August 4 zodiac sign
An August 4 Leo has the Sun at roughly 11° of the sign, firmly in the second decan, where Jupiter’s Sagittarian breadth gives the familiar Leo warmth an expansive, storytelling edge.
Sun signLeo
- Sun at 10°–14° Leo
- 2nd decan · Jupiter
August 4 in profile
Settled degrees show the sign at its most characteristic, and 11° Leo is no exception: dignified, affectionate, slightly theatrical, built for steady effort. The Sagittarius sub-sign brings Jupiter into the picture, and with it humour, a bigger vocabulary and a love of the grand gesture. This is fire that wants to inspire as well as shine. Fixed modality keeps it consistent, so the August 4 personality rarely changes its tune from one week to the next.
Strangers meet the big hello first. They stand straight, use names, and hold eye contact long enough to feel like a spotlight. At a wedding they are already chatting to the band before the starters arrive. Some people find them a little much at first; most remember them afterwards. The manner is open-handed, though they quietly notice who did not return the warmth.
Play is serious business. They throw themselves into charades, karaoke, amateur dramatics or painting large canvases with more enthusiasm than polish. Creative work needs an audience, even an audience of one, and private projects tend to stall without feedback. The useful habit is finishing something small and sharing it, a single song recorded or a sketch framed, instead of waiting for the masterpiece.
Leo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 4, 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 4 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 4 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Sagittarius → Capricorn
- 2018Taurus
- 2019Virgo → Libra
- 2020Aquarius
- 2021Gemini → Cancer
- 2022Libra → Scorpio
- 2023Pisces
- 2024Leo
- 2025Sagittarius
- 2026Aries
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 4 birthday, in the Sagittarius decan, Sagittarius is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for an August 4 birthday
A paid session with a singing teacher, a pottery wheel or an improv class, framed as play rather than self-improvement, so they can show off at the end.
Asked about August 4
What zodiac sign is August 4?
August 4 is Leo in every year: the Sun is at about 10°–14° Leo that day, in the sign’s 2nd decan.
Is August 4 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Leo on August 4. 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 4?
August 4 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 4 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.