Dana Whitmore

I'm Dana Whitmore, and I write and edit everything on YouHoroscope: the guides, the sign reference pages, and the words wrapped around the calculators. Anything on this site that reads clearly is mine, and so is anything that reads badly. The contact page exists partly so you can tell me which is which.

Before you decide how much to trust me, here is what I am not. I'm not an astrologer, a psychologist, or a scientist, and Dana Whitmore is a pen name; no framed certificate stands behind it, and this site does not pretend otherwise.

The method is what has to earn your trust: one canonical set of sign dates and boundary moments, checked against published astronomical tables and not against the aggregators that copy each other; sources named on the claims that need them; disagreements between sources disclosed instead of averaged away; verdicts that say out loud what they cannot settle.

If the method ever fails you, that is a real error, and I fix confirmed errors.

Most of my writing lives where the tropical zodiac is genuinely interesting: how twelve equal sectors anchored to the equinox turn a calendar into a symbolic system, why the boundary days move a little every year, what compatibility language can honestly carry, and what happened when researchers actually tested astrology's claims.

The list of what I don't write is shorter. No horoscopes or forecasts, and no birth charts. I also keep the western tropical system separate from the sidereal and Chinese traditions, because one system explained honestly is worth more to you than three blurred together.

My own position has probably leaked through these paragraphs already. I don't read daily horoscopes - I like the zodiac as a mirror, not a map. It's a tradition worth understanding precisely because it doesn't need mystifying to be enjoyable.

If that's the kind of curiosity you brought with you, we're going to get along fine.