February 20 zodiac sign
February 20 places the Sun at roughly 1° Pisces, at the fresh start of the sign, where Jupiter widens the Piscean imagination and the Aquarian season has only just ended.
Sun signPisces
- Sun at 0°–3° Pisces
- 1st decan · Jupiter (modern: Neptune)
- Near the cusp
February 20 in profile
The first degree of Pisces is mutable water at its newest: open, absorbent and still learning where its edges are. February 20 falls in the first decan, where Pisces is both sign and sub-sign, and Jupiter, the traditional ruler, doubles as sub-ruler (modern astrologers name Neptune). The result is a February 20 Pisces with a generous, wide-ranging inner life. The date is Pisces in almost every case, though a birth far from Greenwich time may still be Aquarius, so a chart is worth checking then.
Taste is soft and atmospheric. They choose colours that look like the sea in winter, collect secondhand fabrics and light candles at four in the afternoon. Clothes are chosen for how they feel rather than how they look, with loose knits and worn denim. Trends wash past them, but a song, a film or a novel can change their whole wardrobe for a season.
Home is a refuge, full of plants, pictures and objects with stories attached. Family members bring them their troubles, and they listen for hours. They may take on a parent’s worry or a sibling’s heartache as if it were their own. A closing ritual for the day, such as a bath or a written list, marks where other people’s problems end.
Pisces near the cusp
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 20 in Greenwich time (UTC). The change of sign happens within a day of this date, though, so a birth in a time zone far from UTC (New Zealand, Hawaii or the Pacific) can fall in Aquarius. If that is you, the birth chart calculator settles it from your time and city.
Calculated by Lunonis from the same ephemeris code as our charts (astronomy-engine, checked against Swiss Ephemeris): geocentric, tropical zodiac, true equinox of date. Times are UTC: add or subtract your time zone’s offset, which can move the change to the day before or after.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on February 20 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 February 20 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Sagittarius
- 2018Aries → Taurus
- 2019Virgo
- 2020Capricorn → Aquarius
- 2021Gemini
- 2022Libra
- 2023Aquarius → Pisces
- 2024Cancer
- 2025Scorpio → Sagittarius
- 2026Aries
Compatible signs for a Pisces
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Pisces 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 a February 20 birthday
A soft wool throw and a set of scented candles, comfort objects that suit an early Pisces who treats home as the place to recover from the world.
Asked about February 20
What zodiac sign is February 20?
February 20 is Pisces. In Greenwich time the Sun is in Pisces all day in every year from 1930 to 2040; only a birth in a time zone far from UTC can fall in Aquarius.
Is February 20 a cusp birthday?
Only just. February 20 is next to the day the Sun changes sign, so it is Pisces in UTC but can be Aquarius for births in far eastern or western time zones. There is no blend of the two: a chart with the birth time and city gives one sign.
What decan is February 20?
February 20 falls in the 1st decan of Pisces. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Pisces and its ruler Jupiter (modern: Neptune), which colours the Pisces Sun with a little of Pisces.
Your birthday is only the Sun
A February 20 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.