The zodiac, read for very small people

You have been handed a stranger. Here is one old way of reading them.

Long before anyone could tell you what a temperament was, people were sorting each other into twelve of them. We point that system at the smallest possible person: the one who cannot yet explain why the blue cup is unacceptable tonight.

Find your child's sign Come in by the hour

The twelve

All of them, with dates

The twelve Moons

How to find the Moon sign

The Sun is who they are becoming. The Moon is what they need tonight, and in the first years it is often the clearer of the two.

Sign by sign

Three shelves with one piece for every sign: a name that carries it, the child born with Sun and Moon together, and the gifts that hold it.

From the everyday

Every room

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You & Them

There are two signs in every difficult evening

Only one of them is small. Your own chart decides whether you hurry or wait, explain or decide, hold on or give room, and half of what happens at bathtime is the meeting of the two. Read yourself beside them, with a child of every one of the twelve.

Find your own sign

Wherever the day is hardest

What this is

The chart is already there. We read it.

Your child arrived under a particular sky, and that sky has been read, argued over and refined for thousands of years. Our work is to read it carefully for someone far too small to read it themselves, and to hand you the part of it you can use tonight.

How we read the signs