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

The short answer

December 27 is a Capricorn birthday in the first decan of Capricorn with birthday number 9 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Louis Pasteur (1822), Marlene Dietrich (1901) and Johannes Kepler (1571) were born on December 27 too.

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December 27 zodiac sign: Capricorn

Sun sign

Capricorn

Sun at noon UTC

4.9° to 6.3° 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 27, in every time zone on Earth, between 4.9° and 6.3° of the sign at noon UTC, so a December 27 birthday is a Capricorn birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on December 27 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 27 is its sixth day.

In most years December 27 is the 6th day of the Sun’s season in Capricorn, which runs from December 22 to January 19 counted at noon UTC, with 23 days of it still to come. December 27 is the 361st day of a common year and the 362nd of a leap year, with 4 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous December 27 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Johannes Kepler, in 1571, and the most recent Timothée Chalamet, in 1995; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Salman Khan (born 1965), Indian actor and producer
• Timothée Chalamet (born 1995), French-American actor
• Hayley Williams (born 1988), American singer
• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (born 1986), Jamaican track and field sprinter
• Adil Rami (born 1985), French footballer

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Marlene Dietrich (1901–1992), German and American actress and singer
• Larisa Latynina (born 1934), Soviet-Russian artistic gymnast and ballet dancer
• Michel Piccoli (1925–2020), French actor

Born in the 1800s

• Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French chemist and microbiologist

Born before 1800

• Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), German mathematician and astronomer
• Ghalib (1797–1869), Indian poet
• Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595–1657), Ukrainian military, political and statesman

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 67 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 27, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

December 27 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 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 December 27: what could your discipline forgive, in someone else or in yourself, to travel lighter?

The Sun in Capricorn 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 December 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: December, the 12th month, reduces to 3, the 27th reduces to 9, and 3 + 9 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.

A Personal Year 5 is read as numerology’s year of freedom: travel, change, new people and a loosening of old routines. With the Universal Year an 11, the tradition advises letting intuition choose which changes to make.

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

In 2027 December 27 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 8 (8 + 27 = 35, then 8) in a Personal Month 8 (5 + 12 = 17, then 8), while June 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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