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

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October 23 is a cusp birthday, usually Libra; in some years the Sun enters Scorpio on this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 5 and a Personal Year 8 in 2027; Emilia Clarke (1986), "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) and Ryan Reynolds (1976) were born on October 23 too.

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October 23 zodiac sign: Libra or Scorpio

Sun sign: Libra or Scorpio, a cusp day
Sun at noon UTC: 29.2° to 30.0° Libra, or 0.0° to 0.6° Scorpio
Decan: Third of Libra, 20° to 30°
Element and mode: Air, cardinal
Ruling planet: Venus

October 23 is a cusp birthday, usually Libra; in some years the Sun enters Scorpio on this date, so check your birth year and time: in 75 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Libra into Scorpio during October 23 counted in UTC, most recently in 2030, and at noon UTC it stood in Libra in 54 of the years and in Scorpio in 37. For a birth on October 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 October 23 the Sun is in the third decan of Libra in 54 of those years and in the first decan of Scorpio in 37, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The third decan of Libra is a face that belongs to Jupiter in the Chaldean order and is read through Gemini, ruled by Mercury, by triplicity, and in most years the decan runs from October 14 to October 23, and October 23 is its tenth day.

In most years October 23 is the 31st day of the Sun’s season in Libra, which runs from September 23 to October 23 counted at noon UTC, the last day of it. October 23 is the 296th day of a common year and the 297th of a leap year, with 69 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous October 23 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Gilbert N. Lewis, in 1875, and the most recent Álvaro Morata, in 1992; seven of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

Emilia Clarke (born 1986), British actress
"Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American comedy musician
Ryan Reynolds (born 1976), Canadian-American actor
Masiela Lusha (born 1985), Albanian American actress and author
Ang Lee (born 1954), Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer
Álvaro Morata (born 1992), Spanish footballer
Sam Raimi (born 1959), American filmmaker

Born from 1900 to 1949

Michael Crichton (1942–2008), American author, screenwriter, film director
Felix Bloch (1905–1983), Swiss physicist
Ilya Frank (1908–1990), Soviet physicist
Gianni Rodari (1920–1980), Italian writer and journalist

Born in the 1800s

Gilbert N. Lewis (1875–1946), American physical chemist

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 October 23, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

October 23 birthday personality

Jupiter rules the last face of Libra in the Chaldean order and Gemini lends Mercury’s quickness by triplicity, so this is read as Libra in conversation, weighing ideas out loud, persuading, opening doors between people. Tradition credits it with diplomacy and asks that the open mind still make itself up.

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. In an air sign the 5 is read as the eternal student, with a thirst for news, travel and the next good question.

Where Libra gives way to Scorpio the scales meet the depths, a love of harmony meeting a need for the whole truth. 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 October 23: which routine is your sense of fairness ready to change, and which one is worth keeping?

The Sun in Libra 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 October 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: October, the 10th month, reduces to 1, the 23rd reduces to 5, and 1 + 5 + 11 = 17, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.

Read as the year of the harvest, a Personal Year 8 is numerology’s season of ambition, finance and recognition. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition reads it as asking that success serve a purpose larger than itself.

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

In 2027 October 23 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 5 (9 + 23 = 32, then 5) in a Personal Month 9 (8 + 10 = 18, then 9), while March is a master month 11; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

October birthstone and birth flower

Birthstones: Opal and tourmaline
Birth flowers: Marigold, and cosmos as the second flower

October’s opal and tourmaline come from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its marigold and cosmos from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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Common questions

What zodiac sign is October 23?

Usually Libra; in some years the Sun enters Scorpio on this date, so check your birth year and time. In 75 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Libra into Scorpio during October 23 counted in UTC, so your birth year and time decide which sign was yours.

Is October 23 a cusp birthday?

Yes. In 75 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, most recently 2030, the Sun moved from Libra into Scorpio during October 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 October 23?

Among the best known people born on October 23 are Emilia Clarke (born 1986), "Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959) and Ryan Reynolds (born 1976), with Masiela Lusha, Michael Crichton and Ang Lee and six more named on this page.

What is the birthday number for October 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 an October 23 birthday?

8. For a birthday on October 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: October, the 10th month, reduces to 1, the 23rd reduces to 5, and 1 + 5 + 11 = 17, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.