What zodiac sign is May 6?

May 6 is Taurus

Exact sign finder

May 6 at a glance

Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.⁶

The decan: middle Taurus

Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.³

What a decan is

May 6 by the numbers

Digit sums as numerology guides give them.⁴

Where the date falls in the season

Seasons by the noon-UTC rule; rulers after Ptolemy.²

• Taurus reference
• Taurus compatibility

Born at this point in Taurus season

Born in the middle of Taurus, this person arrived on the sixth day of the fifth month, when the sun had settled into the season and was not yet preparing to leave it. Wanting things to feel solid before they move is a habit they recognise in themselves. Friends see patience, but underneath sits a hunger for comfort that needs naming out loud. When plans shift, the drop lands first, then slow rebuilding follows. Spring's fullest green surrounded that birthday, and steady effort can be a clear choice.

Interpretation, not prediction.

The sidereal sign

Ayanamsa convention.⁵

Tropical and sidereal, explained

Born on May 6

• Pope Marcellus II (1501–1555), pope of the Catholic Church and bishop of Rome from 9 April to 1 May 1555
• Pope Innocent X (1574–1655), pope from 1644 to 1655
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis
• Victor Grignard (1871–1935), French chemist
• Harry Martinson (1904–1978), Swedish writer
• Orson Welles (1915–1985), American actor and filmmaker
• Tony Blair (1953), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007
• George Clooney (1961), American-French actor and filmmaker

Birth dates checked on Wikidata.⁷

May 6 in history

Observed on this date:

• International No Diet Day
• Martyrs' Day (Lebanon and Syria)
• National Azulejo Day (Portugal)
• The first day of Hıdırellez (Turkey)

Events on May 6:

• 1542: Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.
• 1889: The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
• 1935: New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
• 1996: The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• 2013: Three women, kidnapped and missing for more than a decade, are found alive in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States.

How the answer was worked out

With Astronomy Engine, the Sun's tropical longitude on May 6 was computed at noon UTC for each year from 1930 through 2030, and each year's sign was taken from it.¹ How the Machine works

Questions people also ask

What zodiac sign is May 6?

When the Sun is counted at noon UTC, May 6 falls in Taurus in all 101 sampled years from 1930 to 2030.

Is May 6 on a zodiac cusp?

No. The Sun at noon occupies Taurus on each May 6 from 1930 to 2030, and every May 6 is at least 14 days clear of the nearest change of sign.

What decan is May 6?

Under the Chaldean order, the face ruler is the Moon for May 6, which is in the second decan of Taurus (10°–20°) in every sampled year.

What is the birthday number for May 6?

Adding digits produces both the day number 6 and the month-day number 11 that modern numerology gives May 6.