May 25 zodiac sign
May 25 has the Sun at about 4° Gemini, where the doubly Mercurial first decan makes home a busy hub of news, plans and voices.
Sun signGemini
- Sun at 2°–6° Gemini
- 1st decan · Mercury
May 25 in profile
At 4° Gemini, the air sign is still early and exuberant. Its mutable nature keeps things moving, and its ruler Mercury governs language, siblings, short trips and the everyday exchange of information. The first decan echoes the theme, its Gemini sub-sign and Mercury sub-ruler doubling the message. A May 25 Gemini notices everything and passes most of it on. They are the family’s central switchboard, always knowing who called whom and what was decided.
Home is lively and slightly chaotic. There may be stacks of books on several surfaces, a radio playing in the kitchen and a fridge door covered in notes. Siblings and cousins matter a lot to them, and they keep in touch with relatives others have lost track of. They like a household where people come and go, and they find a silent, tidy house a little unsettling.
Communication is their native skill. They text quickly, switch easily between formal and casual tone and can explain a tricky idea three different ways until it lands. They enjoy debate for its own sake. The risk is talking over people or answering before the question is finished. The useful habit is a deliberate pause of a few seconds before replying, which makes their quick wit feel generous.
Gemini all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Gemini for the whole of May 25, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around May 22 and June 20.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on May 25 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 May 25 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Taurus → Gemini
- 2018Libra
- 2019Aquarius
- 2020Cancer
- 2021Scorpio
- 2022Aries
- 2023Leo
- 2024Sagittarius → Capricorn
- 2025Taurus
- 2026Virgo → Libra
Compatible signs for a Gemini
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Gemini 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 May 25 birthday
A weekend trip to a city they have never visited, with a walking tour and a list of bookshops and cafés, enough novelty to feed a week of stories.
Asked about May 25
What zodiac sign is May 25?
May 25 is Gemini in every year: the Sun is at about 2°–6° Gemini that day, in the sign’s 1st decan.
Is May 25 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Gemini on May 25. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around May 22 and June 20. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is May 25?
May 25 falls in the 1st decan of Gemini. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Gemini and its ruler Mercury, which colours the Gemini Sun with a little of Gemini.
Your birthday is only the Sun
A May 25 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.