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September 22 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

September 22 is a cusp birthday, usually Virgo; in some years the Sun enters Libra on this date, so check your birth year and time, with birthday number 22 and a Personal Year 6 in 2027; Michael Faraday (1791), Andrea Bocelli (1958) and Saul Perlmutter (1959) were born on September 22 too.

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September 22 zodiac sign: Virgo or Libra

Sun sign

Virgo or Libra, a cusp day

Sun at noon UTC

28.6° to 30.0° Virgo, or 0.0° to 0.0° Libra

Decan

Third of Virgo, 20° to 30°

Element and mode

Earth, mutable

Ruling planet

Mercury

September 22 is a cusp birthday, usually Virgo; in some years the Sun enters Libra on this date, so check your birth year and time: in 26 of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun crossed from Virgo into Libra during September 22 counted in UTC, most recently in 2030, and at noon UTC it stood in Virgo in 90 of the years and in Libra in 1. For a birth on September 22 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 22 the Sun is in the third decan of Virgo in 90 of those years and in the first decan of Libra in 1, so the decan, like the sign at a cusp, turns on the year. The third decan of Virgo is a face that belongs to Mercury in the Chaldean order and is read through Taurus, ruled by Venus, by triplicity, and in most years the decan runs from September 13 to September 22, and September 22 is its tenth day.

In most years September 22 is the 31st day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, the last day of it. September 22 is the 265th day of a common year and the 266th of a leap year, with 100 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous September 22 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Anne of Cleves, in 1515, and the most recent Tom Felton, in 1987; six of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Andrea Bocelli (born 1958), Italian tenor and singer-songwriter
• Saul Perlmutter (born 1959), American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
• Thiago Silva (born 1984), Brazilian association football player
• Tom Felton (born 1987), British actor, singer and musician
• Joan Jett (born 1958), American rock musician
• Nick Cave (born 1957), Australian musician and singer

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Junko Tabei (1939–2016), Japanese mountain climber

Born in the 1800s

• Paul Muni (1895–1967), Austrian-born American stage and film actor

Born before 1800

• Michael Faraday (1791–1867), British scientist
• Anne of Cleves (1515–1557), Queen consort of England
• Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German zoologist and botanist
• Anne of Austria (1601–1666), Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 69 people the Almanac’s table keeps for September 22, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

September 22 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.

The 22nd is the master builder’s number, kept whole by the Almanac’s method rather than reduced: 22, with 4 underneath it. Numerology reads it as vision with the patience to make it practical, and warns that it can feel like pressure. The tradition reads earth with the master 22 as the architect of lasting institutions, a vision with the patience of stone.

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 22: which long plan does your care for doing things well want to begin, one patient stone at a time?

The Sun in Virgo and the number 22 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 22, a master number

Born on the 22nd, your birthday number is 22 itself, a master number the Almanac keeps whole rather than reducing it to 4: a 22 vibration is a Master Builder pattern connected to structure, legacy, and practical manifestation, with vision made practical as its gift and pressure, fear of responsibility, or perfectionism as its strain. On an ordinary day the 22 is lived through its 4, and a 4 vibration supports structure, discipline, foundations, work, and stability.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on September 22 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 22nd keeps its master 22, and 9 + 22 + 11 = 42, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.

Read as the year of the hearth, a Personal Year 6 brings home, family, love and responsibility to the front. In 2027, a Universal Year 11, the reading adds a calling to care for something wider than the household.

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

In 2027 September 22 falls on a Wednesday, the day the old reckoning gives to Mercury, and is a Personal Day 1 (6 + 22 = 28, then 1) in a Personal Month 6 (6 + 9 = 15, then 6), while May 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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