How to Check Your Sunsign

If you were born close to the
end of one sign and the start of
another, this page is for YOU!

You will have noticed that different astrologers in different publications tend to give slightly different dates for when each of the zodiac signs start and finish. This is because the actual times and dates can vary a little bit from year to year. There's no space, in a conventional newspaper or magazine, to print a complete table so the information is `averaged out' and then rounded up or down to the nearest day. This works out fine for nine out of ten people but it potentially gives folk like you a bit of a `raw deal'.
You may well have spent your whole life so far being `not quite sure' which of two signs you belong to. You may even have been led to believe that because you were born so close to the `cusp' or `change-over', you are somehow a `bit of both'. Really though, you can only ever have ONE Sun sign. The tables you are about to consult will clear up any doubt, easily and quickly.
IT'S AS EASY AS 1,2,3.
1) Select the decade in which you were born (from the table at the bottom)
2) Find your year of birth
3) Find your month of birth

Next to your month of birth, you will see the date and time at which the Sun entered a new sign.
If you were born BEFORE that moment, you belong to the previous sign.
If you were born AFTER that moment, you belong to the sign on the right of the table.

PLEASE NOTE: The times given are GMT. If you were born outside the UK, you will first need to convert your local birth time to GMT. (If you don't know how to do this, clicking here will send you to The Internet Atlas for Astrologers, where all will be explained provided you are patient!)
If (and only if) your time of birth, once converted to GMT, takes you to WITHIN ONE HOUR of the changeover time for your month and year of birth, you will also need to do something else. You will need to check whether local summertime was in force on the day you were born. Many countries put the clocks forward an hour in spring - and then back in Autumn. They don't always do it at the same time each year. Sometimes (in the UK for example) they have done it some years and not others and, just to complicate matters further, they have stayed an hour ahead all year long for several years - switching to a form of `double Summertime' in the middle of the year!
NONE of this, I repeat, need concern you unless your time of birth, once it has been converted to GMT, happens to take you to within one hour of a change-over time. If it does, click here to send us an e.mail. If you give us your time and place of birth, we'll do the checking for you.
So, now you know your zodiac sign.
If this process has merely confirmed what you always suspected:
There. Isn't it nice to know your instincts were right!

If you feel surprised to discover that you're not the sign you always thought you were:
It's not a mistake and nor is it terrible news.
You may though, need to take a little time to adjust to your new, correct astrological identity. I can promise you that, once you get used to the notion, you'll realise that belonging to this sign explains a great deal to you. The more you read and find out about it, the more you'll feel comfortable with it. If you do feel terribly confused, click here to send an e.mail.

1920-1929 / 1930-1939 / 1940-1949 / 1950-1959

1960-1969 / 1970-1979 / 1980-1989 / 1990-2000

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If you were born close to the end of one sign and the start of another, this page is for YOU!
You will have noticed that different astrologers in different publications tend to give slightly different dates for when each of the zodiac signs start and finish. This is because the actual times and dates can vary a little bit from year to year. There's no space, in a conventional newspaper or magazine, to print a complete table so the information is `averaged out' and then rounded up or down to the nearest day. This works out fine for nine out of ten people but it potentially gives folk like you a bit of a `raw deal'. You may well have spent your whole life so far being `not quite sure' which of two signs you belong to. You may even have been led to believe that because you were born so close to the `cusp' or `change-over', you are somehow a `bit of both'. Really though, you can only ever have ONE Sun sign. The tables you are about to consult will clear up any doubt, easily and quickly. IT'S AS EASY AS 1,2,3. 1) Select the decade in which you were born (from the table at the bottom) 2) Find your year of birth 3) Find your month of birth
Next to your month of birth, you will see the date and time at which the Sun entered a new sign. If you were born BEFORE that moment, you belong to the previous sign. If you were born AFTER that moment, you belong to the sign on the right of the table.
PLEASE NOTE: The times given are GMT. If you were born outside the UK, you will first need to convert your local birth time to GMT. (If you don't know how to do this, clicking here will send you to The Internet Atlas for Astrologers, where all will be explained provided you are patient!) If (and only if) your time of birth, once converted to GMT, takes you to WITHIN ONE HOUR of the changeover time for your month and year of birth, you will also need to do something else. You will need to check whether local summertime was in force on the day you were born. Many countries put the clocks forward an hour in spring - and then back in Autumn. They don't always do it at the same time each year. Sometimes (in the UK for example) they have done it some years and not others and, just to complicate matters further, they have stayed an hour ahead all year long for several years - switching to a form of `double Summertime' in the middle of the year! NONE of this, I repeat, need concern you unless your time of birth, once it has been converted to GMT, happens to take you to within one hour of a change-over time. If it does, click here to send us an e.mail. If you give us your time and place of birth, we'll do the checking for you. *So, now you know your zodiac sign.* If this process has merely confirmed what you always suspected: There. Isn't it nice to know your instincts were right! If you feel surprised to discover that you're not the sign you always thought you were: It's not a mistake and nor is it terrible news. You may though, need to take a little time to adjust to your new, correct astrological identity. I can promise you that, once you get used to the notion, you'll realise that belonging to this sign explains a great deal to you. The more you read and find out about it, the more you'll feel comfortable with it. If you do feel terribly confused, click here to send an e.mail.

1920-1929 /	1930-1939 /	1940-1949 /	1950-1959
1960-1969 /	1970-1979 /	1980-1989 /	1990-2000