March 20 at a glance
- Zodiac sign
- ♓ Pisces
- Element and modality
- water, mutable
- Ruling planet
- Neptune
- Place in the sign
- Day 30 of Pisces; Aries starts 1 day later on the calendar
- Decan
- 3 of 3, ruled by Scorpio (March 11 to 20)
- Cusp
- Pisces to Aries
- Birthday number
- 20 reduces to 2 (2 + 0 = 2)
- March birthstone
- Aquamarine, also Bloodstone
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The equinox date, and why it moves
At the March equinox the Sun crosses the celestial equator heading north and day and night are close to equal everywhere. Astrology fixes this point as 0 degrees of Aries, the first moment of the zodiac year. It falls on March 19, 20 or 21 in UTC depending on the year, and the table further down counts each one.
That makes March 20 a genuinely mixed date. It is the day the United Nations observes the International Day of Happiness, a date chosen in 2012 and first marked in 2013, and the day Nowruz, the Persian new year, is calculated to begin at the instant of the equinox as seen from Tehran. Both treat the equinox as a beginning, which is what Aries is.
Is March 20 a cusp date?
Born before the Sun crossed the line on March 20, you are the last of Pisces, the mutable water sign that closes the zodiac. Born after, you are the first of Aries, a cardinal fire sign. People on this seam are the ones the popular literature calls the Cusp of Rebirth, a name that varies between books but always points at the end of one cycle meeting the start of another.
The standard table gives Pisces. The change from Pisces into Aries can reach March 20 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 Aries on these UTC dates: March 20 in 47, March 19 in 2, March 21 in 2.
Within those years the entry into Aries fell on March 19 between 22:30 and 23:20 UTC; on March 20 between 00:10 and 23:20 UTC; on March 21 between 00:10 and 01:00 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.
| Year | Sun enters Aries |
|---|---|
| 2027 | about Mar 20, 20:30 UTC |
| 2028 | about Mar 20, 02:10 UTC |
| 2029 | about Mar 20, 08:00 UTC |
Born near that moment? The sun sign calculator takes your year, time and time zone.
The Pisces decan for March 20
March 20 falls in decan 3 of Pisces, March 11 to 20, ruled by Scorpio. 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.
Scorpio, another water sign, holds the third Pisces decan. Tradition gives this stretch an intensity and a taste for the hidden, which is more private than the sign's first ten days. On March 20 itself the decan only applies to the Pisces reading; an Aries birth on the same day takes the first Aries decan instead.
Birthday number 2 for March 20
The day 20 reduces to 2: 2 + 0 = 2. No step lands on a master number.
A 20 reduces to 2. Numerology treats 2 as the number of pairs and mediation and reads the zero beside it as an amplifier, so a 20 birthday is described as a two with the volume turned up. The month number 3 adds a second figure to the date, though the birthday number counts only the day. None of it touches your actual chart; these are numerological echoes people enjoy reading.
The March birthstone
Birthstones follow the month and not the day, so a birthday on March 20 shares Aquamarine (also Bloodstone) with every other March birthday. See March birthstones.
March 20 zodiac questions
Does March 20 count as Pisces or Aries?
It depends on the minute, year and time zone, because March 20 is one of the dates the equinox can fall on. The calendar gives Pisces; the table on this page gives the UTC dates for the Sun's entry into Aries, and the sun sign calculator checks your exact birth.
Does the spring equinox always fall on March 20?
No. It falls on March 19, 20 or 21 in UTC depending on the year, because the calendar year and the solar year are different lengths and the leap day resets the drift. The figures here come from our own ephemeris.
Which two signs does March 20 fall between?
Pisces, the last sign of the wheel, and Aries, the first. The calendar table gives Pisces, and the Aries start depends on the equinox moment in your year and time zone.
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