Settled date · day 28 of 31 in the sign
17 April — Aries
Aries in every year from 1930 to 2029 — no ambiguity, no dependence on the hour. Here is what else this specific date produces.
Where in Aries this falls
Venus-ruled decan of Aries
Venus softens the sign toward attachment and taste; the same drives, aimed at being liked. The last ten degrees carry the sign already turning toward the next one, which is why this third often reads as the most complicated.
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Every year, computed
All 100 years for 17 April. Each row is calculated for that exact day — sun position, life path, the Moon's sign and nakshatra, and which planets were retrograde. Find your year.
| Year | Sun | Life path | Moon | Nakshatra | Retrograde |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Aries 26.75° | 7 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 3 | — |
| 1931 | Aries 26.51° | 8 | Aries | Revati 4 | — |
| 1932 | Aries 27.25° | 9 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 2 | Mercury |
| 1933 | Aries 27.02° | 1 | Aquarius | Uttara Ashadha 4 | Jupiter |
| 1934 | Aries 26.78° | 2 | Gemini | Rohini 2 | Jupiter |
| 1935 | Aries 26.54° | 3 | Libra | Hasta 3 | Mars Jupiter |
| 1936 | Aries 27.28° | 4 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 1 | Jupiter |
| 1937 | Aries 27.05° | 5 | Cancer | Punarvasu 3 | Venus Mars |
| 1938 | Aries 26.81° | 6 | Scorpio | Anuradha 1 | Mercury |
| 1939 | Aries 26.57° | 7 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 2 | — |
| 1940 | Aries 27.31° | 8 | Leo | Ashlesha 4 | — |
| 1941 | Aries 27.08° | 9 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 3 | — |
| 1942 | Aries 26.84° | 1 | Taurus | Bharani 4 | — |
| 1943 | Aries 26.6° | 2 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 1 | — |
| 1944 | Aries 27.35° | 3 | Aquarius | Shravana 4 | — |
| 1945 | Aries 27.11° | 4 | Cancer | Ardra 2 | Mercury Venus Jupiter |
| 1946 | Aries 26.87° | 5 | Scorpio | Swati 3 | Jupiter |
| 1947 | Aries 26.64° | 6 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 4 | Jupiter |
| 1948 | Aries 27.38° | 7 | Leo | Pushya 3 | Jupiter |
| 1949 | Aries 27.14° | 8 | Sagittarius | Mula 1 | Saturn |
| 1950 | Aries 26.9° | 9 | Aries | Ashwini 2 | Mars Saturn |
| 1951 | Aries 26.67° | 1 | Virgo | Magha 3 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1952 | Aries 27.41° | 2 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 3 | Mercury Mars Saturn |
| 1953 | Aries 27.17° | 3 | Gemini | Rohini 4 | Venus Saturn |
| 1954 | Aries 26.93° | 4 | Libra | Chitra 1 | Saturn |
| 1955 | Aries 26.7° | 5 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 2 | Saturn |
| 1956 | Aries 27.44° | 6 | Cancer | Punarvasu 3 | Saturn |
| 1957 | Aries 27.2° | 7 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 3 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1958 | Aries 26.97° | 8 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 4 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 1959 | Aries 26.73° | 9 | Leo | Ashlesha 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1960 | Aries 27.47° | 1 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 3 | — |
| 1961 | Aries 27.23° | 2 | Taurus | Krittika 2 | Venus |
| 1962 | Aries 27° | 3 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 3 | — |
| 1963 | Aries 26.76° | 4 | Aquarius | Uttara Ashadha 4 | — |
| 1964 | Aries 27.5° | 5 | Cancer | Ardra 2 | Mercury |
| 1965 | Aries 27.26° | 6 | Scorpio | Vishakha 1 | Mercury Mars |
| 1966 | Aries 27.03° | 7 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 2 | — |
| 1967 | Aries 26.79° | 8 | Cancer | Punarvasu 3 | Mars |
| 1968 | Aries 27.53° | 9 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | Jupiter |
| 1969 | Aries 27.3° | 1 | Taurus | Ashwini 4 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1970 | Aries 27.06° | 2 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 1 | Jupiter |
| 1971 | Aries 26.82° | 3 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 3 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 1972 | Aries 27.56° | 4 | Gemini | Mrigashira 1 | — |
| 1973 | Aries 27.33° | 5 | Libra | Chitra 3 | — |
| 1974 | Aries 27.09° | 6 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 4 | — |
| 1975 | Aries 26.85° | 7 | Cancer | Ardra 2 | — |
| 1976 | Aries 27.59° | 8 | Sagittarius | Anuradha 4 | — |
| 1977 | Aries 27.36° | 9 | Aries | Revati 2 | Venus |
| 1978 | Aries 27.12° | 1 | Leo | Ashlesha 3 | Mercury Saturn |
| 1979 | Aries 26.88° | 2 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | Saturn |
