May 3 zodiac sign
May 3 puts the Sun near 12° Taurus, in the second decan, where Venus’s warmth meets Mercury’s attention to detail and affection is shown through careful, practical care.
Sun signTaurus
- Sun at 11°–15° Taurus
- 2nd decan · Mercury
May 3 in profile
Twelve degrees in, Taurus is a sign that has found its pace and sees no reason to change it. A May 3 Taurus carries the sign’s staying power in full. The second decan, Virgo by sub-sign and ruled by Mercury, sharpens the senses into discernment. They notice the faint smell of rain, the slight change in a friend’s voice, the bill that is two pounds wrong. Pleasure and precision travel together, and neither is rushed.
In love they are slow to start and steady once started. Attraction begins with the senses: a voice, a scent, the way someone handles food. Then Mercury takes notes. They court with acts of service, fixing a squeaky door or bringing the exact snack a partner mentioned once in passing. Grand declarations embarrass them. A partner who values reliability over fireworks finds this Taurus very easy to love.
Rest matters more to them than they admit. A lazy morning with good coffee, a long bath or an afternoon in the garden restores them in a way that holidays packed with sights never do. Mercury’s influence can keep the mind making lists even on the sofa. The useful habit is a short ritual that marks rest as rest, a walk without the phone or a book with no purpose, so the body and the head stop together.
Taurus all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 3, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around April 21 and May 20.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on May 3 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 3 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Leo
- 2018Sagittarius
- 2019Aries → Taurus
- 2020Virgo
- 2021Aquarius
- 2022Gemini
- 2023Libra
- 2024Pisces
- 2025Cancer → Leo
- 2026Scorpio → Sagittarius
Compatible signs for a Taurus
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Taurus gets on most easily with its own element and with the two sextile signs, and feels the strongest pull from its opposite. For a May 3 birthday, in the Virgo decan, Virgo is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for a May 3 birthday
A weekend morning arranged for them: breakfast in bed, fresh flowers and a few unscheduled hours, with every small chore handled quietly in advance.
Asked about May 3
What zodiac sign is May 3?
May 3 is Taurus in every year: the Sun is at about 11°–15° Taurus that day, in the sign’s 2nd decan.
Is May 3 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Taurus on May 3. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around April 21 and May 20. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is May 3?
May 3 falls in the 2nd decan of Taurus. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Virgo and its ruler Mercury, which colours the Taurus Sun with a little of Virgo.
Your birthday is only the Sun
A May 3 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.