In love
Intense and private. Wants total honesty and gives it slowly.
Settled date · day 4 of 30 in the sign
October 26 zodiac sign: Scorpio
The October 26 zodiac sign is Scorpio in every year from 1930 to 2029: on that date the Sun stands 3°05′ into the sign, 3 days past its start and 26 days before Sagittarius begins.
- Sun sign
- Scorpio at noon in every year 1930–2029
- US births a day
- 11,149 #246 of 366 dates
- Day of the year
- 299th 300th in leap years
- Sun at noon 2026
- 3°05′ of Scorpio
Births: US Social Security Administration 2000–2014. Sun: NASA JPL DE440.
How common is this birthday
October 26 among the 366 days
October 26 averages 11,149 births a day in the US — the 121st least common of the 366 dates, 1.8% below the average day. The deep dips are holidays.
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Where in Scorpio this falls
October 26 falls on day 4 of the Mars decan (October 23–November 2, 2026).
Mars-ruled decan of Scorpio
Decan
1 of 3 · 0°–10°
Sub-ruler
Mars
Sign ruler
Pluto (traditionally Mars)
Sun at noon, 2026
3°05′
Mars pushes the sign toward friction and initiative — the part of it that acts before it checks. In its first ten degrees Scorpio shows in its rawest form: Libra has only just handed over, and nothing of the new sign has worn down yet.
Personality
October 26 birthday personality
People born on October 26 are Scorpio, and the sign is read as intensity, privacy and refusal to accept surfaces. Sees through pretense instantly and commits completely once convinced.
The 26th reduces to 8 and combines 2 (cooperation) with 6 (responsibility). Numerologists read it as management with a human touch: those born on this day have business sense and ambition but also care about the people involved. Birthday number 26 in full →
At work
Suited to investigation, research and crisis. Poor at superficial collaboration.
Stone and flower
The October birthstones are opal and tourmaline (iridescent and multicoloured), and the month's flowers are the marigold and cosmos.
Look up your birth year
Every year, computed
All 100 years for October 26. 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 | Scorpio 2.35° | 4 | Sagittarius | Mula 3 | — |
| 1931 | Scorpio 2.11° | 5 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | — |
| 1932 | Scorpio 2.87° | 6 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 1 | — |
| 1933 | Scorpio 2.63° | 7 | Aquarius | Shravana 3 | — |
| 1934 | Scorpio 2.38° | 8 | Gemini | Mrigashira 2 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1935 | Scorpio 2.14° | 9 | Libra | Chitra 2 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1936 | Scorpio 2.9° | 1 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 4 | Saturn |
| 1937 | Scorpio 2.65° | 11 | Leo | Pushya 2 | Saturn |
| 1938 | Scorpio 2.41° | 3 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 4 | Saturn |
| 1939 | Scorpio 2.17° | 4 | Aries | Revati 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1940 | Scorpio 2.92° | 5 | Virgo | Magha 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1941 | Scorpio 2.68° | 6 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 2 | Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn |
| 1942 | Scorpio 2.44° | 7 | Taurus | Krittika 3 | Saturn |
| 1943 | Scorpio 2.2° | 8 | Libra | Uttara Phalguni 4 | Saturn |
| 1944 | Scorpio 2.95° | 9 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 2 | Saturn |
| 1945 | Scorpio 2.71° | 1 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | — |
| 1946 | Scorpio 2.47° | 11 | Scorpio | Vishakha 2 | — |
| 1947 | Scorpio 2.22° | 3 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 3 | Mercury |
| 1948 | Scorpio 2.98° | 4 | Leo | Ashlesha 2 | Mercury |
| 1949 | Scorpio 2.74° | 5 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | — |
| 1950 | Scorpio 2.5° | 6 | Taurus | Bharani 1 | — |
| 1951 | Scorpio 2.26° | 7 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 2 | Jupiter |
| 1952 | Scorpio 3.02° | 8 | Aquarius | Shravana 2 | Jupiter |
| 1953 | Scorpio 2.78° | 9 | Gemini | Mrigashira 3 | Jupiter |
