Zodiac Signs

The zodiac is the band of sky that the Sun, the Moon and the planets travel through. Western astrology divides it into twelve signs of 30° each, starting at the March equinox, and your sign is the one the Sun was in when you were born. The Sun reaches each sign at a slightly different moment every year, so the dates below can shift by a day. If you were born on the first or last day of a sign, the zodiac sign calculator checks the exact moment for your birth year.

Every sign has an element (fire, earth, air or water), a modality (cardinal, fixed or mutable) and a ruling planet. Together they describe the sign's temperament in astrological tradition, and the table shows all three.