Find Your Real Horoscope Dates

Find out your real Star Sign and why most magazines get it wrong! The Real Horoscope Dates - Get Your Accurate Star Sign Information

Discover your real Star Sign and find out why the magazines most often get it wrong! The Actual Horoscope Dates - Get Correct Information about Your Star Sign.

Let's start with a short lesson on how to actually identify your Star Sign. Even in elementary school, we learn that the planets in our Solar system revolve around the Sun, and your Star Sign is determined by where in the moment of your birth the Earth and the Sun are. This explanation may confuse you a little, so the following image shows where the Sun and the nearest planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) were on January 3, 1980.

In the image below, you can see the blue lines that come from the planet Earth and divide the surrounding space into 12 equal segments. Each segment is controlled by a specific Zodiac sign. The yellow circle symbolizes the Sun, and on the day shown in the picture, the Sun is located in the place indicated by the Capricorn sign... So, if you were born on January 3, 1989, your Star sign would be Capricorn. The Star sign of a person is a sign of the Zodiac that the Sun points to on the day of they birth.

To find out how the horoscope dates change, let's move five months forward to June 3, 1980. In the next picture, which is located below, the planets, all this time continuing to rotate around the Sun, moved too, as well as the 12 segments of the Zodiac (blue lines) - and now the Sun is in the segment indicated by the Gemini sign. If you were born on this day, your star sign would be Gemini.

If you want to understand astrology, this illustration will really help you find out what the Star sign means.

So, there is one important thing. If you were born at a time when the Sun was in the middle of the Zodiac sector, then in fact where and when you were born in terms of your Star sign is not particularly important. But if the moment of your birth is close to the day when the Sun passes from one Sign to another, then it actually matters…

What is a Cusp and why is it so important?

Days that fall at the time of the Sun's transition from one Zodiac sign to another are called Cusp, and people born at this moment usually have the qualities of both Signs. This is precisely the mistake of most magazines and newspapers that publish horoscopes. If you were born at the moment of the Sun's transition from one Zodiac sign to another -- at the moment of the cusp -- to get the exact Star sign, you need to take into account the time and place of your birth into a Ephemeris. The fact is that time zones, your location, and many other factors play an important role in trying to find out what sign the Sun was in at a particular time.

But do not forget, as I mentioned earlier (and this conviction is not only my opinion, it is shared by many astrologers, whose publications date back hundreds of years), if you were born on the day of the transition of the Sun from one sign of the Zodiac to another, you should associate yourself with these two Star signs at once. The Star sign calculator below will let you know if you are on the Cusp, or if you belong to a particular Zodiac sign.

Confirmation

Further I will show some discrepancies in the various tables of Horoscope dates, and provide evidence to support the hypothesis that the only way to know your Star sign is to calculate it. If you just want to know your Star sign, you can use the calculator above... but if you're interested in learning more, let's go!

The image below is a perfect example where the sky is divided into 30-degree arcs, radiating from the Earth. This is from a book by Comte C. de Saint-Germain published in 1901 called Practical Astrology: A Simple Method of Casting Horoscopes. It shows an ancient instrument, with planets in each Zodiac sign radiating from the Earth in 30-degree arcs. Each 30-degree arc is divided into 3 Decans (or Decanates). These are the same degrees used in the calculator above (although I turned it by 180 degrees).

Instead of using an old device to determine the position of planets relative to the Earth, I use the planetary theory VSOP87 by Bretagnon and Francou. It is too difficult to explain this here, but if you want to learn more about this theory, you can start with this Wikipedia page.

Inaccuracy in the Horoscope Dates

After learning how the zodiac sign is calculated, it becomes obvious that it is impossible to have a completely accurate date table. If someone was born at 5 a.m. on March 21 in New Zealand, then, according to New York time, he was supposed to be born at 12 noon on March 20. So, this person got into the sign of Aries or Pisces? To find out exactly this, you need to use the Sar sign calculator. In the following charts, I have summarized data from 8 different publications, each of which is shown below. You should notice some discrepancies in the dates:

Aries Horoscope Dates

Taurus Horoscope Dates

Gemini Horoscope Dates

Cancer Horoscope Dates

Leo Horoscope Dates

Virgo Horoscope Dates

Libra Horoscope Dates

Scorpio Horoscope Dates

Sagittarius Horoscope Dates

Capricorn Horoscope Dates

Aquariuss Horoscope Dates

Pisces Horoscope Dates

References

1) Leo, Alan. Astrology for All. London. 1899.

2) Webber, Carl. Astrology in a Nutshell. Boston, Mass. 1902.

3) Raphael, Albert. Earthology. London & New York. 1901.

4) Jensen, Magnus. Everybody's Astrology. Camino, California. 1922.

5) Saint-Germain, Comte. Practical Astrology. Chicago. 1901.

6) Leroy, Jean Francis. Socail Science in the Light of the Solar System. San Jose, California. 1913.

7) Seva, Bhakti. The Hindu Book of Astrology. New York. 1902.