When reading your Horoscopes please note that persons born on or around the cusp and who do not know their actual Sun Sign might read both entries, especially the second one. For example, if you were born on February 19 your Sun Sign may be Aquarius or it may be Pisces. In this case you could read both Aquarius and Pisces. The “cusp” (border) between signs can occur anywhere between the 18th, especially in the case of the Aquarius/Pisces cusp, and the 24th day of each month, especially in the case of the Leo/Virgo cusp.

After a while you might realize which sign is actually yours. Again, you can read both, yet the sign that follows will certainly have a strong influence because the Sun “progresses”* into that sign.

In order to definitely know your Sun Sign, you may have to get an official Birth Chart  from an Astrologer. To do so you will need to know your birth time along with the full birth date and place.  If you do not know your time of birth and cannot obtain it from family records or family memory, you may decide to make the effort to get it.  (Having an approximate birth time helps if an Astrologer is consulted to determine the birth time through a process called "Chart Rectification". This is a true art that requires that the Astrologer be both intuitive and precise in the use of prediction techniques).  You can do this by one of the taking one of the following steps:

1) Approach the hospital where you were born. With computers, this information is becoming more readily available. If you are lucky, they will give it to you and for free.

2) Contact Vital Statistics in the Capitol City of the province, state, county, etcetera where you were born.

3) Some people have found success by using a pendulum or through muscle testing. Most Astrologers will want to test the time provided from such methods.

The official textbook dates for each Zodiac Sign are listed below. Again, you will notice cross over dates.

Aries: March 21 – April 19
Taurus: April 20 – May 20
Gemini: May 21 – Jun 21
Cancer: June 22 – July 22
Leo: July 23 – August 22
Virgo: August 23 – September 22
Libra: September 23 – October 22
Scorpio: October 23 – November 21
Sagittarius: November 22 – December 21
Capricorn: December 22 – January 19
Aquarius: January 20 – February 18
Pisces : February 19 – March 20

Planetary Aspects: A Basic Guideline

Aspects are angles of relationship between any two planets or luminaries. Imagine these are mapped anywhere on the perimeter of a circle, representing an orbit. The Sun and Moon are luminaries and Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the planets. Aspects can be between the luminaries alone, like when the Moon and Sun are in aspect as in a Full Moon and can also be between any two planets and between any planet and one of the two luminaries. There are five major aspects and these are as follows:

Every person is a unique composite of all the signs of the Zodiac.  The art of Astrology is oriented towards emphasizing the strength and purpose of each sign within any individual birth chart. Therefore, the following descriptions are purely introductory interpretations of each sign.  In other words, although a person’s Sun Sign is very significant, due to other factors considered on the basis of interpreting the ‘whole’ chart, which includes planets, aspects, and signs on the angles, a person born with the Sun sign of Aries, for example, can be strongly influenced by any one or more of the remaining eleven signs and in fact this is generally the case. If you know someone whose attitudes and behaviour seem to reveal another sign other than their actual Sun Sign rest assured that the Sign or its ruling planet are prominent in their Natal Chart. After the list of keywords below is a more detailed overview - scroll down.