The 12 Zodiac Signs: Dates, Traits and Meanings

The zodiac is a circle of twelve signs, each spanning 30 degrees of the sky. Your Sun sign is the sign the Sun was in on your birthday, but every planet in your birth chart sits in one of these twelve signs, so all of them are part of your story.

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♈︎AriesMar 21 – Apr 19 ♉︎TaurusApr 20 – May 20 ♊︎GeminiMay 21 – Jun 20 ♋︎CancerJun 21 – Jul 22 ♌︎LeoJul 23 – Aug 22 ♍︎VirgoAug 23 – Sep 22 ♎︎LibraSep 23 – Oct 22 ♏︎ScorpioOct 23 – Nov 21 ♐︎SagittariusNov 22 – Dec 21 ♑︎CapricornDec 22 – Jan 19 ♒︎AquariusJan 20 – Feb 18 ♓︎PiscesFeb 19 – Mar 20

The four elements

Fire (Aries, Leo, Sagittarius): passion, courage and inspiration
Earth (Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn): stability, practicality and the body
Air (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius): ideas, communication and connection
Water (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces): emotion, intuition and depth

The three modalities

Cardinal (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn): initiators that begin each season
Fixed (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius): stabilizers that sustain and persist
Mutable (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces): adapters that bring change and flexibility

Fire signs

♈︎AriesMar 21 – Apr 19 ♌︎LeoJul 23 – Aug 22 ♐︎SagittariusNov 22 – Dec 21

Earth signs

♉︎TaurusApr 20 – May 20 ♍︎VirgoAug 23 – Sep 22 ♑︎CapricornDec 22 – Jan 19

Air signs

♊︎GeminiMay 21 – Jun 20 ♎︎LibraSep 23 – Oct 22 ♒︎AquariusJan 20 – Feb 18

Water signs

♋︎CancerJun 21 – Jul 22 ♏︎ScorpioOct 23 – Nov 21 ♓︎PiscesFeb 19 – Mar 20

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