August 29 zodiac sign
Around 5° Virgo on August 29, the Sun works in the Mercury decan, where courage is calculated in advance and disagreements are settled with facts rather than volume.
Sun signVirgo
- Sun at 4°–8° Virgo
- 1st decan · Mercury
August 29 in profile
Virgo in its early degrees is earnest and alert, with a new-season urge to sort and improve. The first decan keeps the sign pure: Virgo sub-sign, Mercury sub-ruler, the same planet that rules the sign. An August 29 Virgo has a sharp, analytical temperament, adaptable thanks to mutable earth and grounded in practical results. These degrees bring a fresh, somewhat untested quality, as if each skill is being tried out for the first time.
Risk is weighed, never ignored. They change career, move abroad or start a business, but only after the numbers add up and a fallback is in place. Their courage is the kind that reads the small print and still signs. People sometimes mistake their caution for timidity, then watch them take a bigger step than anyone else once the plan is ready.
In a disagreement they reach for evidence. They quote exactly what was said, list the dates and point out the inconsistency, which can feel like cross-examination to the other person. Anger stays cool on the surface and shows as precision. Afterwards they replay the argument for days. The useful habit is naming the feeling as well as the facts, so the other person can meet them halfway.
Virgo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 29, 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 29 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 29 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Sagittarius
- 2018Aries
- 2019Leo → Virgo
- 2020Capricorn
- 2021Taurus → Gemini
- 2022Virgo → Libra
- 2023Aquarius
- 2024Cancer
- 2025Scorpio
- 2026Pisces
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 29 birthday
A well-organised first adventure, such as a guided climbing day or a sailing lesson, with safety notes and a kit list provided so they can enjoy the risk.
Asked about August 29
What zodiac sign is August 29?
August 29 is Virgo in every year: the Sun is at about 4°–8° Virgo that day, in the sign’s 1st decan.
Is August 29 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Virgo on August 29. 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 29?
August 29 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 29 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.