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November 8 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

November 8 is a Scorpio birthday in the second decan of Scorpio with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 3 in 2027; Alain Delon (1935), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) and Bram Stoker (1847) were born on November 8 too.

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November 8 zodiac sign: Scorpio

Sun sign

Scorpio

Sun at noon UTC

15.2° to 16.6° Scorpio

Decan

Second of Scorpio, 10° to 20°

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 8, in every time zone on Earth, between 15.2° and 16.6° of the sign at noon UTC, so a November 8 birthday is a Scorpio birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on November 8 the Sun is in the second decan of Scorpio, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Sun in the Chaldean order and is read through Pisces, ruled by Jupiter, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from November 3 to November 12, and November 8 is its sixth day.

In most years November 8 is the 16th day of the Sun’s season in Scorpio, which runs from October 24 to November 21 counted at noon UTC, with 13 days of it still to come. November 8 is the 312th day of a common year and the 313th of a leap year, with 53 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous November 8 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Charles X Gustav, in 1622, and the most recent Masashi Kishimoto, in 1974; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954), British novelist
• Masashi Kishimoto (born 1974), Japanese manga artist

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Alain Delon (1935–2024), French actor
• Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), American author and journalist
• Jack Kilby (1923–2005), American electrical engineer
• Christiaan Barnard (1922–2001), South African cardiac surgeon
• Guus Hiddink (born 1946), Dutch football player and manager

Born in the 1800s

• Bram Stoker (1847–1912), Irish novelist and short story writer
• Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), German philosopher, logician, and mathematician
• Ilia Chavchavadze (1837–1907), Georgian public figure and writer

Born before 1800

• Edmond Halley (1656–1742), English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist
• Charles X Gustav (1622–1660), King of Sweden

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 83 people the Almanac’s table keeps for November 8, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

November 8 birthday personality

The Sun takes the middle of Scorpio in the Chaldean scheme while Pisces, under Jupiter, holds it by triplicity, so depth is read here as insight that wants to heal rather than to win. Tradition sees the investigator with compassion, and asks that the same light be turned inward.

Born on the 8th, your number is the 8 unmixed, read in numerology as stewardship, effort and the handling of power and money. Tradition links the day with a capacity to carry responsibility for others. In water the 8’s power is read as emotional strength, the person others lean on in a crisis.

A question to carry from November 8: where does your depth need to become a decision someone can rely on?

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 8th, your birthday number is simply 8, the day itself: 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 8 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 8th gives 8, and 11 + 8 + 11 = 30, which reduces to 3, so 2027 is your Personal Year 3.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 3 as a year to express yourself, enjoy company and let creativity lead. In a Universal Year 11 the reading adds a note of inspiration, and a reminder to give the ideas a finished form.

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 8 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 4 (5 + 8 = 13, then 4) 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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