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November 21 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

November 21 is a cusp birthday, usually Scorpio; in some years the Sun enters Sagittarius on this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 3 and a Personal Year 7 in 2027; Voltaire (1694), Pope Benedict XV (1854) and Björk (1965) were born on November 21 too.

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November 21 zodiac sign: Scorpio or Sagittarius

Sun sign: Scorpio or Sagittarius, a cusp day
Sun at noon UTC: 28.3° to 29.7° Scorpio
Decan: Third of Scorpio, 20° to 30°
Element and mode: Water, fixed
Ruling planet: Pluto; Mars by tradition

November 21 is a cusp birthday, usually Scorpio; in some years the Sun enters Sagittarius on this date, so check your birth year and time: in 7 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during November 21 counted in UTC, most recently in 2028, and at noon UTC it stood in Scorpio in every year, so the change came after noon, late in the day. For a birth on November 21 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 November 21 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 21 is its ninth day.

In most years November 21 is the 29th day of the Sun’s season in Scorpio, which runs from October 24 to November 21 counted at noon UTC, the last day of it. November 21 is the 325th day of a common year and the 326th of a leap year, with 40 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous November 21 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Voltaire, in 1694, and the most recent Saúl, in 1994; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Björk (born 1965), Icelandic singer
Jesús Navas (born 1985), Spanish association football player
Carly Rae Jepsen (born 1985), Canadian singer
Saúl (born 1994), Spanish association football player
Vincenzo Iaquinta (born 1979), Italian association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

Goldie Hawn (born 1945), American actress

Born in the 1800s

Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922), Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922
René Magritte (1898–1967), Belgian surrealist
Lewis H. Morgan (1818–1881), American anthropologist
Victoria, Princess Royal (1840–1901), British princess

Born before 1800

Voltaire (1694–1778), French writer, historian and philosopher
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), German theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 67 people the Almanac’s table keeps for November 21, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

November 21 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.

Born on the 21st, 2 and 1 add to 3: partnership and initiative turning into expression. Numerology reads it as a sociable, creative birthday, the host who is also the entertainer. The tradition reads water with a 3 as the poet’s gift, turning feeling into words, music or images.

Where Scorpio gives way to Sagittarius the deep diver comes up for air, intensity meeting optimism. 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 November 21: what would your depth make if it set aside the fear of how it will be received?

The Sun in Scorpio and the number 3 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 3

Born on the 21st, 2 + 1 = 3, so your birthday number is 3: a 3 vibration supports creativity, communication, joy, and expressive movement, with creative communication as its gift and scattered focus, avoidance, or emotional dramatization 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 November 21 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 21st reduces to 3, and 11 + 3 + 11 = 25, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7.

A Personal Year 7 is numerology’s inward year, for study, prayer, rest and taking stock. With 2027 a Universal Year 11, it is read as a year when insight comes readily to anyone who listens for 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 November 21 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 3 (9 + 21 = 30, then 3) in a Personal Month 9 (7 + 11 = 18, then 9), while April 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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Common questions

What zodiac sign is November 21?

Usually Scorpio; in some years the Sun enters Sagittarius on this date, so check your birth year and time. In 7 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Scorpio into Sagittarius during November 21 counted in UTC, so your birth year and time decide which sign was yours.

Is November 21 a cusp birthday?

Yes. In 7 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, most recently 2028, the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius during November 21 (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 November 21?

Among the best known people born on November 21 are Voltaire (1694–1778), Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922) and Björk (born 1965), with René Magritte, Goldie Hawn and Friedrich Schleiermacher and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for November 21?

3. Born on the 21st, 2 + 1 = 3, so your birthday number is 3: a 3 vibration supports creativity, communication, joy, and expressive movement, with creative communication as its gift and scattered focus, avoidance, or emotional dramatization as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a November 21 birthday?

7. For a birthday on November 21 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 21st reduces to 3, and 11 + 3 + 11 = 25, which reduces to 7, so 2027 is your Personal Year 7.