August 1 zodiac sign
On August 1 the Sun stands at about 9° Leo, the last stretch of the first decan, where the Sun rules both the sign and its sub-division and the Leo warmth is undiluted.
Sun signLeo
- Sun at 7°–11° Leo
- 1st decan · Sun
August 1 in profile
Leo here is still young and unvarnished, and the first decan gives it a double measure of solar fuel: Leo is the sign and Leo is the sub-sign, with the Sun as ruler of both. An August 1 Leo carries that heat openly. In some years the Sun has already slipped into the second decan by birth time, which adds a little Jupiter breadth, but the core stays the same: a steady fixed-fire glow, a need to be seen, and a generous instinct that arrives before any calculation.
Attraction starts with attention. They notice who laughs at their jokes and who looks away, and they court openly, with a handwritten note or a dinner they cooked themselves. Half-hearted interest bores them quickly. In a relationship they want to be chosen out loud, in front of friends, and they return that loyalty with a fixed sign’s stubborn devotion, remembering the song from the first date years later.
Rest is harder than it looks for someone who runs on being needed. They tend to recharge in company rather than alone: a long lunch, a garden full of friends, an afternoon on a sunny terrace where nobody asks anything of them. Pure solitude can feel like being switched off. The useful habit is a regular evening with no audience at all, so the battery fills before it is flat.
Leo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 1, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around July 23 and August 22.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on August 1 every year; the Moon is not. It changes sign every two and a half days, so people who share this birthday can have any of the twelve Moon signs. Here is where it was on August 1 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Scorpio → Sagittarius
- 2018Pisces → Aries
- 2019Leo
- 2020Capricorn
- 2021Taurus
- 2022Virgo
- 2023Capricorn → Aquarius
- 2024Gemini → Cancer
- 2025Scorpio
- 2026Pisces
Compatible signs for a Leo
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Leo gets on most easily with its own element and with the two sextile signs, and feels the strongest pull from its opposite. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for an August 1 birthday
A summer evening built around them: a reserved table outdoors, a few close friends, and a short toast that names what they did well this year.
Asked about August 1
What zodiac sign is August 1?
August 1 is Leo in every year: the Sun is at about 7°–11° Leo that day, in the sign’s 1st decan.
Is August 1 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Leo on August 1. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around July 23 and August 22. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is August 1?
August 1 falls in the 1st decan of Leo. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Leo and its ruler Sun, which colours the Leo Sun with a little of Leo. In some years the Sun crosses into the next decan during the day.
Your birthday is only the Sun
An August 1 birthday tells you where the Sun was. The Moon, the Rising sign and eight more planets each sit somewhere of their own, and they depend on the year, the hour and the place. The free calculator shows all of them.