Lunar Signs is built on traditional Chinese astrological frameworks that have been refined over centuries — the twelve animal signs, the five elements, the sexagenary cycle, the four trines of compatibility, and the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly fortune cycles. Our content draws on widely-cited reference patterns from classical Chinese astrology, supplemented by structured datasets and historical lunar calendar references.
We write our fortune readings in the spirit of guidance rather than prediction. The classical practitioners of Chinese astrology rarely treated their craft as a way to foretell specific events. They treated it as a way to read the texture of a moment — the season's weather, the year's character, the day's invitation — and to make wise choices in alignment with what the moment was offering. That is the spirit in which we offer daily fortunes here. The fortune for your sign on a given day is not a forecast of what will happen. It is a thoughtful suggestion about how to meet the day.
We also believe that astrology, used well, is a vocabulary for paying attention rather than a system for outsourcing decisions. When a daily fortune resonates, the resonance is the work — the moment of recognition is what makes the practice useful. When a fortune does not resonate, the lack of resonance is also information. Either way, the goal is more attention, more reflection, more conscious participation in the unfolding of your own life. That is what we hope Lunar Signs offers, and it is the standard we hold ourselves to as we expand the site.