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The Astra Constellation collectionThe stars you were born under.
Not a symbol, not a drawing. The actual constellation of your sign, the stars where they really sit, engraved on a disc small enough to wear every day. Gold or silver. Tap yours and the page tells you when to look up, then how to wear it.
Buy two pieces and the third is on us, on anything on this page.
Your sign is a place in the sky.
Every sign is a real constellation, and yours has a brightest star, a season, and a shape you can learn to find. It is also the one constellation you can never see on your birthday. Here is yours: where it is, when it is up, and why the people who love you have always had the better view.
March 21 – April 19
Aries, the stars
Brightest star Hamal. Best seen in December.
How to find it
Aries is a small constellation and an honest one: three stars in a short, bent line. Hamal is the brightest, an orange giant whose name is Arabic for lamb. Sheratan and Mesarthim mark the horns. It sits between the Pleiades and the Great Square of Pegasus, high in the December evening sky. Two thousand years ago the Sun stood here at the spring equinox, which is why Aries still comes first; the slow wobble of the Earth has since moved that point into Pisces, but the sign kept the name.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Aries, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in December. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
April 20 – May 20
Taurus, the stars
Brightest star Aldebaran. Best seen in January.
How to find it
Look for Aldebaran, the bull's eye: an orange-red giant that sits in a V of stars, the Hyades, forming the face. Above the shoulder sit the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, the most famous star cluster in the sky. Two long horns reach toward Gemini. It is one of the easiest constellations to find on a January evening. Follow the line of Orion's belt up and to the right and it lands on Aldebaran.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Taurus, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in January. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
May 21 – June 20
Gemini, the stars
Brightest star Pollux. Best seen in February.
How to find it
Two bright stars close together mark the twins' heads: Castor and Pollux. Pollux is the brighter and slightly orange; Castor, blue-white, is actually six stars bound together. From them two lines of fainter stars run down to the feet, near Orion's raised arm. Best on a February evening, high overhead. The Geminid meteors in mid-December appear to stream out of this constellation.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Gemini, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in February. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
June 21 – July 22
Cancer, the stars
Brightest star Tarf. Best seen in March.
How to find it
Cancer has no bright stars, and that is fine. What it has is the Beehive, a cluster of a few hundred stars that looks like a soft smudge to the naked eye and a swarm through binoculars; the Greeks called it the Manger. Find it between Gemini and Leo on a March evening, under a dark sky. The brightest star, Tarf, marks a leg. It is the constellation you have to want to see.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Cancer, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in March. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
July 23 – August 22
Leo, the stars
Brightest star Regulus. Best seen in April.
How to find it
Leo actually looks like a lion, which is rarer than you would think. A backwards question mark of stars, the Sickle, draws the head and mane; a triangle behind it makes the hindquarters and tail. Regulus, the little king, sits at the base of the Sickle, at the lion's heart, almost exactly on the Sun's path. Best in April, high in the south. The Leonid meteors radiate out of the mane each November.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Leo, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in April. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
August 23 – September 22
Virgo, the stars
Brightest star Spica. Best seen in May.
How to find it
Virgo is the second-largest constellation in the sky and mostly faint: a long Y of stars lying along the Sun's path. One star does the work. Spica, the ear of grain in the maiden's hand, is blue-white and bright. Follow the arc of the Big Dipper's handle to Arcturus, then keep going, and you land on it. Best on a May evening. The Virgo Cluster behind it holds more than a thousand galaxies.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Virgo, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in May. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
September 23 – October 22
Libra, the stars
Brightest star Zubeneschamali. Best seen in June.
How to find it
A faint kite of four stars between Virgo and Scorpius, best on a June evening low in the south. Zubeneschamali is the brighter of the two claws and has a long-standing reputation for looking faintly green, which no other naked-eye star is supposed to do. Zubenelgenubi is a wide double that splits in binoculars. Nothing here is bright. It is a constellation for people who like knowing what they are looking at.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Libra, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in June. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
October 23 – November 21
Scorpio, the stars
Brightest star Antares. Best seen in July.
How to find it
Scorpius is one of the few constellations that looks exactly like its name: a curved line of stars with a hook at the end for the stinger. Antares sits at the heart, a red supergiant so large that, put in place of the Sun, it would swallow the orbit of Mars. Its name means rival of Mars, for the color. Best on a July evening, low in the south from the US and nearly overhead from Australia. The tail dips into the thickest part of the Milky Way.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Scorpio, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in July. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
November 22 – December 21
Sagittarius, the stars
Brightest star Kaus Australis. Best seen in August.
How to find it
Forget the centaur and look for the Teapot. Eight stars make a spout, a lid and a handle, and it is one of the clearest shapes in the summer sky. The steam rising from the spout is the Milky Way itself: Sagittarius points at the center of our galaxy, the densest and brightest stretch of it. Kaus Australis, at the bottom of the bow, is the brightest star. Best in August, low in the south from the US.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Sagittarius, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in August. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
December 22 – January 19
Capricorn, the stars
Brightest star Deneb Algedi. Best seen in September.
How to find it
A faint, wide triangle low in the south on a September evening, with nothing bright to anchor it. Deneb Algedi, the tail of the goat, is the brightest, and it is not very. Algedi, at the head, is a naked-eye double: two stars that only look like neighbors. The Tropic of Capricorn is named for it; the midwinter Sun stood here when the tropics were named. A constellation for patient people, which is fitting.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Capricorn, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in September. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
January 20 – February 18
Aquarius, the stars
Brightest star Sadalsuud. Best seen in October.
