February 29 zodiac sign
February 29 only exists in leap years, and when it comes the Sun stands at about 10° Pisces, entering the Cancer decan, where care and imagination work together.
Sun signPisces
- Sun at 9°–12° Pisces
- 2nd decan · Moon
February 29 in profile
Ten degrees brings Pisces into its middle stretch, where the sign is most settled and typical: intuitive, compassionate and fluid. In most of these years the Sun has entered the second decan, with Cancer as sub-sign and the Moon as sub-ruler, though in some it is still at the end of the Jupiter decan. A February 29 Pisces combines mutable water’s openness with Cancer’s protective, home-building instinct. They feel deeply and act on those feelings to shelter others.
Creativity for them is emotional and often domestic. They bake elaborate cakes, sew costumes for school plays and write songs about people they love. Their art tends to tell stories of belonging and memory. Play is gentle and imaginative: dressing up, making up voices, building blanket forts with children. They create best in a cosy space with familiar music playing and someone they love nearby.
Generosity is instinctive and nurturing. They feed people, remember allergies and favourite dishes, and turn up with soup when someone is ill. Friends in trouble find a spare bed waiting. They sometimes give so much that their own needs fade from view. Letting someone else host now and then keeps care flowing in both directions and gives them a turn to rest.
Pisces all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Pisces for the whole of February 29, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around February 19 and March 20.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on February 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 February 29 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2004Gemini → Cancer
- 2008Sagittarius
- 2012Taurus → Gemini
- 2016Scorpio → Sagittarius
- 2020Taurus
- 2024Libra → Scorpio
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. For a February 29 birthday, in the Cancer decan, Cancer is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for a February 29 birthday
A handmade quilt or a family recipe written out in a loved one’s handwriting and framed, a gift with the sentimental warmth that the Cancer decan prizes.
Asked about February 29
What zodiac sign is February 29?
February 29 is Pisces in every year: the Sun is at about 9°–12° Pisces that day, in the sign’s 2nd decan.
Is February 29 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Pisces on February 29. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around February 19 and March 20. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is February 29?
February 29 falls in the 2nd decan of Pisces. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Cancer and its ruler Moon, which colours the Pisces Sun with a little of Cancer. In some years the Sun crosses into the next decan during the day.
Your birthday is only the Sun
A February 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.