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February 29 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

February 29 is a Pisces birthday in the second decan of Pisces with birthday number 11 and a Personal Year 6 in 2027; Gioachino Rossini (1792), Pope Paul III (1468) and Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940) were born on February 29 too.

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February 29 zodiac sign: Pisces

Sun sign

Pisces

Sun at noon UTC

9.8° to 10.4° Pisces

Decan

Second of Pisces, 10° to 20°

Element and mode

Water, mutable

Ruling planet

Neptune; Jupiter by tradition

In every one of the 23 leap years from 1940 to 2028 the Sun stood in Pisces for the whole of February 29, in every time zone on Earth, between 9.8° and 10.4° of the sign at noon UTC, so a February 29 birthday is a Pisces birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on February 29 the Sun is in the second decan of Pisces in 15 of those years and in the first in 8, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The second decan of Pisces is a face that belongs to Jupiter in the Chaldean order and is read through Cancer, ruled by the Moon, by triplicity, and in a leap year the decan runs from February 29 to March 10, and February 29 is its first day.

In a leap year February 29 is the 11th day of the Sun’s season in Pisces, which runs from February 19 to March 20 counted at noon UTC, with 20 days of it still to come. February 29 is the 60th day of a leap year, the day the calendar adds every four years, except in century years that 400 does not divide, such as 1900 and 2100; in a common year many celebrate it on 28 February or 1 March.

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Famous February 29 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Pope Paul III, in 1468, and the most recent Abdukodir Khusanov, in 2004; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Ferran Torres (born 2000), Spanish footballer
• Benedikt Höwedes (born 1988), German association football player
• Tony Robbins (born 1960), American author, professional speaker
• Khaled (born 1960), Algerian musician
• Abdukodir Khusanov (born 2004), Uzbek association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Bartholomew I of Constantinople (born 1940), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
• Michèle Morgan (1920–2016), French actress
• Seymour Papert (1928–2016), MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator

Born in the 1800s

• Morarji Desai (1896–1995), Prime Minister of India from 1977 to 1979
• Herman Hollerith (1860–1929), American statistician and inventor

Born before 1800

• Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868), Italian opera composer
• Pope Paul III (1468–1549), pope of the Catholic Church from 1534 to 1549

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 41 people the Almanac’s table keeps for February 29, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

February 29 birthday personality

Jupiter, the sign’s traditional ruler, takes the middle decan in the Chaldean order while Cancer adds the Moon’s care, so tradition reads the most generous Pisces here, a home and a heart open to anyone who knocks. It asks whether there is a door that can also close.

Born on the 29th, 2 and 9 add to 11, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, with 2 underneath it: intuition and sensitivity raised toward inspiration. Numerology reads it as a deeply feeling birthday that needs calm ground under it. In a water sign the master 11 is read as intuition at full tide, an inner knowing that needs quiet and good company to stay steady.

A question to carry from February 29: what has your compassion already sensed that you have not yet trusted enough to say?

The Sun in Pisces and the number 11 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 11, a master number

Born on the 29th, 2 + 9 = 11, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so your birthday number is 11, with 2 underneath it: an 11 vibration is a Master Number connected to intuition, inspiration, sensitivity, and vision, with vision and inspired perception as its gift and nervous intensity, overwhelm, or self-doubt as its strain. On an ordinary day the 11 is lived through its 2, and a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on February 29 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: February, the 2nd month, gives 2, the 29th reduces to the master 11, and 2 + 11 + 11 = 24, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.

A Personal Year 6 is read as a year of home, family and responsibility, of love that shows itself in care. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading turns that care toward healing and toward a community wider than the household.

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

2027 is a common year with no 29 February, so the birthday is kept on 28 February or 1 March as each family keeps it, in a Personal Month 8 for February (6 + 2 = 8), while May is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January.

February birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone

Amethyst

Birth flowers

Violet, and primrose as the second flower

February’s amethyst comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its violet and primrose from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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