Born on August 11, 1948
Your Birthday Profile
♌ Leo (Fire) × ♏ Moon in Scorpio × Life Path 5 “The Adventurer” × Tarot: Temperance
Based on: Western astrology · Numerology · Tarot — About our data
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Global Information
Age
77
Day of the Week
Wednesday
traditionally the day of Mercury
“Wednesday’s child is full of woe.”
From the traditional nursery rhyme “Monday’s Child”
See future birthday weekdays →Zodiac Sign
Leo
2nd decan (10°–20°) · sub-ruler Jupiter (Sagittarius)
A traditional 10° subdivision of the sign (boundary shifts ±1 day by year).
Chinese Zodiac
Rat
Earth Rat · sexagenary 戊子
Day pillar: WùChén · Day Master Wù (Yang Earth)
Quick-witted and sociable; said to be hardworking and good with money.
Next “year of your sign”: 2032 (Year of the Rat, age 84)
More about the Rat → ☯ Your Four Pillars day master & elements →Generation
Baby Boomers 1946–1964
Born in the postwar baby boom.
Ranges per Pew Research and common usage (boundaries vary by source)
More on Baby Boomers — traits & famous people → Chart →Birthday Facts
Half-birthday: February 11 (6 months later)
Day 224 of 366 (142 days remaining)
Golden birthday: age 11 (1959) — the year your age matched your birth day
♌ Zodiac Sign
Leo
7/23–8/22
Element
Fire
Modality
Fixed
Ruling Planet
the Sun
Radiant and generous, a natural leader who draws people in.
More about Leo →✨ Planets in Signs
℞ = retrograde · * = boundary day (sign may depend on birth time). Positions from precise astronomy; not a fortune claim.
🔢 Life Path Number
The Adventurer
A freedom-loving spirit who thrives on change, curiosity and new experiences.
Birthday Number
Root 2 — The Peacemaker (11→2)
One of numerology's five core numbers — an innate gift; not reduced to a single digit.
Personal Year 2026
Year of Cooperation
A slower year of nurturing what you began — cooperation, patience and relationships take focus.
📅 What Day Is It
Mountain Day
Japanese national holiday.
👤 Famous People Born This Day
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🎯 Life Milestones
Next milestone
1,522 days
30,000 days
2030.09.29
Recently achieved
3,478 days ago
25,000 days
2017.01.20
Upcoming milestones
🪐 You, in Numbers
⏱ Seconds since you were born
2,460,521,610
and counting, right now
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Age on Mercury
323.7
♀
Age on Venus
126.7
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Age on Mars
41.5
♃
Age on Jupiter
6.6
♄
Age on Saturn
2.6
☀️ Your journey around the Sun
77 orbits · ~73.3 billion km
You have been traveling through space at ~30 km/s since the day you were born
❤️ Heartbeats so far
~2.87 billion
🌬 Breaths so far
~656 million
🌕 Full moons seen
964
Planet ages use orbital periods and the Sun journey uses Earth’s orbital speed (~29.78 km/s) — both published physical values. Heartbeats, breaths (~70 bpm, ~16 breaths/min) and full moons (synodic month ~29.53 days) are approximate.
📊 Birthday Stats
Birth-month trend
Being born in August falls in a high-birth season for births.
In the Northern Hemisphere, more conceptions happen in late autumn–winter, so births cluster in summer–early autumn (around September) about nine months later. February has the fewest.
※ Source: U.S. CDC/NCHS natality data. A seasonal trend from real birth statistics — not fortune-telling. Exact rank and counts vary by year and country. About our data
How many share your birthday?
🇺🇸 In the U.S.
~930 thousand
🌍 Worldwide
~22 million
※ Estimate: assumes birthdays are evenly spread across the year, dividing population (U.S. ~340M, World Bank 2024; World ~8.1B, UN 2024) by days. Actual numbers vary with birth seasonality. About our data
🇺🇸 In US births (2000–2014), August 11 is the #97 most common of 366 days. See its rarity →
🎂 Try the Birthday Paradox (how many people until a match?) →🔄 Biorhythm
Biorhythm is an early-20th-century concept with no scientific basis. The fixed 23/28/33-day cycles (Swoboda/Fliess) are computed deterministically from days since birth. About our data
Open the Biorhythm calculator →⭐ Your Light from the Stars
The light arriving tonight from Regulus (Leo) traveled about 79.3 light-years — it left the star about 2 years before you were born.
Distances are approximate, based on published values (e.g., Hipparcos).
🌙 The Moon the Night You Were Born
First Quarter
On the night you were born, a First Quarter hung in the sky.
about 39% illuminated · moon age ~6.4 days
Approximate, from the synodic month (~29.53 days) and a reference new moon. Names follow traditional usage.
🌕 Explore the Moon phase tool →✨ Your Nakshatra (Lunar Mansion)
Vishakha
ヴィシャーカー · #16 · pada 1
Ruled by Jupiter, symbol “triumphal arch” — traditionally associated with purpose, determination.
🌙 Open the Nakshatra tool →※ Vedic lunar mansion from the Moon’s sidereal position; Japan’s Sukuyō uses a different (almanac) method.
🌀 Your Mayan Dreamspell Kin
KIN
115
Blue Eagle × Spectral (11) · Wavespell Red Serpent
🌀 Open the Mayan Kin tool →※ From the modern Dreamspell system (1987); differs from the ancient Maya calendar in leap-day handling. Divination, not science.
🌌 Your Midnight Sky
With the Sun in Leo on your birthday, its opposite — Aquarius — rode high in the southern sky at midnight.
Bright stars above the horizon around midnight (~35°N approx.). Center = overhead, edge = horizon.
The sign opposite the Sun culminates around midnight (approximate, tropical zodiac). Star positions are published J2000 values.
🍼 Popular US Baby Names in 1948
👦 Top 5 Boys
James, Robert, John, William, David
👧 Top 5 Girls
Linda, Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Susan
※ US Social Security Administration birth records (factual); Japan differs.
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The night sky you were born under
Sun in Leo · Aquarius culminating at midnight
Bright stars above the horizon around midnight (~35°N approx.). Center = overhead, edge = horizon. J2000 positions.
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