Zodiac · by date of birth
What is my sun sign?
Your sun sign is the one most people mean when they say "my star sign". It is set by which of the twelve zodiac constellations the Sun was passing through on the day you were born, which is why it depends only on the date.
Enter your date of birth below and this page will work it out, along with the element and date range for that sign. Everything happens in your browser.
Entertainment only
This is an entertainment tool. It does not predict anything, and it is not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional on health, money, relationships or anything else that matters.
What a sun sign is, and what it is not
A sun sign is a date range. That is the whole of the astronomical content: the Sun travels through the same twelve sectors of the sky each year, on roughly the same dates, so anyone born in a given window shares a sign.
It is not a measurement of you. Nothing about your personality, health or future follows from it, and no serious body claims otherwise. What follows is a short description in the tradition of sun-sign writing, offered as entertainment.
Sun sign and rashi are not the same thing
This catches a lot of people out, so it is worth being precise.
In Vedic astrology, your rashi is your Moon sign — the constellation the Moon occupied at your birth, not the Sun. The Moon moves through all twelve signs in about twenty-seven days, roughly one sign every two and a bit days. That means your rashi depends on your date, your time of birth, and your place of birth.
A sun sign cannot tell you your rashi. They are computed from different bodies. Anyone offering you a "rashi" from a date of birth alone is quietly giving you a sun sign under another name.
Producing a genuine rashi means calculating the Moon's exact position, which requires a full astronomical ephemeris and an accurate birth time. This page does not attempt it, and deliberately so: a sign that is wrong for people born near a boundary is worse than no sign at all.
Why the boundary dates shift by a day
The commonly published date ranges are approximations. The Sun does not switch signs at midnight on a fixed date each year, because the calendar and the orbit do not line up exactly.
The result is that someone born on a boundary date — say 20 or 21 March — may find different sources giving them different signs. Both are working from a convention rather than a calculation. If you were born within a day of a boundary and it matters to you, the honest answer is that a date alone cannot settle it.
The twelve signs
Each sign below has an element, a date range, and a short description in the usual style.
- Aries, Leo and Sagittarius are the fire signs.
- Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn are the earth signs.
- Gemini, Libra and Aquarius are the air signs.
- Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces are the water signs.
Questions people ask
Is my sun sign the same as my rashi?
No. Your sun sign comes from the Sun's position on your birth date. Your rashi is your Moon sign, which depends on your date, exact time and place of birth. A date of birth alone cannot produce a rashi.
Why do different websites give me different signs?
Almost always because you were born within a day of a boundary. Published date ranges are conventions, and they differ slightly between sources. The Sun does not change sign at midnight on a fixed date.
Does my sun sign change if I move country?
No. The Sun's position on a given date is the same everywhere on Earth, so your sun sign is unaffected by where you were born or where you live now.
Does my birth time matter for a sun sign?
Only marginally, and only on a boundary date. For the overwhelming majority of dates the Sun is comfortably inside one sign all day.
Do you store my date of birth?
No. It is used in your browser to work out the result and then discarded. Nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no database to store it in.
Can I put the result on my own website?
Yes. After you generate a result, open the embed section and copy the snippet. It includes a link back to this page.