IN MARCH 1999, a flash of light arrived from a distant and anonymous galaxy in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
(By contrast, Jimmy Carter had an afflicted Virgo in his chart, which had hobbled him in the debates).
These will be joined by Virgo, a collaboration between Italian and French researchers with three-kilometre arms, which is being built near Pisa.
Virgo contains the nearest large cluster of galaxies, the Virgo cluster, in which is located the giant elliptical galaxy Virgo A and PSR 1257+12, the pulsar around which the first extrasolar planets were discovered in 1992.
The galaxy is close to the Milky Way by cosmic standards, located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, making it one of the best active galaxies for detailed study.
