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The zodiacThe 12 Zodiac Signs: Dates, Elements and Traits
7 of the 12 start on a different day from the printed table
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All twelve signs with the dates the Sun really enters and leaves each one this year — which differ from the printed table for most of them — plus element, modality, ruler and decans.
Aries
Fire · CardinalMarch 20 – April 19
the printed table says March 21 – April 19
Taurus
Earth · FixedApril 20 – May 20
same as the printed table
Gemini
Air · MutableMay 21 – June 20
same as the printed table
Cancer
Water · CardinalJune 21 – July 21
the printed table says June 21 – July 22
Leo
Fire · FixedJuly 22 – August 22
the printed table says July 23 – August 22
Virgo
Earth · MutableAugust 23 – September 22
same as the printed table
Libra
Air · CardinalSeptember 23 – October 22
same as the printed table
Scorpio
Water · FixedOctober 23 – November 21
same as the printed table
Sagittarius
Fire · MutableNovember 22 – December 20
the printed table says November 22 – December 21
Capricorn
Earth · CardinalDecember 21 – January 19
the printed table says December 22 – January 19
Aquarius
Air · FixedJanuary 20 – February 17
the printed table says January 20 – February 18
Pisces
Water · MutableFebruary 18 – March 19
the printed table says February 19 – March 20
What is measured, then what the tradition makes of it
Work it out for yourself
- Zodiac Sign CalculatorBorn within a day or two of a cusp? Printed date tables are a day out some years — this one uses the Sun's real position.
- Birth Chart CalculatorYour sign is the Sun alone. The whole chart has ten bodies, twelve houses and the angles — and needs your birth time.
- Sun, Moon & Rising Sign CalculatorThe three that a reading usually means by "your sign": Sun, Moon and Rising.
- Mercury Retrograde Dates and Other PlanetsSaturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are retrograde today. This says exactly when each turns round again — and every other loop of the year.
- Zodiac Sign Compatibility CalculatorThe angle between two signs, and what the tradition makes of each of the seven.
Measured, and recounted
The dates, the decan boundaries and the angles to the other signs are computed — from the Sun's real position for the year in question, and from arithmetic. Everything under "what the tradition says" is exactly that: convention, some of it two thousand years old, presented as convention and not as a finding about you.