Type a date of birth and see the zodiac sign, the date range, the element, the quality and a brief description.
The zodiac is a belt of twelve 30-degree sectors along the ecliptic — the path the Sun appears to trace across the sky over the year. Each sector is named after the constellation that occupied it when the system was formulated, around the 5th century BCE. The Sun sign — what people usually mean by "my sign" — is the sector the Sun was in at the moment of birth, determined solely by the date.
The twelve signs are grouped by element (fire, earth, air, water) and by quality (cardinal, fixed, mutable). Fire signs are associated with energy and initiative, earth with practicality, air with intellect, water with emotion. Cardinal signs mark the start of a season, fixed signs the middle, mutable signs the end. These groupings are the backbone of traditional astrological interpretation.
This tool uses the tropical zodiac — the system used in Western astrology, where Aries begins at the vernal equinox. The sidereal zodiac, used in Vedic astrology, is shifted by about 24 degrees due to the precession of the equinoxes, and gives different dates for the same sign names.
The tropical zodiac, which is the standard in Western astrology. Vedic (sidereal) astrology uses different date ranges — shifted by about 24 degrees — and would assign a different sign to many dates.
The exact transition depends on the year and the time of day. This tool uses the traditional date ranges, which are approximate. If your birthday falls on the first or last day of a sign, the Sun may have been in either sign depending on the year.
No — astrology is a traditional belief system, not a science. No controlled study has found that zodiac signs predict personality traits or life events. This tool presents the traditional associations without claiming they are factual.
The Sun sign depends on the date of birth. The Moon sign depends on the date, time and place of birth, because the Moon moves through the zodiac much faster — about one sign every 2.5 days.
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