Today's Horoscope by Zodiac Sign

The 'sign' people mean day to day is usually the sun sign, set by your solar-calendar birthday. It paints your most outward character and is the common entry to daily fortune.

If you're born on a cusp between two signs, read both and see which fits you better.

Daily horoscopes usually give trends and scores across love, career, and wealth, plus small cues like a lucky color or number.

Its scope is 'today'—a quick sense of the day's mood and what to favor or avoid, not a long-range forecast.

Horoscopes come from Western astrology, splitting twelve signs by the solar birthday; Chinese zodiac fortune comes from the stem-branch tradition, by birth year.

Different contexts, different emphases—no need to fret over which is 'truer.' Read what resonates, or read both side by side.