In love
Romantic and demonstrative. Wants to be admired, not merely tolerated.
Settled date · day 11 of 32 in the sign
August 2 zodiac sign: Leo
The August 2 zodiac sign is Leo in every year from 1930 to 2029: on that date the Sun stands 10°13′ into the sign, 10 days past its start and 21 days before Virgo begins.
- Sun sign
- Leo at noon in every year 1930–2029
- US births a day
- 11,929 #58 of 366 dates
- Day of the year
- 214th 215th in leap years
- Sun at noon 2026
- 10°13′ of Leo
Births: US Social Security Administration 2000–2014. Sun: NASA JPL DE440.
How common is this birthday
August 2 among the 366 days
August 2 averages 11,929 births a day in the US — the 58th most common of the 366 dates, 5.1% above the average day. The deep dips are holidays.
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Jupiter-ruled decan of Leo
Decan
2 of 3 · 10°–20°
Sub-ruler
Jupiter
Sign ruler
Sun
Sun at noon, 2026
10°13′
Jupiter widens the sign — more appetite, more optimism, and less patience with detail. The middle ten degrees are Leo at full strength: past the entry from Cancer, not yet leaning toward Virgo.
Personality
August 2 birthday personality
People born on August 2 are Leo, and the sign is read as warmth, presence and the need to be seen doing it. Genuinely generous, and lifts the mood of a room by walking into it.
The 2nd carries the number of the pair, and the talent it points to is working with and through other people. Numerologists describe those born on this day as unusually alert to atmosphere — they register a shift in tone, a hurt silence or an unspoken disagreement before most people in the room. Birthday number 2 in full →
At work
Natural in front-facing roles. Chafes when the credit goes elsewhere.
Stone and flower
The August birthstones are peridot and spinel (yellow-green), and the month's flowers are the gladiolus and poppy.
Look up your birth year
Every year, computed
All 100 years for August 2. Each row is calculated for that exact day — sun position, life path, the Moon's sign and nakshatra, and which planets were retrograde. Find your year.
| Year | Sun | Life path | Moon | Nakshatra | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Leo 9.46° | 5 | Scorpio | Vishakha 3 | Saturn |
| 1931 | Leo 9.22° | 6 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | Saturn |
| 1932 | Leo 9.95° | 7 | Leo | Ashlesha 1 | Saturn |
| 1933 | Leo 9.72° | 8 | Sagittarius | Mula 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1934 | Leo 9.49° | 9 | Taurus | Bharani 2 | Saturn |
| 1935 | Leo 9.26° | 1 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 3 | Saturn |
| 1936 | Leo 9.98° | 11 | Aquarius | Uttara Ashadha 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1937 | Leo 9.75° | 3 | Gemini | Rohini 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1938 | Leo 9.52° | 4 | Scorpio | Swati 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1939 | Leo 9.29° | 5 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 2 | Mercury Mars Jupiter |
| 1940 | Leo 10.02° | 6 | Cancer | Punarvasu 3 | — |
| 1941 | Leo 9.78° | 7 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 4 | — |
| 1942 | Leo 9.55° | 8 | Aries | Revati 4 | — |
| 1943 | Leo 9.32° | 9 | Leo | Magha 1 | — |
| 1944 | Leo 10.04° | 1 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 2 | — |
| 1945 | Leo 9.81° | 11 | Gemini | Krittika 4 | — |
| 1946 | Leo 9.58° | 3 | Libra | Hasta 3 | Mercury |
| 1947 | Leo 9.35° | 4 | Aquarius | Shravana 4 | — |
| 1948 | Leo 10.07° | 5 | Cancer | Ardra 1 | Jupiter |
| 1949 | Leo 9.84° | 6 | Scorpio | Vishakha 3 | Jupiter |
| 1950 | Leo 9.62° | 7 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 2 | Jupiter |
| 1951 | Leo 9.39° | 8 | Leo | Pushya 3 | — |
| 1952 | Leo 10.11° | 9 | Sagittarius | Mula 1 | Mercury |
| 1953 | Leo 9.88° | 1 | Taurus | Bharani 3 | Mercury |
| 1954 | Leo 9.65° | 11 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 1 | — |
