February 29 is day 60 of a leap year. The Sun is then roughly 11° into Pisces, 21 days before it moves into Aries, which places your birthday in the second of the sign’s three decans.
Pisces, second decan
The middle decan of Pisces is colored by Cancer, a fellow water sign, adding nurturing devotion to the sign’s dreaminess. You are Pisces with a caretaker’s heart. You tend to create safe spaces where others feel understood. Family, home, and emotional bonds matter deeply. Your intuition is strong, and you often sense needs before they are spoken. Moods may ebb and flow, yet your gentle care and loyalty make you a cherished presence.
Born on the 29th: birthday number 29
Born on the 29th, you carry the two and the nine, adding up to eleven, a master number of intuition and inspiration. You tend to feel deeply and sense what others need. Your emotional range is wide, and you may be drawn to creative or spiritual paths. People sense your empathy and often confide in you. The challenge is managing your sensitivity, finding calm amid strong feelings, and trusting your intuitive gifts.
2 + 9 = 11: The Intuitive (master number). Eleven is a master number, and numerologists often leave it unreduced. As a birthday it brings intuition and a bright, sometimes nervous inspiration to your life path. Total the whole birth date to find that path; some traditions also keep 11 and 22 intact there, so check both ways and compare what each suggests. Calculate your life path number.
A leap day birthday
Born on leap day? You belong to a rare club. The extra date exists because Earth takes about 365 and a quarter days to circle the Sun, so the calendar adds one day roughly every four years to stay in step with the seasons. Your odds of landing on it are about 1 in 1,461. In the other years you get to choose: celebrate on the last day of the month, on the first day of the next, or throw a party on both. And when the real date finally comes around, make it count twice.
Your birth tarot cards
The Moon, the card of Pisces. The Golden Dawn gave it to Pisces for its dreams, intuition and shifting tides of feeling. Its misty path between two towers mirrors the sign’s imaginative, sometimes uncertain, inner landscape.
Nine of Cups, the card of your decan (Jupiter in Pisces in the Golden Dawn system). Name your wish clearly and enjoy what is already fulfilled.
Justice, the card of your day number (2 + 9 = 11). Its theme is fairness with compassion. You may have a keen sense of right and wrong, and the card asks you to judge your own mistakes as kindly as a friend’s. Weigh the facts, tell the truth and accept the consequences of your choice.
The card of your whole birth date, year included, comes from the tarot birth card calculator.
Strengths and challenges
Strengths: nurturing intuition, protective tenderness, empathy, intuitive insight, kindness. Growth edges: emotional overwhelm.
Love and compatibility
You love tenderly and protectively. Creating a cozy home with your partner brings you joy. Communicating needs openly ensures your caring nature remains balanced and that your partner understands your emotional world.
Romantic and idealistic, you seek a soulful bond, the kind where silence feels comfortable. Your emotional depth draws partners in. Choose someone steady who honors your sensitivity, and name your needs before feelings overflow.
Signs that often click with Pisces: Cancer, Scorpio, Taurus, Capricorn. Compare any two signs.
Career and purpose
Caregiving, teaching, hospitality, counseling, and family businesses suit your nurturing streak. You support others intuitively. Look for emotionally supportive workplaces, and protect yourself from absorbing too much stress.
Counseling, music, the healing arts, teaching, and spiritual work suit your intuitive gifts. You inspire a room when you trust your vision instead of second-guessing it. Grounding routines help you stay effective and balanced.
Born in February
February babies arrive in the year’s shortest month, when late-winter light lengthens a little each afternoon and valentines fill shop windows. It is a month of indoor warmth, cocoa, and waiting for thaw. Amethyst’s calm purple suits that reflective mood, while violets and primroses hint at the modest, early tenderness that tends to mark people born now. Birthstone: amethyst. Birth flower: violet and primrose.
Affirmation for February 29
I honor my feelings and trust my intuition.
Frequently asked questions
What zodiac sign is February 29?
Pisces, second decan.
What is the tarot card for a February 29 birthday?
The Moon for Pisces, the Nine of Cups for the decan, and Justice for the day number 29.
What is the birthstone for February 29?
Amethyst, with violet and primrose as the birth flower.