Born on 9 May, 1917 (Wednesday)

• Personality
• 2025 Predictions
• Horoscope

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Personality Traits for people born on May 9, 1917

Born on May 9, 1917 : You kept moving—and you made caring into a craft.

You carry decades of steady effort and a restless appetite for change. Picture a skilled mechanic who also loves the open road: you keep systems running, but you want new miles. That balance—useful work plus movement—defines what follows.

Personality : Adaptable

You meet life with steady hands and a flexible heart. With many planets in the 6th house from the Moon you naturally take charge of daily problems — fixing routines, helping others, solving practical issues. You enjoy excitement, but you can feel jealous or defensive when your usefulness is questioned. You prefer empathetic company and you lose patience with self-pity. Your temperament can shift quickly, like the weather between errands, and that quick change keeps you useful. Notice how your need to adapt pushes you toward service — and keeps your mind moving to the next task.

Talent and Abilities : Disciplined Adviser

Your gifts sit at the intersection of service and speech. Mercury in the 7th house gives you a knack for clear negotiation and partnership work; the cluster in the 6th house points to skills in medicine, advisory roles, or organized service. Unconsciously you seek recognition through usefulness — helping others proves your value. You read people, give solid practical counsel, and win respect in courts or workplaces when you stand your ground. In short, your talent is steady competence coupled with a restless curiosity that keeps you learning.

Blind Spots : Over-sensitivity

You smile and keep working, but you can be quietly wounded. Low self-esteem can sit beside visible confidence; you forgive strangers but expect more at home. That gap breeds jealousy and a habit of taking control. You may resist delegation because past stumbles taught you to do it yourself. Socially, you look calm; inside, you measure loyalty. If you don’t name that sensitivity, it will steer decisions for you — feel it, then decide.

Karmic Lessons : Release and Responsibility

With the Moon’s South Node in the 8th and Pluto nearby, some ties feel ancient and intense. You carry lessons about shared resources, control, and deep loyalty. Saturn and Neptune in the 9th suggest discipline and tests around belief, travel or teaching. Rahu in the 2nd points to learning how speech and family wealth must be handled with care. Your destiny asks you to balance freedom (Life Path 5) with responsibility — to let go when holding on hurts and to serve without losing yourself.

Family and Environment : Complicatedly Supportive

Your home life blends care and strain. A mother who helped but carried emotional wounds shaped your feelings about safety; a hardworking father brought practical lessons and, sometimes, disputes over land or money. The household may include healers or doctors and often leans toward joint-family living. Family businesses, practical trades, or even mystic leanings can be present. You learned to be useful early — a lesson you carry into every room you enter.

Health and Habits : Watch thyroid & heart

Bodies with heavy 6th-house emphasis often need routine care. Pay attention to thyroid, heart and digestive balance; acidity or stress-related complaints can flare when you push too hard. Skin or urinary issues can appear; accidents around fire or sharp tools are a risk in tense periods. Daily rhythm — moderate exercise, regular checkups, calm meals — helps. When Mars or Saturn make strong transits, be extra cautious.

Education and Student Life : Lifelong learner

You study into old age. Early schooling may have felt patchy or unsupported, so you learned by doing and by correspondence at times. You respect famous institutions but often take practical training instead. Even now you’ll take a class, read a manual, or pick up a new skill — because learning keeps you moving and useful.

Work, Money and Career : Service, consulting, cautious real estate

Your best work combines structure and movement. The 6th-house emphasis favors service, health, consultancy and hands-on management. Analysis shows strong advisory ability — law, medicine, civil work, or brokerage suit you if you avoid risky speculation. If you are male: leadership, administration, real-estate or public service may call. If you are female: medicine, therapy, teaching or creative work often fit. Money-wise, avoid large speculative bets, double-check documentation, and prefer steady income or well-documented property deals.

Love Life and Romantic Partners : Warm to outsiders, strained at home

If you are male: your wife often brings income or property and may face skin or eye health issues. Marriage can be practical and sometimes tense — at least once you may face a separation or a return-to-parents episode. She may be proud and independent; respect and clear contracts matter. If you are female: your husband may have a public or leadership background, be short-tempered at times, and rely on family status. Across both sexes, Mercury in the 7th gives you tools to talk things through, but jealousy and unmet expectations make emotions combustible. You tend to solve problems with action rather than long emotional talks — a useful skill in a crisis, less so in quiet moments. First child is often a girl. Work at clear, kind communication; it’s the single habit that heals most wounds.

Areas of Improvement and Obstacles : Control, trust and paperwork

Be blunt: your tendency to control, to distrust delegation, and to protect family money can hurt relationships and pocketbooks. You may burn hours fixing others’ mistakes instead of building long-term security. Legal paperwork and property issues appear if you rush or trust the wrong person. Stop making reckless investments and practice asking for help. Your health and your wallet depend on it — and those two are linked.

