Birthday signs · Virgo season
What zodiac sign is September 22?
Sampling the noon UTC Sun from 1930 through 2030, September 22 appears in Virgo in 100 years and in Libra in 1 of 101. On September 22, the noon Sun varied from 28.52° Virgo to 0.01° Libra. The birth year and time are what decide which sign applies to September 22.
Calculated across 1930–2030 · checked .
September 22: Virgo or Libra
| Virgo at noon UTC | 100 of 101 years |
|---|---|
| Libra at noon UTC | 1 of 101 years |
| Libra years include | 2028 |
| Settled by | birth year and time |
September 22 at a glance
| Sign | ♍︎ Virgo (100 years) or ♎︎ Libra (1) |
|---|---|
| Element and mode | earth, mutable |
| Polarity | negative (feminine) |
| Ruler | Mercury (traditional) |
| Sun on this date | 28.5° Virgo to 0° Libra at noon UTC, 1930–2030 |
| Day of the season | Virgo day 30 or 31; Libra day 1 |
| Decan | third (20°–30°), face of Mercury |
| Sidereal sign (Lahiri) | Virgo |
| Day number | 22 (modern numerology) |
Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.6
The decan: late Virgo
| Noon Sun | 28.52° Virgo to 0.01° Libra |
|---|---|
| Decan | third (20°–30°) |
| Face ruler, Chaldean order | Mercury |
| Libra years | 0.01°–0.01° Libra |
Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.3
September 22 by the numbers
| Day number | 22 () |
|---|---|
| Month-day number | 4 (9 + 22 = 31, then 3 + 1 = 4) |
| System | modern numerology, digit sums |
Digit sums as numerology guides give them.4
Where the date falls in the season
| Day of Virgo season | 30 or 31 (in its Virgo years) |
|---|---|
| Day of Libra season | 1 (in its Libra years) |
| Virgo season opened | August 23 (64 years) or August 24 (36) |
| Virgo season closed | September 22 (73 years) or September 23 (27) |
| Element and mode | earth, mutable |
| Traditional ruler | Mercury |
Seasons by the noon-UTC rule; rulers after Ptolemy.2
Born at this point in Virgo season
Born in the last days of Virgo, this person grew up close to the edge of their sign, where careful habits begin to loosen. They notice small errors in a shared document, a late bus schedule, a friend's half-finished plan. Yet they also know when a task is good enough to hand over. Someone asks them to fix one more detail, and they set the pen down anyway, trusting the work to carry on without them. That mix of exactness and letting go is the tension of this late stretch of the season.
Interpretation, not prediction.
The sidereal sign
| Sidereal sign, Lahiri ayanamsa | Virgo, all 101 years |
|---|---|
| Noon Sun, sidereal Virgo | 5°–6.3° |
| Convention | Indian (Vedic) astrology |
Ayanamsa convention.5
Born on September 22
- Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), German zoologist and botanist
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867), British scientist
- Junko Tabei (1939–2016), Japanese mountain climber
- Ségolène Royal (1953), French politician
- Andrea Bocelli (1958), Italian tenor and singer-songwriter
- Saul Perlmutter (1959), American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate
- Thiago Silva (1984), Brazilian association football player
- Tom Felton (1987), British actor, singer and musician
Birth dates checked on Wikidata.7
September 22 in history
Observed on this date:
- American Business Women's Day (United States)
- Baltic Unity Day (Lithuania, Latvia)
- Autumnal Equinox Day (Japan)
- Mabon in the Northern Hemisphere, Ostara in the Southern Hemisphere. (Neopagan Wheel of the Year)
- The first day of Miķeļi (Latvia)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire in 1908.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Mali from France in 1960.
- Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)
Events on September 22:
- 1726: Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich, BWV 17, in Leipzig.
- 1885: Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
- 1910: The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
- 1957: In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
- 2024: Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
How the answer was worked out
From 1930 through 2030, the Sun's tropical longitude on September 22 was calculated at noon UTC each year with Astronomy Engine, and each year's sign was read from that longitude.1 How the Machine works
Questions people also ask
What zodiac sign is September 22?
For September 22, the usual sign at noon UTC is Virgo, found in 100 of 101 sampled years, and Libra in the remaining 1.
Is September 22 on a zodiac cusp?
Yes. In some years the Sun moved from Virgo into Libra during September 22, so at noon UTC the sample splits into Virgo in 100 years and Libra in 1, and the birth year and time settle which sign applies.
What decan is September 22?
Under the Chaldean order, the face ruler is Mercury for September 22, which is in the third decan of Virgo (20°–30°) in every sampled year.
What is the birthday number for September 22?
September 22's day number in modern numerology is 22, and its month-day number is 4, both found by adding digits.
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 .
- Virgo (astrology) — Wikipedia. Verified .
- Wikipedia: September 22 — Wikipedia (Wikimedia On this day feed); birth dates checked on Wikidata. Verified .