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December 24 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

December 24 is a Capricorn birthday in the first decan of Capricorn with birthday number 6 and a Personal Year 2 in 2027; James Prescott Joule (1818), Adam Mickiewicz (1798) and John, King of England (1166) were born on December 24 too.

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December 24 zodiac sign: Capricorn

Sun sign

Capricorn

Sun at noon UTC

1.8° to 3.2° Capricorn

Decan

First of Capricorn, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Earth, cardinal

Ruling planet

Saturn

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Capricorn for the whole of December 24, in every time zone on Earth, between 1.8° and 3.2° of the sign at noon UTC, so a December 24 birthday is a Capricorn birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on December 24 the Sun is in the first decan of Capricorn, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Jupiter in the Chaldean order and is read through Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from December 22 to December 31, and December 24 is its third day.

In most years December 24 is the 3rd day of the Sun’s season in Capricorn, which runs from December 22 to January 19 counted at noon UTC, with 26 days of it still to come. December 24 is the 358th day of a common year and the 359th of a leap year, with 7 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous December 24 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Galba, in 3 BC, and the most recent Dima Bilan, in 1981; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Ricky Martin (born 1971), Puerto Rican singer
• Dima Bilan (born 1981), Russian pop singer
• Stephenie Meyer (born 1973), American author

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Ava Gardner (1922–1990), American actress
• Howard Hughes (1905–1976), American aviator, engineer, industrialist, and film producer

Born in the 1800s

• James Prescott Joule (1818–1889), English physicist and brewer
• Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941), Greman chess player, World Chess champion
• Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837–1898), Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from 1854 to 1898

Born before 1800

• Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist
• John, King of England (1166–1216), King of England from 1199 to 1216
• Galba (3 BC – AD 69), sixth Roman Emperor
• Selim III (1761–1808), 28th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 59 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 24, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

December 24 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.

Born on the 24th, 2 and 4 make 6: cooperation and structure becoming care. Numerology reads it as a devoted birthday, for people who make homes and keep their promises. Earth with a 6 is read as the homemaker and the provider, love expressed in security and comfort.

A question to carry from December 24: how could your discipline care for others this month without neglecting yourself?

The Sun in Capricorn and the number 6 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 6

Born on the 24th, 2 + 4 = 6, so your birthday number is 6: a 6 vibration supports love, responsibility, beauty, family, and service, with care, beauty, and responsibility as its gift and over-giving, perfectionism, or control through care as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on December 24 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 24th reduces to 6, and 3 + 6 + 11 = 20, which reduces to 2, so 2027 is your Personal Year 2.

Read as the quiet year of the nine, a Personal Year 2 asks for cooperation, patience and attention to detail rather than big moves. In 2027, whose Universal Year 11 also rests on a 2, the reading leans toward partnerships and toward trusting a slower pace.

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

In 2027 December 24 falls on a Friday, the day the old reckoning gives to Venus, and is a Personal Day 11 (5 + 24 = 29, then 11) in a Personal Month 5 (2 + 12 = 14, then 5), while September 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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