Actionable Insights, Tips, Techniques, Tools and Strategies

• Insight: Use your Life Path 5 freedom constructively — rotate tasks, try short projects, and keep service at the center.
• Tip: Insist on written contracts for property or business; avoid buying assets in another’s name without full legal clarity.
• Technique: Daily 10–15 minutes of paced breathing and a short walk calms acidity and stress; do this before decisions.
• Tool: Keep a “talk brief” notebook for important conversations (Mercury in 7th) — write three clear points before you speak.
• Strategy: Favor steady income work (consultancy, health, civil service) and treat entrepreneurship like a planned experiment with stop-loss rules.

Watch long planetary cycles: Saturn transits test beliefs and career, Jupiter phases bring expansion, and Pluto or Rahu cycles intensify money and shared-resource issues. Use those times to plan, not panic. You have the skill to keep helping others while still making room for the life you want — one practical step at a time.

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Shared Birthdays

Some famous persons born on May 9, 1917

• Bernhard Witkop, Chemist, born in Freiburg im Breisgau (died: November 22, 2010)
• Fay Kanin, Film actor, Film producer, Writer, and Screenwriter, born in New York City (died: March 27, 2013)
• Evgeni Filipov, University teacher, and Engineer, born in Sofia (died: September 2, 1991)
• Léon Dieperinck, Painter, born in Bruges (died: August 1, 2010)
• Antoine Sanguinetti, French Resistance fighter, and Military personnel, born in Cairo (died: July 20, 2004)
• Mondher Ben Ammar, Association football player, Diplomat, Politician, and Lawyer, born in Tunis (died: January 1, 2004)
• Gregorio Samaniego, Association football player, born in Buenos Aires
• Закария Белимбаев, Pontonier, Red Army soldier, born in Abay District (died: June 5, 1982)
• Aleksandr Aleksandrovitsj Vagner, Architect, born in Moscow (died: January 1, 1978)
• Alex Karczmar, Neuroscientist, Pharmacologist, and University teacher, born in Warsaw (died: August 17, 2017)
• Carlos Carnes Ogden, Sr., Military personnel, born in Edgar County (died: April 2, 2001)
• Helen Palmer, Publisher, born in Kew (died: March 6, 1979)
• Per-Gunnar Jering, Aircraft pilot, and Diplomat, born in Stockholm (died: September 25, 2003)
• René Orlando García Villegas, Lawyer, and Judge, born in Puerto Varas (died: October 30, 1998)
• John Arnatt, Television actor, and Actor, born in Saint Petersburg (died: December 21, 1999)
• Martin Möbus, Aircraft pilot, born in Cieciszów, Żagań County (died: June 2, 1944)
• Max Rafferty, Journalist, Politician, and Writer, born in New Orleans (died: June 13, 1982)
• Inocêncio Galvão Teles, Teacher, born in Lisbon (died: February 26, 2010)
• Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda, University teacher, born in Aleppo (died: February 16, 1997)
• Qu Wei, Composer, born in Jiangsu, Changzhou, China (died: May 20, 2002)
• Reino Korpi, Military Officer, born in Noormarkku (died: May 29, 1958)
• Henry Ruud, Writer, born in Hadeland (died: April 7, 1994)
• Тихон Григорович Верхомій, Airman, born in Horodok Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast (died: May 3, 1943)
• Іван Йосипович Сочивець, Comedian, born in Kozelets Raion (died: November 16, 2004)
• Elizabeth Lyttleton Sturz, Folk song collector, Acrobat, Novelist, Ghostwriter, Poet, Writer, and Screenwriter, born in Blanco County (died: October 21, 2010)
• Edith ten Kate, Visual artist, and Sculptor, born in The Hague (died: February 10, 1995)
• Vojtěch Lacko, Laborer, and Anti-communist resistance fighter, born in Biela Pila (died: October 7, 1950)
• Mirosław Leligdowicz, Officer in the Polish Armed Forces, born in Kolomyia (died: October 12, 1959)
• Janko Balorda, Participant in the People's Liberation War, born in Bosnia and Herzegovina (died: January 1, 1942)
• József Spielmann, Medical historian, and Physician, born in Răzoare (died: August 28, 1986)
• Aliaga Guliyev, Musician, born in Baku (died: January 11, 1998)
• 張依仁, Physician, born in 新竹, 台灣 (died: February 24, 2011)
• George Lewis, Sprinter, born in Arima (died: February 17, 2011)
• Scylla Venâncio, Swimmer, born in Rio de Janeiro
• Edgar Ots, Clergyman, and Organist, born in Ihasalu (died: November 2, 1963)
• Nikolai Vasilyevich Plyusnin, Guard Senior Sergeant, born in Tobolsk Governorate (died: December 10, 1997)
• George Nelmark, Basketball player, born in Ironwood (died: December 4, 2010)
• René Dasen, Film critic, and Journalist, born in Echallens (died: February 27, 1989)
• Parnaoz Lapiashvili, Painter, born in Mirzaani (died: July 25, 1994)
• Edwin Ramsey, Polo player, and Military personnel, born in Carlyle (died: March 7, 2013)
• Albrecht Hege, Theologian, and Priest, born in Karlsruhe (died: August 16, 2017)
• Arne Willmyr, Painter, born in Färgaryds socken, Jönköpings län (died: October 1, 1997)
• J. Kerr Wilson, Classical singer, and Choir director, born in Winnipeg (died: June 11, 2006)
• H. Monroe Browne, Politician, born in Long Beach (died: June 13, 2006)
• Olena Vesolovska, Ukrainian public figure, born in Vienna (died: May 22, 2003)
• Wilhelm Michel Erich Noach, University teacher, born in Leiden (died: August 6, 1985)
• Marguerite Doernbach, Painter, and Artist, born in Germantown (died: February 11, 2015)
• Richard Shores, Composer, born in Rockville (died: April 12, 2001)

