sun sign noun1 •The zodiac sign occupied by the Sun at the time of a person’s birth, regarded as the primary indicator of their core personality, vitality, and self-expression, and the basis of the person's self-identification as an Arian, Tauran, etc.It must be remembered when reading these sun signs that it is not a horoscope, but the influence of one factor only in a chart. — 1936 formssun signs