March 20 zodiac sign
March 20 is a true cusp day: the Sun ends Pisces at 29°, the anaretic degree, and in most years crosses into Aries before the date is over.
- Sun at 28°–30° Pisces
- 3rd decan · Mars (modern: Pluto)
- Cusp birthday
- On the star Scheat
March 20 in profile
Anyone with this birthday is either Pisces or Aries, never a blend, and the year and time of birth decide which. Pisces at 29° holds the anaretic degree, the sign’s lessons concentrated, inside the Mars-ruled Scorpio decan. Aries at 0° is the zodiac’s first breath, where Mars rules both sign and decan. Mars is the shared thread, so both versions of March 20 carry more push than their calendar neighbours. Scheat, near the Sun on this date, is traditionally tied to restless ambition.
Risk looks different in each case but comes from the same place. The Pisces version takes leaps of faith, a move abroad or a career change made on instinct, after long private brooding. The Aries version jumps first and thinks on the way down. Either kind tends to find that waiting too long feels worse than failing, and both often have one story of a bold choice that changed everything.
Anger flares and fades quickly in the Aries version and runs deep and quiet in the Pisces one, yet both hate feeling trapped in a disagreement. Under the Mars influence they may slam a door or send the sharp message before reading it twice. Apologies come sincerely and fast. A short walk before replying, ten minutes outside, turns most of their fights into conversations.
Pisces or Aries?
The Sun moves from Pisces into Aries around March 20, and the exact moment shifts from year to year. Between 1930 and 2040 it happened during the UTC day of March 20 in 76 years out of 111, at a median of 15:28 UTC (14:41 UTC in births from 1980 to 2010). In 35 years the whole day was still Pisces. So a March 20 birthday is Pisces or Aries depending on the year and the time, never a blend of the two.
The Sun on March 20, year by year (UTC)
- 1970Pisces all day
- 1971Pisces all day
- 1972Aries from 12:21
- 1973Aries from 18:13
- 1974Pisces all day
- 1975Pisces all day
- 1976Aries from 11:49
- 1977Aries from 17:42
- 1978Aries from 23:33
- 1979Pisces all day
- 1980Aries from 11:10
- 1981Aries from 17:03
- 1982Aries from 22:55
- 1983Pisces all day
- 1984Aries from 10:24
- 1985Aries from 16:14
- 1986Aries from 22:03
- 1987Pisces all day
- 1988Aries from 09:39
- 1989Aries from 15:28
- 1990Aries from 21:19
- 1991Pisces all day
- 1992Aries from 08:48
- 1993Aries from 14:41
- 1994Aries from 20:28
- 1995Pisces all day
- 1996Aries from 08:03
- 1997Aries from 13:55
- 1998Aries from 19:54
- 1999Pisces all day
- 2000Aries from 07:35
- 2001Aries from 13:31
- 2002Aries from 19:16
- 2003Pisces all day
- 2004Aries from 06:48
- 2005Aries from 12:34
- 2006Aries from 18:25
- 2007Pisces all day
- 2008Aries from 05:48
- 2009Aries from 11:44
- 2010Aries from 17:32
- 2011Aries from 23:21
- 2012Aries from 05:14
- 2013Aries from 11:02
- 2014Aries from 16:57
- 2015Aries from 22:45
- 2016Aries from 04:30
- 2017Aries from 10:29
- 2018Aries from 16:15
- 2019Aries from 21:58
- 2020Aries from 03:50
- 2021Aries from 09:37
- 2022Aries from 15:33
- 2023Aries from 21:24
- 2024Aries from 03:06
- 2025Aries from 09:02
- 2026Aries from 14:45
- 2027Aries from 20:25
- 2028Aries from 02:17
- 2029Aries from 08:02
- 2030Aries from 13:52
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 March 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 March 20 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Sagittarius → Capricorn
- 2018Aries → Taurus
- 2019Virgo
- 2020Aquarius
- 2021Gemini
- 2022Libra → Scorpio
- 2023Pisces
- 2024Leo
- 2025Sagittarius
- 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. For a March 20 birthday, in the Scorpio decan, Scorpio is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for a March 20 birthday
A first-time adventure they have mentioned but never booked, such as a sailing lesson or an indoor skydiving session, ideally on or close to the birthday itself.
Asked about March 20
What zodiac sign is March 20?
March 20 can be Pisces or Aries. The Sun changed from Pisces to Aries during this date in 76 of the 111 years from 1930 to 2040, so the answer depends on the birth year, time and place. The year-by-year list above shows when; a birth chart gives the exact answer.
Is March 20 a cusp birthday?
Yes. March 20 is one of the days the Sun leaves Pisces for Aries. People call it the Pisces–Aries cusp, but there is no blended sign: someone born before the change is Pisces, after it Aries.
What decan is March 20?
March 20 falls in the 3rd decan of Pisces. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Scorpio and its ruler Mars (modern: Pluto), which colours the Pisces Sun with a little of Scorpio.
Your birthday is only the Sun
A March 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.