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What happened on May 9, 1917

• The Nivelle Offensive, a disastrous French offensive in World War I, is abandoned after heavy losses and widespread discontent.

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May 9, 1917 Facts

What is my generation?

The person with birth year 1917 belongs to the GI Generation group.

When am I eligible to vote, open a bank account, buy a simcard and open a bank account? (Age of Majority)

• United States: May 9, 1935
• India: May 9, 1935
• Philippines: May 9, 1935
• United Kingdom: May 9, 1935
• Canada: May 9, 1935

According to data from the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, 205 countries and territories have a minimum voting age of 18 for national elections out of 237 countries and territories the organisation has data on as of October 2020. Some countries may issue additional requirements for voting eligibility from time to time.

When am I eligible to get a driving license?

Learner's Permit (Under supervision)

• United States: May 9, 1932
• India: May 9, 1933
• Philippines: May 9, 1933
• United Kingdom: May 9, 1934
• Canada: May 9, 1933

Light Vehicles (Mopeds or quad bikes, unsupervised)

• United States: May 9, 1933
• India: May 9, 1935
• Philippines: May 9, 1935
• United Kingdom: May 9, 1934
• Canada: May 9, 1933

Full Driving License

• United States: May 9, 1935
• India: May 9, 1937
• Philippines: May 9, 1935
• United Kingdom: May 9, 1938
• Canada: May 9, 1935

When do I reach age of consent?

• United States: May 9, 1933
• India: May 9, 1935
• Philippines: May 9, 1933
• United Kingdom: May 9, 1933
• Canada: May 9, 1933

Disclaimer: This is not legal advise. Age of consent is a complex legal system which can vary depending on individual situation and circumstances. In the United States, as of April 2021, of the total fifty U.S. states, approximately thirty have an age of consent of 16 (with this being the most common age of consent in the country), some set the age of consent at 17, and in about eleven states the age is 18.

When can I marry without parental consent?

• United States: May 9, 1935
• India: May 9, 1938
• Philippines: May 9, 1935
• United Kingdom: May 9, 1935
• Canada: May 9, 1935

When do I reach legal age of drinking (consuming alcohol)?

• United States: May 9, 1938
• India: May 9, 1938
• Philippines: May 9, 1935
• United Kingdom: May 9, 1935
• Canada: May 9, 1936

When do I reach legal age of smoking (consuming tobacco)?

• India: May 9, 1935
• Canada: May 9, 1936
• United States: May 9, 1938
• Philippines: May 9, 1938
• United Kingdom: May 9, 1935

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When Will I Become a Millionaire?

June 9, 1963

Yes, you can become a millionaire by saving small and investing. Believe in yourself and it's never too late to start.

Please note, this calculation assumes $100 monthly savings into US stocks with ARR 7% and that the monthly savings double every 10 years from the starting date. The actual outcome might vary based on additional factors not considered in this simple calculation, such as taxes, fees, changes in contribution, or more complex compounding scenarios.

Your next birthday

• May 9, 2026 is on a Saturday.
• Your next birthday is 236 days away.

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Astrology Analysis

Astrology Transits Analysis for Year 2025

Transits for 2025

• Saturn square Moon
  Exact: 11 January, 2025
• Saturn sextile Sun
  Exact: 10 February, 2025
• Saturn sextile Jupiter
  Exact: 10 February, 2025
• Saturn sextile Venus
  Exact: 12 March, 2025
• Jupiter opposition Moon
  Exact: 22 March, 2025
• Saturn sextile Mercury
  Exact: 11 May, 2025
• Jupiter conjunction Ketu
  Exact: 09 August, 2025
• Jupiter opposition Rahu
  Exact: 09 August, 2025
• Mars square Rahu
  Exact: 29 August, 2025
• Mars aspects Venus
  Exact: 08 September, 2025
• Saturn sextile Mercury
  Exact: 18 September, 2025
• Mars opposition Sun
  Exact: 18 October, 2025
• Mars opposition Jupiter
  Exact: 18 October, 2025
• Jupiter conjunction Saturn
  Exact: 07 November, 2025

Note: Multiple transits occurring in close proximity often signify a major event in a person's life.

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