Zodiac Sign works out a star sign from a date of birth using the standard Western tropical zodiac — the same twelve signs and date ranges used everywhere from Los Angeles to London, since the zodiac is defined by the calendar date rather than by location or hemisphere. Enter a birth date and the calculator returns the sign whose date range it falls within, handling ranges that span a month boundary — like Capricorn, which runs from late December into January — automatically.
What does differ in Australia is the seasonal flavour often attached to each sign in popular astrology, since those associations were written for the northern hemisphere. Capricorn, usually described as a "midwinter" sign, actually falls in the height of an Australian summer, while Cancer — often tied to northern summer warmth — lands in the middle of the Australian winter. The dates themselves never change; it's only the seasonal imagery around them that reads backwards south of the equator.
This tool is here for the same reason star signs are popular everywhere — birthdays, compatibility chat, horoscope columns — with the date ranges kept accurate rather than rounded to the nearest convenient number.
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