What do planets within a zodiac sign mean?

i love learning about zodiac signs..and i was reading on them earlier and i seen a few posts with people talking about venus within virgo or the sun within virgo..i dont understand what that means or how you would figure out what planet is within yourself? just curious if anybody could help me out with that or tell me how to find out what planet is within me i guess? (sorry if that sounds dumbed down but i really dont understand it)What do planets within a zodiac sign mean?
This happens to be the Astronomy section, not one for astrology and other assorted bits of woo woo.



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it means you're gullibleWhat do planets within a zodiac sign mean?
There are twelve signs of the zodiac spread around the sky, in a circle, and when a planet crosses one of these, it is said to be "within" the constellation.

However, the constellations aren't really there (the pattern's only there if you look for it, and they're not actually close together in 3d space) and so it doesn't really mean anything at all.
The sky area where Sun and planets travel or appears to travel is 360 degrees and is divided into 12 parts each 30 degrees.These parts are named Aries,Gemini, Virgo etc.The Sun,planets will be some wqhere in these 30 degrees.

It dont have any significance .Like the needle of a clock moves among o 12 numbers, same way the palnets move.What do planets within a zodiac sign mean?
Probably the reason you don't understand it is that the whole idea of astrology is nonsense. Your common sense is working!



In astronomy, we talk of the Sun, Moon, and the planets being in a certain constellation. The borders of the constellations are defined by international agreement, so it makes just as much sense to say that the Moon is in Sagittarius as to say that Henry Jones is in Idaho. Astronomers recognize 13 constellations through which the Sun, Moon, and planets pass, rather than the 12 zodiac signs that astrologers use. As with geographic entities on Earth, the astronomical constellations vary in size, so that the Sun, for example, spends different lengths of time in each. The Sun is moving at a uniform speed, but the "countries" through which it appears to pass vary in size.