Born on April 20
A cusp birthday. In most years the Sun crosses from Aries into Taurus during April 20, so people born this day are one or the other depending on the hour. At noon UTC it's Taurus in 88% of years.
Aries or Taurus? Check your year
The Sun's entry into Taurus shifts by a few hours from year to year. Find your birth year, convert your birth time to UTC, and compare: born before the time shown, you're Aries; after it, Taurus. Years missing from the list had the crossing on a neighbouring day (the Sun was in one sign for the whole of April 20).
Not sure about the time zone or the minutes? Compute your chart — it does the conversion and settles the sign.
Your sign: Taurus (or Aries)
The fixed earth sign that builds slowly, holds firmly, and refuses to be hurried.
A Taurus Sun makes your identity around steadiness, sensuality, and the long game. You build slowly — and that's a feature, not a bug. While faster signs sprint and burn out, you're still walking, still showing up, and twenty years later you have something built. Comfort matters to you in a way that surprises people who think comfort is shallow: a good meal, a familiar bed, a body that feels at home in itself. You don't apologise for any of it.
- ElementEarth
- ModalityFixed
- RulerVenus
- SeasonApril 20 – May 20
Full Taurus guide → · What a Taurus birth chart looks like → · Aries guide →
Your decan: the first decan of Taurus
Each sign is divided into three 10° decans, and each decan has a sub-ruler that shades the sign's core. Degrees 0–10 of Taurus belong to Mercury: how you think, learn, communicate, and process information. Read it as Taurus with a Mercury accent — the earth core is unchanged, the emphasis moves.
Five of Pentacles
Hardship · Exclusion · Recovery. The card assigned to this ten-degree slice of the zodiac — a birthday card in the same sense a sun sign is a birthday sign: one lens on the date, not a verdict.
Read the Five of Pentacles in full on My Day Check →What the date can't tell you
The Sun is one placement out of ten. Your Moon sign changes every two to three days, so Taureans born on April 20 in different years have different Moons; your rising sign changes every two hours and needs a birth time and place. Those two carry most of what people mean by "personality" in a chart.
Or browse the twelve possibilities: Taurus Sun with each Moon →
Classic matches for an April 20 birthday
By sun sign, Taurus pairs most easily with Virgo, Capricorn, Cancer, Pisces. Sun-sign compatibility is the coarse layer; the couple reading compares both full charts.
Common questions
Is April 20 Aries or Taurus?
Both are possible. On April 20 the Sun moves from Aries into Taurus in most years, at a time that ranges from 00:35 UTC to 15:49 UTC UTC across 1980–2030 (in some years the crossing falls on the neighbouring day). Convert your birth time to UTC and compare it with the crossing for your year in the table above — before it you're Aries, after it Taurus.
What zodiac sign is April 20?
April 20 is a cusp day between Aries and Taurus; at noon UTC it falls in Taurus in 88% of years between 1980 and 2030. Your birth year and hour decide it.
What decan is April 20?
The first decan of Taurus (0°–10°), sub-ruled by Mercury. Decans divide each sign into three 10° slices; the sub-ruler adds a second flavour to the sign's core — here how you think, learn, communicate, and process information.
What tarot card is April 20?
In the Golden Dawn system each decan has a minor arcana card: for the first decan of Taurus it is the Five of Pentacles (hardship, exclusion, recovery). It's a birthday card in the same way a sun sign is — one lens, not a verdict.
Does everyone born on April 20 have the same chart?
No. They share the Sun in Taurus or Aries, but the Moon changes sign every two to three days, the rising sign every two hours, and the outer planets by year. Two people born April 20 in different years can have almost nothing else in common in their charts.