| 1955 | Leo 9.42° | 3 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 2 | — |
| 1956 | Leo 10.14° | 4 | Gemini | Rohini 4 | — |
| 1957 | Leo 9.91° | 5 | Scorpio | Swati 2 | Saturn |
| 1958 | Leo 9.68° | 6 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 4 | Saturn |
| 1959 | Leo 9.45° | 7 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1960 | Leo 10.17° | 8 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1961 | Leo 9.94° | 9 | Aries | Ashwini 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1962 | Leo 9.71° | 1 | Virgo | Magha 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1963 | Leo 9.48° | 11 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | Saturn |
| 1964 | Leo 10.2° | 3 | Taurus | Krittika 3 | Saturn |
| 1965 | Leo 9.97° | 4 | Libra | Chitra 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1966 | Leo 9.74° | 5 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 2 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1967 | Leo 9.51° | 6 | Gemini | Mrigashira 3 | Saturn |
| 1968 | Leo 10.23° | 7 | Scorpio | Vishakha 2 | — |
| 1969 | Leo 10° | 8 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 4 | — |
| 1970 | Leo 9.77° | 9 | Leo | Ashlesha 1 | — |
| 1971 | Leo 9.55° | 1 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 2 | Mars |
| 1972 | Leo 10.27° | 11 | Taurus | Bharani 2 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1973 | Leo 10.04° | 3 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 3 | Jupiter |
| 1974 | Leo 9.82° | 4 | Aquarius | Uttara Ashadha 4 | Jupiter |
| 1975 | Leo 9.58° | 5 | Gemini | Rohini 1 | — |
| 1976 | Leo 10.31° | 6 | Scorpio | Swati 2 | — |
| 1977 | Leo 10.07° | 7 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 2 | — |
| 1978 | Leo 9.84° | 8 | Cancer | Punarvasu 3 | — |
| 1979 | Leo 9.61° | 9 | Scorpio | Vishakha 4 | Mercury |
| 1980 | Leo 10.32° | 1 | Aries | Ashwini 2 | — |
| 1981 | Leo 10.09° | 11 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 1 | — |
| 1982 | Leo 9.87° | 3 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 2 | — |
| 1983 | Leo 9.63° | 4 | Taurus | Bharani 3 | — |
| 1984 | Leo 10.36° | 5 | Libra | Chitra 1 | Jupiter |
| 1985 | Leo 10.13° | 6 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 4 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1986 | Leo 9.9° | 7 | Cancer | Ardra 1 | Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn |
| 1987 | Leo 9.68° | 8 | Scorpio | Swati 2 | Saturn |
| 1988 | Leo 10.4° | 9 | Aries | Revati 1 | Saturn |
| 1989 | Leo 10.17° | 1 | Leo | Ashlesha 3 | Saturn |
| 1990 | Leo 9.94° | 11 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 4 | Saturn |
| 1991 | Leo 9.71° | 3 | Aries | Ashwini 2 | Venus Saturn |
| 1992 | Leo 10.43° | 4 | Libra | Uttara Phalguni 4 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1993 | Leo 10.2° | 5 | Aquarius | Shravana 2 | Saturn |
| 1994 | Leo 9.97° | 6 | Gemini | Rohini 3 | Saturn |
| 1995 | Leo 9.74° | 7 | Libra | Chitra 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1996 | Leo 10.46° | 8 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1997 | Leo 10.23° | 9 | Leo | Pushya 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1998 | Leo 10° | 1 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 2 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1999 | Leo 9.76° | 11 | Aries | Revati 1 | Mercury Venus |
| 2000 | Leo 10.49° | 3 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 2 | — |
| 2001 | Leo 10.26° | 4 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 1 | — |
| 2002 | Leo 10.02° | 5 | Taurus | Krittika 1 | — |
| 2003 | Leo 9.8° | 6 | Libra | Uttara Phalguni 4 | Mars |
| 2004 | Leo 10.52° | 7 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 2 | — |
| 2005 | Leo 10.29° | 8 | Cancer | Ardra 4 | Mercury |
| 2006 | Leo 10.07° | 9 | Scorpio | Swati 4 | — |
| 2007 | Leo 9.83° | 1 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | Venus Jupiter |
| 2008 | Leo 10.56° | 11 | Leo | Magha 1 | Jupiter |
