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Birthday astrology

Born on December 22.

Choose your birth year to explore the Sun on this date. The position below uses a reference time of noon Universal Time, not your personal birth time.

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1900 to 2026. This lookup does not save birth details.

December 22, 2020 · 12:00 UT

Sun in Capricorn

1°06′ Capricorn

Close to a sign change

A sign transition falls within a day of this UT date. Your local birth time may fall on either side. Enter the time and birthplace to calculate your placement.

The Sun on December 22, year by year

These positions are all calculated for 12:00 UT. The degree changes between years, even when the sign stays the same.

December 22 at noon Universal Time · tropical zodiac
YearSun signDegree
2019Capricorn0°19′
2020, selected yearCapricorn1°06′
2021Capricorn0°50′

Positions are shown to the arcminute. A birth before or after noon has a different degree. UT and your local calendar date can differ.

Closest sign change in 2020

The Sun enters Capricorn on 2020-12-21 at approximately 10:03 UT.

Explore the Sagittarius to Capricorn boundary

Reading Sun in Capricorn

Sun in Capricorn is associated with building confidence through responsibility and sustained effort. Completing a demanding project can matter because it proves what you can do. The tension comes when achievement becomes the only way you recognize your own value.

Capricorn is cardinal earth. Earth concerns practical conditions; cardinal describes initiating a course of action. This combination gives the Sun a theme of organizing effort toward an outcome that can be maintained.

Element
Earth
Mode
Cardinal
Traditional ruler
Saturn

Responsibility can provide purpose when its limits are understood. Accepting every obligation can make achievement difficult to distinguish from exhaustion. A reading should examine the actual role before praising endurance or assuming ambition.

Read the full Sun in Capricorn guide

This lesson follows the noon reference position. Confirm your personal Sun sign before applying it to your chart.

The same birthday can produce different charts

The Moon and other planets move independently of the Sun. People born on December 22 in different years can have different Moon signs and planetary aspects.

Birth time and location also change the Ascendant and houses. Astriel uses Placidus: the Sun's house follows its position between calculated cusps. Its zodiac sign alone cannot supply a house number.

If the birth time is unknown, choose that option in the calculator. A date crossing a sign boundary can leave the Sun sign unresolved; houses remain unavailable.

Reference time and calculation method

Noon Universal Time is a shared comparison time for these public tables. It is never saved as a birth time. Modern civil UTC stays close to UT; historical dates use the engine's universal-time convention.

Sun positions use Astronomy Engine 2.1.19, the tropical zodiac and the apparent geocentric ecliptic of date. Ingress times use the same adapter and are rounded estimates. Displayed minutes are not an accuracy guarantee.

A calendar date alone does not establish a personality, a Moon sign or a life-path number. The sign lesson describes an astrological convention. No biography or celebrity birth record is inferred.

Read methods and verification limits · Understand sign boundaries