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

The short answer

September 21 is a Virgo birthday in the third decan of Virgo, one caveat aside for births far from Greenwich, with birthday number 3 and a Personal Year 5 in 2027; H. G. Wells (1866), Stephen King (1947) and Leonard Cohen (1934) were born on September 21 too.

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September 21 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

27.6° to 29.0° Virgo

Decan

Third of Virgo, 20° to 30°

Element and mode

Earth, mutable

Ruling planet

Mercury

At noon UTC on September 21 the Sun is in Virgo in every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, between 27.6° and 29.0° of the sign, but in 1 of those years, most recently 2028, it went on into Libra within hours of the date’s end in UTC, so a birth late on September 21 in a time zone west of Greenwich, such as the Americas’, can already have the Sun in Libra. For a birth on September 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 September 21 the Sun is in the third decan of Virgo, 20° to 30°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Taurus, ruled by Venus, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from September 13 to September 22, and September 21 is its ninth day.

In most years September 21 is the 30th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with one day of it still to come. September 21 is the 264th day of a common year and the 265th of a leap year, with 101 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous September 21 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1415, and the most recent Kareena Kapoor, in 1980; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Kareena Kapoor (born 1980), Indian actress
• Bill Murray (born 1950), American actor and comedian

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Stephen King (born 1947), American novelist and writer
• Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), Canadian singer, songwriter and poet
• Donald Glaser (1926–2013), American physicist and neurobiologist

Born in the 1800s

• H. G. Wells (1866–1946), English writer
• Abdul Hamid II (1842–1918), 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), Dutch physicist, Nobel prize winner
• Charles Nicolle (1866–1936)
• Murad V (1840–1904), 33rd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Born before 1800

• Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Italian Dominican friar and preacher
• Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (1415–1493), Holy Roman Emperor and Austrian archduke and duke

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 82 people the Almanac’s table keeps for September 21, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

September 21 birthday personality

Mercury rules the last ten degrees of its own sign in the Chaldean order and Taurus lends its steadiness by triplicity, so this is read as Virgo the craftsman, the hand that improves a thing a little every day. Tradition prizes its reliability and warns against mistaking the detail for the whole.

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 earth with a 3 as the artisan, whose creativity shows in useful and beautiful things.

Where Virgo gives way to Libra the careful worker meets the diplomat at the September equinox, precision meeting balance. 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 September 21: what would your care for doing things well make if it set aside the fear of how it will be received?

The Sun in Virgo 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

For a birthday on September 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: September, the 9th month, gives 9, the 21st reduces to 3, and 9 + 3 + 11 = 23, which reduces to 5, so 2027 is your Personal Year 5.

A Personal Year 5 is read as numerology’s year of freedom: travel, change, new people and a loosening of old routines. With the Universal Year an 11, the tradition advises letting intuition choose which changes to make.

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

In 2027 September 21 falls on a Tuesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mars, and is a Personal Day 8 (5 + 21 = 26, then 8) in a Personal Month 5 (5 + 9 = 14, then 5), while June is a master month 11; 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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