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November 23 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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November 23 is a cusp birthday, usually Sagittarius; in some years the Sun is still in Scorpio for part of this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 5 and a Personal Year 9 in 2027; Miley Cyrus (1992), Franklin Pierce (1804) and Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837) were born on November 23 too.

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November 23 zodiac sign: Scorpio or Sagittarius

Sun sign: Scorpio or Sagittarius, a cusp day
Sun at noon UTC: 0.3° to 1.7° Sagittarius
Decan: First of Sagittarius, 0° to 10°
Element and mode: Fire, mutable
Ruling planet: Jupiter

November 23 is a cusp birthday, usually Sagittarius; in some years the Sun is still in Scorpio for part of 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 23 counted in UTC, most recently in 1967, and at noon UTC it stood in Sagittarius in every year, so the change came before noon, early in the day. For a birth on November 23 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 23 the Sun is in the first decan of Sagittarius, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from November 22 to December 1, and November 23 is its second day.

In most years November 23 is the 2nd day of the Sun’s season in Sagittarius, which runs from November 22 to December 21 counted at noon UTC, with 28 days of it still to come. November 23 is the 327th day of a common year and the 328th of a leap year, with 38 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous November 23 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Otto the Great, in 912, and the most recent Miley Cyrus, in 1992; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Miley Cyrus (born 1992), American singer, actress, and television personality
Vincent Cassel (born 1966), French actor

Born from 1900 to 1949

Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011), Indian spiritual guru
Paul Celan (1920–1970), French-Romanian poet and translator
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), Polish composer and conductor

Born in the 1800s

Franklin Pierce (1804–1869), president of the United States from 1853 to 1857
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923), Dutch physicist
Anatoly Lunacharsky (1875–1933), Russian Soviet revolutionary, politician and writer
Klement Gottwald (1896–1953), 5th President of Czechoslovakia

Born before 1800

Otto the Great (912–973), Holy Roman Emperor from 962 to 973
Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284), King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
Pope Clement IV (1190–1268), Pope

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 65 people the Almanac’s table keeps for November 23, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

November 23 birthday personality

Mercury opens Sagittarius in the Chaldean scheme while Jupiter keeps it by triplicity, so the archer’s reach is read as an intellectual one: the reader, the traveller with a notebook, the one who keeps asking why. Its caution is a frankness that forgets its audience.

The 23rd adds 2 and 3 into 5, so numerology reads it as a lively, curious birthday, the partner and the talker becoming the traveller. It is linked with versatility and a quick wit. Fire with a 5 is read as a love of the open road and of the new idea, and it asks for one commitment kept all the way through.

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 23: which routine is your hope ready to change, and which one is worth keeping?

The Sun in Sagittarius and the number 5 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 5

Born on the 23rd, 2 + 3 = 5, so your birthday number is 5: a 5 vibration supports freedom, change, movement, curiosity, and experimentation, with adaptability and discovery as its gift and restlessness, inconsistency, or escapism as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

Pythagoras with a small lyre, pointing to a triangle of ten pebbles in his palm, an engraving — Pythagoras, the philosopher of number

For a birthday on November 23 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 23rd reduces to 5, and 11 + 5 + 11 = 27, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.

A Personal Year 9 is read as the closing year of a nine-year cycle, a time to finish, forgive and clear space. With the Universal Year an 11, the house reads the release as making room for an inspired new beginning.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 9: Jan 1 Feb 11 Mar 3 Apr 4 May 5 Jun 6 Jul 7 Aug 8 Sep 9 Oct 1 Nov 2 Dec 3

In 2027 November 23 falls on a Tuesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mars, and is a Personal Day 7 (2 + 23 = 25, then 7) in a Personal Month 2 (9 + 11 = 20, then 2), while February 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 23?

Usually Sagittarius; in some years the Sun is still in Scorpio for part of 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 23 counted in UTC, so your birth year and time decide which sign was yours.

Is November 23 a cusp birthday?

Yes. In 7 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, most recently 1967, the Sun moved from Scorpio into Sagittarius during November 23 (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 23?

Among the best known people born on November 23 are Miley Cyrus (born 1992), Franklin Pierce (1804–1869) and Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923), with Otto the Great, Alfonso X of Castile and Pope Clement IV and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for November 23?

5. Born on the 23rd, 2 + 3 = 5, so your birthday number is 5: a 5 vibration supports freedom, change, movement, curiosity, and experimentation, with adaptability and discovery as its gift and restlessness, inconsistency, or escapism as its strain.

What is the 2027 Personal Year for a November 23 birthday?

9. For a birthday on November 23 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 23rd reduces to 5, and 11 + 5 + 11 = 27, which reduces to 9, so 2027 is your Personal Year 9.