What this reading covers
Pick your sign and you get three time frames: a reading for today, one for the current week, and one for the year. Each of the twelve signs has its own written text for each frame — the daily reading for Scorpio is not the Aries text with a word swapped. Alongside the general reading, the sections break out love, work and money so you can go straight to whichever area you came for.
Where your sign comes from
Your sun sign is the constellation the Sun stood in on the day you were born, which is why it is fixed by your birth date alone and does not need a birth time. If your birthday falls within a day or two of a boundary — the so-called cusp — the exact changeover shifts slightly from year to year, so it is worth checking both neighbouring signs and seeing which reading fits your life better.
How to read a horoscope well
A horoscope is written for a twelfth of the world at once, and reading it well means treating it as a prompt rather than a prediction. The useful question is not "is this true?" but "what does this make me notice?" A line about a tense conversation is worth reading as a nudge to think about which conversation you have been putting off. Read this way, a horoscope is a small daily habit of reflection — which is roughly how most people actually use it.
Questions people ask
Sun sign readings are the broadest layer of astrology. If you want something specific to you rather than to a twelfth of everyone, a full birth chart from your date, time and place is the next step, because it adds your moon sign, rising sign and the planetary positions. And nothing in a horoscope should decide anything for you: the tradition works best as a mirror for your own thinking, not as instructions.