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January 6 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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January 6 is a Capricorn birthday in the second decan of Capricorn with birthday number 6 and a Personal Year 9 in 2027; Joan of Arc (1412), Kahlil Gibran (1883) and Rowan Atkinson (1955) were born on January 6 too.

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January 6 zodiac sign: Capricorn

Sun sign

Capricorn

Sun at noon UTC

15.0° to 16.5° Capricorn

Decan

Second of Capricorn, 10° to 20°

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 January 6, in every time zone on Earth, between 15.0° and 16.5° of the sign at noon UTC, so a January 6 birthday is a Capricorn birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on January 6 the Sun is in the second decan of Capricorn, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mars in the Chaldean order and is read through Taurus, ruled by Venus, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from January 1 to January 10, and January 6 is its sixth day.

In most years January 6 is the 16th day of the Sun’s season in Capricorn, which runs from December 22 to January 19 counted at noon UTC, with 13 days of it still to come. January 6 is the 6th day of every year, with 359 days of the year still to come, or 360 in a leap year.

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Famous January 6 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Richard II of England, in 1367, and the most recent Eddie Redmayne, in 1982; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Rowan Atkinson (born 1955), English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
• Eddie Redmayne (born 1982), English actor

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Adriano Celentano (born 1938), Italian musician and actor
• Syd Barrett (1946–2006), British musician
• Loretta Young (1913–2000), American actress

Born in the 1800s

• Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter
• Carl Sandburg (1878–1967), American writer and editor
• Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), Russian composer and pianist
• Gustave Doré (1832–1883), French illustrator and painter
• Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), German businessman and archaeologist

Born before 1800

• Joan of Arc (1412–1431), French folk heroine
• Richard II of England (1367–1400), King of England from 1377 to 1399

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 70 people the Almanac’s table keeps for January 6, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

January 6 birthday personality

Mars, exalted in Capricorn, takes its middle decan in the Chaldean scheme while Taurus lends Venus’s steadiness, so tradition reads drive with stamina here, the climber who paces the mountain. Its caution is work that crowds out the people it was meant for.

Born on the 6th, you have the 6 alone, read in numerology as care, home and the duty that love brings with it. The day is said to make natural hosts and menders. In an earth sign the 6’s care is read as provision: the kept home, the remembered birthday, the bill quietly paid.

A question to carry from January 6: who is your discipline caring for, and is anyone caring for you in return?

The Sun in Capricorn and the number 6 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 6

Born on the 6th, your birthday number is simply 6, the day itself: a 6 vibration supports love, responsibility, beauty, family, and service, with care, beauty, and responsibility as its gift and over-giving, perfectionism, or control through care as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on January 6 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 6th gives 6, and 1 + 6 + 11 = 18, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.

A Personal Year 9 is read as a year of completion and release, when a nine-year round closes and makes room for the next. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads the endings as clearing the way for something more inspired.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 9: Jan 1 Feb 11 Mar 3 Apr 4 May 5 Jun 6 Jul 7 Aug 8 Sep 9 Oct 1 Nov 2 Dec 3

In 2027 January 6 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 7 (1 + 6 = 7) in a Personal Month 1 (9 + 1 = 10, then 1), while February 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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