Birthday signs · Virgo season
What zodiac sign is August 28?
Virgo is the tropical zodiac sign occupied by August 28. Across 101 years from 1930 through 2030, noon UTC on August 28 always found the Sun in Virgo, at 4.21° to 5.71° Virgo. Virgo season has August 28 as day 5 or 6, in its early part, with the element earth.
Calculated across 1930–2030 · checked .
August 28 is Virgo
| Virgo at noon UTC | 101 of 101 years, 1930–2030 |
|---|---|
| Nearest change of sign | at least 4 days away |
| Birth time needed for the sign | no |
August 28 at a glance
| Sign | ♍︎ Virgo, the Maiden |
|---|---|
| Element and mode | earth, mutable |
| Polarity | negative (feminine) |
| Ruler | Mercury (traditional) |
| Sun on this date | 4.2° to 5.7° Virgo at noon UTC, 1930–2030 |
| Day of the season | day 5 or 6 of Virgo season |
| Decan | first (0°–10°), face of the Sun |
| Sidereal sign (Lahiri) | Leo |
| Day number | 1 (modern numerology) |
Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.6
The decan: early Virgo
| Noon Sun | 4.21° to 5.71° Virgo |
|---|---|
| Decan | first (0°–10°) |
| Face ruler, Chaldean order | the Sun |
Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.3
August 28 by the numbers
| Day number | 1 (2 + 8 = 10, then 1 + 0 = 1) |
|---|---|
| Month-day number | 9 (8 + 1) |
| System | modern numerology, digit sums |
Digit sums as numerology guides give them.4
Where the date falls in the season
| Day of Virgo season | 5 or 6 |
|---|---|
| Virgo season opened | August 23 (65 years) or August 24 (36) |
| Virgo season closed | September 21 (1 year) or September 22 (73) or September 23 (27) |
| Element and mode | earth, mutable |
| Traditional ruler | Mercury |
Seasons by the noon-UTC rule; rulers after Ptolemy.2
Born at this point in Virgo season
Born on August 28, early in Virgo, this person arrives with the season's attention already switched on. They notice the loose thread, the crooked shelf, the sentence that could be cleaner. Others call it precision, but from the inside it can feel like a restless hand that needs a task. Their harder lesson is telling the difference between sorting the world and sorting themselves, and deciding which of the two actually needs their evening.
Interpretation, not prediction.
The sidereal sign
| Sidereal sign, Lahiri ayanamsa | Leo, all 101 years |
|---|---|
| Noon Sun, sidereal Leo | 10.7°–12° |
| Convention | Indian (Vedic) astrology |
Ayanamsa convention.5
Born on August 28
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German writer, artist, natural scientist and politician
- Paul Martin (1938), prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006
- Ivo Josipović (1957), Croatian politician, third President of Croatia
- Ai Weiwei (1957), Chinese Conceptual artist
- David Fincher (1962), American film director
- Shania Twain (1965), Canadian singer
- César Azpilicueta (1989), Spanish association football player
- Valtteri Bottas (1989), Finnish Formula 1 racing driver
Birth dates checked on Wikidata.7
August 28 in history
Observed on this date:
Events on August 28:
- 1845: The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
- 1993: Singaporean presidential election: Former Deputy Prime Minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected President of Singapore. Although it is the first presidential election to be determined by popular vote, the allowed candidates consist only of Ong and a reluctant whom the government had asked to run to confer upon the election the semblance of an opposition.
How the answer was worked out
The Sun's tropical longitude on August 28 at noon UTC was calculated with Astronomy Engine for each year from 1930 through 2030, and the sign of each year was read from it.1 How the Machine works
Questions people also ask
What zodiac sign is August 28?
August 28 holds the sign Virgo in all 101 sampled years from 1930 to 2030, measured with the Sun at noon UTC.
Is August 28 on a zodiac cusp?
No. Across the years 1930 to 2030, the noon Sun was in Virgo on every August 28, and each August 28 lies at least 4 days from any change of sign.
What decan is August 28?
The face ruler in the Chaldean order for August 28 is the Sun, since it sits in the first decan of Virgo (0°–10°) in each sampled year.
What is the birthday number for August 28?
August 28 receives day number 1 and month-day number 9 under modern numerology, both calculated by adding digits.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine JavaScript reference — Don Cross, Astronomy Engine. Verified .
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I — LacusCurtius, University of Chicago. Verified .
- Decan (astrology): the faces of the planets (after Lilly) — Wikipedia. Verified .
- Life Path Number — Numerology.com (practitioner site). Verified .
- Ayanamsa (Lahiri and other sidereal conventions) — Wikipedia. Verified .
- Virgo (astrology) — Wikipedia. Verified .
- Wikipedia: August 28 — Wikipedia (Wikimedia On this day feed); birth dates checked on Wikidata. Verified .