These Are The Three Zodiac Signs That Work The Hardest (And It Makes Total Sense)
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It comes as no surprise that some personality types come packaged with zodiac signs. We're well aware of passionate Aries, sensitive Cancer, and day-dreaming Pisces. It can sometimes be hard to think about how these traits manifest in realistic settings though, as it's easy to look at each sign in a bubble.
Zodiac archetypes also go beyond the individual sun signs but can come from their astrological groupings, namely the elemental designations. Keep clicking your way through this article to learn more! Did your sign make the cut? Let us know in the comments!
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Four Main Groups
The signs are organized into four groups of three—Air, Water, Fire, and Earth—with each element coming with its own stereotypes that apply to the three signs under it.
Thankfully, not all of these stereotypes are bad. In fact, they can lend some truly excellent qualities to the signs they rule over, like a strong, hard-working ethic.
Nose To The Grindstone
We all want to believe that we're hard workers, and for the most part, we're right. If not in your paid career, then in a hobby or passion of yours, one you always want to learn more about and practice to perfection.
Workaholic
Every one of us has a sense of drive in our hearts that pushes us further into whatever work we do that we want to chase. For some, it's a practiced skill, while others are born with that innate urge to work, work, work.
Finding out which you are is as easy as looking at your sun sign, as there's one category that's known for being natural hard workers.
The Earth Signs
The signs with hard work baked into their core beings are the ever-reliant earth signs—Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn.
Earth signs are known for being grounded (pun intended). Reliable yet stubborn, they're often the signs that most cling on to realism rather than letting high-concept dreams steer them off a set, reliable path.
Exceed Expectations In Their Own Way
That doesn't mean that they aren't without goals, though. They're very pragmatic regarding their own wishes and will go above and beyond to achieve what they desire, even if their work ethic seems a little strange to the rest of the zodiac.
Pros And Cons
Each earth sign has their own skills when it comes to their work, both in solo and group settings. They're blessings to have on a team as they provide a center to work around, each of them wanting to produce only the best, thus leading your team to a well-executed and fulfilling victory.
But, of course, each sign also has their faults when it comes to how they approach new projects.
Diffuse Problems
Learning about these faults not only helps the signs themselves, but those who work with them so they can learn how best to diffuse any problems that arise.
Let's take a look at the earth signs to both highlight their strengths and also bring awareness to their weaknesses.
Taurus
Tauruses are known for their unyielding loyalty to those they care about, feeling extreme devotion towards their loved ones and the causes they're passionate about.
This ability to commit everything they have to a single thing makes them very hard workers.
Constantly Working
If it's something they enjoy, they're happy to put in the overtime, and will often commit to finishing projects in one sitting if they can.
If they can't, it will be all they can think about until it's done, a constant working and reworking taking place in their mind as they do.
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Too Much Of A Good Thing
They're also good at tackling problems that arise along the way. Sometimes they lend themselves to being a bit nervous, but they're excellent at letting those nerves not get the better of them and forging ever onwards.
That being said, thanks to this strong will and fierce determination, they also have a tendency to overwork themselves. They overcommit to whatever team they're on or task they've been given to the point of burnout.
Good Intentions
This goes double if other people are involved, as they feel the need to prove themselves or want to lessen the workload for everyone else.
Taurus, while your strengths are valiant and your intentions are good, please remember to take breaks as well. You don't need to shoulder everyone else's work to make your presence valued.
Virgo
Virgos are meticulous in their work. They're famously perfectionists, extremely detail oriented, and refuse to put out anything if it didn't turn out exactly how they wanted. They're great at planning and creating a cohesive, balanced workflow not only for themselves, but for anyone else involved in their projects.
Don't Spiral
If people don't follow this workflow or veer from the schedule they established in their mind, that's when things become a little rocky. Because they focus on the little things, one small step sideways can send them spiralling, convinced the whole plan is now a wash.
Micro-Management
So they're detail-oriented, yes, but sometimes to the point of neuroticism. Stress builds easily inside Virgos, and no matter if they take that out on team members or internalize it and put themselves down, neither are good outcomes.
Virgos, of course, the obvious advice is to loosen your grip and learn to be a bit flexible in your expectations, but you've likely heard that all before. Instead, let me offer you this. If you're in a team, play into the strengths of your fellow members.
Take On What You Can
Learn what aspects of this work they would be best at, and use your organizational skills to assign them work that would fit them best.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to take a leadership role, and given your knack for planning and high standards, people appreciate you being there. It's all about managing your levels of control and not placing the same high expectations you have on yourself onto others.
Capricorn
Speaking of leadership roles, in comes Capricorn. Capricorns are born leaders. They love to take the initiative, they love to delegate, and they love having a managerial position in which they can assign roles and tasks to others.
Job Well Done
That doesn't mean they're not doing any work themselves, though. They'll gladly agree to a large undertaking because they relish that feeling of a job well done. If something they had a hand in planning, making, or completing in any way ends up as they envisioned (that is to say, extremely well done), it will fuel them for weeks to come. Their pride is unmatched in this respect, which is good! Everyone ought to have accomplishments they're proud of.
Pass It Along
They do run into one problem when leading a project, though. While they're willing to do work, they'll push any work they don't want to do far, far away. Anything they deem too annoying, difficult, or bothersome gets shafted to someone else, which can lead to resentment within the group. While they're leading, others will see them as not doing any real work or distributing work unfairly, which, sorry to say it, is sometimes true.
Don't Be Afraid Of Less Fun Work
Capricorns, you enjoy the work you do, but refuse to look at the uglier sides of it because you're worried those sides will sour the whole experience. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean you can just ignore them. Nothing in life has all good angles, and no project is without its grittier work. Making others do the things you don't want to do will only lead to growing tensions and broken friendships.
Dependable And Strong
While earth signs are incredibly hard-working and display many exceptional values, no sign is without its faults. Every good trait can circle around to toxicity if performed excessively.
It's harder to do this with our personalities than, say, a craving or bad habit, but trying to identify our problem behaviors and then only express them in moderation can help get a lid on the emotional struggles that arise thanks to their presence.
Know When To Scale Back
Whether it be perfectionism, micromanaging, overcommitment, task avoidance, or otherwise, sitting with these urges and figuring out ways to scale them back will only improve the work your earth signs do and help maintain your relationship as the most hardworking signs in the zodiac.
