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March 20 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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March 20 is a cusp birthday, usually Pisces; in some years the Sun enters Aries on this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 2 and a Personal Year 7 in 2027; Ovid (43 BC), Henrik Ibsen (1828) and Chester Bennington (1976) were born on March 20 too.

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March 20 zodiac sign: Pisces or Aries

Sun sign: Pisces or Aries, a cusp day
Sun at noon UTC: 29.0° to 30.0° Pisces, or 0.0° to 0.4° Aries
Decan: Third of Pisces, 20° to 30°
Element and mode: Water, mutable
Ruling planet: Neptune; Jupiter by tradition

March 20 is a cusp birthday, usually Pisces; in some years the Sun enters Aries on this date, so check your birth year and time: in 64 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Pisces into Aries during March 20 counted in UTC, most recently in 2030, and at noon UTC it stood in Pisces in 71 of the years and in Aries in 20. For a birth on March 20 the year, the time and the place settle the sign: convert the time of birth to UTC and compare it with the minute the Sun changed sign that year, or let the zodiac sign calculator do it from your date, time and city.

At noon UTC on March 20 the Sun is in the third decan of Pisces in 71 of those years and in the first decan of Aries in 20, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The third decan of Pisces is 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, and in most years the decan runs from March 11 to March 20, and March 20 is its tenth day.

In most years March 20 is the 30th day of the Sun’s season in Pisces, which runs from February 19 to March 20 counted at noon UTC, the last day of it. March 20 is the 79th day of a common year and the 80th of a leap year, with 286 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous March 20 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Ovid, in 43 BC, and the most recent Fernando Torres, in 1984; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Chester Bennington (1976–2017), American singer, songwriter and musician
Fernando Torres (born 1984), Spanish footballer and manager
Holly Hunter (born 1958), American actress
William Hurt (1950–2022), American actor

Born from 1900 to 1949

B. F. Skinner (1904–1990), American behaviorist
John de Lancie (born 1948), American actor
Fred Rogers (1928–2003), American television personality

Born in the 1800s

Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906), Norwegian playwright and theatre director
Napoleon II (1811–1832), The second Emperor of the French

Born before 1800

Ovid (43 BC – AD 17), Roman poet
Abdul Hamid I (1725–1789), 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Ivan Mazepa (1639–1709), Hetman of Ukrainian Cossacks from 1687 to 1708

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 73 people the Almanac’s table keeps for March 20, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

March 20 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 20th is the 2 with a zero beside it, read in numerology as the partner’s number amplified: patience, tact and a gift for the long collaboration. In a water sign the 2 is read as the most tender of pairings, a partner whose love is felt more than said.

Where Pisces gives way to Aries the zodiac’s year turns over, the dreamer handing on to the pioneer at the March equinox. Some readers take a birthday this close to the change to carry something of both signs, a symbolic reading the calculation cannot measure; which sign the Sun was in at a birth is a matter of fact, settled by the year, the time and the place.

A question to carry from March 20: where would your compassion grow stronger if it asked for help instead of carrying everything alone?

The Sun in Pisces and the number 2 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 2

Born on the 20th, 2 + 0 = 2, so your birthday number is 2: a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening, with relational intelligence and patience as its gift and over-dependence, passivity, or people-pleasing 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 March 20 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 20th reduces to 2, and 3 + 2 + 11 = 16, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7. On the way it passes 16, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 7 as a year to slow down, reflect and look for deeper understanding. With the Universal Year an 11, the reading treats 2027 as a year of spiritual insight for those who seek it.

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

In 2027 March 20 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 3 (1 + 20 = 21, then 3) in a Personal Month 1 (7 + 3 = 10, then 1), while April is a master month 11; 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 20?

Usually Pisces; in some years the Sun enters Aries on this date, so check your birth year and time. In 64 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Pisces into Aries during March 20 counted in UTC, so your birth year and time decide which sign was yours.

Is March 20 a cusp birthday?

Yes. In 64 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, most recently 2030, the Sun moved from Pisces into Aries during March 20 (UTC), and which side of the change a birth fell on depends on its year and its minute, converted to UTC.

Who was born on March 20?

Among the best known people born on March 20 are Ovid (43 BC – AD 17), Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) and Chester Bennington (1976–2017), with Fernando Torres, B. F. Skinner and John de Lancie and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for March 20?

2. Born on the 20th, 2 + 0 = 2, so your birthday number is 2: a 2 vibration supports sensitivity, partnership, diplomacy, and careful listening, with relational intelligence and patience as its gift and over-dependence, passivity, or people-pleasing as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a March 20 birthday?

7. For a birthday on March 20 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 20th reduces to 2, and 3 + 2 + 11 = 16, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7. On the way it passes 16, a karmic debt number, read in a year as a lesson to work through rather than as bad luck.