Disclaimer

BirthAlmanac covers astrology, tarot, the Chinese zodiac, numerology and birthstone traditions. This page says plainly what that material is, and what it is not.

Cultural tradition and entertainment

Everything on this site about star signs, tarot, the Chinese zodiac, life path numbers, birthstones and birth flowers is presented as cultural tradition and entertainment. It describes what a tradition holds — what a text says a sign means, what a numerological method assigns to a number, what a list associates with a month. It does not claim that any of it is true, and it does not claim that any of it predicts anything about you or anyone else.

Not advice of any kind

Nothing on this site is advice of any kind. It is not health advice, not medical advice, not financial advice, not legal advice, not relationship advice, not career advice and not safety advice. Nothing here should be used to make a decision in any of those areas. If you need advice of one of those kinds, ask somebody qualified to give it, not a website about birth dates.

Gemstones: no therapeutic claim of any kind

No claim is made anywhere on this site that a gemstone has any therapeutic, healing or physical effect. The birthstone pages report which stone a tradition associates with a month and, where relevant, what meaning has historically been attached to it. That is a statement about the tradition, not a statement about the stone. A birthstone is jewellery and folklore; it is not medicine, and this site does not suggest otherwise in any form.

Tarot: a shuffle, and quotations from a 1911 book

Nothing on this site foretells anything, and the tarot pages least of all. The card meanings shown are quotations from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, published in 1911 and long out of copyright. They are reported as what one named book says a card was taken to mean. They are not offered as true, and no claim is made that a card reveals, predicts or determines anything about anybody.

The draw shuffles all seventy-eight cards with the browser's cryptographic random number generator. It is not influenced by your birth date, by any question you have in mind, or by anything else about you, and the page says so where a reader will see it. Nothing about a draw is stored or sent anywhere.

The birth card is arithmetic on a date, following the method Angeles Arrien taught and Mary K. Greer published in 1984. It is a twentieth-century practice, it is described as one, and the page names the competing method that gives a different answer.

The astronomy is real and accurate; a natal chart is not what this site gives you

The star sign and Chinese zodiac calculations on this site come from the actual positions of the sun and moon, not from a fixed table of dates. For every year from 1900 to 2100, the instant the sun enters each sign is taken from a table computed from VSOP87, the theory of the planets' motion published by the Bureau des Longitudes in Paris. Checked against published equinox and solstice times, those instants agree to within a minute, and the site shows them to the minute, in UTC. Every page on the site stays inside those years, and the calculator answers only for years within them.

The Chinese new year is a date rather than an instant: the day, in Beijing time, of the new moon the calendar's rules pick out. The new moons are computed with the formulae in Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms, and the new-year dates they give are checked against published ones.

On the days when the sun changed sign, which sign a birthday belongs to depends on the year, and in the year of the crossing on the time of birth. The date pages give the moment of each crossing, and when the sun changed sign on the day you enter, the calculator says so and offers a time-of-birth field. The answer can only be as exact as the time you give it: a birth within a few minutes of the crossing, timed only roughly, could be either sign.

A natal chart, a rising sign or a house placement needs an exact time and place of birth, and this site calculates none of them: use a proper ephemeris that takes both. See why a sun sign is not a birth chart for what a full chart requires that this site does not calculate.

Notable births and deaths: source and removal

Every date page names people born on that day and people who died on it, and the month pages name some of those born. Each entry carries a name, taken from the title of the person's English Wikipedia article; a birth year and, where it applies, a death year; and a short description. The years and descriptions come from Wikidata, published under a CC0 licence; the descriptions are free text that anyone can edit there, so each is checked before it is shown and corrected by hand where needed. Nothing is inferred beyond that, and no photograph is shown. Living people appear.

If you or someone you represent would like a name removed, write to hello@birthalmanac.com asking for it. The request will be honoured.

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