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March 17 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

March 17 is a Pisces birthday in the third decan of Pisces with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 22 in 2027; Nat King Cole (1919), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537) and Gottlieb Daimler (1834) were born on March 17 too.

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March 17 zodiac sign: Pisces

Sun sign: Pisces
Sun at noon UTC: 26.0° to 27.4° Pisces
Decan: Third of Pisces, 20° to 30°
Element and mode: Water, mutable
Ruling planet: Neptune; Jupiter by tradition

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Pisces for the whole of March 17, in every time zone on Earth, between 26.0° and 27.4° of the sign at noon UTC, so a March 17 birthday is a Pisces birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on March 17 the Sun is in the third decan of Pisces, 20° to 30°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mars in the Chaldean order and is read through Scorpio, ruled by Mars, by triplicity, so the two systems agree; in most years the decan runs from March 11 to March 20, and March 17 is its seventh day.

In most years March 17 is the 27th day of the Sun’s season in Pisces, which runs from February 19 to March 20 counted at noon UTC, with three days of it still to come. March 17 is the 76th day of a common year and the 77th of a leap year, with 289 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous March 17 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is James IV, in 1473, and the most recent Katie Ledecky, in 1997; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Edin Džeko (born 1986), Bosnian association football player
Shinji Kagawa (born 1989), Japanese association football player
Raul Meireles (born 1983), Portuguese association football player
Katie Ledecky (born 1997), American Olympic swimmer

Born from 1900 to 1949

Nat King Cole (1919–1965), American singer and jazz pianist
Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993), Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
William Gibson (born 1948), American-Canadian speculative fiction writer
Giovanni Trapattoni (born 1939), Italian association football player and manager

Born in the 1800s

Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), German engineer and industrialist
Walter Rudolf Hess (1881–1973), Swiss physiologist

Born before 1800

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–1598), Japanese samurai and daimyo
James IV (1473–1513), King of Scotland from 1488 to 1513

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 60 people the Almanac’s table keeps for March 17, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

March 17 birthday personality

Both systems give the last ten degrees of the zodiac to Mars, by triplicity through Scorpio, so the old reading finds a surprising resolve at the end of the dreamiest sign: the mystic who acts. Its lesson is that intensity of feeling is not yet a plan.

The 17th carries the 1 of a beginning and the 7 of reflection and adds them into 8, so numerology reads it as thought that turns into authority. It is a birthday linked with good judgement and long effort. With water, the 8 is read as a strength that works behind the scenes, quietly steering and protecting.

A question to carry from March 17: what responsibility is your compassion ready to take on, and what is it ready to hand over?

The Sun in Pisces 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 17th, 1 + 7 = 8, so your birthday number is 8: 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

Pythagoras with a small lyre, pointing to a triangle of ten pebbles in his palm, an engraving — Pythagoras, the philosopher of number

For a birthday on March 17 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: March, the 3rd month, gives 3, the 17th reduces to 8, and 3 + 8 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.

A Personal Year 22, the master builder’s year, is kept whole rather than reduced to 4, and read as the year a large plan can take real shape. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the reading pairs vision with the patience to build it properly.

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 March 17 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 6 (7 + 17 = 24, then 6) in a Personal Month 7 (22 + 3 = 25, 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.

March birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones: Aquamarine and bloodstone
Birth flowers: Daffodil, and jonquil as the second flower

March’s aquamarine and bloodstone come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its daffodil and jonquil from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is March 17?

Pisces: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Pisces for the whole of March 17 in every year and every time zone, 26.0° to 27.4° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.

Is March 17 a cusp birthday?

No: the Sun stays in Pisces all day on March 17 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is March 20, three days later.

Who was born on March 17?

Among the best known people born on March 17 are Nat King Cole (1919–1965), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537–1598) and Gottlieb Daimler (1834–1900), with Rudolf Nureyev, Edin Džeko and Shinji Kagawa and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for March 17?

8. Born on the 17th, 1 + 7 = 8, so your birthday number is 8: 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.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a March 17 birthday?

22. For a birthday on March 17 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: March, the 3rd month, gives 3, the 17th reduces to 8, and 3 + 8 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.