August 5 zodiac sign
Twelve degrees or so into Leo, the August 5 Sun sits in the heart of the Jupiter decan, a place that pairs Leo’s family pride with the Sagittarian instinct to open the doors wide.
Sun signLeo
- Sun at 11°–15° Leo
- 2nd decan · Jupiter
August 5 in profile
Middle Leo is the sign in its comfortable, recognisable form: sunny, loyal, a little regal, sure of its worth. The Sagittarius sub-sign and its ruler Jupiter stretch the Leo circle outward, so this placement tends to treat a household as a hub rather than a fortress. An August 5 Leo likes structure built around warmth. Fixed fire supplies the persistence, and Jupiter adds a generous margin, an extra chair at every table.
Home is where they host. The sofa faces the room rather than the television, and the fridge holds enough for unannounced guests. In the family they often become the organiser of reunions and holiday plans, the one who remembers which cousin needs a lift. They want the household to reflect well on everybody in it, and a scruffy hallway bothers them more than they admit.
Conversation with them tends toward the anecdote. They narrate rather than report, so a trip to the shop becomes a tale with a twist. Messages are warm, full of exclamation marks, and arrive in bursts. Bad news they prefer to deliver in person. The growth edge is listening for the second sentence: letting someone finish a story without topping it keeps the talk flowing both ways.
Leo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 5, 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 5 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 5 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Capricorn
- 2018Taurus
- 2019Libra
- 2020Aquarius → Pisces
- 2021Cancer
- 2022Scorpio
- 2023Pisces → Aries
- 2024Leo → Virgo
- 2025Sagittarius → Capricorn
- 2026Aries → Taurus
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 5 birthday, in the Sagittarius decan, Sagittarius is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for an August 5 birthday
A large serving platter or a set of good glasses for the next gathering they host, given with a promise to come and help wash up.
Asked about August 5
What zodiac sign is August 5?
August 5 is Leo in every year: the Sun is at about 11°–15° Leo that day, in the sign’s 2nd decan.
Is August 5 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Leo on August 5. 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 5?
August 5 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 5 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.