Birthdays

Born on August 11

Sun sign
Leo — every year, 1940–2030
Sun degrees
17°56′ Leo – 19°20′ Leo · noon UTC, 1940–2030
Decan
second decan of Leo — traditional ruler Jupiter
This year
August 11, 2026: Sun 18°51′ Leo · Moon in Leo at noon UTC

The second decan of Leo — the wide, Jupiter-ruled middle — reaches its far edge just past this date, and August 11 gets its last full-strength day. Everything expansive about Leo is still in play here, but with a late-chapter clarity: breadth that has learned to finish what it opens.

Breadth before the edge

This birthday carries the Jupiter decan’s signature — the Leo Sun’s warmth scaled up to groups, plans, and long horizons — with an unusual amount of follow-through. Where earlier dates in the decan start bonfires, August 11 has learned to keep one burning through weather. The character reads as generous and durable at once: the person who not only invites everyone in but is still holding the door years later. It’s the difference between charisma and hospitality — this date has both, and knows which one keeps people.

Generous partner, ambitious colleague

In relationships this date gives at scale — time, plans, benefit of the doubt — and prefers partners with their own horizon; being someone’s entire world flatters it for a month and suffocates it by spring. In careers it splits the difference between dreamer and operator: big-picture enough to set direction, proud enough to deliver. The best roles come with both a mission and a masthead.

Finishing what the heart started

The friction is the last ten percent. Jupiter-decan enthusiasm is front-loaded; projects and even friendships get magnificent openings and quiet, unattended middles. What this birthday starts, three people usually finish — or nobody does. The growth edge is unglamorous: staying at the party after hosting stops being fun, closing loops that no longer photograph well. A finished small thing beats a magnificent abandoned one — this date benefits from the reminder taped somewhere visible.

Past this point the sign changes character, but that’s the calendar’s story. Yours runs on the specific minute — Moon, houses, rising sign — and the birth chart calculator works all of it out from your time and place.

The date, answered

What zodiac sign is August 11?

Leo. In every year from 1940 through 2030, the Sun is in Leo on August 11 — between 17°56′ Leo and 19°20′ Leo at noon universal time.

Is August 11 on the cusp?

No. Across 1940–2030 the Sun sits at least 10.7° inside Leo on August 11, so the sign never changes with the year.

What decan is August 11?

The second decan of Leo (10°–20°), whose traditional ruler is Jupiter.

What degree is the Sun on August 11?

Between 17°56′ Leo and 19°20′ Leo at noon universal time, depending on the year — the calendar drifts about a quarter degree per year against the Sun and resets on leap years. Your exact degree needs your birth date, year, and time.

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