| 2009 | Leo 10.33° | 3 | Capricorn | Mula 3 | Jupiter |
| 2010 | Leo 10.1° | 4 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | Jupiter |
| 2011 | Leo 9.87° | 5 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 3 | — |
| 2012 | Leo 10.59° | 6 | Aquarius | Shravana 4 | Mercury |
| 2013 | Leo 10.36° | 7 | Gemini | Mrigashira 2 | — |
| 2014 | Leo 10.13° | 8 | Libra | Chitra 2 | — |
| 2015 | Leo 9.89° | 9 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 3 | Venus |
| 2016 | Leo 10.61° | 1 | Leo | Pushya 3 | Saturn |
| 2017 | Leo 10.39° | 11 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 1 | Saturn |
| 2018 | Leo 10.15° | 3 | Aries | Revati 1 | Mercury Mars Saturn |
| 2019 | Leo 9.92° | 4 | Leo | Magha 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2020 | Leo 10.65° | 5 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2021 | Leo 10.41° | 6 | Gemini | Krittika 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2022 | Leo 10.19° | 7 | Libra | Hasta 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2023 | Leo 9.96° | 8 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 1 | Venus Saturn |
| 2024 | Leo 10.68° | 9 | Cancer | Punarvasu 2 | Saturn |
| 2025 | Leo 10.46° | 1 | Scorpio | Vishakha 3 | Mercury Saturn |
| 2026 | Leo 10.22° | 11 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | Saturn |
| 2027 | Leo 9.99° | 3 | Leo | Ashlesha 1 | — |
| 2028 | Leo 10.72° | 4 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 1 | — |
| 2029 | Leo 10.48° | 5 | Taurus | Bharani 1 | — |
The Moon and nakshatra columns change every year because the Moon returns to the same calendar date in a different position — which is why a birth date alone cannot tell you those, and why this table exists.
A century of August 2
Day of the year
215 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in
19 of 100 years
(19%)
Latest of those, to 2029
1998, 1999, 2005, 2012, 2018, 2025
Full moon fell on this date in
6 years — 1936, 1947, 1974, 1993, 2012, 2023
Most frequent moon phase
Waning Gibbous · 19 years
Counted for August 2 alone, at noon UTC in each year from 1930 to 2029. Why the counts differ from date to date →
Year by year
2006
Leo
life path 9
2007
Leo
life path 1
2008
Leo
life path 11
2009
Leo
life path 3
2010
Leo
life path 4
2011
Leo
life path 5
2012
Leo
life path 6
2013
Leo
life path 7
2014
Leo
life path 8
2015
Leo
life path 9
2016
Leo
life path 1
2017
Leo
life path 11
2018
Leo
life path 3
2019
Leo
life path 4
2020
Leo
life path 5
2021
Leo
life path 6
2022
Leo
life path 7
2023
Leo
life path 8
2024
Leo
life path 9
2025
Leo
life path 1
2026
Leo
life path 11
2027
Leo
life path 3
2028
Leo
life path 4
2029
Leo
life path 5
The sign is the same in every tile; only the life path number moves.
Life path numbers this date produces
5
12 years · 12%
6
11 years · 11%
7
11 years · 11%
8
11 years · 11%
9
11 years · 11%
1
11 years · 11%
11
11 years · 11%
3
11 years · 11%
4
11 years · 11%
The most frequent is 5 with 12 years; every other number, 11 included, turns up in 11 years. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 11 of those years — kept whole rather than reduced. Why 11, 22 and 33 are treated differently →
Questions about August 2 birthdays
What zodiac sign is August 2?
Leo in all 100 years from 1930 to 2029: the Sun stands at 10°13′ Leo on August 2, 10 days after the sign begins and 21 before Virgo takes over.
What life path numbers does August 2 produce?
Across 100 birth years the most common is 5 (12 years); every other number appears in 11 years.
Which decan is August 2?
The 2nd decan of Leo, 10° to 20°, sub-ruled by Jupiter in the Chaldean order.
Can August 2 be a master number birth date?
Yes — 11, in 11 of the 100 years: 1936, 1945, 1954, 1963, 1972, 1981, 1990, 1999, 2008, 2017 and 2026.
Cite this page
AstroHot. “August 2 Zodiac Sign: Leo, and Why It Never Changes.” Accessed October 28, 2026. https://astrohot.com/birthday/august-2/
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