March 20 Zodiac Sign

March 20 by year

A clock time in a row is the equinox minute: born before it, you are Pisces; at or after it, Aries. A whole-day Aries row means the equinox fell on March 19, and a whole-day Pisces row means it fell on March 21.

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Shown: 2021 to 2030. Born earlier? Tap Show all years under the table, then jump to your decade.

Times are clock times of that year in New York and Los Angeles, from the astronomy-engine ephemeris, rounded to the minute, with the daylight saving rules in force at the time. Central and Mountain time fall between the two columns.

Pisces and Aries: the two signs of March 20

When things go wrong, the two signs part ways quickly. The tradition reads Aries, which is cardinal, fire and ruled by Mars, as the one that meets trouble head on: it argues and wants the problem moving before anyone has finished describing it. The anger is described as quick to rise and quick to pass. Pisces is mutable and water, with Jupiter as its classical ruler and Neptune as the modern one, and astrologers read it the other way. It softens, soaks up the stress of the people nearby and may slip off into sleep, music or daydreams until the pressure eases.

Cardinal signs initiate and mutable signs adapt, which is the technical version of the same contrast: Pisces bends around a setback, Aries pushes through it. Each reading names a cost. Aries is said to leave a mess behind by moving too soon, and Pisces to let a decision drift until somebody else makes it.

On this site: Moon in Pisces, Moon in Aries, Venus in Pisces, Venus in Aries, Mars in Pisces, Mars in Aries, Mercury in Pisces, Mercury in Aries.

Each sign in full: Pisces zodiac sign · Aries zodiac sign; how the two get along: Pisces and Aries compatibility.

The year ahead for both sides of March 20: Pisces horoscope 2027 · Aries horoscope 2027.

How often Pisces and Aries come up among birth dates from 1930 to 2025, and why websites name different signs for the same day: zodiac sign statistics.Aries belongs to the fire element with two other signs: fire signs.Pisces is one of the three water signs, with its own section on how much water a chart holds: water signs.

Why March 20 has no single zodiac sign

The last whole-day Pisces March 20 in Eastern time was 1979. The four decades from 1980 to 2019 had 10 split days out of 10 each, so for a birth in those decades the date alone gives no answer and the clock time does.

The 2020s break the pattern. In both 2020 and 2024 the equinox came on the evening of March 19, which left all of March 20 under Aries.

What time is the equinox on March 20?

Take a noon birth in Manhattan on March 20, 2026. That is Aries, since the equinox arrived at 10:45 a.m. Noon on the same date in 2027 is still Pisces, with the equinox due at 4:24 p.m.

Over the 76 split years the equinox fell 11 times in the small hours, 19 before noon, 25 in the early afternoon through 6 p.m., and 21 after dark. The earliest of these minutes is 12:30 a.m. (2016); the latest is 11:38 p.m. (1983). Compare the minute in your row with the time on your birth certificate.

Is March 20 Aries on the West Coast?

7 leap years made March 20 Aries from midnight on a Pacific clock, one every fourth year from 2000 to 2024. In each the Sun had crossed into the sign on March 19 by Los Angeles time.

New York is three hours ahead. In 2000 its clocks showed 2:35 a.m. for the same moment, so a 1 a.m. birth that day in New York was a Pisces, while the same hour in Los Angeles was already Aries.

Questions about the March 20 zodiac sign

Other cusp birthdays

Every date where the zodiac sign depends on the year or the hour, grouped by the change of sign:

• ♓︎ Pisces to ♈︎ Aries: March 19 · March 20 · March 21
• ♈︎ Aries to ♉︎ Taurus: April 19 · April 20
• ♉︎ Taurus to ♊︎ Gemini: May 20 · May 21
• ♊︎ Gemini to ♋︎ Cancer: June 20 · June 21 · June 22
• ♋︎ Cancer to ♌︎ Leo: July 22 · July 23
• ♌︎ Leo to ♍︎ Virgo: August 22 · August 23
• ♍︎ Virgo to ♎︎ Libra: September 22 · September 23
• ♎︎ Libra to ♏︎ Scorpio: October 22 · October 23 · October 24
• ♏︎ Scorpio to ♐︎ Sagittarius: November 21 · November 22 · November 23
• ♐︎ Sagittarius to ♑︎ Capricorn: December 21 · December 22
• ♑︎ Capricorn to ♒︎ Aquarius: January 19 · January 20 · January 21
• ♒︎ Aquarius to ♓︎ Pisces: February 18 · February 19

Written by The Zodiac Atlas editorial team with the help of AI and edited by a person. Every time and count on this page comes from our own run of the astronomy-engine ephemeris (tropical zodiac) over the years 1930 to 2030, with historical US time zone rules. Astrology is a symbolic tradition, not a science.