There are twelve signs, more or less matching the twelve months, though since our calendar was recalculated under Pope Gregory in the 16th Century, the months no longer match the signs exactly. This is easy for most people to answer, because the Sun travels throughout the entire zodiac over the course of a year, making its course through the heavens entirely regular and predictable.Īnd since you have found this page, you probably have your own personal birth chart (horoscope) already calculated, but if you do not, please click here to calculate your own chart. When we ask: " What is your Sign?", we are really asking where the Sun is placed in your birthchart. It is their relationships in spirit that make astrology possible.
The planets and the luminaries ( Sun and Moon) move in their courses through the signs, along the plane of the ecliptic. The signs and constellations no longer coincide in Western Tropical Astrology, thanks to the precession of the equinoxes.
The starry constellations are symbolic patterns in the heavens, but the signs are geometric structures based on, but not identical to the constellations of the same names. Twelve equal sectors of the zodiac, once approximately coinciding with named constellations, are especially significant in astrology. The outer rim of the horoscope wheel represents the zodiac ("circle of animals"), the belt containing the twelve astrological signs.
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