May 7 zodiac sign
On May 7 the Sun stands near 16° Taurus, and the Virgo decan’s Mercury gives this home-loving earth sign a careful way with words and a fondness for small routines.
Sun signTaurus
- Sun at 15°–19° Taurus
- 2nd decan · Mercury
May 7 in profile
Past the halfway point of Taurus, the sign starts to feel more lived-in. At about 16°, a May 7 Taurus has the full fixed-earth character: steady loyalty, a strong body memory, a preference for doing things the way that worked last time. The second decan’s sub-sign is Virgo and its sub-ruler Mercury, so this steadiness comes with sorting and service. They keep the spare keys, the tax folder and the family recipes in good order.
Home is a working system for them. There is a place for everything, a regular shopping day and a meal plan that somehow never feels rigid. They are the relative who hosts the big family lunch and quietly checks the elderly neighbour has milk. Children in their life learn practical skills early, how to fold a shirt or change a fuse, taught patiently and more than once.
Communication is measured and plain. They say what they mean in few words, prefer a phone call to a long message thread and dislike being hurried into an answer. Mercury makes them good at explaining how something works step by step. The risk is saying too little when something hurts. Naming the small irritation on the day it happens keeps it from settling into a lasting grudge.
Taurus all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Taurus for the whole of May 7, 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 7 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 7 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Libra
- 2018Aquarius
- 2019Gemini
- 2020Scorpio
- 2021Pisces → Aries
- 2022Cancer → Leo
- 2023Sagittarius
- 2024Taurus
- 2025Virgo
- 2026Capricorn
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 7 birthday, in the Virgo decan, Virgo is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for a May 7 birthday
A handwritten family recipe book, either a beautiful blank one for them to fill or one compiled by relatives, each adding a dish and a short memory.
Asked about May 7
What zodiac sign is May 7?
May 7 is Taurus in every year: the Sun is at about 15°–19° Taurus that day, in the sign’s 2nd decan.
Is May 7 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Taurus on May 7. 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 7?
May 7 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 7 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.