February 29 Zodiac Sign: Pisces
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- Date
- February 29
- Sun sign
- Pisces
- Usual range
- February 19 to March 20
- Place in sign
- middle, decan 2
- Sub-ruler
- Moon
- Element
- Water
- Modality
- Mutable
- Ruling planet
- Neptune
- Changeover
- No
- Constellation
- Aquarius
February 29 exists only in leap years. The figures below use those years alone.
Pisces holds the Sun at noon UTC on February 29. That is true in every year of the 11 leap years from 1992 to 2032.
Pisces dates are February 19 to March 20. February 29 falls in the middle part of Pisces. It is a water sign, mutable, ruled by Neptune. Imaginative, gentle, porous to other people's moods.
In 2024 at noon UTC, the Sun on February 29 is in the second decan of Pisces, the middle 10 degrees of the sign. The triplicity sub-ruler of that slice is Moon.
The constellation behind the Sun on February 29 is Aquarius. That is the true place of the Sun in the stars, and it is a separate fact from the astrological sign.
Moon, Rising, Mercury, Venus, and Mars still need a birth time and place. This page only settles the Sun sign.
Sign page: Pisces. Check this birthday in the zodiac calculator.
Questions
What zodiac sign is February 29?
February 29 is Pisces. These pages read the Sun at noon UTC, which is the same tropical sign the zodiac calculator reports for a birth at 12:00 UTC. From 1992 to 2032 that noon figure stays in Pisces. Use a birth time in the calculator if you were born near a nearby changeover.
Is February 29 a cusp birthday?
No. Noon UTC on February 29 stays in Pisces for every year from 1992 to 2032. A cusp in this system is a day when the Sun actually changes sign, which this date does not. Edge days of February 19 to March 20 are the ones that still need a year and a clock.
What is the February 29 star sign?
People searching for the February 29 star sign usually mean the Sun sign. On this page that is Pisces, a water sign, mutable, ruled by Neptune, in the middle decan with Moon as the triplicity sub-ruler. Pisces dates are February 19 to March 20. The constellation behind the Sun is a separate fact.