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December 22 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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December 22 is a cusp birthday, usually Capricorn; in some years the Sun is still in Sagittarius for part of this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 22 and a Personal Year 9 in 2027; Basshunter (1984), Giacomo Puccini (1858) and Jean Racine (1639) were born on December 22 too.

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December 22 zodiac sign: Sagittarius or Capricorn

Sun sign

Sagittarius or Capricorn, a cusp day

Sun at noon UTC

0.0° to 1.2° Capricorn, or 29.8° to 30.0° Sagittarius

Decan

First of Capricorn, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Earth, cardinal

Ruling planet

Saturn

December 22 is a cusp birthday, usually Capricorn; in some years the Sun is still in Sagittarius for part of this date, so check your birth year and time: in 48 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Sagittarius into Capricorn during December 22 counted in UTC, most recently in 2027, and at noon UTC it stood in Capricorn in 83 of the years and in Sagittarius in 8. For a birth on December 22 the year, the time and the place settle the sign: convert the time of birth to UTC and compare it with the minute the Sun changed sign that year, or let the zodiac sign calculator do it from your date, time and city.

At noon UTC on December 22 the Sun is in the first decan of Capricorn in 83 of those years and in the third decan of Sagittarius in 8, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The first decan of Capricorn is a face that belongs to Jupiter in the Chaldean order and is read through Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity, and in most years the decan runs from December 22 to December 31, and December 22 is its first day.

In most years December 22 is the 1st day of the Sun’s season in Capricorn, which runs from December 22 to January 19 counted at noon UTC, with 28 days of it still to come. December 22 is the 356th day of a common year and the 357th of a leap year, with 9 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous December 22 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Chagatai Khan, in 1183, and the most recent Joshua Bassett, in 2000; seven of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Basshunter (born 1984), Swedish singer, record producer, and DJ
• Joshua Bassett (born 2000), American actor and singer-songwriter
• Ralph Fiennes (born 1962), English actor, director and producer
• Vanessa Paradis (born 1972), French singer, model and actress
• Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), American artist
• Meghan Trainor (born 1993), American singer-songwriter
• Thomas C. Südhof (born 1955), German biochemist

Born in the 1800s

• Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Italian opera composer
• Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), Indian mathematician
• Frank B. Kellogg (1856–1937), American politician

Born before 1800

• Jean Racine (1639–1699), French dramatist
• Chagatai Khan (1183–1242), second son of Genghis Khan and Börte

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 60 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 22, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

December 22 birthday personality

Jupiter, in its fall in Capricorn, opens the sign in the Chaldean order while Saturn keeps it by triplicity, so ambition is read here as a vision patient enough to build itself brick by brick. The old reading credits it with foresight and asks that it leave a little room for luck.

The 22nd is the master builder’s number, kept whole by the Almanac’s method rather than reduced: 22, with 4 underneath it. Numerology reads it as vision with the patience to make it practical, and warns that it can feel like pressure. The tradition reads earth with the master 22 as the architect of lasting institutions, a vision with the patience of stone.

Where Sagittarius gives way to Capricorn the traveller meets the builder at the December solstice, vision meeting discipline. Some readers take a birthday this close to the change to carry something of both signs, a symbolic reading the calculation cannot measure; which sign the Sun was in at a birth is a matter of fact, settled by the year, the time and the place.

A question to carry from December 22: which long plan does your discipline want to begin, one patient stone at a time?

The Sun in Capricorn and the number 22 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 22, a master number

Born on the 22nd, your birthday number is 22 itself, a master number the Almanac keeps whole rather than reducing it to 4: a 22 vibration is a Master Builder pattern connected to structure, legacy, and practical manifestation, with vision made practical as its gift and pressure, fear of responsibility, or perfectionism as its strain. On an ordinary day the 22 is lived through its 4, and a 4 vibration supports structure, discipline, foundations, work, and stability.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on December 22 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: December, the 12th month, reduces to 3, the 22nd keeps its master 22, and 3 + 22 + 11 = 36, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.

A Personal Year 9 is read as the closing year of a nine-year cycle, a time to finish, forgive and clear space. With the Universal Year an 11, the house reads the release as making room for an inspired new beginning.

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

In 2027 December 22 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 7 (3 + 22 = 25, then 7) in a Personal Month 3 (9 + 12 = 21, then 3), while February is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

December birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones

Turquoise, tanzanite and zircon

Birth flowers

Narcissus, and holly as the second flower

December’s turquoise, tanzanite and zircon come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its narcissus and holly from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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