Settled date · day 29 of 32 in the sign

20 August — Leo

Leo in every year from 1930 to 2029 — no ambiguity, no dependence on the hour. Here is what else this specific date produces.

Where in Leo this falls

Sun's degree on this date 27.49° of Leo
Day within the sign 29 of 32
Same sign in 100 of 100 years — settled

Mars-ruled decan of Leo

Decan 3 of 3 · 20°–30°
Sub-ruler Mars
Sign ruler Sun
Sun on this date 27.49°

Mars pushes the sign toward friction and initiative — the part of it that acts before it checks. The last ten degrees carry the sign already turning toward the next one, which is why this third often reads as the most complicated.

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Every year, computed

All 100 years for 20 August. 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 26.73° 5 Cancer Ardra 2 Saturn
1931 Leo 26.5° 6 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Saturn
1932 Leo 27.23° 7 Aries Revati 2 Mercury Saturn
1933 Leo 27° 8 Leo Ashlesha 3 Saturn
1934 Leo 26.76° 9 Sagittarius Mula 2 Saturn
1935 Leo 26.53° 1 Taurus Bharani 4 Venus Saturn
1936 Leo 27.26° 11 Libra Hasta 1 Saturn
1937 Leo 27.03° 3 Aquarius Shravana 2 Jupiter Saturn
1938 Leo 26.8° 4 Gemini Mrigashira 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1939 Leo 26.56° 5 Scorpio Swati 3 Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn
1940 Leo 27.29° 6 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4
1941 Leo 27.06° 7 Cancer Pushya 1
1942 Leo 26.83° 8 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1
1943 Leo 26.59° 9 Taurus Ashwini 3 Venus
1944 Leo 27.32° 1 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3
1945 Leo 27.09° 11 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 4 Mercury
1946 Leo 26.86° 3 Gemini Krittika 4
1947 Leo 26.63° 4 Libra Chitra 2
1948 Leo 27.36° 5 Pisces Shatabhisha 2
1949 Leo 27.12° 6 Cancer Ardra 3 Jupiter
1950 Leo 26.89° 7 Scorpio Vishakha 4 Jupiter
1951 Leo 26.66° 8 Aries Revati 1 Mercury Venus Jupiter
1952 Leo 27.39° 9 Leo Magha 1 Mercury
1953 Leo 27.15° 1 Sagittarius Mula 2
1954 Leo 26.92° 11 Taurus Bharani 4
1955 Leo 26.69° 3 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4
1956 Leo 27.42° 4 Aquarius Shravana 4 Mars
1957 Leo 27.19° 5 Gemini Mrigashira 1
1958 Leo 26.95° 6 Scorpio Swati 3 Mercury Saturn
1959 Leo 26.72° 7 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3 Venus Saturn
1960 Leo 27.45° 8 Leo Pushya 3 Jupiter Saturn
1961 Leo 27.22° 9 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1 Jupiter Saturn
1962 Leo 26.99° 1 Taurus Ashwini 3 Jupiter Saturn
1963 Leo 26.75° 11 Virgo Purva Phalguni 2 Jupiter Saturn
1964 Leo 27.48° 3 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2 Mercury Saturn
1965 Leo 27.25° 4 Gemini Krittika 4 Mercury Saturn
1966 Leo 27.02° 5 Libra Chitra 2 Saturn
1967 Leo 26.78° 6 Pisces Shatabhisha 1 Venus Saturn
1968 Leo 27.51° 7 Cancer Punarvasu 1 Saturn
1969 Leo 27.28° 8 Scorpio Vishakha 3
1970 Leo 27.05° 9 Aries Revati 2
1971 Leo 26.82° 1 Leo Ashlesha 4 Mercury Mars
1972 Leo 27.55° 11 Capricorn Mula 4 Jupiter
1973 Leo 27.31° 3 Taurus Bharani 3 Jupiter
1974 Leo 27.08° 4 Libra Hasta 1 Jupiter
1975 Leo 26.85° 5 Aquarius Shravana 3 Venus Jupiter
1976 Leo 27.58° 6 Gemini Mrigashira 3
1977 Leo 27.35° 7 Scorpio Swati 3
1978 Leo 27.11° 8 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4 Mercury
1979 Leo 26.88° 9 Leo Pushya 2
1980 Leo 27.61° 1 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2
1981 Leo 27.38° 11 Aries Ashwini 2
1982 Leo 27.14° 3 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3
1983 Leo 26.91° 4 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 1 Venus
1984 Leo 27.64° 5 Gemini Rohini 1 Mercury Jupiter
