The Most Popular Months to be Born & their astrology

Is your birthday one of the most popular in New Zealand or one that most avoid?

Do you know the month when most Americans are born?

Is the UK the same -or different?

Official stats for the period of recent decades show some patterns of great interest to an astrologer and because there are differences in the NZ data versus that of other countries.

Animal species have much more specific breeding cycles than humankind.

In effect, most women have the choice to plan a pregnancy or to just roll the dice and see what happens. Under these supposedly more random conditions the results are actually not random at all.

NZ stats show that most birthdays in the data period occurred in September

• only one of the Top 10 most popular birthdates was in October – October 1^st

• This Top 10 was squeezed into a fortnight from 19 September-October 1^st

and

• The Top 20 occurred within the 4 weeks September 16-October 14

• The Top 21-30 places were also all spread over September-October

A very statistically significant pattern
So New Zealand is loaded with Virgos and Libras.

Does this obviously mean most Kiwi women conceive in the mid December-mid January period which is mostly Summer Vacation time?

The urge to sexually reproduce, mate, conceive is stimulated by planets in the zodiac sign Scorpio and when the energies of Venus, Mars and Pluto are prominent – so more people will feel more sexy during these periods.

The Sun is the dominant force affecting Earth because we are in orbit around it and we are part of the massive solar system network involving many other planetary influences that Earth cannot avoid.

The Sun is approximately in the same position in its cycle year after year so we know in mid December the athletic, outdoorsy, sporty Sagittarius energy is being emphasised through the Sun's position.

A few days before Christmas, the Sun moves into the sector in space associated with the sign Capricorn – and is there for the period through January until the 3^rd week.

Capricorn comic actor Jemaine Clement

Capricorn is earthy, grunty energy, basic & goaty -more neolithic caveman versus the toned Sagittarian gym bunny – but both are suitable enough to stimulate romping in the hay, the sand, under the trees... you get it.

Because these energies coincide with the southern hemisphere summer and more relaxed free time away from the chain gang, it is a great mix for one plus one makes 3.

When the usual suspects in terms of sexy planets are activated in the NZ holiday period the lights flash Green for Go even more brightly.

In December 2015 for example:

Venus joined the party by being in Scorpio from Dec 6-Dec 30

Mars in Libra was very keen on relating all through Dec and into January, especially when Jupiter boosted the hormones in the week before Xmas. Mars went into Scorpio on Jan 4 2016 for a long stay til March 7 2016. Whew. Feel the heat.

Pluto was in the sign of the goat, Capricorn, all through the vacation period, being in a long, very long orbit through this sector, since 2009 until 2024. More people feeling grunty for longer.

The kinky influence of Uranus in January makes Pluto want to extend into some unconventional practices. How many shades can you get?

So the 2015-2016 holiday period may increase the Sept-Oct 2016 birth stats even higher – which means we will end up with even more Virgos and Librans than currently rule the data over the past 34 years in New Zealand.

Is this a good thing?

So if NZ is over-abundant in people born under Virgo and Libra what personality aspects does that highlight in the population? :

Virgos are in their essential state [aside from other birth planet influences] the keepers of the Protestant Work Ethic. These are the people who live to work, day after day, week after week, year after year,. Keeping the system efficient is their mission in life, they love order, categories, classifications, analysis, nitpicking, can be highly self critical as well as critical of others.

They value perfection & purity, appreciating the mantra My Body is a temple” - and so careful reading of product labels, a keen interest exists in nutrition, superfoods, optimum health.

Virgos are the most mentally active Earth sign, lots of thinking of an analytic type and proneness to worry are traits that play havoc with their digestion and cause related health weaknesses.

Their interests in being great workers and looking after their health bolster

capitalist society and reduce the state health budget. Bravo you 8-6ers

Librans are in their essential state [aside from other birth planet influences] those who really really have to be half of a couple. 
Their mission in life is to pair up and stay there, so this usually means some form of commitment. Balance, harmony, beauty, are the ideals they seek. Looking good, the body beautiful [outside] a fabulous wardrobe, a ring and someone to hold hands with. Of course this can end up in identical outfits and velcro patches joining them 24/7. Enough is never enough when you are just a half needing another to be whole. But not all Librans end up this way. Some are serial wives/husbands, who prepare the next dish before the last one is fully devoured.

Librans will adore the era of the selfie -not as much for ego reasons like those shallow Leos -but more on aesthetic grounds. They adore culture, fine art, fine anything and if they attain a beauty that is essentially sculptural then all the better.

Being peacemaking, compromising, mediating types who hate conflict, Librans play a role in calming rough waters, keeping things civil and gentile. Their partnership drive can extend beyond their personal life into business or sporting partnerships and many successful examples exist across all these type of fields so in the areas of family, business and sporting life, Librans can perform as a very positive part of the societal structure.

Other than that they pay a fortune into the fashion, makeup, footwear, handbag and hairdressing industries. Fabulous.

So these two profiles constitute to a significant degree the most common personality types in NZ society in this era.

