Each Zodiac Sign’s Most Underrated Green Flag

Aries: Loyalty

Through thick and thin, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, you never betray those who are close to you. If someone gossips about your friends or tries to drive a wedge between you and your lover, you treat that person like an enemy. If you’ve emotionally bonded with someone, not only do you have their back—you have their front, their sides, their top, and their bottom. 

Taurus: Availability

If your friend calls and wakes you up at 3AM to tell you they have a flat tire in a bad part of town, you put on your slippers and head out there in your pajamas to help them. When someone texts you with an urgent matter, you don’t wait three weeks to respond just to play mind games or establish dominance. When someone you love tells you that they’re in trouble, it doesn’t matter if you’re at an important meeting or in the middle of watching your favorite movie—you drop what you’re doing and make yourself available.

Gemini: Candor

When someone close to you asks you for advice or an opinion, you tell them what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. And even if they need to hear something unflattering about themselves, you phrase it in a way that’s never demeaning. You don’t sugarcoat the truth, but you don’t make the medicine taste needlessly bitter, either. You believe it’s better to be truthful, because only the truth can set you free.

Cancer: Persistence

If at first you don’t succeed, you’ll try a million more times. You’ll fake it ’til you make it. You’ll try every angle, consult every advisor, climb every mountain, forge every stream, confront every adversary, leap over every hurdle, and explore every option, until you get what you want. Defeat is not an option. Surrender is not in your DNA. You keep your eyes on the prize until you hold the prize in your hands.

Leo: Forgiveness

Whether or not you believe in Christianity, you realize that its perennial appeal is that people need to feel forgiven. You don’t hold grudges, because like Nelson Mandela said, “Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill your enemies.” Picking at scabs only creates scar tissue. No matter how badly a situation has harmed you, you never make it worse by stewing and seething and dwelling on it. 

Virgo: Poise

A paragon of resilience, you may bend, but you never break. You are unflappable, unsinkable, and indestructible. You have a Zen-like ability to rise above any situation and see the forest for the trees. You see the bigger picture and never get lost in petty details. Through the worst storm, you won’t lose your cool. You can’t baited into losing your temper. Whenever someone tries to play mind games with you, they end up losing. 

Libra: Fairness

You have a natural distaste for bullies and cheaters and exploiters. When judging any situation, you never let your own biases and preferences get in the way of what actually happened and what should be done about it to achieve justice. You carefully weigh both sides of any argument and do your best to arrive at a verdict where both parties feel satisfied. When friends need to settle a dispute, they come to you. You’d make a great referee or district judge. 

Scorpio: Curiosity

Unless it’s potentially deadly or harmful to you or others, Scorpio’s often have the trait willing to try anything once. You’ll always order the strangest thing on the menu, whether it’s frog’s legs, snails, or even (gasp!) Rocky Mountain oysters. You love to travel so much, you don’t even care if you go somewhere boring, so long as it’s new. You love to learn about new cultures, new words, and new ideas. Although curiosity may have killed the cat, it’s what keeps you alive.

Sagittarius: Honesty

The truth can often be unpleasant, but it’s the compass that you use to navigate the world. Even an uncomfortable truth is better in the long run than a soothing lie. For you, truth is sacred, and lying is almost like committing blasphemy against reality. Most importantly, you’re honest with yourself first, even if it’s a little painful. Just like you can’t truly love others unless you love yourself first, you can’t be honest with others unless you can look yourself in the mirror without blinking.

Capricorn: Considerateness

If it’s 6AM and your lover has been up all night working and tells you they desperately need to sleep or they might lose their mind, you go into the other room and quietly close the door so you can watch your funny cat videos. You don’t plant yourself right next to them with your laptop and laugh at the top of your lungs, then get defensive after they wake up and complain. When someone tells you they need some space, you give it to them. When they ask you to turn the music down because they need to study, you put on some headphones. But most of the time, no one ever needs to ask, because you’re naturally considerate.

Aquarius: Tolerance

Some things shouldn’t be tolerated. But you tolerate different viewpoints, different cultures, different musical styles, different trends, different eras, and even different hairstyles, although the latter is sometimes difficult for you—the mullet in particular. You have a “live and let live” attitude that is sorely lacking in this time of division, rancor, bitterness, and malice. There’s room for just about everything and everyone under your big tent.

Pisces: Enthusiasm

A natural-born cheerleader, you encourage everyone to chase their dreams and meet their goals. Even on the darkest, dreariest day, you know that the sun will come out tomorrow. Or maybe the day after tomorrow. Or maybe next week—but you know the sun will come out. You see no point in getting depressed about bad things that have happened. You plan for the future, but you don’t worry about it, because you realize it’s out of your hands. Worrying only turns your hair grey while you’re still young. You’re not Debbie Downer, you’re Olivia Optimism.