In love
Values friendship inside a relationship above romance. Needs autonomy preserved.
Settled date · day 4 of 30 in the sign
January 23 zodiac sign: Aquarius
The January 23 zodiac sign is Aquarius in every year from 1930 to 2029: on that date the Sun stands 3°29′ into the sign, 3 days past its start and 26 days before Pisces begins.
- Sun sign
- Aquarius at noon in every year 1930–2029
- US births a day
- 11,152 #243 of 366 dates
- Day of the year
- 23rd in every year
- Sun at noon 2026
- 3°29′ of Aquarius
Births: US Social Security Administration 2000–2014. Sun: NASA JPL DE440.
How common is this birthday
January 23 among the 366 days
January 23 averages 11,152 births a day in the US — the 124th least common of the 366 dates, 1.7% below the average day. The deep dips are holidays.
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Where in Aquarius this falls
January 23 falls on day 4 of the Venus decan (20–January 29, 2026).
Venus-ruled decan of Aquarius
Decan
1 of 3 · 0°–10°
Sub-ruler
Venus
Sign ruler
Uranus (traditionally Saturn)
Sun at noon, 2026
3°29′
Venus softens the sign toward attachment and taste, aiming the same drives at being liked. In its first ten degrees Aquarius shows in its rawest form: Capricorn has only just handed over, and nothing of the new sign has worn down yet.
Personality
January 23 birthday personality
People born on January 23 are Aquarius, and the sign is read as independence, principle and distance from the herd. Thinks for itself and cares about fairness at a scale beyond its own circle.
The 23rd reduces to 5 and joins 2 (empathy) with 3 (expression). Numerologists read it as freedom with a strong social sense: those born on this day love variety, travel and change, but they also read people well and communicate easily. Birthday number 23 in full →
At work
Strong on innovation and systems thinking. Resists hierarchy on principle.
Stone and flower
The January birthstone is garnet (deep red), and the month's flowers are the carnation and snowdrop.
Look up your birth year
Every year, computed
All 100 years for January 23. Each row is calculated for that exact day — sun position, life path, the Moon's sign and nakshatra, and which planets were retrograde. Find your year.
| Year | Sun | Life path | Moon | Nakshatra | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Aquarius 2.77° | 1 | Scorpio | Vishakha 4 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1931 | Aquarius 2.53° | 11 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | Mars Jupiter |
| 1932 | Aquarius 2.28° | 3 | Leo | Pushya 2 | Jupiter |
| 1933 | Aquarius 3.06° | 4 | Sagittarius | Mula 3 | Mars Jupiter |
| 1934 | Aquarius 2.81° | 5 | Taurus | Bharani 3 | Venus |
| 1935 | Aquarius 2.57° | 6 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 3 | — |
| 1936 | Aquarius 2.32° | 7 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 1 | Mercury |
| 1937 | Aquarius 3.09° | 8 | Gemini | Mrigashira 2 | Mercury |
| 1938 | Aquarius 2.84° | 9 | Scorpio | Swati 2 | — |
| 1939 | Aquarius 2.59° | 1 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 2 | — |
| 1940 | Aquarius 2.34° | 11 | Cancer | Ardra 4 | — |
| 1941 | Aquarius 3.11° | 3 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 2 | — |
| 1942 | Aquarius 2.87° | 4 | Aries | Ashwini 1 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1943 | Aquarius 2.61° | 5 | Leo | Magha 1 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 1944 | Aquarius 2.37° | 6 | Capricorn | Mula 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1945 | Aquarius 3.14° | 7 | Gemini | Rohini 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1946 | Aquarius 2.89° | 8 | Libra | Hasta 4 | Mars Saturn |
| 1947 | Aquarius 2.65° | 9 | Aquarius | Shravana 4 | Saturn |
| 1948 | Aquarius 2.4° | 1 | Gemini | Mrigashira 2 | Mars Saturn |
| 1949 | Aquarius 3.17° | 11 | Scorpio | Anuradha 1 | Saturn |
| 1950 | Aquarius 2.93° | 3 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 3 | Mercury Venus Saturn |
| 1951 | Aquarius 2.68° | 4 | Leo | Pushya 3 | Saturn |
| 1952 | Aquarius 2.43° | 5 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 2 | — |
| 1953 | Aquarius 3.21° | 6 | Taurus | Bharani 4 | — |
