Zodiac signs by month: dates and traits
The zodiac sign everyone knows is your Sun sign: the sign the Sun was in on the day you were born. The Sun spends about a month in each sign, but the signs do not follow calendar months: they change between the 19th and the 23rd. That is why so many people born at the end of a month are unsure of their sign.
Zodiac sign dates
- Aries: 21 March to 19 April. Fire.
- Taurus: 20 April to 20 May. Earth.
- Gemini: 21 May to 20 June. Air.
- Cancer: 21 June to 22 July. Water.
- Leo: 23 July to 22 August. Fire.
- Virgo: 23 August to 22 September. Earth.
- Libra: 23 September to 22 October. Air.
- Scorpio: 23 October to 21 November. Water.
- Sagittarius: 22 November to 21 December. Fire.
- Capricorn: 22 December to 19 January. Earth.
- Aquarius: 20 January to 18 February. Air.
- Pisces: 19 February to 20 March. Water.
Born on the cusp
The dates can shift by a day from year to year, because the Sun does not enter a new sign at the same hour every time. If you were born between the 19th and the 23rd, an exact answer needs your birth year, time and city. A natal chart works it out in seconds and shows the signs of your Sun, Moon and Ascendant.
The four elements
The signs fall into four elements, and the element shows the base of a character:
- Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius): energy, courage, enthusiasm.
- Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn): steadiness, practicality, patience.
- Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius): thinking, communication, freedom.
- Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces): feeling, intuition, depth.
Each sign in a line
- Aries: a direct, brave leader who starts everything first.
- Taurus: calm and loyal, loves comfort, beauty and stability.
- Gemini: curious and quick, finds common ground with anyone.
- Cancer: caring and sensitive; home and family are everything.
- Leo: warm and generous, loves attention and creating.
- Virgo: attentive and practical, sees the details others miss.
- Libra: a diplomat and an aesthete, looking for harmony and fairness.
- Scorpio: passionate and deep, never does anything halfway.
- Sagittarius: an optimist and a traveller, always after new horizons.
- Capricorn: ambitious and reliable, builds goals step by step.
- Aquarius: independent and original, thinks about the future and new ideas.
- Pisces: dreamy and compassionate, feels other people's emotions deeply.
Your Sun sign is only the start
The Sun sign shows your core nature, but the Moon (emotions) and the Ascendant (how others see you) complete the picture. That is why two people of the same sign can be so different. On Astrarium you can build your natal chart for free, read your sign's horoscope every day and see how your sign gets on with the others.