Born on August 9
Your Sun is in Leo, about 16° in — the second decan, where Leo's core takes on a Jupiter flavour. Here's what the date fixes, and what only your birth time can tell you.
Your sign: Leo
The fixed fire sign that brings warmth and refuses to be small.
A Leo Sun puts the Sun in its own sign — your core identity is amplified, radiant, and visible. You generate energy that other people warm themselves on. The friend whose laugh fills the room, the colleague who turns a project into something people are proud to be part of, the host who makes a dinner party an actual event — that's you, in your element.
- ElementFire
- ModalityFixed
- RulerSun
- SeasonJuly 23 – August 22
Your decan: the second decan of Leo
Each sign is divided into three 10° decans, and each decan has a sub-ruler that shades the sign's core. Degrees 10–20 of Leo belong to Jupiter: where you grow, where you find meaning, and where life tends to be generous to you. Read it as Leo with a Jupiter accent — the fire core is unchanged, the emphasis moves.
Six of Wands
Victory · Recognition · Confidence. 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 Six of Wands 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 Leos born on August 9 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: Leo Sun with each Moon →
Classic matches for an August 9 birthday
By sun sign, Leo pairs most easily with Aries, Sagittarius, Gemini, Libra. Sun-sign compatibility is the coarse layer; the couple reading compares both full charts.
Common questions
What zodiac sign is August 9?
August 9 is Leo, the fixed fire sign ruled by Sun. The Sun sits at roughly 16° Leo on this date, in the second decan.
What decan is August 9?
The second decan of Leo (10°–20°), sub-ruled by Jupiter. Decans divide each sign into three 10° slices; the sub-ruler adds a second flavour to the sign's core — here where you grow, where you find meaning, and where life tends to be generous to you.
What tarot card is August 9?
In the Golden Dawn system each decan has a minor arcana card: for the second decan of Leo it is the Six of Wands (victory, recognition, confidence). It's a birthday card in the same way a sun sign is — one lens, not a verdict.
Does everyone born on August 9 have the same chart?
No. They share the Sun in Leo, 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 August 9 in different years can have almost nothing else in common in their charts.