| 1954 | Aquarius 2.96° | 7 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 2 | Jupiter |
| 1955 | Aquarius 2.71° | 8 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 2 | Jupiter |
| 1956 | Aquarius 2.47° | 9 | Gemini | Rohini 1 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1957 | Aquarius 3.24° | 1 | Scorpio | Swati 4 | Jupiter |
| 1958 | Aquarius 2.99° | 11 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 4 | Venus |
| 1959 | Aquarius 2.74° | 3 | Cancer | Punarvasu 2 | — |
| 1960 | Aquarius 2.49° | 4 | Scorpio | Anuradha 1 | — |
| 1961 | Aquarius 3.26° | 5 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | Mars |
| 1962 | Aquarius 3.01° | 6 | Virgo | Magha 3 | — |
| 1963 | Aquarius 2.76° | 7 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 1 | Mercury Mars |
| 1964 | Aquarius 2.51° | 8 | Taurus | Bharani 4 | — |
| 1965 | Aquarius 3.29° | 9 | Libra | Chitra 2 | — |
| 1966 | Aquarius 3.04° | 1 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 2 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1967 | Aquarius 2.79° | 11 | Gemini | Mrigashira 3 | Jupiter |
| 1968 | Aquarius 2.55° | 3 | Scorpio | Swati 4 | Jupiter |
| 1969 | Aquarius 3.32° | 4 | Aries | Revati 1 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1970 | Aquarius 3.08° | 5 | Leo | Ashlesha 2 | Mercury |
| 1971 | Aquarius 2.83° | 6 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 3 | — |
| 1972 | Aquarius 2.59° | 7 | Taurus | Ashwini 4 | Saturn |
| 1973 | Aquarius 3.36° | 8 | Libra | Uttara Phalguni 4 | Saturn |
| 1974 | Aquarius 3.11° | 9 | Aquarius | Shravana 1 | Venus Saturn |
| 1975 | Aquarius 2.86° | 1 | Gemini | Rohini 2 | Saturn |
| 1976 | Aquarius 2.61° | 11 | Libra | Chitra 3 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1977 | Aquarius 3.38° | 3 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 3 | Saturn |
| 1978 | Aquarius 3.13° | 4 | Cancer | Punarvasu 4 | Mars Jupiter Saturn |
| 1979 | Aquarius 2.88° | 5 | Scorpio | Anuradha 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1980 | Aquarius 2.64° | 6 | Aries | Revati 3 | Mars Jupiter Saturn |
| 1981 | Aquarius 3.41° | 7 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 2 | Saturn |
| 1982 | Aquarius 3.16° | 8 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 3 | Mercury Venus |
| 1983 | Aquarius 2.91° | 9 | Taurus | Bharani 4 | Mercury |
| 1984 | Aquarius 2.67° | 1 | Libra | Hasta 3 | — |
| 1985 | Aquarius 3.44° | 11 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 1 | — |
| 1986 | Aquarius 3.19° | 3 | Cancer | Ardra 2 | — |
| 1987 | Aquarius 2.94° | 4 | Scorpio | Swati 3 | — |
| 1988 | Aquarius 2.7° | 5 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 2 | — |
| 1989 | Aquarius 3.47° | 6 | Leo | Ashlesha 4 | Mercury |
| 1990 | Aquarius 3.22° | 7 | Sagittarius | Mula 1 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1991 | Aquarius 2.98° | 8 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | Jupiter |
| 1992 | Aquarius 2.73° | 9 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 1 | Jupiter |
| 1993 | Aquarius 3.5° | 1 | Aquarius | Shravana 3 | Mars |
| 1994 | Aquarius 3.26° | 11 | Gemini | Rohini 3 | — |
| 1995 | Aquarius 3.01° | 3 | Libra | Chitra 3 | Mars |
| 1996 | Aquarius 2.76° | 4 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 1 | Mercury |
| 1997 | Aquarius 3.53° | 5 | Leo | Pushya 2 | — |
| 1998 | Aquarius 3.27° | 6 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 2 | Venus |
| 1999 | Aquarius 3.03° | 7 | Aries | Revati 2 | — |
| 2000 | Aquarius 2.78° | 8 | Virgo | Magha 4 | — |
| 2001 | Aquarius 3.55° | 9 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2002 | Aquarius 3.31° | 1 | Taurus | Krittika 1 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 2003 | Aquarius 3.06° | 11 | Libra | Hasta 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2004 | Aquarius 2.81° | 3 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2005 | Aquarius 3.59° | 4 | Cancer | Ardra 4 | Saturn |
| 2006 | Aquarius 3.34° | 5 | Scorpio | Swati 4 | Venus Saturn |
| 2007 | Aquarius 3.1° | 6 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 2 | Saturn |
| 2008 | Aquarius 2.85° | 7 | Leo | Ashlesha 2 | Mars Saturn |
