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September 24 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

September 24 is a Libra birthday in the first decan of Libra, one caveat aside for births far from Greenwich, with birthday number 6 and a Personal Year 8 in 2027; F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), İsmet İnönü (1884) and Gerolamo Cardano (1501) were born on September 24 too.

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September 24 zodiac sign: Libra

Sun sign

Libra

Sun at noon UTC

0.6° to 2.0° Libra

Decan

First of Libra, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Air, cardinal

Ruling planet

Venus

At noon UTC on September 24 the Sun is in Libra in every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030, between 0.6° and 2.0° of the sign, but in 25 of those years, most recently 2003, it had entered Libra only late on the day before, counted in UTC, so a birth in the first hours of September 24 in a time zone east of Greenwich, such as Europe’s, Asia’s or Australia’s, can still have the Sun in Virgo. For a birth on September 24 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 24 the Sun is in the first decan of Libra, 0° to 10°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to the Moon in the Chaldean order and is read through Libra, ruled by Venus, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from September 23 to October 2, and September 24 is its second day.

In most years September 24 is the 2nd day of the Sun’s season in Libra, which runs from September 23 to October 23 counted at noon UTC, with 29 days of it still to come. September 24 is the 267th day of a common year and the 268th of a leap year, with 98 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous September 24 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Gerolamo Cardano, in 1501, and the most recent John Arne Riise, in 1980; one of them was born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• John Arne Riise (born 1980), Norwegian association football player

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Severo Ochoa (1905–1993), Spanish physician
• Jim Henson (1936–1990), American puppeteer
• John Young (1930–2018), American astronaut, naval officer

Born in the 1800s

• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), American writer
• İsmet İnönü (1884–1973), 2nd President of the Republic of Turkey
• Howard Florey (1898–1968), Australian pathologist
• André Frédéric Cournand (1895–1988), French physiologist

Born before 1800

• Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576), Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer
• Horace Walpole (1717–1797), English writer and politician
• Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583–1634), Bohemian military leader
• John Marshall (1755–1835), chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 58 people the Almanac’s table keeps for September 24, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

September 24 birthday personality

The Moon opens Libra in the Chaldean scheme while Venus keeps it by triplicity, so the scales are read here through feeling first: the instinct to make a room comfortable and a quarrel smaller. The caution in the old reading is peace kept at the price of saying what is true.

Born on the 24th, 2 and 4 make 6: cooperation and structure becoming care. Numerology reads it as a devoted birthday, for people who make homes and keep their promises. Air with a 6 is read as the counsellor’s gift, care that listens and then helps a friend to think.

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 24: how could your sense of fairness care for others this month without neglecting yourself?

The Sun in Libra and the number 6 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 6

Born on the 24th, 2 + 4 = 6, so your birthday number is 6: a 6 vibration supports love, responsibility, beauty, family, and service, with care, beauty, and responsibility as its gift and over-giving, perfectionism, or control through care as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on September 24 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 24th reduces to 6, and 9 + 6 + 11 = 26, 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 September 24 falls on a Friday, the day the old reckoning gives to Venus, and is a Personal Day 5 (8 + 24 = 32, then 5) in a Personal Month 8 (8 + 9 = 17, then 8), while March 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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