Birthday signs · Aquarius season
What zodiac sign is January 27?
January 27 sits in Aquarius within the tropical zodiac system. Aquarius held the Sun at noon UTC on January 27 in all 101 years from 1930 through 2030, at 6.35° to 7.84° Aquarius. Day 7 or 8 of the Aquarius season is January 27, in the early part, with element air attached.
Calculated across 1930–2030 · checked .
January 27 is Aquarius
| Aquarius at noon UTC | 101 of 101 years, 1930–2030 |
|---|---|
| Nearest change of sign | at least 6 days away |
| Birth time needed for the sign | no |
January 27 at a glance
| Sign | ♒︎ Aquarius, the Water-bearer |
|---|---|
| Element and mode | air, fixed |
| Polarity | positive (masculine) |
| Ruler | Saturn (traditional); Uranus (modern, 20th-century assignment) |
| Sun on this date | 6.3° to 7.8° Aquarius at noon UTC, 1930–2030 |
| Day of the season | day 7 or 8 of Aquarius season |
| Decan | first (0°–10°), face of Venus |
| Sidereal sign (Lahiri) | Capricorn |
| Day number | 9 (modern numerology) |
Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.6
The decan: early Aquarius
| Noon Sun | 6.35° to 7.84° Aquarius |
|---|---|
| Decan | first (0°–10°) |
| Face ruler, Chaldean order | Venus |
Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.3
January 27 by the numbers
| Day number | 9 (2 + 7 = 9) |
|---|---|
| Month-day number | 1 (1 + 9 = 10, then 1 + 0 = 1) |
| System | modern numerology, digit sums |
Digit sums as numerology guides give them.4
Where the date falls in the season
| Day of Aquarius season | 7 or 8 |
|---|---|
| Aquarius season opened | January 20 (48 years) or January 21 (53) |
| Aquarius season closed | February 17 (4 years) or February 18 (80) or February 19 (17) |
| Element and mode | air, fixed |
| Traditional ruler | Saturn |
Seasons by the noon-UTC rule; rulers after Ptolemy.2
Born at this point in Aquarius season
Born in early Aquarius, this person starts the season with a strong sense of their own opinions. Late January brings long evenings and a habit of thinking things through alone. When a group heads one way, they pause, check what they actually believe, and then decide whether to follow. Friends learn that their honesty comes with a fair amount of independence, and that the independence is usually where their best ideas start.
Interpretation, not prediction.
The sidereal sign
| Sidereal sign, Lahiri ayanamsa | Capricorn, all 101 years |
|---|---|
| Noon Sun, sidereal Capricorn | 12.8°–14.2° |
| Convention | Indian (Vedic) astrology |
Ayanamsa convention.5
Born on January 27
- Abbas the Great (1571–1629), Shah of Safavid Iran
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), Austrian composer of the Classical period
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854), German philosopher
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889), Russian writer, journalist, plawright and satirist
- Lewis Carroll (1832–1898), British author and scholar
- Wilhelm II (1859–1941), as King of Prussia last German Emperor from 1888 to 1918
- Mairead Maguire (1944), peace activist
- Marat Safin (1980), Russian tennis player
Birth dates checked on Wikidata.7
January 27 in history
Observed on this date:
- Day of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad (Russia)
- Holocaust Memorial Day (UK)
- International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Memorial Day (Italy)
- Other Holocaust Memorial Days observances
Events on January 27:
- 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor.
- 1820: A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent, approaching the Antarctic coast.
- 2010: The 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis ends when Porfirio Lobo Sosa becomes the new President of Honduras.
- 2017: A naming ceremony for the chemical element tennessine takes place in the United States.
How the answer was worked out
Each year's sign, for the years from 1930 through 2030, was read from the Sun's tropical longitude on January 27 at noon UTC, as calculated by Astronomy Engine.1 How the Machine works
Questions people also ask
What zodiac sign is January 27?
Over the 101 sampled years from 1930 to 2030, January 27 is Aquarius each time, with the Sun counted at noon UTC.
Is January 27 on a zodiac cusp?
No. The noon Sun fell in Aquarius on each January 27 from 1930 to 2030, with every January 27 at least 6 days from the nearest sign boundary.
What decan is January 27?
Its face ruler in the Chaldean order is Venus, because January 27 is in the first decan of Aquarius (0°–10°) in every sampled year.
What is the birthday number for January 27?
Using the modern numerology method, January 27 shows day number 9 and month-day number 1, each obtained by digit addition.
Sources
- Astronomy Engine JavaScript reference — Don Cross, Astronomy Engine. Verified .
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, Book I — LacusCurtius, University of Chicago. Verified .
- Decan (astrology): the faces of the planets (after Lilly) — Wikipedia. Verified .
- Life Path Number — Numerology.com (practitioner site). Verified .
- Ayanamsa (Lahiri and other sidereal conventions) — Wikipedia. Verified .
- Aquarius (astrology) — Wikipedia. Verified .
- Wikipedia: January 27 — Wikipedia (Wikimedia On this day feed); birth dates checked on Wikidata. Verified .