History Main / FictionalZodiac

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Sylvanists believe that which star sign a child is born under dictates what they will grow up to be, and the exact signs vary by region. In Red Tundra, some of the known signs are the Boar, which means that they will be a warrior, the Whopper (Whale), a sailor, the Elga (Caribou), a caribou farmer, the Grupphund (Wolf), a hunter, and the Falika (Falcon) a traveller (such as a driver or scout).

* PlayedWith in ''[[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Pokemon]]'' with one of the ''Johto Journeys'' episodes. Specifically, ''The Fortune Hunters'' had a Pokémon Horoscope, as follows: Ash was a Bellsprout type, Brock was an Onix type, Misty was a Gyarados type, Jessie was an Eevee type and James was a Moltres type. James was hyped about his fortune until it turned out to be a scam by Butch and Cassidy, another set of Team Rocket members. Then it turns out there's a separate, legitimate copy of ''The Fortune Hunters''.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Sylvanists believe that which star sign a child is born under dictates what they will grow up to be, and the exact signs vary by region. In Red Tundra, some of the known signs are the Boar, which means that they will be a warrior, the Whopper (Whale), a sailor, the Elga (Caribou), a caribou farmer, and the Grupphund (Wolf), a hunter.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has the Twelve. a pantheon of twelve gods that correspond to an element, a month and a certain type of era. Players can pick one of them for an elemental bonus but this is more for flavor purposes.

* The anthropomorphic game ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' has its own zodiac set that includes six objects and six mythical creatures.

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': In Exandria, those born under a particularly bright flare of the world's secondary red moon Ruidus are said to have lives marked by a grand or ill fate. Confirmed or suspected Ruidusborn include [[spoiler: The Raven Queen, King Warren Drassig, Imogen Temult's mother Liliana, and Fearne Calloway]]. [[spoiler: WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree reveals that Ruidus has been flaring more frequently over time, and may grant some Ruidusborn strange powers.]]

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': In Exandria, those born under a particularly bright flare of the world's secondary red moon Ruidus are said to have lives marked by a grand or ill fate. Confirmed or suspected Ruidusborn include [[spoiler: The Raven Queen, King Warren Drassig, Imogen Temult's mother Liliana, and Fearne Calloway]]. [[spoiler: WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree reveals that Ruidus has been flaring more frequently over time, and may grant some Ruidusborn strange powers. [[ThatsNoMoon It also may not be a moon at all]].]]

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': In Exandria, those born under a particularly bright flare of the world's secondary red moon Ruidus are said to have lives marked by a grand or ill fate. Confirmed or suspected Ruidusborn include [[spoiler: The Raven Queen, Imogen's mother Liliana, and Fearne Calloway]]. [[spoiler: WebVideo/CriticalRoleCampaignThree reveals that Ruidus has been flaring more frequently over time, and may grant some Ruidusborn strange powers. [[ThatsNoMoon It also may not be a moon at all]].]]

Sometimes Western and Eastern zodiacs and the so-called "Druidic" Tree Birth Signs[[note]]Actually made up by Robert Graves in his book ''The White Goddess'', [[NewerThanTheyThink published in 1948]][[/note]] just don't cut it. Inventing new zodiac and horoscope systems is a nice way to add depth to a world different from ours, and a completely new birth sign/horoscope system can be used to give a basis for foreign myths and superstitions.

Often they would be related to UsefulNotes/{{Constellations}}, an [[ElementalRockPaperScissors elemental system]], {{Animal|Motifs}} and MythicalMotifs or other themes. As the WesternZodiac as the basics of astrology fictional deviations would be used to inform character traits be connected to destiny. However it is just as likely that they are just parodying those concepts and not take them seriously. Regardless of which, 12 would be the most common number for the signs, as both Eastern and Western variants have them.[[note]]However a variation of the Western Zodiac has a 13th sign based on Ophiuchus, and the Eastern Zodiac is not even related to the months; its amount of signs was a mere coincidence.[[/note]]

* PlayedWith in ''[[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Pokemon]]'' with one of the ''Johto Journeys'' episodes. Specifically, ''The Fortune Hunters'' had an Pokémon Horoscope, as follows: Ash was a Bellsprout type, Brock was a Onix type, Misty was a Gyarados type, Jessie was a Eevee type and James was a Moltres type. James was hyped about his fortune until it turned out to be a scam by Butch and Cassidy, another set of Team Rocket members. Then it turns out there's a separate, legitimate copy of ''The Fortune Hunters''.
* The ''Manga/WorldTrigger'' universe have their own set of horoscope system.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' has the Dragonmarked Houses, With 12 Dragonmarked for each Houses. (Phiarlan and Thuranni both use the same Dragonmarked, The Mark of Shadow) and the 12 Moon.
* The anthropomorphic game ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' has it's own zodiac set that includes six objects and six mythical creatures.

