Did you know that the seasonal dates of the zodiac signs are not always the same? You may have noticed that dates vary from magazine to magazine, and there’s a good reason for that. It all has to do with the Earth’s path around the Sun and leap years, but they never change more than a day or two every few years.
Confused about the zodiac dates for 2022?
Here’s a complete list of zodiac sign dates for this year from Aries to Pisces, according to Magic of I’s 2022 Astrological Planner. And don’t worry, these dates only determine the zodiac signs of people born in 2022.
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In astrology, the sky is imagined as a 360 degree circle.
As we were all taught in school, the Earth orbits the Sun once a year.
However, the Earth takes about 365.25 days to complete one orbit.
This extra quarter day is why we get an extra day in the year every four years: a leap year.
Leap years are added to the annual calendar on February 29 once every four years.
It was a leap year in 2020, so there was an extra day in the year compared to 2021 and the dates of the zodiac signs were slightly different.
Zodiac sign dates are calculated from the first day of the Aries season, which is the spring equinox.
The spring equinox, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, is a fixed moment in time each year when the Sun crosses the path of the equator and is positioned exactly on the equator between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Due to leap year, this happens on a slightly different date from year to year.
This is why the Aries season sometimes starts on March 21 instead of March 20, which also pushes back some of the zodiac sign’s dates.
The next leap year isn’t until 2024, so we continue with the regular zodiac sign dates for 2022.
What are the dates of the zodiac signs for 2022? full list
- Capricorn – December 21 to January 19
- Aquarius – January 20 to February 17
- Pisces – February 18 to March 19
- Aries – March 20 to April 19
- Taurus – April 20 to May 20
- Gemini – May 21 to June 20
- Cancer – June 21 to July 21
- Leo – July 22 to August 22
- Virgo – August 23 to September 22
- Libra – September 23 to October 22
- Scorpio – October 23 to November 21
- Sagittarius – November 22 to December 20
If you were born on the last date of the season for a zodiac sign, this can be quite confusing.
It may seem that some years you are Virgo and others Leo, for example, but it is not.
The Sun is in one sign or the other, it can’t straddle two at once and you can’t be ‘on the cusp’ of two signs.
If you’re not sure of your star sign, read your birth chart or check the ephemeris of your birth year to find out where the Sun was at your time of birth.