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

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January 29 is an Aquarius birthday in the first decan of Aquarius with birthday number 11 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; Anton Chekhov (1860), William McKinley (1843) and Romain Rolland (1866) were born on January 29 too.

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January 29 zodiac sign: Aquarius

Sun sign

Aquarius

Sun at noon UTC

8.4° to 9.9° Aquarius

Decan

First of Aquarius, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Air, fixed

Ruling planet

Uranus; Saturn by tradition

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Aquarius for the whole of January 29, in every time zone on Earth, between 8.4° and 9.9° of the sign at noon UTC, so a January 29 birthday is an Aquarius birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on January 29 the Sun is in the first decan of Aquarius, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Venus in the Chaldean order and is read through Aquarius, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from January 20 to January 29, and January 29 is its tenth day.

In most years January 29 is the 10th day of the Sun’s season in Aquarius, which runs from January 20 to February 18 counted at noon UTC, with 20 days of it still to come. January 29 is the 29th day of every year, with 336 days of the year still to come, or 337 in a leap year.

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Famous January 29 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Emanuel Swedenborg, in 1688, and the most recent Adam Lambert, in 1982; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), American talk show host, actress, producer, and author
• Teresa Teng (1953–1995), Taiwanese ROC singer
• Christina Koch (born 1979), American astronaut
• Adam Lambert (born 1982), American singer

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Abdus Salam (1926–1996), theoretical physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics recipient
• Linda B. Buck (born 1947), American biologist
• Germaine Greer (born 1939), Australian writer and public intellectual

Born in the 1800s

• Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian dramatist and author
• William McKinley (1843–1901), president of the United States from 1897 to 1901
• Romain Rolland (1866–1944), French author

Born before 1800

• Thomas Paine (1737–1809), American Founding Father, philosopher
• Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 49 people the Almanac’s table keeps for January 29, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

January 29 birthday personality

Venus opens Aquarius in the Chaldean scheme while Saturn, its traditional ruler, keeps it by triplicity, so the water-bearer’s ideals are read here through friendship: the circle, the cause shared over a meal. Tradition warns that a love for people in general can overlook the person in front of you.

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 an air sign the master 11 is read as quick, bright insight, the idea that arrives whole and needs patience to be explained.

A question to carry from January 29: what has your independence of mind already sensed that you have not yet trusted enough to say?

The Sun in Aquarius 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 January 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: January, the 1st month, gives 1, the 29th reduces to the master 11, and 1 + 11 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.

A Personal Year 5 is read as a year of change and movement, of travel, new people and loosened routines. Beside the Universal Year 11 it is read as change guided by intuition rather than restlessness.

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 January 29 falls on a Friday, the day the old reckoning gives to Venus, and is a Personal Day 8 (6 + 29 = 35, then 8) in a Personal Month 6 (5 + 1 = 6), while June is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

January birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone

Garnet

Birth flowers

Carnation, and snowdrop as the second flower

January’s garnet comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its carnation and snowdrop from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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