Born on January 17

Some things never change for people born on January 17. The star sign stays Capricorn, the day arcana 17 (The Star) and the month arcana 1 (The Magician). You believe in something nobody else believes in yet, and you turn up to the meeting with costings accurate to the nearest thousand. Capricorn counts; the seventeenth arcana supplies the reason for counting at all.

Day arcana 17 (The Star) and month arcana 1 (The Magician) on the circle of 22

Where your strength is

Hope with a budget attached. You do not talk people into believing - you show a plan that makes it look achievable, and they follow the plan rather than the feeling.

What comes harder

The Magician runs January and wants you to be able to stop as well as start. You believe for a long time and invest quietly, and when a thing genuinely is not working, admitting it feels like a betrayal of the person who started it.

One thing to try

Name out loud the condition on which you would stop. One, specific, with a date, and write it down.

The numbers of this date

  • 17 - The Star
  • 1 - The Magician

The other twenty come from the full birth date.

Who else was born on this day

  • Pope Pius V (1504) - head of the Catholic Church from 1566 to 1572
  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600) - spanish playwright and poet
  • Benjamin Franklin (1706) - american Founding Father and polymath
  • Anne Brontë (1820) - english novelist and poet
  • David Lloyd George (1863) - prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922
  • Konstantin Stanislavski (1863) - russian actor and theatre director
  • Al Capone (1899) - american gangster and businessman
  • Muhammad Ali (1942) - american boxer and activist
  • Jim Carrey (1962) - canadian and American actor
  • Michelle Obama (1964) - first Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017

Dates and short descriptions come from Wikidata.

Frequently asked questions

Does the year of birth change this?

The day and month arcana come from the day and month only, so everyone born on this date shares them. The year adds two more arcana, and those show up in the full reading.

How many arcana are there altogether?

Twenty-two major arcana. This page uses two of them, the ones drawn from the day and the month; the full calculation brings in the birth year as well and fills considerably more positions.

What am I meant to do with these numbers?

Look for where they already show up. An arcana describes a habit of acting rather than a fate, and you can usually recognise it in decisions you made over the past year - then choose what to keep and what to change.

The destiny matrix is a language for self-reflection, not a prediction. The choices stay yours.

A reading in Luna voice

The Star and The Magician are two of the twenty-two arcana, and the other twenty only open up once the full birth date goes in, free, inside Luna.

Open Luna

Read next