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August 25 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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August 25 is a Virgo birthday in the first decan of Virgo with birthday number 7 and a Personal Year 8 in 2027; Sean Connery (1930), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744) and Tim Burton (1958) were born on August 25 too.

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August 25 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

1.4° to 2.8° Virgo

Decan

First of Virgo, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Earth, mutable

Ruling planet

Mercury

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Virgo for the whole of August 25, in every time zone on Earth, between 1.4° and 2.8° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 25 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 25 the Sun is in the first decan of Virgo, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Sun in the Chaldean order and is read through Virgo, ruled by Mercury, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from August 23 to September 2, and August 25 is its third day.

In most years August 25 is the 3rd day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 28 days of it still to come. August 25 is the 237th day of a common year and the 238th of a leap year, with 128 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 25 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Johann Gottfried Herder, in 1744, and the most recent Blake Lively, in 1987; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Tim Burton (born 1958), American filmmaker and artist
• Claudia Schiffer (born 1970), German model
• Blake Lively (born 1987), American actress
• Taslima Nasrin (born 1962), author, secular humanist, and feminist

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Sean Connery (1930–2020), Scottish actor
• Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990), American conductor and composer
• Hans Krebs (1900–1981), German-British biochemist
• Herbert Kroemer (1928–2024), German-American physics

Born in the 1800s

• Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886), King of Bavaria
• Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917), surgeon, laureate of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Born before 1800

• Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), German philosopher, theologian, poet
• Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767–1794), Philosopher, military and political leader

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 73 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 25, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 25 birthday personality

The Sun rules the opening decan of Virgo in the Chaldean order while Mercury, the sign’s own ruler, keeps it by triplicity, so the old reading is service with a bright, visible craft, work that shows its care. Its shadow is a standard no one could meet, the one holding it included.

The 25th adds 2 and 5 into 7, so numerology reads restlessness and partnership settling into reflection, the seeker who has met a great many people. It is read as a perceptive, searching birthday. The tradition reads earth with a 7 as the scientist’s temperament, curious about how things work and patient enough to find out.

A question to carry from August 25: what does your care for doing things well understand when you stop and think it through slowly?

The Sun in Virgo and the number 7 are only part of the story: your Moon, your rising sign and the rest of your chart have as much to say, and the tradition offers all this as a mirror, never a verdict.

Birthday number 7

Born on the 25th, 2 + 5 = 7, so your birthday number is 7: a 7 vibration supports introspection, wisdom, spirituality, analysis, and solitude, with depth, study, and inner truth as its gift and isolation, skepticism, or emotional distance as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on August 25 the house method reduces the birth month and the day on their own and adds the Universal Year of 2027, 11 (2 + 0 + 2 + 7 = 11, a master number kept whole), as it stands: August, the 8th month, gives 8, the 25th reduces to 7, and 8 + 7 + 11 = 26, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.

A Personal Year 8 is read as a year of effort and reward, of money, authority and the harvest of earlier work. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading asks that power be used in the service of a vision worth having.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 8: Jan 9 Feb 1 Mar 11 Apr 3 May 4 Jun 5 Jul 6 Aug 7 Sep 8 Oct 9 Nov 1 Dec 2

In 2027 August 25 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 5 (7 + 25 = 32, then 5) in a Personal Month 7 (8 + 8 = 16, then 7), while March is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

August birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones

Peridot, spinel and sardonyx

Birth flowers

Gladiolus, and poppy as the second flower

August’s peridot, spinel and sardonyx come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its gladiolus and poppy from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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