Twelve signs, twelve distinct ways of moving through life.
The tropical zodiac divides the ecliptic into twelve equal 30-degree sections beginning at the March equinox. In astrology, a sign describes the style through which a planet or chart angle expresses itself.
Aries
March 21–April 19 · Fire · Cardinal
Aries begins the zodiac with movement, immediacy, and the courage to test what is possible.
Taurus
April 20–May 20 · Earth · Fixed
Taurus develops what Aries begins, emphasizing stability, embodiment, value, and sustainable growth.
Gemini
May 21–June 20 · Air · Mutable
Gemini gathers and exchanges information, finding links between people, questions, and points of view.
Cancer
June 21–July 22 · Water · Cardinal
Cancer creates containers for belonging, memory, care, and the protection of what is vulnerable.
Leo
July 23–August 22 · Fire · Fixed
Leo centers creative authorship: the wish to make, love, lead, and be fully present.
Virgo
August 23–September 22 · Earth · Mutable
Virgo examines how things work and refines them through attention, skill, and service.
Libra
September 23–October 22 · Air · Cardinal
Libra considers proportion, reciprocity, beauty, and the reality created between people.
Scorpio
October 23–November 21 · Water · Fixed
Scorpio attends to bonds, power, secrecy, loss, and the transformations that follow honest contact.
Sagittarius
November 22–December 21 · Fire · Mutable
Sagittarius searches for a larger horizon through travel, learning, candor, and living philosophy.
Capricorn
December 22–January 19 · Earth · Cardinal
Capricorn works with time, responsibility, authority, and the patient construction of a meaningful life.
Aquarius
January 20–February 18 · Air · Fixed
Aquarius steps back to see systems, communities, ideals, and alternatives to inherited norms.
Pisces
February 19–March 20 · Water · Mutable
Pisces closes the zodiac through imagination, empathy, surrender, and sensitivity to the unseen context.