August 30 zodiac sign
Six degrees of Virgo mark the Sun on August 30, still in the first decan where Mercury rules twice, giving ambition a careful, step-by-step shape and money a ledger to live in.
Sun signVirgo
- Sun at 5°–9° Virgo
- 1st decan · Mercury
August 30 in profile
Few illusions and plenty of energy for improvement: that is early Virgo. The decan is Virgo’s own, so Mercury is both ruler and sub-ruler and the analytic side is undiluted. An August 30 Virgo is practical, organised and slightly sceptical of anything that cannot be measured. Mutable earth keeps them responsive, ready to adjust a plan when facts change. At 6° the sign is still young and eager, testing its methods against real life.
Money is a system. They know their monthly outgoings, compare insurance every year and keep receipts in labelled folders. Possessions are few and well chosen: a good bag, a reliable bicycle, a laptop kept in perfect order. Waste annoys them more than cost. They enjoy finding a bargain that is also high quality, and they mention it with quiet pride. Lending money makes them uneasy unless the terms are written down.
Ambition grows by increments. They prefer steady promotion to a sudden leap, and they build expertise until they become indispensable. Long-term goals are written down and reviewed, sometimes in a notebook kept for years. They can undervalue their own progress and wait too long to ask for recognition. The growth edge is speaking up about achievements at the time, rather than hoping they are noticed.
Virgo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Virgo for the whole of August 30, 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 30 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 30 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Sagittarius
- 2018Aries
- 2019Virgo
- 2020Capricorn → Aquarius
- 2021Gemini
- 2022Libra
- 2023Aquarius → Pisces
- 2024Cancer → Leo
- 2025Scorpio → Sagittarius
- 2026Pisces → Aries
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 30 birthday
A handsome leather document wallet or a pen engraved with their initials, useful for signing contracts and pleasing to hold for years.
Asked about August 30
What zodiac sign is August 30?
August 30 is Virgo in every year: the Sun is at about 5°–9° Virgo that day, in the sign’s 1st decan.
Is August 30 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Virgo on August 30. 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 30?
August 30 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 30 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.