Zodiac Signs

Your birth date is enough. Check which range below your date falls into. If you were born on a boundary day — where one sign ends and the next begins — your sign can depend on the hour, and a natal chart gives the exact answer.

The moment the Sun crosses from one sign into the next shifts by about a day from year to year, because a year is not exactly 365 days. That is why boundary dates vary between sources. Born mid-range it makes no difference; born at the edge, the birth hour decides.

The Sun sign follows your birth date and describes your core character. The rising sign is whichever sign was climbing the eastern horizon at your birth hour, and it describes how you come across. When the two differ, people usually meet the rising sign first.

The element sorts the signs into four temperament groups, and most compatibility logic starts there. Signs of the same element understand each other easily; fire supports air, earth supports water. Between fire and water, or earth and air, more translation is needed.