| 2009 | Aquarius 3.62° | 8 | Capricorn | Mula 3 | Mercury Saturn |
| 2010 | Aquarius 3.37° | 9 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | Mars Saturn |
| 2011 | Aquarius 3.12° | 1 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 1 | — |
| 2012 | Aquarius 2.88° | 11 | Aquarius | Shravana 1 | — |
| 2013 | Aquarius 3.65° | 3 | Gemini | Mrigashira 2 | Jupiter |
| 2014 | Aquarius 3.4° | 4 | Libra | Chitra 3 | Venus Jupiter |
| 2015 | Aquarius 3.15° | 5 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 1 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 2016 | Aquarius 2.91° | 6 | Cancer | Punarvasu 4 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 2017 | Aquarius 3.67° | 7 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 1 | — |
| 2018 | Aquarius 3.43° | 8 | Aries | Revati 2 | — |
| 2019 | Aquarius 3.18° | 9 | Virgo | Magha 4 | — |
| 2020 | Aquarius 2.93° | 1 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 3 | — |
| 2021 | Aquarius 3.7° | 11 | Gemini | Krittika 4 | — |
| 2022 | Aquarius 3.45° | 3 | Libra | Hasta 2 | Mercury Venus |
| 2023 | Aquarius 3.2° | 4 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 3 | — |
| 2024 | Aquarius 2.96° | 5 | Cancer | Ardra 2 | — |
| 2025 | Aquarius 3.73° | 6 | Scorpio | Vishakha 3 | Mars Jupiter |
| 2026 | Aquarius 3.49° | 7 | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada 1 | Jupiter |
| 2027 | Aquarius 3.24° | 8 | Leo | Ashlesha 2 | Mars Jupiter |
| 2028 | Aquarius 3° | 9 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | Jupiter |
| 2029 | Aquarius 3.77° | 1 | Taurus | Bharani 2 | Mercury |
The Moon and nakshatra columns change every year because the Moon returns to the same calendar date in a different position — which is why a birth date alone cannot tell you those, and why this table exists.
A century of January 23
Day of the year
23 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in
20 of 100 years
(20%)
Latest of those, to 2029
2002, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2022, 2029
Full moon fell on this date in
7 years — 1932, 1951, 1970, 1978, 1997, 2008, 2016
Most frequent moon phase
Waxing Crescent · 19 years
Counted for January 23 alone, at noon UTC in each year from 1930 to 2029. Why the counts differ from date to date →
Year by year
2006
Aquarius
life path 5
2007
Aquarius
life path 6
2008
Aquarius
life path 7
2009
Aquarius
life path 8
2010
Aquarius
life path 9
2011
Aquarius
life path 1
2012
Aquarius
life path 11
2013
Aquarius
life path 3
2014
Aquarius
life path 4
2015
Aquarius
life path 5
2016
Aquarius
life path 6
2017
Aquarius
life path 7
2018
Aquarius
life path 8
2019
Aquarius
life path 9
2020
Aquarius
life path 1
2021
Aquarius
life path 11
2022
Aquarius
life path 3
2023
Aquarius
life path 4
2024
Aquarius
life path 5
2025
Aquarius
life path 6
2026
Aquarius
life path 7
2027
Aquarius
life path 8
2028
Aquarius
life path 9
2029
Aquarius
life path 1
The sign is the same in every tile; only the life path number moves.
Life path numbers this date produces
1
12 years · 12%
11
11 years · 11%
3
11 years · 11%
4
11 years · 11%
5
11 years · 11%
6
11 years · 11%
7
11 years · 11%
8
11 years · 11%
9
11 years · 11%
The most frequent is 1 with 12 years; every other number, 11 included, turns up in 11 years. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 11 of those years — kept whole rather than reduced. Why 11, 22 and 33 are treated differently →
Questions about January 23 birthdays
What zodiac sign is January 23?
Aquarius in all 100 years from 1930 to 2029: the Sun stands at 3°29′ Aquarius on January 23, 3 days after the sign begins and 26 before Pisces takes over.
What life path numbers does January 23 produce?
Across 100 birth years the most common is 1 (12 years); every other number appears in 11 years.
Which decan is January 23?
The 1st decan of Aquarius, 0° to 10°, sub-ruled by Venus in the Chaldean order.
Can January 23 be a master number birth date?
Yes — 11, in 11 of the 100 years: 1931, 1940, 1949, 1958, 1967, 1976, 1985, 1994, 2003, 2012 and 2021.
Cite this page
AstroHot. “January 23 Zodiac Sign: Aquarius, and Why It Never Changes.” Accessed October 28, 2026. https://astrohot.com/birthday/january-23/
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