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August 27 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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August 27 is a Virgo birthday in the first decan of Virgo with birthday number 9 and a Personal Year 1 in 2027; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), Abu Bakr al-Razi (865) and Ivan Franko (1856) were born on August 27 too.

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August 27 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

3.3° to 4.7° 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 27, in every time zone on Earth, between 3.3° and 4.7° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 27 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 27 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 27 is its fifth day.

In most years August 27 is the 5th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 26 days of it still to come. August 27 is the 239th day of a common year and the 240th of a leap year, with 126 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 27 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Abu Bakr al-Razi, in 865, and the most recent Deco, in 1977; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Deco (born 1977), Portuguese footballer
• Mark Webber (born 1976), Australian professional racing driver

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Cesária Évora (1941–2011), Cape Verdean singer-songwriter
• Norman Ramsey Jr. (1915–2011), American physicist

Born in the 1800s

• Ivan Franko (1856–1916), Ukrainian poet and writer
• Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), American novelist and journalist
• Charles G. Dawes (1865–1951), vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
• Carl Bosch (1874–1940), German chemical engineer
• Man Ray (1890–1976), American and French visual artist
• Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932), Italian mathematician

Born before 1800

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher and theologian
• Abu Bakr al-Razi (865–925), Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 83 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 27, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 27 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.

Born on the 27th, 2 and 7 add to 9: the listener and the thinker arriving at compassion. Numerology reads it as a birthday of broad sympathy and a teacher’s patience. In an earth sign the 9 is read as practical compassion, the volunteer who brings tools as well as sympathy.

A question to carry from August 27: what could your care for doing things well forgive, in someone else or in yourself, to travel lighter?

The Sun in Virgo and the number 9 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 9

Born on the 27th, 2 + 7 = 9, so your birthday number is 9: a 9 vibration supports completion, compassion, release, wisdom, and humanitarian energy, with compassion and wise completion as its gift and martyrdom, heavy endings, or emotional overextension as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on August 27 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 27th reduces to 9, and 8 + 9 + 11 = 28, which reduces to 1, so 2027 is your Personal Year 1.

A Personal Year 1 is read as the start of a new nine-year round: a year to choose a direction and take the first real step toward it. In 2027 the Universal Year 11 is read as asking that the new start follow an honest intuition, then be tested in practice.

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

In 2027 August 27 falls on a Friday, the day the old reckoning gives to Venus, and is a Personal Day 9 (9 + 27 = 36, then 9) in a Personal Month 9 (1 + 8 = 9), while October 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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