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January 7 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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January 7 is a Capricorn birthday in the second decan of Capricorn with birthday number 7 and a Personal Year 1 in 2027; Millard Fillmore (1800), Jeremy Renner (1971) and Nicolas Cage (1964) were born on January 7 too.

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January 7 zodiac sign: Capricorn

Sun sign: Capricorn
Sun at noon UTC: 16.0° to 17.5° 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 7, in every time zone on Earth, between 16.0° and 17.5° of the sign at noon UTC, so a January 7 birthday is a Capricorn birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on January 7 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 7 is its seventh day.

In most years January 7 is the 17th day of the Sun’s season in Capricorn, which runs from December 22 to January 19 counted at noon UTC, with twelve days of it still to come. January 7 is the 7th day of every year, with 358 days of the year still to come, or 359 in a leap year.

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Famous January 7 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Pope Gregory XIII, in 1502, and the most recent Eden Hazard, in 1991; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Jeremy Renner (born 1971), American actor
Nicolas Cage (born 1964), American actor
Lewis Hamilton (born 1985), British racing driver
Eden Hazard (born 1991), Belgian footballer

Born in the 1800s

Millard Fillmore (1800–1874), president of the United States from 1850 to 1853
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858–1922), Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist
Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879), French saint
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
Charles Péguy (1873–1914), French poet, essayist, and editor
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), French composer and pianist

Born before 1800

Pope Gregory XIII (1502–1585), pope of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585
Joseph Bonaparte (1768–1844), brother of Napoleon Bonaparte; King of Naples and Spain

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 45 people the Almanac’s table keeps for January 7, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

January 7 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.

The 7th gives the 7 in its plain form, numerology’s number of the seeker and the thinker. It is read as a birthday that needs some quiet to be at its best. Earth gives the 7’s search its method, so the reading finds a patient researcher who trusts what can be tested and repeated.

A question to carry from January 7: what would your discipline notice if you gave it an hour of real quiet?

The Sun in Capricorn and the number 7 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 7

Born on the 7th, your birthday number is simply 7, the day itself: a 7 vibration supports introspection, wisdom, spirituality, analysis, and solitude, with depth, study, and inner truth as its gift and isolation, skepticism, or emotional distance as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

A Greek sphinx with a lion's body, folded wings and a serene woman's face, seated on a stone plinth, an engraving — The Sphinx, keeper of riddles

For a birthday on January 7 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 7th gives 7, and 1 + 7 + 11 = 19, which reduces to 1, so 2027 is your Personal Year 1. On the way it passes 19, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.

A Personal Year 1 is read as the start of a new nine-year round: a year to choose a direction and take the first real step toward it. In 2027 the Universal Year 11 is read as asking that the new start follow an honest intuition, then be tested in practice.

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

In 2027 January 7 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 9 (2 + 7 = 9) in a Personal Month 2 (1 + 1 = 2), while October 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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Common questions

What zodiac sign is January 7?

Capricorn: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Capricorn for the whole of January 7 in every year and every time zone, 16.0° to 17.5° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is January 7 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Capricorn all day on January 7 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is January 19, twelve days later.

Who was born on January 7?

Among the best known people born on January 7 are Millard Fillmore (1800–1874), Jeremy Renner (born 1971) and Nicolas Cage (born 1964), with Lewis Hamilton, Pope Gregory XIII and Eden Hazard and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for January 7?

7. Born on the 7th, your birthday number is simply 7, the day itself: a 7 vibration supports introspection, wisdom, spirituality, analysis, and solitude, with depth, study, and inner truth as its gift and isolation, skepticism, or emotional distance as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a January 7 birthday?

1. For a birthday on January 7 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 7th gives 7, and 1 + 7 + 11 = 19, which reduces to 1, so 2027 is your Personal Year 1. On the way it passes 19, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.