Selenarium · Astrology
Find Your Zodiac Sign by Date of Birth
Your sun sign is where the Sun stood on the day you were born, the core of your character and the sign you mean when you say “I am a Leo”. Pick your date and I will show the sign and open the full reading.
What a sun sign is
Sun sign, zodiac sign, star sign are all one and the same thing: the part of the sky the Sun was crossing on the day you were born. It moves through one sign in about a month, which is why a single date is enough for it. Time and city change almost nothing here, the Sun barely shifts over a day.
This is the core of your nature - will, character, the way you come out to meet the world and what moves you. Every horoscope starts here. After it come the Moon, the ascendant and the planets, and those do need the hour and the place. All of it together makes a birth chart.
The Sun in each sign
Here is the core of every sign in a line or two.
Sun in Aries - a fire nature: courage, drive and the urge to be first and to begin.
Sun in Taurus - earthy solidity: reliability, a taste for life and calm strength in standing firm.
Sun in Gemini - quick air and lightness: curiosity, words and a constant hunger for the new.
Sun in Cancer - water with a soft heart under the shell: sensitivity, memory and love of home.
Sun in Leo - generous fire and scope: dignity, charisma and a need to shine in plain view.
Sun in Virgo - earth of precision and service: an eye for detail, order and quiet care.
Sun in Libra - air with a sense of measure: tact, charm and a lasting search for balance.
Sun in Scorpio - water of passion and depth: strong will, a piercing gaze and rebirth after crisis.
Sun in Sagittarius - free fire and open space: optimism, a pull to far places, knowledge and meaning.
Sun in Capricorn - earth of endurance and long aim: discipline, responsibility and a steady climb.
Sun in Aquarius - air of independent mind: originality, freedom and a pull toward the future.
Sun in Pisces - water of fine feeling and imagination: compassion, dream and a sense for the unseen.
That is character in its shortest form. The full portrait of a sign - character, love, work, soft spots - lives on its own page, and how the sign sits inside the whole of your chart is what a birth chart shows.
FAQ
How do I find my zodiac sign by date of birth?
Pick your day and month of birth above and the sign appears right away. Your zodiac sign is simply where the Sun stood on the day you were born. One sign lasts about a month, so a single date is enough, with no time and no city needed.
I was born on the cusp of two signs. Which one is mine?
The border dates drift a little from year to year, because the Sun crosses into a new sign at its own hour, and midnight has nothing to do with it. If your birthday fell on the first or the last day of a sign, the exact answer comes from a birth chart, which counts by year, hour and city, down to the degree.
Are the sun sign and the zodiac sign the same thing?
Yes. Sun sign, zodiac sign, star sign are different names for one thing: where the Sun stood at your birth. It is the core of character, the way a person shows up in the world. The Moon, the ascendant and the planets add the rest, and a birth chart puts all of it together.
How does a sun sign differ from a moon sign?
The Sun is the I, the character and the will, how a person comes out to the world. The Moon is feeling and the inner life, how that same person is alone with themselves. That is why a moon sign often explains what the sun sign leaves unsaid. You can work out your Moon right here alongside.