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December 8 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

December 8 is a Sagittarius birthday in the second decan of Sagittarius with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 22 in 2027; Horace (65 BC), Jim Morrison (1943) and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832) were born on December 8 too.

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December 8 zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Sun sign

Sagittarius

Sun at noon UTC

15.5° to 16.9° Sagittarius

Decan

Second of Sagittarius, 10° to 20°

Element and mode

Fire, mutable

Ruling planet

Jupiter

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Sagittarius for the whole of December 8, in every time zone on Earth, between 15.5° and 16.9° of the sign at noon UTC, so a December 8 birthday is a Sagittarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on December 8 the Sun is in the second decan of Sagittarius, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Moon in the Chaldean order and is read through Aries, ruled by Mars, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from December 2 to December 11, and December 8 is its seventh day.

In most years December 8 is the 17th day of the Sun’s season in Sagittarius, which runs from November 22 to December 21 counted at noon UTC, with 13 days of it still to come. December 8 is the 342nd day of a common year and the 343rd of a leap year, with 23 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous December 8 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Horace, in 65 BC, and the most recent Raheem Sterling, in 1994; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Nicki Minaj (born 1982), Trinidadian rapper
• Kim Basinger (born 1953), American actress
• Sinéad O'Connor (1966–2023), Irish singer-songwriter
• Raheem Sterling (born 1994), English association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Jim Morrison (1943–1971), American singer and poet; lead vocalist of The Doors
• Maximilian Schell (1930–2014), Swiss and Austrian film and stage actor

Born in the 1800s

• Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832–1910), Norwegian writer
• Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Finnish composer
• Diego Rivera (1886–1957), Mexican muralist
• Georges Méliès (1861–1938), French filmmaker and illusionist

Born before 1800

• Horace (65–8 BC), Roman lyric poet
• Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), Queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 80 people the Almanac’s table keeps for December 8, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

December 8 birthday personality

The Moon takes the middle decan of Sagittarius in the Chaldean order and Aries lends Mars’s dash by triplicity, so tradition reads a restless, warm-hearted optimism here, quick to set out and quick to forgive. The reflection is whether leaving has become easier than staying.

Born on the 8th, your number is the 8 unmixed, read in numerology as stewardship, effort and the handling of power and money. Tradition links the day with a capacity to carry responsibility for others. In a fire sign the 8’s authority is read as leadership by example, the one who sets the pace and expects others to keep it.

A question to carry from December 8: where does your hope need to become a decision someone can rely on?

The Sun in Sagittarius 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 8th, your birthday number is simply 8, the day itself: 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 8 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 8th gives 8, and 3 + 8 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.

Kept whole as a master year rather than reduced to 4, a Personal Year 22 is read as the master builder’s year, a time to make a large vision practical. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the reading pairs that vision with careful, steady work.

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 8 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 6 (7 + 8 = 15, then 6) 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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