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

The short answer

November 17 is a Scorpio birthday in the third decan of Scorpio with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 3 in 2027; Martin Scorsese (1942), Eugene Wigner (1902) and Rachel McAdams (1978) were born on November 17 too.

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November 17 zodiac sign: Scorpio

Sun sign

Scorpio

Sun at noon UTC

24.3° to 25.7° Scorpio

Decan

Third of Scorpio, 20° to 30°

Element and mode

Water, fixed

Ruling planet

Pluto; Mars by tradition

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Scorpio for the whole of November 17, in every time zone on Earth, between 24.3° and 25.7° of the sign at noon UTC, so a November 17 birthday is a Scorpio birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on November 17 the Sun is in the third decan of Scorpio, 20° to 30°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Venus in the Chaldean order and is read through Cancer, ruled by the Moon, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from November 13 to November 21, and November 17 is its fifth day.

In most years November 17 is the 25th day of the Sun’s season in Scorpio, which runs from October 24 to November 21 counted at noon UTC, with four days of it still to come. November 17 is the 321st day of a common year and the 322nd of a leap year, with 44 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous November 17 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Bronzino, in 1503, and the most recent Nani, in 1986; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Rachel McAdams (born 1978), Canadian actress
• Sophie Marceau (born 1966), French actress
• Nani (born 1986), Portuguese association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Martin Scorsese (born 1942), American filmmaker
• Eugene Wigner (1902–1995), Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician
• Danny DeVito (born 1944), American actor, comedian, director and producer
• Rock Hudson (1925–1985), American actor

Born in the 1800s

• Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934), Soviet psychologist

Born before 1800

• Louis XVIII (1755–1824), King of France
• Nicolas Appert (1749–1841), French inventor of airtight food preservation
• Bronzino (1503–1572), Italian Mannerist painter
• August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), German mathematician and astronomer

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 75 people the Almanac’s table keeps for November 17, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

November 17 birthday personality

Venus rules the last ten degrees of Scorpio in the Chaldean order and Cancer adds the Moon’s protectiveness by triplicity, so this is read as Scorpio’s loyalty at its most personal: few people, held closely and for good. The caution the old texts give is jealousy mistaken for devotion.

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 November 17: what responsibility is your depth ready to take on, and what is it ready to hand over?

The Sun in Scorpio 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

For a birthday on November 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: November, the 11th month, keeps its master 11, the 17th reduces to 8, and 11 + 8 + 11 = 30, which reduces to 3, so 2027 is your Personal Year 3.

A Personal Year 3 is read as a year of expression, friendship and creative play, when what you make and say carries further than usual. Under the Universal Year 11 the reading adds inspiration, with the caution to finish what the bright ideas begin.

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

In 2027 November 17 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 22 (5 + 17 = 22) in a Personal Month 5 (3 + 11 = 14, then 5), while August is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

November birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones

Topaz and citrine

Birth flower

Chrysanthemum

November’s topaz and citrine come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its chrysanthemum from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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