Birthday signs · Scorpio season
What zodiac sign is November 9?
The tropical zodiac shows November 9 in the sign of Scorpio. In all 101 years from 1930 through 2030, the Sun lay in Scorpio at noon UTC on November 9, at 16.12° to 17.62° Scorpio. With the element water, November 9 is day 17 or 18 of Scorpio season in its middle part.
Calculated across 1930–2030 · checked .
November 9 is Scorpio
| Scorpio at noon UTC | 101 of 101 years, 1930–2030 |
|---|---|
| Nearest change of sign | at least 12 days away |
| Birth time needed for the sign | no |
November 9 at a glance
| Sign | ♏︎ Scorpio, the Scorpion |
|---|---|
| Element and mode | water, fixed |
| Polarity | negative (feminine) |
| Ruler | Mars (traditional); Pluto (modern, 20th-century assignment) |
| Sun on this date | 16.1° to 17.6° Scorpio at noon UTC, 1930–2030 |
| Day of the season | day 17 or 18 of Scorpio season |
| Decan | second (10°–20°), face of the Sun |
| Sidereal sign (Lahiri) | Libra |
| Day number | 9 (modern numerology) |
Rulers: Ptolemy; modern list.6
The decan: middle Scorpio
| Noon Sun | 16.12° to 17.62° Scorpio |
|---|---|
| Decan | second (10°–20°) |
| Face ruler, Chaldean order | the Sun |
Faces after Lilly, in Chaldean order.3
November 9 by the numbers
| Day number | 9 (9) |
|---|---|
| Month-day number | 2 (11 + 9 = 20, then 2 + 0 = 2) |
| System | modern numerology, digit sums |
Digit sums as numerology guides give them.4
Where the date falls in the season
| Day of Scorpio season | 17 or 18 |
|---|---|
| Scorpio season opened | October 23 (37 years) or October 24 (64) |
| Scorpio season closed | November 21 (48 years) or November 22 (53) |
| Element and mode | water, fixed |
| Traditional ruler | Mars |
Seasons by the noon-UTC rule; rulers after Ptolemy.2
Born at this point in Scorpio season
Born on November 9, this person arrives in the middle of Scorpio season, when the nights grow longer and the year's unfinished conversations start to surface. They hold feelings steady instead of rushing them out. Friends know them as the one who listens longest before speaking. The hard part is letting someone see what sits underneath before the silence becomes its own wall.
Interpretation, not prediction.
The sidereal sign
| Sidereal sign, Lahiri ayanamsa | Libra, all 101 years |
|---|---|
| Noon Sun, sidereal Libra | 22.6°–24° |
| Convention | Indian (Vedic) astrology |
Ayanamsa convention.5
Born on November 9
- George II of Great Britain (1683–1760), King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1727 to 1760
- Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883), Russian writer
- Edward VII (1841–1910), King of the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1910
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938), British-Indian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician
- Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping
- Imre Kertész (1929–2016), Hungarian author
- Carl Sagan (1934–1996), American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author
- Alessandro Del Piero (1974), Italian association football player
Birth dates checked on Wikidata.7
November 9 in history
Observed on this date:
- Birthday of Muhammad Iqbal (Pakistan)
- Day of the Skulls or Dia de los ñatitas (Bolivia)
- Flag Day (Azerbaijan)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cambodia from France in 1953.
- Inventors' Day (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
- Uttarakhand Day (Uttarakhand, India)
- World Freedom Day (United States)
Events on November 9:
- 694: At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
- 1901: Prince George, Duke of Cornwall (later George V of the United Kingdom), becomes Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.
- 1936: American fashion designer Ruth Harkness seeks and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan; named Su Lin, he becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States.
- 1994: The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
How the answer was worked out
The sign for each year from 1930 through 2030 was read from the Sun's tropical longitude on November 9, calculated at noon UTC using Astronomy Engine.1 How the Machine works
Questions people also ask
What zodiac sign is November 9?
Each of the 101 sampled years from 1930 to 2030 places November 9 in Scorpio, based on the Sun at noon UTC.
Is November 9 on a zodiac cusp?
No. The Sun at noon stayed in Scorpio throughout every November 9 from 1930 to 2030, and November 9 is at least 12 days away from the nearest change of sign.
What decan is November 9?
In every sampled year, November 9 is in the second decan of Scorpio (10°–20°), so its face ruler in the Chaldean order is the Sun.
What is the birthday number for November 9?
For November 9, modern numerology yields day number 9 and month-day number 2, both reached by adding digits together.
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 .
- Scorpio (astrology) — Wikipedia. Verified .
- Wikipedia: November 9 — Wikipedia (Wikimedia On this day feed); birth dates checked on Wikidata. Verified .