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April 19 zodiac sign: Aries

The last day of Aries on the calendar is April 19, and the Sun has entered Taurus on this date in some years. Whether a birth that day falls after the crossing depends on birth time and birth place; the sun sign calculator settles it.

April 19 at a glance

Zodiac sign
♈ Aries
Element and modality
fire, cardinal
Ruling planet
Mars
Place in the sign
Day 30 of Aries; Taurus starts 1 day later on the calendar
Decan
3 of 3, ruled by Sagittarius (April 10 to 19)
Cusp
Aries to Taurus
Birthday number
19 reduces to 1 (1 + 9 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1)
April birthstone
Diamond

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The last day of the Aries year

The Aries section of the Sun's year runs from the equinox to the 30-degree line, a stretch of about thirty days. The calendar's cut-off at April 19 is a convention, and where the Sun actually crosses depends on the year, so the last Aries date is a different date in different years.

Earth Day falls three days later, on April 22, which has nothing to do with Taurus but fits how the northern calendar reads: by late April the first growth is under way and the sign about to begin is the one most tied to it.

Is April 19 a cusp date?

The end of Aries, a cardinal fire sign, is read in tradition as the sign tempered: still direct and competitive, but less likely to start a quarrel for its own sake. The popular name for the Aries-Taurus seam is the Cusp of Power, and as always names change between books. If the Sun crossed at your birth, the Taurus description fits better, and the calculator can check.

The standard table gives Aries. The change from Aries into Taurus can reach April 19 in some year and time zone within 2000 to 2050, so a birth on this date can belong to either sign.

Across 2000 to 2050 (51 years) the Sun entered Taurus on these UTC dates: April 19 in 29, April 20 in 22.

Within those years the entry into Taurus fell on April 19 between 09:20 and 23:40 UTC; on April 20 between 00:00 and 12:00 UTC. Clocks in populated time zones run from UTC-10 to UTC+12, so the same instant can read as the day before or the day after, and your birth time and birth place decide which side of it you were born.

The next three times the Sun enters Taurus, in UTC. Computed from our own ephemeris, accurate to about fifteen minutes; an almanac gives the exact minute.
YearSun enters Taurus
2027about Apr 20, 07:20 UTC
2028about Apr 19, 13:00 UTC
2029about Apr 19, 18:50 UTC

Born near that moment? The sun sign calculator takes your year, time and time zone.

The Aries decan for April 19

April 19 falls in decan 3 of Aries, April 10 to 19, ruled by Sagittarius. Each sign is cut into three decans of about ten days, ruled in turn by the sign itself and the next two signs of its element.

Sagittarius, a fellow fire sign, takes the third Aries decan, which tradition links with optimism and a taste for travel. In decan terms this is the most outward-looking of the three Aries stretches, which sets it apart from the more blunt first ten days.

Birthday number 1 for April 19

The day 19 reduces to 1: 1 + 9 = 10, 1 + 0 = 1. No step lands on a master number.

A 19 reduces to 1 through 10, and 19 is a prime number, divisible only by itself and 1. Numerologists read primes as self-standing, which suits a number that reduces to the number of beginnings. It is a numerical observation first and a belief second, and it says nothing of the chart.

The April birthstone

Birthstones follow the month and not the day, so a birthday on April 19 shares Diamond with every other April birthday. See April birthstones.

April 19 zodiac questions

What sign is April 19?

Aries on the standard calendar and Taurus if the Sun had already crossed at the minute and place of your birth. The page's table shows how the crossing has fallen on April 19 and April 20.

Why do almanacs differ on April 19?

Each one picks a single set of dates for a sign that really moves by up to a day from year to year, so one will say April 19 and another April 20.

What decan rules a birth on April 19?

The third Aries decan, ruled by Sagittarius, on the dates used across this site.

Dates next to April 19

Other April dates with their own page: April 20.

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