What zodiac sign is May 9?

May 9 is Taurus

Exact sign finder

May 9 at a glance

Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.⁶

The decan: middle Taurus

Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.³

What a decan is

May 9 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 stretch of Taurus, this person enters a season that has already found its pace. The ground is warm, the days are longer, and plans feel worth keeping. Many people in this stretch pick up a habit of checking whether something still works before they let it go. Loyalty and stubbornness sit close together here, and the hard part is telling which one is steering a decision. Over time, that pause becomes one of their most dependable gifts to the people around them.

Interpretation, not prediction.

The sidereal sign

Ayanamsa convention.⁵

Tropical and sidereal, explained

Born on May 9

• J. M. Barrie (1860–1937), Scottish writer and playwright
• Howard Carter (1874–1939), British egyptologist
• José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
• Manfred Eigen (1927–2019), German biophysical chemist
• Glenda Jackson (1936–2023), British actress and politician
• Albert Finney (1936–2019), British actor
• Candice Bergen (1946), American actress
• Billy Joel (1949), American singer, songwriter, and pianist

Birth dates checked on Wikidata.⁷

May 9 in history

Observed on this date:

• Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. (Guernsey and Jersey)
• National Day (Alderney)
• Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration. (European Union, Kosovo, Moldova, Ukraine)
• Victory and Peace Day, marks the capture of Shusha (1992) in the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the end of World War II. (Armenia)
• Home Front Heroes Day in the United States (proposed; locally observed in Dallas, Texas)
• Goku Day (Japan), commemorating the fictional character Goku.

Events on May 9:

• 328: Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
• 1662: The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.
• 1926: Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim).
• 1974: Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
• 2020: The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.

How the answer was worked out

The sign for each year from 1930 through 2030 was read from the Sun's tropical longitude on May 9, calculated at noon UTC using Astronomy Engine.¹ How the Machine works

Questions people also ask

What zodiac sign is May 9?

Each of the 101 sampled years from 1930 to 2030 places May 9 in Taurus, based on the Sun at noon UTC.

Is May 9 on a zodiac cusp?

No. The Sun at noon stayed in Taurus throughout every May 9 from 1930 to 2030, and May 9 is at least 11 days away from the nearest change of sign.

What decan is May 9?

In every sampled year, May 9 is in the second decan of Taurus (10°–20°), so its face ruler in the Chaldean order is the Moon.

What is the birthday number for May 9?

For May 9, modern numerology yields day number 9 and month-day number 5, both reached by adding digits together.