| 1980 | Aries 27.63° | 3 | Gemini | Krittika 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1981 | Aries 27.39° | 4 | Libra | Hasta 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1982 | Aries 27.15° | 5 | Aquarius | Shravana 2 | Mars Jupiter Saturn |
| 1983 | Aries 26.92° | 6 | Gemini | Mrigashira 1 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 1984 | Aries 27.66° | 7 | Scorpio | Vishakha 3 | Mercury Mars Saturn |
| 1985 | Aries 27.42° | 8 | Pisces | Uttara Bhadrapada 1 | Venus Saturn |
| 1986 | Aries 27.18° | 9 | Cancer | Pushya 1 | Saturn |
| 1987 | Aries 26.95° | 1 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 1 | Saturn |
| 1988 | Aries 27.69° | 2 | Taurus | Bharani 2 | Saturn |
| 1989 | Aries 27.45° | 3 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 4 | — |
| 1990 | Aries 27.21° | 4 | Capricorn | Purva Ashadha 4 | — |
| 1991 | Aries 26.98° | 5 | Gemini | Krittika 4 | Mercury |
| 1992 | Aries 27.72° | 6 | Scorpio | Swati 1 | Jupiter |
| 1993 | Aries 27.48° | 7 | Pisces | Shatabhisha 3 | Venus Jupiter |
| 1994 | Aries 27.25° | 8 | Cancer | Ardra 3 | Jupiter |
| 1995 | Aries 27.01° | 9 | Scorpio | Vishakha 4 | Jupiter |
| 1996 | Aries 27.75° | 1 | Aries | Revati 4 | — |
| 1997 | Aries 27.51° | 2 | Leo | Magha 2 | Mercury Mars |
| 1998 | Aries 27.28° | 3 | Sagittarius | Mula 2 | Mercury |
| 1999 | Aries 27.04° | 4 | Taurus | Bharani 3 | Mars |
| 2000 | Aries 27.78° | 5 | Libra | Hasta 3 | — |
| 2001 | Aries 27.54° | 6 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 1 | Venus |
| 2002 | Aries 27.31° | 7 | Gemini | Mrigashira 1 | — |
| 2003 | Aries 27.07° | 8 | Scorpio | Swati 2 | — |
| 2004 | Aries 27.81° | 9 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 2 | Mercury Jupiter |
| 2005 | Aries 27.58° | 1 | Leo | Pushya 3 | Jupiter |
| 2006 | Aries 27.34° | 2 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 1 | Jupiter |
| 2007 | Aries 27.1° | 3 | Aries | Ashwini 2 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2008 | Aries 27.84° | 4 | Virgo | Uttara Phalguni 2 | Saturn |
| 2009 | Aries 27.61° | 5 | Capricorn | Uttara Ashadha 2 | Venus Saturn |
| 2010 | Aries 27.37° | 6 | Gemini | Krittika 4 | Saturn |
| 2011 | Aries 27.13° | 7 | Libra | Chitra 1 | Mercury Saturn |
| 2012 | Aries 27.88° | 8 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 1 | Saturn |
| 2013 | Aries 27.64° | 9 | Cancer | Punarvasu 1 | Saturn |
| 2014 | Aries 27.4° | 1 | Scorpio | Vishakha 4 | Mars Saturn |
| 2015 | Aries 27.16° | 2 | Aries | Uttara Bhadrapada 4 | Saturn |
| 2016 | Aries 27.91° | 3 | Virgo | Magha 4 | Jupiter Saturn |
| 2017 | Aries 27.67° | 4 | Capricorn | Mula 4 | Mercury Jupiter Saturn |
| 2018 | Aries 27.43° | 5 | Taurus | Bharani 3 | Jupiter |
| 2019 | Aries 27.2° | 6 | Libra | Uttara Phalguni 3 | Jupiter |
| 2020 | Aries 27.94° | 7 | Aquarius | Dhanishta 3 | — |
| 2021 | Aries 27.7° | 8 | Gemini | Mrigashira 3 | — |
| 2022 | Aries 27.46° | 9 | Scorpio | Swati 2 | — |
| 2023 | Aries 27.23° | 1 | Pisces | Purva Bhadrapada 3 | — |
| 2024 | Aries 27.97° | 2 | Leo | Ashlesha 2 | Mercury |
| 2025 | Aries 27.73° | 3 | Sagittarius | Jyeshtha 2 | — |
| 2026 | Aries 27.5° | 4 | Aries | Ashwini 2 | — |
| 2027 | Aries 27.26° | 5 | Virgo | Purva Phalguni 2 | — |
| 2028 | Aries 28° | 6 | Aquarius | Shravana 1 | Jupiter |
| 2029 | Aries 27.76° | 7 | Gemini | Rohini 1 | Mars Jupiter |
The Moon and nakshatra columns change every year because the Moon returns to the same calendar date in a different position — which is why a birth date alone cannot tell you those, and why this table exists.
A century of 17 April
Every figure here is specific to 17 April: the Moon returns to a given phase on the same calendar date only every 19 years or so, so the counts differ from one date to the next. Mercury’s retrograde periods drift by about 30° of the zodiac each year, which is why the share is near 20% but never identical. How that 20% is computed →
Year by year
The sign column never changes; only the number does.
Life path numbers this date produces
The most frequent is 7 with 12 years; the scarcest is 6 with just 11. No master number is possible on this date at all — every year reduces to a single digit. That is not true of most dates, and it is a property of these two numbers rather than of anything astrological.
Why the answer holds
17 April sits 27 days past the start of Aries and reached 27.5° this year — far enough from either boundary that no birth year or hour changes it. The question worth asking on this date is where in the sign, not which sign.