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August 30 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

August 30 is a Virgo birthday in the first decan of Virgo with birthday number 3 and a Personal Year 22 in 2027; Ernest Rutherford (1871), Warren Buffett (1930) and Mary Shelley (1797) were born on August 30 too.

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August 30 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

6.2° to 7.6° 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 30, in every time zone on Earth, between 6.2° and 7.6° of the sign at noon UTC, so an August 30 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on August 30 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 30 is its eighth day.

In most years August 30 is the 8th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 23 days of it still to come. August 30 is the 242nd day of a common year and the 243rd of a leap year, with 123 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous August 30 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Jacques-Louis David, in 1748, and the most recent Andy Roddick, in 1982; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Cameron Diaz (born 1972), American actress and model
• Anna Politkovskaya (1958–2006), Russian journalist
• Andy Roddick (born 1982), American tennis player
• Pavel Nedvěd (born 1972), Czech association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Warren Buffett (born 1930), American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
• Edward Mills Purcell (1912–1997), American physicist

Born in the 1800s

• Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), New Zealand physicist
• Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), Dutch physical and organic chemist
• Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971), Swedish chemist
• Shirley Booth (1898–1992), American actress

Born before 1800

• Mary Shelley (1797–1851), English writer
• Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), French painter

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 69 people the Almanac’s table keeps for August 30, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

August 30 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 30th is the 3 with a zero beside it, read in numerology as expression amplified: the voice, the performer, the writer with something to say. In earth the 3’s expression is read as craft, the gift that shows itself in something made by hand and made well.

A question to carry from August 30: what would your care for doing things well say if you let it speak out loud this week?

The Sun in Virgo and the number 3 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 3

Born on the 30th, 3 + 0 = 3, so your birthday number is 3: a 3 vibration supports creativity, communication, joy, and expressive movement, with creative communication as its gift and scattered focus, avoidance, or emotional dramatization as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on August 30 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 30th reduces to 3, and 8 + 3 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.

A Personal Year 22, the master builder’s year, is kept whole rather than reduced to 4, and read as the year a large plan can take real shape. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the reading pairs vision with the patience to build it properly.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 22: Jan 5 Feb 6 Mar 7 Apr 8 May 9 Jun 1 Jul 11 Aug 3 Sep 4 Oct 5 Nov 33 Dec 7

In 2027 August 30 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 33 (3 + 30 = 33) in a Personal Month 3 (22 + 8 = 30, then 3), while July is a master month 11 and November is a master month 33; 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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