March 16 Zodiac Sign: Pisces
The short answer
People born on March 16 are Pisces. On this date the Sun sits between 24.5° Pisces and 26.8° Pisces in every year from 1950 to 2025, in the third decan of Pisces.
March 16 at a glance
| Zodiac sign | Pisces (February 19 to March 20) |
|---|---|
| Sun position, 1950 to 2025 | 24.5° Pisces to 26.8° Pisces (usually 25.7° Pisces at noon UTC) |
| Decan | third decan of Pisces: Scorpio (triplicity), Mars (Chaldean), Ten of Cups (Golden Dawn) |
| Element | Water |
| Modality | Mutable |
| Ruling planet | Neptune, traditionally Jupiter |
| Nearest sign change | About 3.2 days away |
What a March 16 birthday means
On March 16 the Sun sits between 24.5° Pisces and 26.8° Pisces in every year from 1950 to 2025, counting every hour of the day in UTC. Its usual noon position is 25.7° Pisces.
That places March 16 in the third decan of Pisces. The modern triplicity system gives this decan to Scorpio, the older Chaldean order gives it to Mars, and the Golden Dawn tradition pairs it with the Ten of Cups.
Pisces is a water sign of the mutable modality, ruled by Neptune. Water signs read the mood first; feeling is how they know what is true. Mutable signs adapt: each one closes a season and gets ready for the next.
March 16 is about 3 days from the nearest sign change, so the Sun is in Pisces on this date in every year charted.
Where these figures come from
The Sun's position was charted at 12:00 UTC on every day from 1950 to 2025, and the start and end of each date were placed on the straight line between neighbouring days, which is exact to a small fraction of a degree. The range covers every hour of March 16 in UTC across all 76 years; someone born far from UTC can sit up to about half a degree beyond it. Decans follow two traditional systems: the triplicity system, which gives each third of a sign to the three signs of its element in turn, and the older Chaldean order of faces, which runs through the seven classical planets from Mars at the start of Aries.
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