How to find it
Aquarius is large and faint, a sprawl of stars in a region the ancients called the Sea, alongside Pisces, Capricornus and the Whale. The clearest part is the Water Jar, a small Y of four stars in the bearer's hand. Sadalsuud, whose name means luckiest of the lucky, is the brightest. Best on an October evening in the south. The Helix Nebula, the shell of a dying star and the closest one of its kind to Earth, sits here.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Aquarius, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in October. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
February 19 – March 20
Pisces, the stars
Brightest star Alrescha. Best seen in November.
How to find it
Pisces is big, faint and shaped like a V, with a fish at each end and Alrescha at the point where the cords tie. The western fish is a small ring of stars called the Circlet, just south of the Great Square of Pegasus, which is the easiest way in. Best on a November evening, high in the south. The Sun now crosses the equator here at the spring equinox, which is why astronomers say the first point of Aries sits in Pisces.
Why you can't see it on your birthday
On the day you were born the Sun stood in Pisces, which puts these stars in the daytime sky, behind the light. They come back into the evening about six months later, in November. Everyone else gets to see your stars before you do.
The one drawing of you that only other people get to see. Until you wear it.
Why the stars
The glyph is a symbol and the figure is a drawing. The constellation is the sky itself: the stars in the places they actually sit, the brightest one where it really is. Nothing on the disc is made up.
From across a room it is a scatter of stars on gold. Only people who look up will read it, and those are the ones you want to be read by.
On your birthday the Sun stands in your sign, so your constellation is behind it in daylight. It comes back into the night sky about six months later. Everyone else gets to see it before you do. Wearing it is the workaround.
The stars, worn
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Three skies on chains
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Three on one finger
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Four stacked
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The stars at the collarbone
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Three in silver
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On the wrist
The set, in your sky
Start with yourself. Ring, bracelet and necklace, all your constellation, made to be worn together or apart. The ring comes off at checkout.
The set, for you
Ring, bracelet and necklace in your sign. The ring is free.
Prefer the product page? Horoscope, Spirit and Constellation collections. The offer applies to any three pieces across any signs.
The twelve, and when to look
Each one with its brightest star and the month it sits highest in the evening sky. Tap the one you are buying for and every builder below switches to it.
Stack it for them
Three skies on one hand: your constellation, then the people you would name. A partner, the kids, whoever the word family means. Every ring in your size, since you wear them all. Add more if the hand can take it; every third ring comes off.
Stack it for them
Their stars on your hand.
Rings come in US 5 to 12. Three on one finger fit a touch snugger; between sizes, go up.
Prefer the product page? Horoscope, Spirit and Constellation collections. The offer applies to any three pieces across any signs.
On a wrist, on a hand
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The necklace, $64
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The bracelet, $54
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The ring, $46
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In hand
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Worn every day
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Silver, on the hand
The night they were born, on a chain
The disc is where a constellation reads best, and the necklace needs no size, which makes it the one to give. One each, and every third one is on us.
The night they were born, on a chain
One necklace each.
Free shipping on every order and sixty days to exchange.
Prefer the product page? Horoscope, Spirit and Constellation collections. The offer applies to any three pieces across any signs.
Questions
What is the Astra Constellation collection?
Astra Constellation is Velvet Moon's zodiac jewelry drawn as the real constellation of each sign: the stars in the positions they actually occupy, engraved on a disc or an oval. Every sign, on rings, bracelets and necklaces, in gold or silver.
Are the star patterns accurate?
Yes. Each disc is the constellation as it appears in the sky, simplified to its main stars, with the brightest star, Regulus for Leo, Antares for Scorpio, Spica for Virgo, in its true place in the pattern.
Why can't I see my own constellation on my birthday?
Because the Sun is in it. Your sign is the constellation the Sun appears to sit in on the day you were born, which means it is above the horizon in daylight and below it at night. It returns to the evening sky roughly six months later. The page above tells you when.
How is Constellation different from Horoscope and Spirit?
Same signs, three drawings. Horoscope is the glyph, the two-stroke symbol. Spirit is the figure the sign was named for. Constellation is the star map, the only one of the three that is a picture of something real in the sky.
How does buy two, get one free work here?
Add any three pieces from any collection and the lowest-priced one comes off at checkout. Three Constellation necklaces are $128 instead of $192. The builders on this page add everything to your bag in one tap and show which piece is free before you do.
What sizes do the rings come in?
US 5 to 12, in every sign. Measure the inside of a ring that already fits: about 15.7 mm is a 5, 16.5 mm a 6, 17.3 mm a 7, 18.1 mm an 8, 18.9 mm a 9, 19.8 mm a 10, 20.6 mm an 11, 21.4 mm a 12. The bracelet and necklace need no size.
Is the finish real gold?
The pieces are solid stainless steel with a bonded PVD finish in gold or silver, so the color is part of the metal rather than a layer over it. Hypoallergenic, nickel free, and made for showers, workouts and sleep.
Everyone else has seen your stars. Now you can.
Rings, bracelets and necklaces in every sign, gold or silver. Free shipping, sixty days to exchange, and the third piece on us.
