February 17 Zodiac Sign

People born on February 17 are Aquarius.

In 39 of the 201 years from 1900 to 2100, the Sun moved from Aquarius into Pisces during February 17 somewhere in the world, so a February 17 birthday in one of those years can be Pisces.

February 17 falls late in Aquarius season, which usually runs from January 20 to February 18.

Your birth time and place settle it: your free birth chart shows exactly which sign the Sun was in when you were born.

What Aquarius is like

Symbol: The Water Bearer
Element: Air
Modality: Fixed
Ruler: Uranus (traditionally Saturn)
Usual dates: January 20 to February 18

Aquarius thinks sideways. A fixed air sign ruled traditionally by Saturn and modernly by Uranus, Aquarius holds the structure and the disruption at once: systems-minded enough to see how a thing actually works, contrary enough to ask why it should work that way at all.