♑︎ Capricorn

January 17 Zodiac Sign: Capricorn — Traits

The January 17 zodiac sign is Capricorn, a cardinal earth sign. The Sun is in Capricorn on this date in every year from 1900 to 2026, in every time zone, between 24° and 29° of the sign, which puts January 17 in the third decan of Capricorn.

Muhammad Ali, Jim Carrey and Betty White were born on January 17. StarMap has birth charts for 27 people born on this date, listed here with the best known first.

The stars over any place on January 17 stand differently in every year and at every hour: see the sky on this date for a year, a time and a place of your choosing, drawn as a star map.

Capricorn traits

Born on January 17, your Sun is in Capricorn. You endure. Ambition, patience and a dry sense of humour carry you up long slopes other people give up on. A Capricorn Sun learns, eventually, that rest is part of the climb.

Your Sun sign is one part of a chart. The Moon and the rising sign, which need the time and place of birth, say as much about you. StarMap is for entertainment and self-reflection.

Born on January 17 too?

Your Sun, Moon and rising sign from the real sky at your birth. Free, no account needed.

Famous birthdays on January 17

Muhammad Ali, Jim Carrey and Betty White were born on January 17. StarMap has birth charts for 27 people born on this date, the best known first.

Signs are computed from the Sun’s position with the astronomy-engine ephemeris, checked against Swiss Ephemeris, for every year from 1900 to 2026. Birth dates and places come from Wikidata. A sign is shown beside a name only when it holds for the whole of the birth date; where it does not, both possibilities are given. How to read a birth chart.

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