August 25 zodiac sign
Two degrees into Virgo, the August 25 Sun sits in the sign’s own first decan, where Mercury rules twice and an exacting practicality replaces the Leo glow of the previous weeks.
Sun signVirgo
- Sun at 0°–4° Virgo
- 1st decan · Mercury
August 25 in profile
Early Virgo is the sign at its rawest: alert, observant, intensely practical and still learning where to draw the line between helpful and fussy. The first decan doubles Mercury, since Virgo is both sign and sub-sign, so the mind works fast and notices everything. An August 25 Virgo tends to see the flaw in a plan within seconds. Mutable earth makes them adaptable in method yet steady in aim, a combination built for useful work.
Independence means self-sufficiency. They prefer to fix the leaking tap themselves, learn the software rather than ask for help, and keep their own records. Owing someone a favour sits uneasily with them. In a relationship they want separate time for their own projects, and they guard their schedule closely. Freedom, to them, is a clean calendar and a skill nobody else has to provide.
Money is tracked rather than worshipped. They keep spreadsheets, compare prices without embarrassment, and buy tools before luxuries. Possessions are chosen for function, then cared for meticulously, so a good pair of boots lasts a decade. They can deny themselves treats for too long. The useful habit is a small budget line marked purely for pleasure, spent without justifying it to anyone.
Virgo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 25, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around August 24 and September 22.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on August 25 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 25 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Libra
- 2018Aquarius
- 2019Gemini → Cancer
- 2020Scorpio → Sagittarius
- 2021Aries
- 2022Leo
- 2023Sagittarius
- 2024Taurus
- 2025Virgo → Libra
- 2026Capricorn → Aquarius
Compatible signs for a Virgo
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Virgo 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 25 birthday
A well-engineered tool for something they do daily, such as a quality chef’s knife or a precise kitchen scale, wrapped neatly with a short note.
Asked about August 25
What zodiac sign is August 25?
August 25 is Virgo in every year: the Sun is at about 0°–4° Virgo that day, in the sign’s 1st decan.
Is August 25 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Virgo on August 25. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around August 24 and September 22. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is August 25?
August 25 falls in the 1st decan of Virgo. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Virgo and its ruler Mercury, which colours the Virgo Sun with a little of Virgo.
Your birthday is only the Sun
An August 25 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.