September 4 zodiac sign
About 11° Virgo on September 4 places the Sun inside the Capricorn decan, where Saturn gives Virgo’s precision a long horizon and a quiet appetite for standing.
Sun signVirgo
- Sun at 10°–14° Virgo
- 2nd decan · Saturn
September 4 in profile
Here Virgo is settled and recognisable, well past the nerves of its first degrees. The second decan borrows Capricorn as its sub-sign and Saturn as its sub-ruler, so the mutable earth of Virgo meets the cardinal earth of Capricorn. The mix produces someone who improves things in order to build something lasting. A September 4 Virgo likes ladders with visible rungs: qualifications, promotions, a savings target written down and checked.
Ambition is patient. They pick a direction early, then accumulate skill a little at a time, often in a field others overlook. In a meeting they say less than the loudest person and are remembered longer because the numbers they quote turn out to be right. A five-year plan in a notebook is likely, and so is the habit of reviewing it every January. Short-term wins interest them less than a position that will still be secure in ten years.
First impressions are reserved. A firm handshake, neat clothes, a question about your work before anything about theirs. Strangers can read them as cool or even stern, and it usually takes a second meeting for the dry humour to appear. A small useful habit is offering one personal detail early, which lets people warm up faster than the Saturn manner suggests.
Virgo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Virgo for the whole of September 4, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around August 24 and September 22.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on September 4 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 September 4 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Aquarius
- 2018Gemini → Cancer
- 2019Scorpio
- 2020Aries
- 2021Leo
- 2022Sagittarius
- 2023Taurus
- 2024Virgo → Libra
- 2025Capricorn → Aquarius
- 2026Gemini
Compatible signs for a Virgo
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Virgo gets on most easily with its own element and with the two sextile signs, and feels the strongest pull from its opposite. For a September 4 birthday, in the Capricorn decan, Capricorn is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for a September 4 birthday
A good leather notebook or desk diary with their initials, the kind of object that suits long plans and lasts long enough to see them through.
Asked about September 4
What zodiac sign is September 4?
September 4 is Virgo in every year: the Sun is at about 10°–14° Virgo that day, in the sign’s 2nd decan.
Is September 4 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Virgo on September 4. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around August 24 and September 22. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is September 4?
September 4 falls in the 2nd decan of Virgo. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Capricorn and its ruler Saturn, which colours the Virgo Sun with a little of Capricorn.
Your birthday is only the Sun
A September 4 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.