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September 4 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

September 4 is a Virgo birthday in the second decan of Virgo with birthday number 4 and a Personal Year 6 in 2027; Beyoncé (1981), Al-Biruni (973) and François-René de Chateaubriand (1768) were born on September 4 too.

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September 4 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

11.1° to 12.5° Virgo

Decan

Second of Virgo, 10° to 20°

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 4, in every time zone on Earth, between 11.1° and 12.5° of the sign at noon UTC, so a September 4 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on September 4 the Sun is in the second decan of Virgo, 10° to 20°, in every one of those years, a face that belongs to Venus in the Chaldean order and is read through Capricorn, ruled by Saturn, by triplicity; in most years the decan runs from September 3 to September 12, and September 4 is its second day.

In most years September 4 is the 13th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 18 days of it still to come. September 4 is the 247th day of a common year and the 248th of a leap year, with 118 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous September 4 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Al-Biruni, in 973, and the most recent Raúl Albiol, in 1985; three of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Beyoncé (born 1981), American singer-songwriter
• Raúl Albiol (born 1985), Spanish association football player
• Shinya Yamanaka (born 1962)

Born from 1900 to 1949

• John McCarthy (1927–2011), American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
• Kenzō Tange (1913–2005), Japanese architect
• Max Delbrück (1906–1981), biophysicist

Born in the 1800s

• Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Austrian composer
• Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
• Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish Romantic poet

Born before 1800

• Al-Biruni (973–1048), 11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath
• François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), French writer, politician and historian
• Alexander III of Scotland (1241–1286)

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 59 people the Almanac’s table keeps for September 4, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

September 4 birthday personality

Venus, in her fall in Virgo, takes the middle decan in the Chaldean scheme while Capricorn lends Saturn’s patience, so tradition reads a kindness that shows itself in practical help rather than in words. It asks whether the giver can also receive.

The 4th gives the 4 alone, the number numerology reads as the builder’s: order, effort and a plan that holds. A birthday on it is read as steady hands more than quick ones. Earth and the 4 are both builders, so the tradition reads this pairing as reliability itself, with a stubborn streak to watch.

A question to carry from September 4: what would your care for doing things well build if you gave it one hour, every day, for a month?

The Sun in Virgo and the number 4 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 4

Born on the 4th, your birthday number is simply 4, the day itself: a 4 vibration supports structure, discipline, foundations, work, and stability, with structure and reliability as its gift and rigidity, fear, or over-control as its strain.

Your 2027 numbers

For a birthday on September 4 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 4th gives 4, and 9 + 4 + 11 = 24, which reduces to 6, so 2027 is your Personal Year 6.

A Personal Year 6 is read as a year of love and duty, of home, family and the people who rely on you. In 2027, a Universal Year 11, the tradition reads that care as reaching out to heal and to serve a community.

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 4 falls on a Saturday, the day the old reckoning gives to Saturn, and is a Personal Day 1 (6 + 4 = 10, 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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