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What are the zodiac signs of the BTS members?

Seven public birth dates, so the signs are just calendar facts — two calendars, in fact, and they disagree about what a year even is. The interesting part is what a sign can and cannot tell you.

5 min read · Published 11 November 2026

First, the answer

From their published birth dates: Jin (4 December 1992) is a Sagittarius and a Water Monkey; Suga (9 March 1993) a Pisces and a Water Rooster; J-Hope (18 February 1994) an Aquarius and a Wood Dog; RM (12 September 1994) a Virgo and a Wood Dog; Jimin (13 October 1995) a Libra and a Wood Pig; V (30 December 1995) a Capricorn and a Wood Pig; and Jungkook (1 September 1997) a Virgo and a Fire Ox. Those are the Western Sun sign and the Chinese zodiac year animal; a full chart needs a birth time, which has only been documented for Jungkook.

Contents
  1. All seven, both zodiacs
  2. The pairs: two Virgos, two Dogs, two Pigs
  3. Why the Chinese column needs more care than the Western one
  4. What these signs can and cannot tell you

All seven, both zodiacs

BTS's birth dates are public record, so this table is arithmetic, not interpretation. The Western column is the Sun sign, which follows the solar calendar. The Chinese column is the year animal with its element, which follows the traditional year boundary — and that boundary is the one place these lookups usually go wrong, because the zodiac year does not start on 1 January.

BTS members by birth date, Western Sun sign and Chinese zodiac year
MemberBornWestern Sun signChinese zodiac
Jin (Kim Seok-jin)4 December 1992, GwacheonSagittariusWater Monkey
Suga (Min Yoon-gi)9 March 1993, DaeguPiscesWater Rooster
J-Hope (Jung Ho-seok)18 February 1994, GwangjuAquariusWood Dog
RM (Kim Nam-joon)12 September 1994, GoyangVirgoWood Dog
Jimin (Park Ji-min)13 October 1995, BusanLibraWood Pig
V (Kim Tae-hyung)30 December 1995, DaeguCapricornWood Pig
Jungkook (Jeon Jung-kook)1 September 1997, BusanVirgoFire Ox
BTS members by birth date, Western Sun sign and Chinese zodiac year

Each member's full computed chart is on their page: Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook.

The pairs: two Virgos, two Dogs, two Pigs

Seven people across five years of births produce some doubling, and fans have noticed all of it. RM and Jungkook share Virgo; J-Hope and RM share the Wood Dog year; Jimin and V share the Wood Pig year — V and Jimin were classmates born eleven weeks apart, so of course they share a year animal. Jin, the eldest, is the group's only Monkey, and Jungkook, the youngest, its only Ox.

I'd resist reading the doubles as destiny. Any seven people born within a five-year span will share year animals, because there are only twelve to go around. The sharing tells you the group's age spread, which you already knew.

Why the Chinese column needs more care than the Western one

The Western Sun sign changes mid-month, so a December birthday like Jin's lands cleanly in Sagittarius. The Chinese year animal changes at the lunar new year, between late January and mid-February, and that catches people born early in the calendar year.

Two members sit near the tricky zone. Suga was born on 9 March 1993, safely after that year's new year on 23 January, so he is a Rooster. J-Hope was born on 18 February 1994 — the new year fell on 10 February 1994, eight days earlier, so he is a Dog by eight days. A lookup table that assigns animals by Western calendar year alone gets him right by luck; someone born that same January would be mislabelled. The boundary problem has its own write-up in the Chinese new year zodiac problem.

J-Hope's Western sign has a wrinkle too: 18 February is the day the Sun crossed from Aquarius into Pisces in 1994 — but it crossed late in the day by universal time, early morning on the 19th in Korea, so any birth hour on his actual birthday leaves him an Aquarius. If you have ever been told you are 'on the cusp', the same arithmetic settles it: cusp signs aren't real, there is always an exact boundary.

What these signs can and cannot tell you

The table above is solid because it only claims calendar facts: where the Sun was by date, and which traditional year each birth fell in. Both are checkable and nobody disputes them.

What the signs cannot do is explain why RM writes the lyrics or why Jin cooks. A Sun sign is one placement out of a whole chart, and the year animal is one character out of the eight that a full BaZi reading uses — the animal on the placemat is the outer face of a system that mostly lives elsewhere. Reading seven personalities off seven table rows is sun-sign stereotyping, and it works on anyone, which is the problem.

The next piece in this series picks up where this one leaves off.

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