December 26 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers
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December 26 is a Capricorn birthday in the first decan of Capricorn with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 22 in 2027; Charles Babbage (1791), Henry Miller (1891) and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194) were born on December 26 too.
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December 26 zodiac sign: Capricorn
- Sun sign
- Capricorn
- Sun at noon UTC
- 3.8° to 5.2° 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 26, in every time zone on Earth, between 3.8° and 5.2° of the sign at noon UTC, so a December 26 birthday is a Capricorn birthday whatever the year or the hour.
At noon UTC on December 26 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 26 is its fifth day.
In most years December 26 is the 5th day of the Sun’s season in Capricorn, which runs from December 22 to January 19 counted at noon UTC, with 24 days of it still to come. December 26 is the 360th day of a common year and the 361st of a leap year, with 5 days of the year still to come after it.
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Famous December 26 birthdays
The earliest born of the twelve is Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1194, and the most recent Denis Cheryshev, in 1990; six of them were born after 1949.
Born since 1950
- Jared Leto (born 1971), American actor, singer, musician and songwriter
- Hugo Lloris (born 1986), French footballer
- Lars Ulrich (born 1963), Danish musician
- Aaron Ramsey (born 1990), Welsh association football player and manager
- Kit Harington (born 1986), English actor
- Denis Cheryshev (born 1990), Russian footballer
Born from 1900 to 1949
- Alejo Carpentier (1904–1980), Cuban-French writer and musicologist
Born in the 1800s
- Henry Miller (1891–1980), American novelist
- Yun Ch'iho (1864–1945)
- Norman Angell (1872–1967), English politician
Born before 1800
- Charles Babbage (1791–1871), English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250), King of Sicily, Holy Roman Emperor
Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 47 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 26, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.
December 26 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 26th adds 2 and 6 into 8, read in numerology as care and cooperation growing into authority. It is linked with the patient builder of a business or a family. Earth with an 8 is read as the steward of resources, at its best when wealth is used to build something for others.
A question to carry from December 26: where could your discipline lead with fairness rather than with force?
The Sun in Capricorn and the number 8 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 8
Born on the 26th, 2 + 6 = 8, so your birthday number is 8: an 8 vibration supports power, ambition, money, mastery, and authority, with mastery, stewardship, and executive force as its gift and pressure, material fixation, or control issues as its strain.
Your 2027 numbers
For a birthday on December 26 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 26th reduces to 8, and 3 + 8 + 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 December 26 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 33 (7 + 26 = 33) in a Personal Month 7 (22 + 12 = 34, then 7), 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.
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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Common questions
What zodiac sign is December 26?
Capricorn: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Capricorn for the whole of December 26 in every year and every time zone, 3.8° to 5.2° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.
Is December 26 a cusp birthday?
No: the Sun stays in Capricorn all day on December 26 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is December 22, four days earlier.
Who was born on December 26?
Among the best known people born on December 26 are Charles Babbage (1791–1871), Henry Miller (1891–1980) and Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250), with Jared Leto, Hugo Lloris and Yun Ch'iho and six more named on this page.
What is the birthday number for December 26?
8. Born on the 26th, 2 + 6 = 8, so your birthday number is 8: an 8 vibration supports power, ambition, money, mastery, and authority, with mastery, stewardship, and executive force as its gift and pressure, material fixation, or control issues as its strain.
What is the 2027 Personal Year for a December 26 birthday?
22. For a birthday on December 26 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 26th reduces to 8, and 3 + 8 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.
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