Born Aug 2 – Aug 12
Leo · second decan · The generous lion who overplays the hand
Your decan
The second decan of Leo takes the Sun's need for recognition and runs Jupiter's expansion through it. You're the warmest, most generous, most genuinely magnanimous of the Leos — the one who doesn't just want the spotlight but wants everyone at the party to feel lit up by it. There's a bigness to you that's real, not performance.
What sets your third apart
Jupiter, by way of Sagittarius, pushes Leo's natural confidence toward something more philosophical and outward-facing — you believe in people, in the grand gesture, in the vision that's bigger than the ego. That's the gift. The trap is that Jupiter inflates everything, and Leo's pride doesn't need inflating — so you can tip from generous into grandiose, from confident into convinced you're the most important person in any room, and from warm into performatively generous in ways that are quietly about your own image.
Your gift
A lion-sized heart backed by real vision — you uplift and you mean it.
Your watch-out
Jupiter turns the volume up on the pride; the grand gesture starts becoming about how giving you look.
The exact degrees, and who rules them
A decan is a third of a sign: ten degrees of zodiac, not a mood. Yours is Leo 10°00′ to 19°59′ — the second ten degrees the Sun crosses on its way through Leo, roughly Aug 2 – Aug 12 in most years. Sun-sign dates shift by up to a day between years because the tropical year is not a whole number of days, so if you were born within about 24 hours of either end, run the actual chart rather than trusting a date table.
| Tradition | Ruler | What it governs |
|---|---|---|
| Sign ruler (all three decans) | Sun | The baseline Leo everyone shares |
| Chaldean face | Jupiter | growth, meaning and excess |
| Triplicity decanate | Jupiter | growth, meaning and excess |
Both surviving decan systems agree here, which is not the usual case — the Chaldean faces and the triplicity decanates both hand this stretch to Jupiter. When they agree, the sub-flavour is about as well attested as decan theory gets.
Read either way, the point is the same: scale — this third overshoots where the rest of the sign would stop.
How it actually shows up
The decan is a modifier, not a second sign. It shifts emphasis inside Leo rather than replacing it — so everything true of Leo is still true of you, with growth, meaning and excess turned up. Three places people notice it:
- Under pressure. A Leo sun typically performs the hurt until it is noticed. In this third that reaction takes its colour from Jupiter — growth, meaning and excess is what the reaction ends up being about.
- In how you start things. The second decan sits in the middle of the sign, the most settled and least extreme of the three.
- Next to the other two. Compare it directly: the first decan (Jul 23 – Aug 1) runs on Sun, and the third decan (Aug 13 – Aug 22) runs on Mars. Same sign, three noticeably different settings.
What it is not: a personality test, and not something to weigh against your Moon or rising, both of which say considerably more about you than a third of your sun sign does. The big three is where to look next.
Your decan is a hint. Your chart is the answer.
The decan refines your sun sign — but your moon, rising and every planet are where the real story lives. Run your full birth chart, free.
Degree ranges are exact by definition (each decan is ten degrees of zodiac); the calendar dates shift by up to a day between years. Rulerships are the classical Chaldean face and triplicity decanate assignments, both stated above. Written and reviewed by the Zodiux editorial team · Last reviewed · How Zodiux computes your chart · Editorial standards · For reflection and entertainment, not advice.