1985 Leo 27.41° 6 Libra Chitra 2 Mercury Jupiter
1986 Leo 27.18° 7 Pisces Shatabhisha 2 Jupiter
1987 Leo 26.94° 8 Cancer Ardra 4 Jupiter
1988 Leo 27.67° 9 Scorpio Vishakha 4 Saturn
1989 Leo 27.44° 1 Aries Revati 1 Saturn
1990 Leo 27.21° 11 Leo Magha 1 Saturn
1991 Leo 26.97° 3 Capricorn Mula 3 Mercury Venus Saturn
1992 Leo 27.7° 4 Taurus Bharani 3 Saturn
1993 Leo 27.47° 5 Libra Hasta 1 Saturn
1994 Leo 27.24° 6 Aquarius Dhanishta 1 Saturn
1995 Leo 27.01° 7 Gemini Mrigashira 2 Saturn
1996 Leo 27.74° 8 Scorpio Swati 3 Jupiter Saturn
1997 Leo 27.5° 9 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1998 Leo 27.27° 1 Leo Pushya 4 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1999 Leo 27.04° 11 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1 Venus
2000 Leo 27.77° 3 Aries Ashwini 2
2001 Leo 27.54° 4 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3
2002 Leo 27.3° 5 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3
2003 Leo 27.07° 6 Gemini Krittika 4 Mars
2004 Leo 27.8° 7 Libra Chitra 2 Mercury
2005 Leo 27.57° 8 Pisces Shatabhisha 3
2006 Leo 27.33° 9 Cancer Punarvasu 2
2007 Leo 27.1° 1 Scorpio Vishakha 3 Venus
2008 Leo 27.83° 11 Aries Revati 1 Jupiter
2009 Leo 27.6° 3 Leo Magha 2 Jupiter
2010 Leo 27.37° 4 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2 Jupiter
2011 Leo 27.13° 5 Taurus Bharani 2 Mercury
2012 Leo 27.86° 6 Libra Hasta 1
2013 Leo 27.63° 7 Aquarius Dhanishta 1
2014 Leo 27.4° 8 Cancer Ardra 1
2015 Leo 27.17° 9 Scorpio Swati 1 Venus
2016 Leo 27.9° 1 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4
2017 Leo 27.66° 11 Leo Pushya 4 Mercury Saturn
2018 Leo 27.43° 3 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Mars Saturn
2019 Leo 27.2° 4 Aries Revati 4 Saturn
2020 Leo 27.93° 5 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3 Jupiter Saturn
2021 Leo 27.69° 6 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4 Jupiter Saturn
2022 Leo 27.46° 7 Gemini Rohini 3 Jupiter Saturn
2023 Leo 27.23° 8 Libra Hasta 3 Venus Saturn
2024 Leo 27.96° 9 Pisces Shatabhisha 3 Mercury Saturn
2025 Leo 27.73° 1 Cancer Punarvasu 3 Saturn
2026 Leo 27.49° 11 Sagittarius Anuradha 2 Saturn
2027 Leo 27.26° 3 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2 Saturn
2028 Leo 27.99° 4 Leo Magha 2
2029 Leo 27.76° 5 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3

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 20 August

Day of the year 233 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 20 of 100 years (20%)
Most recent of those 1997, 1998, 2004, 2011, 2017, 2024
Full moon fell on this date in 5 years — 1948, 1967, 1986, 2005, 2024
Most frequent moon phase Waxing Gibbous · 21 years

Every figure here is specific to 20 August: the Moon returns to a given phase on the same calendar date only every 19 years or so, so the counts differ from one date to the next. Mercury’s retrograde periods drift by about 30° of the zodiac each year, which is why the share is near 20% but never identical. How that 20% is computed →

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 column never changes; only the number does.

Life path numbers this date produces

The most frequent is 5 with 12 years; the scarcest is 4 with just 11. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 11 of those years. Master numbers are never reduced further, which is exactly why they are scarcer than single digits on any fixed day and month. Why 11, 22 and 33 are treated differently →

Why the answer holds

20 August sits 28 days past the start of Leo and reached 27.49° this year — far enough from either boundary that no birth year or hour changes it. The question worth asking on this date is where in the sign, not which sign.