| 1954 | Scorpio 2.54° | 1 | Libra | Swati 1 | Mercury Venus |
| 1955 | Scorpio 2.3° | 11 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 1 | — |
| 1956 | Scorpio 3.05° | 3 | Cancer | Pushya 1 | — |
| 1957 | Scorpio 2.81° | 4 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 2 | — |
| 1958 | Scorpio 2.57° | 5 | Aries | Revati 4 | Mars |
| 1959 | Scorpio 2.32° | 6 | Leo | Ashlesha 4 | — |
| 1960 | Scorpio 3.07° | 7 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 1 | — |
| 1961 | Scorpio 2.83° | 8 | Gemini | Rohini 1 | Mercury |
| 1962 | Scorpio 2.59° | 9 | Libra | Hasta 3 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1963 | Scorpio 2.35° | 1 | Aquarius | Shravana 3 | Jupiter |
| 1964 | Scorpio 3.1° | 11 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1965 | Scorpio 2.86° | 3 | Scorpio | Vishakha 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1966 | Scorpio 2.62° | 4 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 2 | Saturn |
| 1967 | Scorpio 2.38° | 5 | Leo | Pushya 2 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1968 | Scorpio 3.14° | 6 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | Saturn |
| 1969 | Scorpio 2.9° | 7 | Taurus | Bharani 3 | Saturn |
| 1970 | Scorpio 2.66° | 8 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 1 | Venus Saturn |
| 1971 | Scorpio 2.41° | 9 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 1 | Saturn |
| 1972 | Scorpio 3.17° | 1 | Gemini | Mrigashira 4 | Saturn |
| 1973 | Scorpio 2.93° | 11 | Scorpio | Swati 3 | Mars Saturn |
| 1974 | Scorpio 2.69° | 3 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 3 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1975 | Scorpio 2.45° | 4 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | Jupiter |
| 1976 | Scorpio 3.2° | 5 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 3 | Jupiter |
| 1977 | Scorpio 2.96° | 6 | Aries | Ashwini 2 | Jupiter |
| 1978 | Scorpio 2.72° | 7 | Leo | Magha 2 | Venus |
| 1979 | Scorpio 2.47° | 8 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | — |
| 1980 | Scorpio 3.23° | 9 | Gemini | Rohini 3 | Mercury |
| 1981 | Scorpio 2.98° | 1 | Libra | Chitra 1 | Mercury |
| 1982 | Scorpio 2.74° | 11 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 1 | — |
| 1983 | Scorpio 2.49° | 3 | Gemini | Mrigashira 4 | — |
| 1984 | Scorpio 3.25° | 4 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 2 | — |
| 1985 | Scorpio 3.02° | 5 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 4 | — |
| 1986 | Scorpio 2.77° | 6 | Leo | Pushya 4 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1987 | Scorpio 2.53° | 7 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 3 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1988 | Scorpio 3.29° | 8 | Taurus | Krittika 1 | Mars Jupiter |
| 1989 | Scorpio 3.05° | 9 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 3 | — |
| 1990 | Scorpio 2.81° | 1 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 3 | Mars |
| 1991 | Scorpio 2.57° | 11 | Gemini | Rohini 3 | — |
| 1992 | Scorpio 3.33° | 3 | Scorpio | Swati 4 | — |
| 1993 | Scorpio 3.09° | 4 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 2 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1994 | Scorpio 2.84° | 5 | Cancer | Punarvasu 2 | Mercury Venus Saturn |
| 1995 | Scorpio 2.6° | 6 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 2 | Saturn |
| 1996 | Scorpio 3.35° | 7 | Taurus | Ashwini 3 | Saturn |
| 1997 | Scorpio 3.1° | 8 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 1 | Saturn |
| 1998 | Scorpio 2.87° | 9 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1999 | Scorpio 2.62° | 1 | Taurus | Krittika 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2000 | Scorpio 3.37° | 11 | Libra | Chitra 2 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 2001 | Scorpio 3.14° | 3 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 4 | Saturn |
| 2002 | Scorpio 2.89° | 4 | Cancer | Mrigashira 4 | Venus Saturn |
| 2003 | Scorpio 2.65° | 5 | Scorpio | Vishakha 1 | Saturn |
| 2004 | Scorpio 3.41° | 6 | Aries | Revati 2 | — |
| 2005 | Scorpio 3.17° | 7 | Leo | Ashlesha 3 | Mars |
