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Born on March 17: Pisces
Quick facts
- Sign
- ♓︎ Pisces
- Element
- Water
- Modality
- Mutable
- Ruler
- Neptune · Jupiter
- Decan
- Decan 3 · Pluto
- Sun degree
- 26° Pisces (noon, averaged over the years)
- Birthday number
- 8
- Day 76 of the year
Pisces, decan 3
Sub-ruler: Pluto
There is unexpected steel in this part of Pisces, and it comes from Pluto. Beneath the gentleness there is a will that doesn’t bend, a capacity to go through hard times and come out changed rather than broken. You understand pain, your own and others’, and you don’t look away from it. Secrecy is the habit that costs you, keeping your real feelings hidden so long that people assume you have none. Let a trusted person see the whole picture. You are good at transformation at work: rescuing projects, rebuilding trust. Intensity is welcome in love; just keep the channels open and the small talk alive.
Birthday number 8
Big goals don’t intimidate you; they focus you. This birthday number is linked with authority, organization and the drive to build something substantial, whether that means running a team, a company or a very well organized household. You’re good with resources and comfortable making decisions others avoid. Respect matters to you, and you usually earn it. Watch for the habit of measuring yourself only by results, which can make rest feel like failure. Success lands better when the people around you are thriving too.
Born in March
March carries the turn of the seasons, and its people often carry a similar mix of dream and drive. The month begins in Pisces, gentle, intuitive and artistic, then crosses into Aries at the spring equinox around the 20th, when the energy flips to bold, fast and ready to start. Aquamarine, the sea-colored birthstone, has traditionally been linked with courage and calm waters. Daffodils, the birth flower, are the first loud color after winter and stand for new beginnings. If you were born in March, you know both sides: the quiet observer and the one who says “let’s go”.
Famous people born on March 17
- Harun al-Rashid (766)5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920)President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd Prime Minister and first President of Bangladesh
- Nat King Cole (1919)American singer and jazz pianist (1919–1965)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537)Japanese samurai and daimyo (1537–1598)
- Gottlieb Daimler (1834)German engineer and industrialist (1834–1900)
- Rudolf Nureyev (1938)Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer (1938–1993)
- Edin Džeko (1986)Bosnian association football player
- Shinji Kagawa (1989)Japanese association football player
Source: Wikidata (CC0); ranked by the number of Wikipedia languages.
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Frequently asked questions
What zodiac sign is March 17?
People born on March 17 are Pisces (February 19 – March 19). Element: Water; ruling planet: Neptune · Jupiter.
What are people born on March 17 like?
They are born in decan 3 of Pisces, sub-ruled by Pluto. There is unexpected steel in this part of Pisces, and it comes from Pluto. Beneath the gentleness there is a will that doesn’t bend, a capacity to go through hard times and come out changed rather than broken. You understand pain, your own and others’, and you don’t look away from it. Secrecy is the habit that costs you, keeping your real feelings hidden so long that people assume you have none. Let a trusted person see the whole picture. You are good at transformation at work: rescuing projects, rebuilding trust. Intensity is welcome in love; just keep the channels open and the small talk alive.
Which famous people were born on March 17?
Well-known people born on March 17 include Harun al-Rashid, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Nat King Cole, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Gottlieb Daimler.
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The sign is computed from the Sun's position at noon (UTC) for the years 1940–2030; on cusp dates the exact sign depends on the birth time. Decan and numerology readings are traditional symbolic descriptions.