♒︎ Sun at ~16° Aquarius · second decan · Mercury

February 5 zodiac sign: Aquarius, second decan

If you were born on February 5, your sign is Aquarius, the air sign ruled by Uranus: the Sun is in Aquarius on this date in every year from 1980 to 2030. The Sun sits about 16° into Aquarius on this date, in the second decan, where Aquarius's core takes on a Mercury flavour. Here's what the date fixes, and what only your birth time can tell you.

Your sign: Aquarius

The fixed air sign that thinks in systems and refuses to inherit its opinions.

An Aquarius Sun is built around originality and systemic thinking. You don't take "this is how it's done" as a sufficient reason for anything. You ask why, and if the answer is just tradition, you're free to do something different. This makes you a natural innovator, an effective dissident, and an occasional pain in the ass to people who like consensus.

The date fixes the Sun; the hour fixes the rest. A Aquarius born February 5 around sunrise has Aquarius rising, and a different first impression from one born at dawn. Your rising sign needs the birth time; the twelve Aquarius Sun combinations show what each one changes.

Aquarius dates, traits & compatibility → · What a Aquarius birth chart looks like →

In the US (2000–2014), an average of 10,893 babies were born on each February 5, rank 312 of 366 dates; Aquarius is number 11 of 12 signs (7.93%). What's the most common zodiac sign?

The Moon on February 5, 1980–2030

Across the 51 years from 1980 to 2030, the Moon at noon UTC on February 5 was most often in Gemini and Scorpio (6 years each) and least often in Aries, Virgo, and Capricorn (3 years each). Unlike the Sun, the Moon sign depends on the birth year. On February 5, 2026, the Moon moves from Virgo into Libra at 09:32 UTC.

In 24 of those 51 years (47%) the Moon changed sign during February 5 itself, so in those years the birth time decides the Moon as well as the rising sign. Cells with an arrow mark them, with the UTC time of the change. The Moon was exactly full on February 5 in 1985 and 2023, and new in 2000.

Find your birth year. One sign means the Moon spent the whole UTC day there; an arrow means it changed sign that day, at the UTC time shown: born before it, the first sign; after it, the second. The Moon sign calculator settles it in seconds; your birth chart adds the rising sign and houses.

Times in UTC: a birth late in the evening in the Americas, or early in the morning in Asia, can fall on the neighbouring UTC date.

February 2026: full moon February 1, 2026, Leo · new moon February 17, 2026, Aquarius.

Your decan: the second decan of Aquarius

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 Aquarius belong to Mercury: how you think, learn, communicate, and process information. Read it as Aquarius with a Mercury accent — the air core is unchanged, the emphasis moves.

Decan tarot card · Golden Dawn attribution

Six of Swords

Transition · Passage · Moving on. 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 Swords in full on My Day Check →

All the tarot cards for February 5: decan, sign, ruling planet and year card →

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 Aquarians born on February 5 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.

Born February 5? Add your year, time and place

Your Moon and rising depend on the year and hour. Computed here in a few seconds — then your full chart with a preview of its reading, no sign-up.

Or browse the twelve possibilities: Aquarius Sun with each Moon → · just my Moon sign · how the free birth chart calculator works

Classic matches for a February 5 birthday

By sun sign, Aquarius pairs most easily with Gemini, Libra, Aries, Sagittarius. Sun-sign compatibility is the coarse layer; the couple reading compares both full charts.

Common questions

What zodiac sign is February 5?

February 5 is Aquarius, the fixed air sign ruled by Uranus. The Sun sits at roughly 16° Aquarius on this date, in the second decan.

What decan is February 5?

The second decan of Aquarius (10°–20°), 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 February 5?

In the Golden Dawn system each decan has a minor arcana card: for the second decan of Aquarius it is the Six of Swords (transition, passage, moving on). It's a birthday card in the same way a sun sign is — one lens, not a verdict.

What Moon sign is someone born on February 5?

It depends on the year, and in 47% of years on the hour too. For example: in 1980, Virgo or Libra; in 1990, Gemini; in 2000, Aquarius; in 2010, Scorpio; in 2020, Gemini or Cancer. Over 1980–2030 the Moon on February 5 was most often in Gemini and Scorpio. A birth time and place pin it down.

Does everyone born on February 5 have the same chart?

No. They share the Sun in Aquarius, 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 February 5 in different years can have almost nothing else in common in their charts.