During my origami related research I’ve come across some pretty cool designs for some Zodiac themed models. There are a lot of cool Capricorn designs as well as great designs for some of the other more uniquely designed signs like Aquarius, Virgo, Sagittarius and Gemini.
I decided to collect these together and put together a Zodiac themed post. We have to include all 12 signs though so I guess some of this origami technically isn’t specifically horoscope themed since some signs are just things like animals. All of it is pretty awesome though so check it out!
Aries
Aries is represented by a ram and I found two excellent paper ram designs, one by Seth Friedman and another very popular design by Satoshi Kamiya.
Ram, Designed and Folded by Seth Friedman
Crease pattern available from friedmanorigami.com
Ram, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Eyal R.
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 21st Convention book
Ram, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Nguyen Nam Son
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 21st Convention book
Ram, Designed by Satoshi Kamiya and Folded by Hiroaki Kobayashi
Diagrams available in the Tanteidan 21st Convention book
Taurus
There are lots of great bull designs that can be used for an origami Taurus. Here are two of my favourite ones that look especially powerful and aggressive.
Bull, Designed by Stephan Weber and Folded by Stefan
Video instructions available from Cool Origami Tutorial by Yakomoga on YouTube
Bull, Designed and Folded by Richard Ojeda Soto
Instructions not available
Gemini
I was only able to find one model for a paper Gemini but it’s a very impressive one. The entire thing, both of the twins is folded from a single sheet of paper!
Gemini, Designed and Folded by Hubert Villeneuve
Instructions not available
Cancer
This sign is a bit of a cheat again since it’s just represented by a crab. We’ve already done a post featuring tons of origami crabs but here are a few more excellent ones.
Crab, Designed by Jason Ku and Folded by Adriano Davanzo
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #139
Crab, Designed by Jason Ku and Folded by Jake Schenthal
Diagrams available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #139
Leo
This is another easy sign since it’s a Lion so here are a couple of my favourite origami lions.
Lion, Designed and Folded by Hoang Tien Quyet (Photo by Evan Zodl)
Instructions not available
Lion, Designed by Nicolas Terry and Folded by Luc MARNAT
Diagrams available in Passion Origami
Virgo
Virgo is where things start getting interesting again and Yoshimasa Tsuruta has designed two very beautiful origami Virgo models.
Virgo, Designed and Folded by Yoshimasa Tsuruta
Crease pattern available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #153
Virgo, Designed and Folded by Yoshimasa Tsuruta
Instructions not available
Libra
It was a little bit difficult to find an origami Libra. Sergey Yartsev has designed a great simple libra and as far as I know this is the only origami Libra model that exists.
Neelesh K. designed an incredible Lady Justice model and since she’s holding a set of balances and the model is awesome I decided to include it here.
Also, here’s a piece of trivia. In case you ever wondered why pounds is abbreviated as “lbs” it’s because the “lb” is from Libra and the balance scale things.
Libra, Designed and Folded by Sergey Yartsev
Diagrams available in Origami Signs of the Zodiac
Lady Justice, Designed and Folded by Neelesh K.
Instructions not available
Scorpio
Scorpio is another sign that’s a bit of a cheat since it’s just a scorpion so here are two awesome origami scorpions.
Scorpion, Designed by Tadashi Mori and Folded by Mariano Zavala B.
Video instructions available from Tadashi Mori’s YouTube channel
Scorpion, Designed by Kota Imai and Folded by Nguyen Nam Son
Crease pattern available from Kota Imai’s Flickr
Sagittarius
As far as I know there’s only one origami Sagittarius model designed by gabrixx_. I’ve seen lots of origami centaurs and lots of origami archers but only one centaur archer.
Sagittarius, Designed and Folded by gabrixx_
Crease pattern available from gabrixx_’s Flickr
Capricorn
This is where the paper Zodiac starts getting very interesting because there are several great Capricorn designs. Several Vietnamese origami artists, Hoang Trung Thanh, Dong Viet Thien and Nguyen Nam Son designed their own quite complex Capricorn designs.
Kade Chan also designed a great papercraft Capricorn that’s a bit less complex and always reminds me of the Mozilla Firefox logo when I see it.
Capricorn, Designed by Hoang Trung Thanh and Folded by Nguyen Nam Son
Instructions not available
Capricorn, Designed and Folded by Dong Viet Thien (Photo by Phạm Hoàng Tuấn)
Instructions not available
Capricorn, Designed and Folded by Nguyen Nam Son
Instructions not available
Capricorn, Designed by Kade Chan and Folded by Paulius Mielinis
Video instructions available from Kade Chan’s YouTube channel
Capricorn, Designed by Kade Chan and Folded by Rui Roda
Video instructions available from Kade Chan’s YouTube channel
Aquarius
Aquarius is another interesting sign. Hojyo Takashi has designed the only paper Aquarius that I know of and it’s a fantastic design. The model uses a tessellation for the water being poured out and the entire thing is folded from one sheet of paper.
Aquarius, Designed by Hojyo Takashi and Folded by Eyal R.
Crease pattern available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #90
Aquarius, Designed by Hojyo Takashi and Folded by JoeOrigami10
Crease pattern available in Origami Tanteidan Magazine #90
Pisces
Pisces is another sign that can simply be made with two paper fish but I haven’t seen too many people put together an origami pisces.
Dzmitry Lysiuk made a great Pisces photo with two origami koi and Sergey Yartsev designed a pretty neat Pisces model where both the fish are folded from the same sheet of paper.
Pisces, Designed and Folded by Sergey Yartsev
Diagrams available in Origami Signs of the Zodiac
Koi, Designed by Davor Vinko and Folded by Dzmitry Lysiuk
Video instructions available from Jo Nakashima’s YouTube channel
That covers all 12 signs of the Zodiac, let us know which model is your favourite in the comments and be sure to check out all of these amazing artists on their Flickr accounts as well.