But

Astrology acknowledges that each zodiac sign is actually one part of a paired polarity – like twin energy -so each of us can oscillate or swing between the sign we were born under as well as the opposite sign . This adds another layer onto the personality.

• Virgos oscillate with Pisces. Librans oscillate with Aries

• [Taurus-Scorpio, Gemini-Sagittarius, Cancer-Capricorn, Leo-Aquarius]

• When Virgos are not suited to really be Virgos -in the ways explained above and on account of the other planets in their individual birthday makeup, those people will act more like Pisces -whose qualities are in many ways the opposite: work is not regarded as the dream: dreaming is the dream. Different from the machine-like work focus of Virgos, Pisces work flow is more sporadic, organic, going with the flow of prevailing energies. Where Virgos focus, Pisces zone out. Too much detail. Pisces sees the bigger picture not the micro details.

• Instead of the pure body goal of the Virgo, when in Pisces mode they are more likely to load up on toxins -alcohol, tobacco, drugs, medicines or at least any form of escapist or intoxicating experience.

• When Librans flip into Aries they abandon partnerships, they engage in conflict, they go for a warrior or masculine look instead of girly or metrosexual fashion, they rely on their own courage and strength instead of drawing it from their support person.

So these polar opposite profiles are also very likely to enter into the framework when considering those born in the mid September-mid October time frame of any year -and therefore to be statistically relevant amongst New Zealand personality types.

For all those dedicated workers there will be an equally dedicated number who think life has different paths to follow.

For all those binging on superfoods and probiotics there will equally be those who binge on alcohol & reality altering addictions.

For all the gentile refined polite co-operative and well dressed fashionistas there will be the impatient, selfish pushy ME types who love a battle

Because these extremes operate within a person

And this recognition helps resolve the dilemma of how the astrology zodiac can possibly work in the southern hemisphere -because the signs describe the seasons from a northern hemisphere perspective -the reverse of life south of the equator.

The polarity oscillation -the psyche's capacity to swing between 2 related but opposite expressions explains how the zodiac can work in both hemispheres.

The same principle covers the seasonal aspects.

As for rare or unpopular birthdates in NZ

Data shows that Public Holidays are way down the rankings.

Xmas Eve, Xmas Day, Boxing Day. New Year's Day and Jan 2, Waitangi Day, Anzac Day, take up most of the Top 10 lowest ranked birthdates.

Feb 29 is automatically the least ranked due to it occurring only in Leap Years

Apart from these dates, March, April and June have 2,3,2 dates in the lowest 20

US data from 1973-1999 also found September to be the most common birthday month
so late December or January is likely to be main conception time = Capricorn, with also the November-December period = Scorpio and Sagittarius influences upon the sex drive.
Top September birthdays in the US = the 16^th, 9^th & 23^rd

The biggest spread of birthdays covered July, August and September, with July the lesser of those 3.

This means most US births are in the northern summer period.

The signs Cancer Leo and Virgo operate in this 3 month period .

Their polarities Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces are also evoked.

Cancer is family values, Leo is the entertainment industry

In the UK, data for live births 1992-2013 favours July for most birthdates -also summertime.
July is Cancer -family and tradition are strong values with Leo beginning in the 3rd week - the entertainment industry.

Although July did not come out on top in every year it was either 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd in 20 out of the 22 years of data.
The only year that July slipped out of the top 5 rankings for numbers born that month was in 2012, when it came 6th
The only other months to rank repeatedly in the top 3 were May, August, September, October -but they only featured in 9,10,12, 11 times respectively -way less significant than the high scoring July at 20 times.
Therefore In the UK the favourite conception time is October - the going indoors time, when Autumn in underway - in order to produce so many July births.
The October mix of partnership time [Libra] and sex hormones [Scorpio] proving too heady for the Brits to resist.

But he most definite UK data relates to the month of February.

February produced the least live births in the UK in all 22 years calculated, differing from 5,000 to 10,000 compared to the number in the top ranked month.
Though the UK is known for eccentrics, they are rarer than you think if few choose to be born in the Aquarian-Piscean month.
The July record was 63,002 live births in 2011

Australia's favourite birth month is March
according to data for the period 2001-2012 inclusive
March led the stats overall twice as often as next favourite October.
March births mean winter conception
October births mean summertime conception
Pisces & Aries are born in March
Libra and Scorpio born in October.
The polarity for Pisces is Virgo, for Aries is Libra,  for Scorpio is Taurus

With NZ births predominating strongly in the Spring - which in the Northern latitudes is equated with Aries initiating type energy, it is not surprising if the Aries polarity of Libra is strong in the New Zealand psyche.

We even have a Rugby League team called the Warriors, we delight in the battle challenge ritual called the haka, face and body tattoos are very popular, boy racers use our roads as Playstation game scenes, mothers speed around our cities in monster Sports Utility Vehicles, road rage, speeding... traffic-light running is a national sport and we're very competitive.

As for the Pisces polarity of Virgo -dare I mention the drink, the drugs, the substances that have increasingly flooded the land since colonization. Yep too much of a good thing makes us flow back to our inner opposite.

NZ Stats data

UK stats data
Australia stats data

US graphic