August 27 zodiac sign
August 27 sets the Sun near 4° Virgo, in the double-Mercury first decan, where creativity comes through craft and kindness arrives in the form of practical help.
Sun signVirgo
- Sun at 2°–6° Virgo
- 1st decan · Mercury
August 27 in profile
Fresh, observant and keen to make things work, Virgo in these opening degrees wants to be useful more than admired. Virgo is both sign and sub-sign here, and Mercury rules the decan as well as the sign, so the August 27 mind is quick, verbal and alert to detail. Mutable earth keeps it adaptable. In these first degrees the urge to help is bright and a little anxious, eager to prove itself through good work rather than display.
Creativity shows up as craft. They knit, build models, bake bread, write tidy poems or restore old furniture. Play needs a goal: a puzzle with a solution, a recipe to perfect. They enjoy word games and are hard to beat at them. Praise for their work embarrasses them slightly, but they quietly keep every compliment. Their sketchbooks fill with small, exact studies of a leaf, a teacup or a hand.
Helping is their way of loving. They proofread a friend’s CV, sort a parent’s paperwork and bring soup when someone is ill, all without being asked twice. The trouble is that help can slide into correction, and some people hear advice as criticism. The useful habit is asking what kind of help is wanted first, then offering exactly that and no more.
Virgo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 27, 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 27 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 27 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Scorpio
- 2018Pisces
- 2019Cancer → Leo
- 2020Sagittarius → Capricorn
- 2021Aries → Taurus
- 2022Leo → Virgo
- 2023Capricorn
- 2024Gemini
- 2025Libra
- 2026Aquarius → Pisces
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 27 birthday
A craft kit or fine materials for their current hobby, such as good yarn, wood-carving tools or a special flour, with time set aside to use it.
Asked about August 27
What zodiac sign is August 27?
August 27 is Virgo in every year: the Sun is at about 2°–6° Virgo that day, in the sign’s 1st decan.
Is August 27 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Virgo on August 27. 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 27?
August 27 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 27 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.