May 1 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers
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May 1 is a Taurus birthday in the second decan of Taurus with birthday number 1 and a Personal Year 8 in 2027; Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852) and Joseph Addison (1672) were born on May 1 too.
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May 1 zodiac sign: Taurus
- Sun sign
- Taurus
- Sun at noon UTC
- 10.2° to 11.6° Taurus
- Decan
- Second of Taurus, 10° to 20°
- Element and mode
- Earth, fixed
- Ruling planet
- Venus
In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Taurus for the whole of May 1, in every time zone on Earth, between 10.2° and 11.6° of the sign at noon UTC, so a May 1 birthday is a Taurus birthday whatever the year or the hour.
At noon UTC on May 1 the Sun is in the second decan of Taurus, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Moon in the Chaldean order and is read through Virgo, ruled by Mercury, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from May 1 to May 10, and May 1 is its first day.
In most years May 1 is the 12th day of the Sun’s season in Taurus, which runs from April 20 to May 20 counted at noon UTC, with 19 days of it still to come. May 1 is the 121st day of a common year and the 122nd of a leap year, with 244 days of the year still to come after it.
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Famous May 1 birthdays
The earliest born of the twelve is Rudolf I of Germany, in 1218, and the most recent Charli D'Amelio, in 2004; five of them were born after 1949.
Born since 1950
- Anushka Sharma (born 1988), Indian actress
- Leonardo Bonucci (born 1987), Italian association football player
- Wes Anderson (born 1969), American filmmaker
- Darijo Srna (born 1982), Croatian footballer
- Charli D'Amelio (born 2004), American social media personality
Born from 1900 to 1949
- Joseph Heller (1923–1999), American writer
- Glenn Ford (1916–2006), Canadian-American actor
Born in the 1800s
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish scientist
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), French philosopher, Jesuit priest, and paleontologist
Born before 1800
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), British Field Marshal, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Joseph Addison (1672–1719), English essayist, poet, playwright and politician
- Rudolf I of Germany (1218–1291), count of Habsburg, king of Germany
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 May 1, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.
May 1 birthday personality
In the middle of Taurus the Moon, exalted in this sign, takes the Chaldean rulership and Virgo lends its care for detail, so tradition hears a provident, gentle nature here: the full cupboard, the remembered preference. Its shadow is worry dressed up as prudence.
Born on the 1st, you carry the number in its plainest form, with no compound behind it, only the 1 of beginnings. Numerologists read the first of the month as the self-starter, someone who would rather go first than wait to be asked. In an earth sign the 1’s independence is read as self-reliance, the person who would rather build it themselves than wait to be helped.
A question to carry from May 1: where could your patience make the first move you have been waiting for someone else to make?
The Sun in Taurus and the number 1 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 1
Born on the 1st, your birthday number is simply 1, the day itself: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure as its strain.
Your 2027 numbers
For a birthday on May 1 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: May, the 5th month, gives 5, the 1st gives 1, and 5 + 1 + 11 = 17, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.
Read as the year of the harvest, a Personal Year 8 is numerology’s season of ambition, finance and recognition. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads it as asking that success serve a purpose larger than itself.
Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 8: Jan 9 Feb 1 Mar 11 Apr 3 May 4 Jun 5 Jul 6 Aug 7 Sep 8 Oct 9 Nov 1 Dec 2
In 2027 May 1 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 5 (4 + 1 = 5) in a Personal Month 4 (8 + 5 = 13, then 4), while March is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.
May birthstone and birth flower
- Birthstone
- Emerald
- Birth flowers
- Lily of the valley, and hawthorn as the second flower
May’s emerald comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its lily of the valley and hawthorn from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.
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Common questions
What zodiac sign is May 1?
Taurus: from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stayed in Taurus for the whole of May 1 in every year and every time zone, 10.2° to 11.6° into the sign at noon UTC, so no birth year or birth time changes it.
Is May 1 a cusp birthday?
No: the Sun stays in Taurus all day on May 1 in every year from 1940 to 2030, wherever on Earth the birth takes place, and the nearest cusp birthday is April 20, eleven days earlier.
Who was born on May 1?
Among the best known people born on May 1 are Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852), Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) and Joseph Addison (1672–1719), with Anushka Sharma, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Leonardo Bonucci and six more named on this page.
What is the birthday number for May 1?
1. Born on the 1st, your birthday number is simply 1, the day itself: a 1 vibration supports initiative, courage, leadership, and clear beginnings, with initiative and self-direction as its gift and impatience, isolation, or ego pressure as its strain.
What is the 2027 Personal Year for a May 1 birthday?
8. For a birthday on May 1 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: May, the 5th month, gives 5, the 1st gives 1, and 5 + 1 + 11 = 17, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.
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