** The series has [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Birthsigns thirteen birthsigns]] that the player can choose during character creation for certain bonuses. Some offer passive stat increases while others allow for a special power to be used, typically once per day. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' player may choose one of the signs as his birthsign in beginning of the game, while in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' player may find and activate one of the Standing Stones, representing each sign. The signs and their months are: Morning Star - The Ritual, Sun's Dawn - The Lover, First Seed - The Lord, Rain's Hand- The Mage, Second Seed - The Shadow, Midyear - The Steed, Sun's Height - The Apprentice, Last Seed - The Warrior, Heartfire - The Lady, Frostfall - The Tower, Sun's Dusk - The Atronach, Evening Star - The Thief, and 13th Sign - The Serpent (which is said to be formed of "unstars" and travels in a somewhat predictable motion around the sky, having no month of its own but taking over one each year).
** The Magna-Ge, aka "Star Orphans", are heavily associated with the series' constellations and birthsigns. The Magna-Ge are et'Ada ("original spirits") who, along with their "father" Magnus (the architect of Mundus, the mortal realm), [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fled Mundus]] part way through its creation after Magnus realized that creating it would severely weaken the et'Ada and forever bind them to the world. While fleeing to [[SpiritWorld Aetherius]], the realm of magic, they punctured holes between the realms now seen as the sun (Magnus) and the stars (Magna-Ge), through which magic and light flow into Mundus.

* ''VisualNovel/EndlessSummer'' uses a zodiac that uses different constellations than those in the ecliptic, and each of them correspond to a character, alongside symbols you can see on the stamps. It consists of Centaurus ([[spoiler:Raj]]), Lupus ([[spoiler:Jake]]), Serpens ([[spoiler:Aleister]]), Delphinus ([[spoiler:Quinn]]), Pavo ([[spoiler:Michelle]]), Canis Major ([[spoiler:Diego]]), Draco ([[spoiler:Estela]]), Cygnus ([[spoiler:Grace]]), Corvus ([[spoiler:Zahra]]), Aquila ([[spoiler:Sean]]), Ursus Major ([[spoiler:Craig]]), and [[spoiler:Andromeda]] ([[spoiler:[[PlayerCharacter You]]]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has "Animology", an [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience color/animal]] type personality quiz that gets treated like horoscopes (in that some people consider it BS and other don't). There is also an emphasis on "Soul-Mates" (with certain combinations considered to be particularly compatible with others).
* The ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' official site has a fictional zodiac using mythical creatures such as Pegasus, Gryphon, Dragon and Triton.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': The Allspark Almanac mentions the Cybertronian Zodiac, a series of ten signs such as the Key, the Core, the Golden Disk and the Void (which is actually an area lacking in stars, save for one in the centre of the sign).

* Until it was revealed to be a spoof intended to highlight the gullibility of people who believed in astrology, a 1977 book by James Vogh entitled ''Arachne Rising; The Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac'' was taken to be a scholarly work revealing that there were, in fact, ''thirteen'' star signs. Arachne, the Spider, was there in plain view in between Virgo and Libra. The fact it had been suppressed by the usual suspects did much to explain why astrology is subtly "out", why a lot of people[[note]]roughly one in thirteen of the population[[/note]] feel none of the standard twelve apply to them; why some people feel they belong with the next sign along, not the one they were apparently born into; and would fit perfectly with there being thirteen lunar months. The book was serialised by [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers the Daily Mail]] and hailed as a world-altering revelation. People even contested the idea -- arguing that while there ''were'' thirteen signs and one had indeed been suppressed in antiquity, the missing thirteenth sign was in fact Ophiuchus the Serpent and not a bloody spider at all. As arguments raged between the spider and serpent factions and more newspapers ran with the sensation, it was revealed that it was, in fact, a piece of inspired trolling, proving some things (trolling) are older than the Internet. As one review phrased it:

* Most online zodiacs like the "Egyptian Zodiac" using Egyptian gods, the "Celtic Zodiac" using "Celtic" animals or the "Mayan Zodiac" using also Mesoamerican fauna more or less associated with Mayan mythology are this, basically made by people with no historical or archeological bases or usage from those cultures at all. Do note that at least the Maya and Ancient Egyptians have what can be called "zodiacs" in their calendars, but they are wholly inapplicable to the modern idea[[note]]The Maya for instance use two calendars, the tzolkin and haab. Both have animals, gods and other symbols, but they are hyper-reliant on individual days so its nearly impossible to map them in the same way modern zodiac believers do.[[/note]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Careful, your sign may be subject of copyright [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons from Hasbro.]]]]

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' has introduced a fictional zodiac loosely based on the Western one. The mons incorporated into this are (in order of month) Sawsbuck (Capricorn), Simipour (Aquarius), Alomomola (Pisces), Whimsicott (Aries), Bouffalant (Taurus), Klink (Gemini), Crustle (Cancer), Braviary (Leo), Gothorita (Virgo), Scolipede (Scorpio) and Fraxure (Sagittarius).

