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September 6 birthdayZodiac sign, famous birthdays, personality and your 2027 numbers

The short answer

September 6 is a Virgo birthday in the second decan of Virgo with birthday number 6 and a Personal Year 8 in 2027; John Dalton (1766), Jane Addams (1860) and Idris Elba (1972) were born on September 6 too.

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September 6 zodiac sign: Virgo

Sun sign

Virgo

Sun at noon UTC

13.0° to 14.4° 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 6, in every time zone on Earth, between 13.0° and 14.4° of the sign at noon UTC, so a September 6 birthday is a Virgo birthday whatever the year or the hour.

At noon UTC on September 6 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 6 is its fourth day.

In most years September 6 is the 15th day of the Sun’s season in Virgo, which runs from August 23 to September 22 counted at noon UTC, with 16 days of it still to come. September 6 is the 249th day of a common year and the 250th of a leap year, with 116 days of the year still to come after it.

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Famous September 6 birthdays

The earliest born of the twelve is Ivan V of Russia, in 1666, and the most recent Idris Elba, in 1972; two of them were born after 1949.

Born since 1950

• Idris Elba (born 1972), British actor
• Dolores O'Riordan (1971–2018), Irish musician

Born from 1900 to 1949

• Roger Waters (born 1943), English musician, co-founder of Pink Floyd
• Luis Federico Leloir (1906–1987), Argentine biochemist

Born in the 1800s

• Jane Addams (1860–1935), American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker
• Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965), English physicist
• Emir Abdelkader (1808–1883), Algerian religious and military leader
• John Macleod (1876–1935), Nobel prize-winning Scottish physician and physiologist

Born before 1800

• John Dalton (1766–1844), British chemist and mathematician
• Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), French general and politician
• Ivan V of Russia (1666–1696), Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1696
• Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), German-Jewish philosopher and theologian

Birthdays from Wikidata, checked against Wikipedia’s “On this day” births: the twelve best known of the 75 people the Almanac’s table keeps for September 6, by how many Wikipedia editions cover them, with dates before the calendar reform as the sources give them.

September 6 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.

Born on the 6th, you have the 6 alone, read in numerology as care, home and the duty that love brings with it. The day is said to make natural hosts and menders. In an earth sign the 6’s care is read as provision: the kept home, the remembered birthday, the bill quietly paid.

A question to carry from September 6: who is your care for doing things well caring for, and is anyone caring for you in return?

The Sun in Virgo 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 6th, your birthday number is simply 6, the day itself: 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 6 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 6th gives 6, and 9 + 6 + 11 = 26, which reduces to 8, so 2027 is your Personal Year 8.

A Personal Year 8 is read as a year of achievement and authority, when effort can turn into reward and recognition. In a Universal Year 11 the tradition asks that power and money be used with integrity and vision.

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 6 falls on a Monday, the day the old reckoning gives to the Moon, and is a Personal Day 5 (8 + 6 = 14, 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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