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September 2 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

September 2 is a Virgo birthday in the first decan of Virgo with birthday number 2 and a Personal Year 22 in 2027; Keanu Reeves (1964), Salma Hayek (1966) and Wilhelm Ostwald (1853) were born on September 2 too.

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September 2 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

9.1° to 10.5° Virgo

Decan

First of Virgo, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Earth, mutable

Ruling planet

Mercury

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Virgo for the whole of September 2, in every time zone on Earth, between 9.1° and 10.5° of the sign at noon UTC, so a September 2 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on September 2 the Sun is in the first decan of Virgo in 60 of those years and in the second in 31, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The first decan of Virgo is a face that belongs to the Sun in the Chaldean order and is read through Virgo, ruled by Mercury, by triplicity, and in most years the decan runs from August 23 to September 2, and September 2 is its eleventh day.

In most years September 2 is the 11th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 20 days of it still to come. September 2 is the 245th day of a common year and the 246th of a leap year, with 120 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous September 2 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Liliʻuokalani, in 1838, and the most recent Emiliano Martínez, in 1992; five of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Keanu Reeves (born 1964), Canadian actor and musician
• Salma Hayek (born 1966), Mexican and American actress
• Emiliano Martínez (born 1992), Argentine footballer
• Jimmy Connors (born 1952), American tennis player
• Alexandre Pato (born 1989), Brazilian football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Arthur Ashkin (1922–2020), American physicist
• Bill Shankly (1913–1981), Scottish footballer and manager

Born in the 1800s

• Wilhelm Ostwald (1853–1932), Baltic German chemist
• Frederick Soddy (1877–1956), English radiochemist
• Liliʻuokalani (1838–1917), monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom
• Joseph Roth (1894–1939), Austrian novelist and journalist
• Henry George (1839–1897), American political economist and journalist

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 61 people the Almanac’s table keeps for September 2, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

September 2 birthday personality

The Sun rules the opening decan of Virgo in the Chaldean order while Mercury, the sign’s own ruler, keeps it by triplicity, so the old reading is service with a bright, visible craft, work that shows its care. Its shadow is a standard no one could meet, the one holding it included.

The 2nd is the 2 unmixed, which numerology reads as the number of the partner and the listener. A birthday on it is said to favour the quiet work of bringing two sides together. Earth gives the 2’s patience a practical shape, so the reading finds a steady partner who shows loyalty in deeds more than words.

A question to carry from September 2: who would your care for doing things well serve best if it waited, listened and then went in together?

The Sun in Virgo 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 2nd, your birthday number is simply 2, the day itself: 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 September 2 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: September, the 9th month, gives 9, the 2nd gives 2, and 9 + 2 + 11 = 22, a master number the Almanac keeps whole, so 2027 is your Personal Year 22.

Kept whole as a master year rather than reduced to 4, a Personal Year 22 is read as the master builder’s year, a time to make a large vision practical. With 2027 a Universal Year 11 the reading pairs that vision with careful, steady work.

Personal Months of 2027, a Personal Year 22: Jan 5 Feb 6 Mar 7 Apr 8 May 9 Jun 1 Jul 11 Aug 3 Sep 4 Oct 5 Nov 33 Dec 7

In 2027 September 2 falls on a Thursday, the day the old reckoning gives to Jupiter, and is a Personal Day 6 (4 + 2 = 6) in a Personal Month 4 (22 + 9 = 31, then 4), while July is a master month 11 and November is a master month 33; the Personal Year itself turns on 1 January, not on the birthday.

September birthstone and birth flower

Birthstone

Sapphire

Birth flowers

Aster, and morning glory as the second flower

September’s sapphire comes from the modern list (the Jewelers of America list of 1912, as since revised), and its aster and morning glory from The Old Farmer’s Almanac.

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