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Zodiac Signs Flashcards
The twelve tropical-zodiac signs with their glyphs, conventional date ranges, elements and modalities, plus what precession and Ophiuchus do to the picture.
Free to play in your browser — no account, no install. All 19 cards are free forever — the deck is shorter than the free 30. The deck opens with Aries, Taurus, Gemini and Cancer and runs to 19 cards in all.
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Zodiac Signs flashcards — the free 19
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- Aries
- ♈ the Ram — about 21 March to 19/20 April; fire, cardinal
- Taurus
- ♉ the Bull — about 20/21 April to 20 May; earth, fixed
- Gemini
- ♊ the Twins — about 21 May to 20/21 June; air, mutable
- Cancer
- ♋ the Crab — about 21/22 June to 22 July; water, cardinal
- Leo
- ♌ the Lion — about 23 July to 22 August; fire, fixed
- Virgo
- ♍ the Virgin — about 23 August to 22 September; earth, mutable
- Libra
- ♎ the Scales — about 23 September to 22/23 October; air, cardinal
- Scorpio
- ♏ the Scorpion — about 23/24 October to 21/22 November; water, fixed
- Sagittarius
- ♐ the Archer — about 22/23 November to 21 December; fire, mutable
- Capricorn
- ♑ the Goat — about 22 December to 19 January; earth, cardinal
- Aquarius
- ♒ the Water Bearer — about 20 January to 18/19 February; air, fixed
- Pisces
- ♓ the Fish — about 19/20 February to 20 March; water, mutable
- Which zodiac these date ranges belong to
- The tropical zodiac of Western astrology — twelve equal 30° signs, fixed to the equinoxes
- Why two sources give different start dates for a sign
- The Sun's crossing shifts with the year, and reference works round it differently
- Precession, and what it did to the signs
- Earth's axis wobbles over roughly 26,000 years, so the signs no longer sit on their namesake constellations
- Whether a birth sign says which constellation the Sun was in
- No — the sign is a calendar convention; the Sun's actual constellation runs roughly a sign behind it
- Ophiuchus
- A constellation the Sun crosses in late Nov–mid Dec that the twelve-sign convention does not use
- The four elements, and how they are shared out
- Fire, earth, air, water — three signs each, repeating in that order around the zodiac
- The three modalities, and how they are shared out
- Cardinal, fixed, mutable — four signs each, one from each element
Zodiac Signs flashcards — questions people ask
- How many cards are in the Zodiac Signs flashcard deck?
- The Zodiac Signs deck on PuzzlePage has 19 cards, and all 19 are free to play and free to download with no account and no payment. 19 cards. There are twelve signs — that is the whole set. The other seven cards are the frame the twelve only make sense inside: which zodiac the dates belong to, why sources differ by a day, precession, Ophiuchus, and the two groupings.
- What is on the zodiac signs flashcards?
- The twelve tropical-zodiac signs with their glyphs, conventional date ranges, elements and modalities, plus what precession and Ophiuchus do to the picture. Cards look like this: Aries → ♈ the Ram — about 21 March to 19/20 April; fire, cardinal; Taurus → ♉ the Bull — about 20/21 April to 20 May; earth, fixed. The deck is written for grades 5–12 and filed under music, art & health.
- Can I study zodiac signs flashcards online for free?
- Yes. All 19 cards of the Zodiac Signs deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.
- Are the zodiac signs flashcards accurate?
- Every card in the Zodiac Signs deck cites two independent published sources — two different organisations, not a standards body and a site reprinting it — and a script checks that, rather than taking the writer's word for it. A second specialist then re-verified the deck against sources of their own, without reading the citations first. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.
- Can I print the zodiac signs flashcards?
- Yes. The Zodiac Signs cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The whole 19-card printable is free to download, with no account.
- How should I use the Zodiac Signs deck to revise?
- Start in practice mode and go through the Zodiac Signs deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.
- What grade level are the zodiac signs flashcards for?
- The Zodiac Signs deck is written for grades 5–12. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising music, art & health, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.
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