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September 26 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

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September 26 is a Libra birthday in the first decan of Libra with birthday number 8 and a Personal Year 1 in 2027; T. S. Eliot (1888), Pope Paul VI (1897) and Serena Williams (1981) were born on September 26 too.

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September 26 zodiac sign: Libra

Sun sign

Libra

Sun at noon UTC

2.5° to 3.9° Libra

Decan

First of Libra, 0° to 10°

Element and mode

Air, cardinal

Ruling planet

Venus

In every one of the 91 years from 1940 to 2030 the Sun stood in Libra for the whole of September 26, in every time zone on Earth, between 2.5° and 3.9° of the sign at noon UTC, so a September 26 birthday is a Libra birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on September 26 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 26 is its fourth day.

In most years September 26 is the 4th day of the Sun’s season in Libra, which runs from September 23 to October 23 counted at noon UTC, with 27 days of it still to come. September 26 is the 269th day of a common year and the 270th of a leap year, with 96 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous September 26 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Théodore Géricault, in 1791, and the most recent Ricardo Quaresma, in 1983; four of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Serena Williams (born 1981), American tennis player
• Michael Ballack (born 1976), German association football player
• Ricardo Quaresma (born 1983), Portuguese association football player
• Jim Caviezel (born 1968), American actor

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Olivia Newton-John (1948–2022), British and Australian singer

Born in the 1800s

• T. S. Eliot (1888–1965), US-British poet
• Pope Paul VI (1897–1978), pope of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978
• Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936), Russian physiologist
• George Gershwin (1898–1937), American composer and pianist
• Archibald Hill (1886–1977), English physiologist and biophysicist
• Christian X (1870–1947), King of Denmark and Iceland

Born before 1800

• Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), French painter

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 26, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them.

September 26 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.

The 26th adds 2 and 6 into 8, read in numerology as care and cooperation growing into authority. It is linked with the patient builder of a business or a family. Air with an 8 is read as the builder of networks, whose influence grows through the people it connects.

A question to carry from September 26: where could your sense of fairness lead with fairness rather than with force?

The Sun in Libra and the number 8 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 8

Born on the 26th, 2 + 6 = 8, so your birthday number is 8: an 8 vibration supports power, ambition, money, mastery, and authority, with mastery, stewardship, and executive force as its gift and pressure, material fixation, or control issues as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on September 26 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 26th reduces to 8, and 9 + 8 + 11 = 28, which reduces to 1, so 2027 is your Personal Year 1.

Numerology reads a Personal Year 1 as the first page of a new chapter, a season for independence, initiative and a fresh plan. With the Universal Year an 11, the house reads 2027 as a good year to start the thing intuition has been pointing toward.

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

In 2027 September 26 falls on a Sunday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Sun, and is a Personal Day 9 (1 + 26 = 27, then 9) in a Personal Month 1 (1 + 9 = 10, then 1), while October 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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