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* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' the Disc has its own version of the zodiac. It involves such signs as The Small Boring Group of Faint Stars and Khefin's Eye 1-4. There are also a few other oddities:

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* [[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated The Allspark Almanac]] mentions the Cybertronian Zodiac, a series of ten signs such as the Key, the Core, the Golden Disk and the Void (which is actually an area lacking in stars, save for one in the centre of the sign).

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* Until it was revealed to be a spoof intended to highlight the gullibility of people who beleived in astrology, a 1977 book by James Vogh entitled ''Arachne Rising; The Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac'' was taken to be a scholarly work revealing that there were, in fact, ''thirteen'' star signs. Arachne, the Spider, was there in plain view in between Virgo and Libra. The fact it had been supressed by the usual suspects did much to explain why astrology is subtly "out", why a lot of people[[note]]roughly one in thirteen of the population[[/note]] feel none of the standard twelve apply to them; why some people feel they belong with the next sign along, not the one they were apparentrly born into; and would fit perfectly with there being thirteen lunar months. The book was serialised by [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers the Daily Mail]] and hailed as a world-altering revelation. People even contested the idea - arguing that while there ''were'' thirteen signs and one had indeed been suppressed in antiquity, the missing thirteenth sign was in fact Ophiuchus the Serpent and not a bloody spider at all. As arguments raged between the spider and serpent factions and more newspapers ran with the sensation, it was revealed that it was, in fact, a piece of inspired trolling, proving some things (trolling) are older than the Internet. As one review phrased it:
-->''Arachne Rising, the meticulously documented log of James Vogh's strange journey through the uncharted regions of mythology, archaeology, history, and language, will come to be recognized as a seminal work in astrology by those whose enthusiasm for the esoteric does not blind them to the need for sound scholarship, painstaking research, and rigorous application of scientific method.''

* The "Druidic Tree Birth Signs" mentioned above is actually another made-up zodiac made by Robert Graves (the author of ''Literature/IClaudius'') and has little to no connection with the historical Celtic astrology of which little is known. Graves just basically took an epic Irish poem and connected the dots as he saw fit. More on that [[https://www.spiralnature.com/spirituality/graves-frabrication-of-the-celtic-tree-calendar/ here]]. Interestingly many Celtic culture aficionados and neo-Pagan practicioners really think this Tree Horoscope is real and comes from ancient Celtic cultures.

* Until it was revealed to be a spoof intended to highlight the gullibility of people who beleived in astrology, a 1977 book by James Vogh entitled ''Arachne Rising; The Thirteenth Sign of the Zodiac'' was taken to be a scholarly work revealing that there were, in fact, ''thirteen'' star signs. Arachne, the Spider, was there in plain view in between Virgo and Libra. The fact it had been supressed by the usual suspects did much to explain why astrology is subtly "out", why a lot of people[[note]]roughly one in thirteen of the population[[/note]] feel none of the standard twelve apply to them; why some people feel they belong with the next sign along, not the one they were apparentrly born into; and would fit perfectly with there being thirteen lunar months. The book was serialised by [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers the Daily Mail]] and hailed as a world-altering revelation. People even contested the idea - arguing that while there ''were'' thirteen signs and one had indeed been suppressed in antiquity, the missing thirteenth sign was in fact Opiuchus the Serpent and not a bloody spider at all. As arguments raged between the spider and serpent factions and more newspapers ran with the sensation, it was revealed that it was, in fact, a piece of inspired trolling, proving some things (trolling) are older than the Internet. As one review phrased it:

** There's even a "Disney Princesses" Horoscope online.
* The "Druidic Tree Birth Signs" mentioned above is actually another made-up zodiac made by Robert Graves (the author of ''Literature/IClaudius'') and has little to none connection with the historical Celtic astrology of which little is known. Graves just basically took an epic Irish poem and connected the dots as he saw fit. More on that [[https://www.spiralnature.com/spirituality/graves-frabrication-of-the-celtic-tree-calendar/ here]]. Interestingly many Celtic culture aficionados and neo-Pagan practicioners really think this Tree Horoscope is real and comes from ancient Celtic cultures.

Often they would be related to UsefulNotes/{{Constellations}}, an [[ElementalRockPaperScissors elemental system]], {{Animal|Motifs}} and MythicalMotifs or other themes. As the WesternZodiac as the basics of astrology fictional deviations would be used to inform character traits be connected to destiny. However it is just as likely that they are just parodying those concepts and not take them seriously. Regardless of which, 12 would be the most common number for the signs, as both Eastern and Western variants have them.[[note]]However a variation of the Western Zodiac has a 13th sign based on Ophucius, and the Eastern Zodiac is not even related to the months, its amount of signs was a mere coincidence.[[/note]]

* Literature/CantataInCoralAndIvory has different constellations from earth. The world also has four moons, which all affect a person's horoscope.