Astrology
Sun Sign
Definition
The zodiac sign the Sun occupied at the moment of your birth — the 'sign' people mean in casual conversation and popular horoscopes, and just one of many placements in a complete birth chart.
Your sun sign is the zodiac sign the Sun occupied at the moment you were born — the one you name when someone asks “what’s your sign?” It’s traditionally read as your core identity and will.
It’s real astrology, but it’s only one placement. Popular horoscopes work from the sun sign alone, which is why they speak to one of twelve groups rather than to you — everyone born in a roughly month-long window shares it. A full natal chart sets the Sun alongside the Moon, the planets, the ascendant, and the houses, which is where genuinely personal astrology begins.
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