Zodiac sign on 22 August

On 22 August the Sun changes sign in some years, from Leo to Virgo. If you were born on this day, you are Leo or Virgo, depending on the year and the hour.

The Sun does not enter a new sign at the same hour every year: the calendar year is not exactly as long as the solar year, and the leap day only evens out the difference every four years. In the years below the Sun changed sign on exactly this day, at the time given in UTC (London winter time): if you were born before it, you are Leo; after it, Virgo. In the other years it was Leo all day.

When the Sun changed sign on 22 August

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♌︎ Leo

Leo stands in the high summer of the Northern Hemisphere, where the tradition was born, and the Sun is its star. Tradition gives it warmth, generosity and the wish to be seen. A Leo wants to create and show what it can do, and it carries others along. It is loyal as long as it is taken seriously, and hurt when it is overlooked. Its task, it is said, is to shine without taking the light from others.

Leo horoscope today · Compatibility

♍︎ Virgo

Virgo stands at harvest time in the Northern Hemisphere, where the tradition was born, and it is given an eye for what is useful and what is not. It is thought of as precise, helpful and practical, someone who sorts, improves and rarely makes a fuss about it. Mercury, its planet, shows itself here as the testing mind. Its weakness is a tendency to self-criticism, its strength service to the concrete: with Virgo, things get finished.

Virgo horoscope today · Compatibility

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The times of change are computed from the true position of the Sun. The reading is tradition.