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

The short answer

November 20 is a Scorpio birthday in the third decan of Scorpio with birthday number 2 and a Personal Year 6 in 2027; Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Nadine Gordimer (1923) and Edwin Hubble (1889) were born on November 20 too.

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November 20 zodiac sign: Scorpio

Sun sign

Scorpio

Sun at noon UTC

27.3° to 28.7° 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 20, in every time zone on Earth, between 27.3° and 28.7° of the sign at noon UTC, so a November 20 birthday is a Scorpio birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on November 20 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 20 is its eighth day.

In most years November 20 is the 28th day of the Sun’s season in Scorpio, which runs from October 24 to November 21 counted at noon UTC, with one day of it still to come. November 20 is the 324th day of a common year and the 325th of a leap year, with 41 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous November 20 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Maximinus Daza, in 270, and the most recent Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, in 1946; none of them was born after 1949.

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014), South African writer
• Benoit Mandelbrot (1924–2010), Polish-born, French and American mathematician
• Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (born 1946), bishop, priest, eastern Orthodox priest
• Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015), Russian ballet dancer
• Arieh Warshel (born 1940), chemist, biochemist and biophysicist

Born in the 1800s

• Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), Swedish writer
• Edwin Hubble (1889–1953), American astronomer
• Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), German-Austrian ethologist

Born before 1800

• Pope Pius VIII (1761–1830), Pope of the Catholic Church from 1829 to 1830
• Tipu Sultan (1750–1799), Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore from 1782 to 1799
• Otto von Guericke (1602–1686), German scientist, inventor, and politician
• Maximinus Daza (270–313), Roman emperor from 310 to 313

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 115 people the Almanac’s table keeps for November 20, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

November 20 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 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.

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

The Sun in Scorpio 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

For a birthday on November 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: November, the 11th month, keeps its master 11, the 20th reduces to 2, and 11 + 2 + 11 = 24, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.

Read as the year of the hearth, a Personal Year 6 brings home, family, love and responsibility to the front. In 2027, a Universal Year 11, the reading adds a calling to care for something wider than the household.

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

In 2027 November 20 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 1 (8 + 20 = 28, then 1) in a Personal Month 8 (6 + 11 = 17, then 8), while May 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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