| 2006 | Scorpio 2.93° | 8 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 4 | — |
| 2007 | Scorpio 2.69° | 9 | Taurus | Ashwini 4 | Mercury |
| 2008 | Scorpio 3.44° | 1 | Libra | Hasta 1 | — |
| 2009 | Scorpio 3.21° | 2 | Aquarius | Shravana 2 | — |
| 2010 | Scorpio 2.96° | 3 | Gemini | Rohini 3 | Venus Jupiter |
| 2011 | Scorpio 2.72° | 4 | Libra | Chitra 4 | Jupiter |
| 2012 | Scorpio 3.48° | 5 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 4 | Jupiter |
| 2013 | Scorpio 3.23° | 6 | Cancer | Pushya 1 | Mercury |
| 2014 | Scorpio 2.99° | 7 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 3 | — |
| 2015 | Scorpio 2.75° | 8 | Aries | Revati 3 | — |
| 2016 | Scorpio 3.5° | 9 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 3 | — |
| 2017 | Scorpio 3.26° | 1 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 4 | — |
| 2018 | Scorpio 3.01° | 2 | Taurus | Krittika 2 | Venus |
| 2019 | Scorpio 2.77° | 3 | Libra | Hasta 2 | — |
| 2020 | Scorpio 3.53° | 4 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 3 | Mercury Mars |
| 2021 | Scorpio 3.29° | 5 | Cancer | Ardra 2 | — |
| 2022 | Scorpio 3.05° | 6 | Scorpio | Vishakha 1 | Jupiter |
| 2023 | Scorpio 2.81° | 7 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2024 | Scorpio 3.56° | 8 | Leo | Magha 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2025 | Scorpio 3.33° | 9 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | Saturn |
| 2026 | Scorpio 3.09° | 1 | Taurus | Ashwini 4 | Mercury Venus Saturn |
| 2027 | Scorpio 2.84° | 2 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 2028 | Scorpio 3.6° | 3 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 1 | Saturn |
| 2029 | Scorpio 3.36° | 4 | Gemini | Mrigashira 1 | Saturn |
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 October 26
Day of the year
300 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in
20 of 100 years
(20%)
Latest of those, to 2029
2000, 2007, 2013, 2020, 2026, 2027
Full moon fell on this date in
6 years — 1931, 1950, 1977, 1996, 2007, 2026
Most frequent moon phase
Waning Gibbous · 20 years
Counted for October 26 alone, at noon UTC in each year from 1930 to 2029. Why the counts differ from date to date →
Year by year
2006
Scorpio
life path 8
2007
Scorpio
life path 9
2008
Scorpio
life path 1
2009
Scorpio
life path 2
2010
Scorpio
life path 3
2011
Scorpio
life path 4
2012
Scorpio
life path 5
2013
Scorpio
life path 6
2014
Scorpio
life path 7
2015
Scorpio
life path 8
2016
Scorpio
life path 9
2017
Scorpio
life path 1
2018
Scorpio
life path 2
2019
Scorpio
life path 3
2020
Scorpio
life path 4
2021
Scorpio
life path 5
2022
Scorpio
life path 6
2023
Scorpio
life path 7
2024
Scorpio
life path 8
2025
Scorpio
life path 9
2026
Scorpio
life path 1
2027
Scorpio
life path 2
2028
Scorpio
life path 3
2029
Scorpio
life path 4
The sign is the same in every tile; only the life path number moves.
Life path numbers this date produces
4
12 years · 12%
5
11 years · 11%
6
11 years · 11%
7
11 years · 11%
8
11 years · 11%
9
11 years · 11%
1
11 years · 11%
3
11 years · 11%
11
8 years · 8%
2
3 years · 3%
The most frequent is 4 with 12 years; the scarcest is 2 with just 3. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 8 of those years — kept whole rather than reduced. Why 11, 22 and 33 are treated differently →
Questions about October 26 birthdays
What zodiac sign is October 26?
Scorpio in all 100 years from 1930 to 2029: the Sun stands at 3°05′ Scorpio on October 26, 3 days after the sign begins and 26 before Sagittarius takes over.
What life path numbers does October 26 produce?
Across 100 birth years the most common is 4 (12 years); the rarest is 2 (3).
Which decan is October 26?
The 1st decan of Scorpio, 0° to 10°, sub-ruled by Mars in the Chaldean order.
Can October 26 be a master number birth date?
Yes — 11, in 8 of the 100 years: 1937, 1946, 1955, 1964, 1973, 1982, 1991 and 2000.
Cite this page
AstroHot. “October 26 Zodiac Sign: Scorpio, and Why It Never Changes.” Accessed October 28, 2026. https://astrohot.com/birthday/october-26/
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