August 11 zodiac sign
Close to 18° Leo on August 11, the Sun nears the end of the Jupiter decan, where Leo’s nerve meets Sagittarian faith and the lion is most willing to bet on itself.
Sun signLeo
- Sun at 17°–20° Leo
- 2nd decan · Jupiter
August 11 in profile
Upper-middle Leo is confident and well practised, with fixed fire running at a steady burn. The sub-sign is Sagittarius and the sub-ruler Jupiter, which tilts this birthday toward principle and a readiness to back a cause publicly. An August 11 Leo is often the person who says the unpopular thing first and expects the room to follow. The decan’s Jupiter breadth makes that courage feel moral rather than merely personal.
Risk appeals when there is a story at the end. They try the black run, invest in a friend’s café, or move cities on a hunch, and tell the tale beautifully whichever way it turns out. Pure gambling for money interests them less than a dare involving reputation. Fear is something they would rather be seen overcoming than quietly avoid. They also back friends who take a leap, lending courage as freely as money.
Anger is fast, loud and short. A slight to their honour, or to someone they protect, gets a reply on the spot, sometimes in front of witnesses. Fixed fire then holds the position longer than needed. What helps is a cooling-off ritual, a walk round the block or a message drafted and saved until morning, so the righteous point survives without the scene.
Leo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 11, 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 11 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 11 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Pisces → Aries
- 2018Leo
- 2019Sagittarius → Capricorn
- 2020Taurus
- 2021Virgo → Libra
- 2022Aquarius
- 2023Gemini → Cancer
- 2024Scorpio
- 2025Pisces
- 2026Cancer → Leo
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. For an August 11 birthday, in the Sagittarius decan, Sagittarius is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for an August 11 birthday
An experience with a safe thrill, such as an indoor skydive or a rally driving lesson, followed by a long dinner where they can retell every second.
Asked about August 11
What zodiac sign is August 11?
August 11 is Leo in every year: the Sun is at about 17°–20° Leo that day, in the sign’s 2nd decan.
Is August 11 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Leo on August 11. 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 11?
August 11 falls in the 2nd decan of Leo. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Sagittarius and its ruler Jupiter, which colours the Leo Sun with a little of Sagittarius.
Your birthday is only the Sun
An August 11 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.