Born on August 11

By MiraLuune's resident astrologer

Leo · 2nd decan

Born on August 11, your Sun sits in Leo — Confident, generous, and born to be seen. More precisely, August 11 falls in the 2nd decan of Leo, sub-ruled by Jupiter — which threads optimism, expansiveness and a hunger for meaning into the core Leo drive.

Zodiac signLeo

Element · ModalityFire · Fixed

Ruling planetthe Sun

Decan ruler2nd · Jupiter

Personality & character

If you were born on August 11, you carry warmth, pride, and a natural pull toward the spotlight — generous when you feel seen, and built to lead with heart rather than calculation.

As a fire sign you run on enthusiasm, instinct and momentum — you lead with action and warmth. Your fixed modality makes you a stabiliser — you hold, sustain and see things through.

As a 2nd-decan Leo, your Leo nature is coloured by a second influence — sub-ruled by Jupiter. Jupiter lends optimism, expansiveness and a hunger for meaning to the core Leo character, shading how the sign's themes actually show up in your day-to-day temperament.

Your Sabian symbol

Every degree of the zodiac carries a Sabian symbol — a single vivid image, set down in 1925, that colours that exact point of the sky. A August 11 birthday places your Sun near Leo 19°, whose symbol is:

“A houseboat party”

Carefree group enjoyment carried along by the flow of shared feeling.

August 11 in love

In love you are romantic, loyal, and openly devoted. You love grandly and want to be adored back. Pride is your soft spot: you give everything, and you need genuine appreciation to stay lit.

August 11 in career

At work you lead with charisma and want your contribution to be visible. You thrive in roles with creative ownership and an audience, and you lift the people around you when you're recognised.

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths

Warm and generous
Confident and charismatic
Loyal and a natural leader

Weaknesses

Pride can harden into ego
Needs constant recognition
Can be domineering when challenged

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How we work this out

We use the tropical zodiac — the same Sun-sign system Western astrology runs on — placing each date by the standard, widely published sign-date ranges. Capricorn is the one that wraps the New Year, from December 22 to January 19.

Each sign spans three decans of roughly ten days. We assign decan sub-rulers by the Chaldean triplicity method: a sign's three decans are ruled, in order, by the planets of the three signs sharing its element, starting with the sign itself. That sub-ruler is what makes an early-decan and a late-decan reading of the same sign genuinely differ.

Boundary dates sit on a cusp. We place every date under one sign by the standard ranges, but if you were born on a first or last day we flag it — because the exact year and time you were born can shift the Sun into the neighbouring sign.

We don't list famous people born on each day. We'd rather give you the astrology than a scraped name dump — so every page is built from your date's sign, decan, and ruling planets, not a celebrity index.

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