What zodiac sign is September 9?

September 9 is Virgo

Exact sign finder

September 9 at a glance

Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.⁶

The decan: middle Virgo

Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.³

What a decan is

September 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

• Virgo reference
• Virgo compatibility

Born at this point in Virgo season

Born on September 9, this person arrives in the middle of Virgo season, when late summer routines have settled and the work of sorting, planning, and fixing small things feels natural. They notice what is out of place, from a loose hinge to a sentence that does not quite land. Friends sometimes ask them to be the one who checks the details. Their challenge is letting a good-enough result count as finished, especially when the people around them are relaxed about it.

Interpretation, not prediction.

The sidereal sign

Ayanamsa convention.⁵

Tropical and sidereal, explained

Born on September 9

• Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman
• Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian writer, literary critic, and translator
• Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011), American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
• Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (1949), 6th President of Indonesia (2004—2014)
• Hugh Grant (1960), British actor
• Adam Sandler (1966), American actor and comedian
• Akshay Kumar (1967), Actor
• Luka Modrić (1985), Croatian footballer

Birth dates checked on Wikidata.⁷

September 9 in history

Observed on this date:

• Armored Forces Day (Ukraine)
• California Admission Day (California, United States)
• Children's Day (Costa Rica)
• Chrysanthemum Day or Kiku no Sekku (Japan)
• Day of the Victims of Holocaust and of Racial Violence (Slovakia)
• Emergency Services Day (United Kingdom)
• Independence Day or Republic Day, celebrates the proclamation of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1948.
• Independence Day (Tajikistan), celebrates the independence of Tajikistan from USSR in 1991.
• International Buy-a-Priest-a-Beer Day
• Martyrs' Day (Afghanistan) (date may fall on September 8, follows a non-Gregorian calendar, see List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar)

Events on September 9:

• 337: Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors. The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti.
• 1991: Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
• 2016: The government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test. World leaders condemn the act, with South Korea calling it "maniacal recklessness".

How the answer was worked out

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

Questions people also ask

What zodiac sign is September 9?

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

Is September 9 on a zodiac cusp?

No. The Sun at noon stayed in Virgo throughout every September 9 from 1930 to 2030, and September 9 is at least 12 days away from the nearest change of sign.

What decan is September 9?

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

What is the birthday number for September 9?

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