Horoscope

Your innate nature and this year's theme by the twelve sun signs.

The horoscope reads innate disposition from the zodiac sign the Sun occupied on your birthday — the most popular form of Western astrology. Four elements (fire, earth, air, water), three qualities (cardinal, fixed, mutable), and a ruling planet shape each sign's character. Dividing the ecliptic into twelve began in Babylon and was shaped into its present form in Hellenistic Greece. The version read today from a single sun sign, however, took hold in newspaper columns early in the twentieth century; astrology proper draws the whole sky, including the hour and place of birth. Precession has also shifted things: over two thousand years the dates of the signs and the constellations actually behind the Sun have drifted apart by close to a full sign. This site also uses the Venus and Mars signs, which the birth date alone usually settles, to read love style and the pull between two people, and it adds a caveat that someone born on the day one of them changes signs may have it in the next sign over.

How it works

Your birth date sets your sun sign, and where today's Moon and Sun stand in that sign's houses produces three separate readings for the day, the week and the month. Any of the three can be shared by link. The Venus and Mars signs in the love-style card come from the same birth date, and if you were born on a day one of those planets changed signs, the result tells you the neighbouring sign is possible.

What you'll get

You see your nature through your sign's element, modality, and ruling planet, your daily, weekly, and monthly fortunes with ratings by area, plus your guardian weekday and lucky color and number. Added to that are the love style and line of work the sign is born with, its grain for money and health, and which signs sit well with it or call for care. Within one sign, a different ten-day decan shifts both the temperament and the day's flow, and the theme running through this year is read from the houses Jupiter and Saturn cross in your sign that year. All three readings come from the real sky rather than a random draw: the Moon's movement for today and this week, the Sun's movement and the lunations for this month. At the end comes the sky ahead: the next 30 days' new, quarter and full moons and the three days with the best flow, plus any Mercury, Venus or Mars retrograde in the next 90 days.

When your sign does not feel like you

Many people feel the sign description does not fit them at all. That is natural. The sun sign is only one piece of the whole sky, and the impression you give off often comes instead from the rising sign, which your birth hour decides. The grain of your feelings is held by the moon sign. So a description that feels unfamiliar does not mean it is wrong — it means there are pieces you have not read yet.

Learn the elements and modes first

Trying to memorise twelve signs one by one never ends. Learn the four elements, fire, earth, air and water, and the three modes, cardinal, fixed and mutable, and the twelve arrange themselves as combinations. Once you can see how cardinal Aries differs from fixed Leo though both are fire, the rest follows on its own. Start with the element and mode reading on the result page, and the twelve descriptions will stop feeling like a list to learn by heart.

How to use a daily horoscope

A daily reading is not a set of instructions for the day; it is closer to handing you one thing to keep an eye on. A good one is no reason to relax, a poor one no reason to shrink. Read it as a hint about where to place a little more attention today, and taking away the single line of practical advice is enough. Rather than checking at the same hour every day, it serves you better on days when your mind is unsettled.

Lucky colours and numbers are not rules

A lucky colour, direction or number is not something you must obey; it is a prompt to live the day a little differently. There is no need to worry if you own nothing in that colour, and choosing another does not chase your luck away. Making one small choice unlike your usual one is the whole use of this section. Do not let the number talk you into extra spending or a wager: nothing here can tell you what a number will do, and treating it as though it could is where a harmless prompt turns into a real loss.

Do not judge people by their sign

A sign is not a set of twelve boxes to sort people into. Hundreds of millions share each one, and a different upbringing and different experience make an entirely different person. Knowing the sign someone was born under is not knowing them, and using it as a basis in hiring or dating goes well past what this pastime is for. Keep it pointed at yourself, where noticing a tendency can actually be useful, rather than at other people, where it only narrows what you allow them to be.

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens if my birthday falls on the cusp?

The sign is decided by the date the sun changes signs, so entering your birth date resolves a cusp birthday automatically. There is nothing to pick by hand.

Why do the daily, weekly, and monthly readings differ?

All three are computed from the real sky, but they look at different things. Today reads which house the Moon crosses counted from your sign, its phase and its aspect to your Sun; this week reads the houses the Moon passes and the week's new, quarter and full moons; this month reads the house the Sun passes and the month's new and full moons. They also refresh at different times: midnight, Monday and the first of the month.

Why are the birth hour and place not asked for?

Here you get your sun sign plus your Venus and Mars signs, which a birth date alone can settle. The moon sign and ascendant of the moment you were born need a birth time and place, and neither is covered here. Venus and Mars move only about a degree a day, so the date is enough, and if you were born on a day one of them changed signs, the result says the neighbouring sign is possible. Tonight's Moon, which the daily reading uses, requires no birth time at all, so a birth date is enough.

Where do I check compatibility between signs?

On the sign compatibility page, where you choose the two signs directly. The result screen also links straight through with your own sign filled in, so you only need to pick the other one. On this page, the two-person mode takes both birth dates and shows the same score alongside the texture of attraction, read from the angle between one person's Venus and the other's Mars.

Does entering a lunar birthday change my sign?

It does. A sign is set by where the sun stood along the zodiac at your birth, so the solar date is the reference. Choose lunar and it is converted first, and since the two dates can sit nearly a month apart, landing on the neighbouring sign is common. If the result is not the sign you know, check the calendar setting first.