Settled date · day 12 of 32 in the sign

2 July — Cancer

Cancer in every year from 1930 to 2029 — no ambiguity, no dependence on the hour. Here is what else this specific date produces.

Where in Cancer this falls

Sun's degree on this date 10.63° of Cancer
Day within the sign 12 of 32
Same sign in 100 of 100 years — settled

Mercury-ruled decan of Cancer

Decan 2 of 3 · 10°–20°
Sub-ruler Mercury
Sign ruler Moon
Sun on this date 10.63°

Mercury wires the sign for analysis and talk — quicker, more articulate, less settled. The middle ten degrees are the sign at full strength: past the entry, not yet leaning toward what follows.

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Every year, computed

All 100 years for 2 July. 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 Cancer 9.86° 4 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Saturn
1931 Cancer 9.63° 5 Aquarius Shravana 2 Saturn
1932 Cancer 10.36° 6 Gemini Mrigashira 3 Venus Saturn
1933 Cancer 10.13° 7 Scorpio Swati 1 Saturn
1934 Cancer 9.9° 8 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3 Mercury Saturn
1935 Cancer 9.67° 9 Cancer Pushya 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1936 Cancer 10.39° 1 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2 Jupiter
1937 Cancer 10.16° 11 Aries Revati 4 Jupiter
1938 Cancer 9.93° 3 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3 Jupiter
1939 Cancer 9.7° 4 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 4 Mars
1940 Cancer 10.42° 5 Gemini Rohini 1 Venus
1941 Cancer 10.19° 6 Libra Hasta 4 Mercury
1942 Cancer 9.96° 7 Pisces Shatabhisha 2
1943 Cancer 9.73° 8 Cancer Ardra 3
1944 Cancer 10.45° 9 Scorpio Vishakha 4
1945 Cancer 10.22° 1 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4
1946 Cancer 9.99° 11 Leo Magha 1
1947 Cancer 9.76° 3 Sagittarius Mula 2 Mercury Jupiter
1948 Cancer 10.49° 4 Taurus Bharani 3 Mercury Venus Jupiter
1949 Cancer 10.25° 5 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3 Jupiter
1950 Cancer 10.02° 6 Aquarius Shravana 4 Jupiter
1951 Cancer 9.79° 7 Gemini Mrigashira 2
1952 Cancer 10.52° 8 Scorpio Swati 2
1953 Cancer 10.29° 9 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3
1954 Cancer 10.06° 1 Leo Pushya 3 Mercury Mars Saturn
1955 Cancer 9.83° 11 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1 Saturn
1956 Cancer 10.55° 3 Aries Ashwini 1 Venus Saturn
1957 Cancer 10.32° 4 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3 Saturn
1958 Cancer 10.09° 5 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2 Saturn
1959 Cancer 9.86° 6 Taurus Krittika 3 Jupiter Saturn
1960 Cancer 10.58° 7 Libra Hasta 4 Jupiter Saturn
1961 Cancer 10.35° 8 Pisces Shatabhisha 2 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1962 Cancer 10.12° 9 Cancer Punarvasu 1 Jupiter Saturn
1963 Cancer 9.89° 1 Scorpio Vishakha 2 Saturn
1964 Cancer 10.61° 11 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 3 Venus Saturn
1965 Cancer 10.38° 3 Leo Magha 2 Saturn
1966 Cancer 10.15° 4 Capricorn Mula 4
1967 Cancer 9.92° 5 Taurus Bharani 1 Mercury
1968 Cancer 10.65° 6 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3
1969 Cancer 10.42° 7 Aquarius Dhanishta 1 Mars
1970 Cancer 10.19° 8 Gemini Mrigashira 4
1971 Cancer 9.95° 9 Libra Chitra 4 Jupiter
1972 Cancer 10.68° 1 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Venus Jupiter
1973 Cancer 10.45° 11 Leo Pushya 4 Jupiter
1974 Cancer 10.22° 3 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 3 Mercury
1975 Cancer 9.99° 4 Aries Revati 3
1976 Cancer 10.71° 5 Virgo Purva Phalguni 2
1977 Cancer 10.48° 6 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3
1978 Cancer 10.25° 7 Gemini Rohini 2
1979 Cancer 10.02° 8 Libra Hasta 2
1980 Cancer 10.74° 9 Pisces Shatabhisha 2 Mercury Venus
1981 Cancer 10.51° 1 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Mercury
1982 Cancer 10.28° 11 Scorpio Anuradha 1
1983 Cancer 10.05° 3 Pisces Uttara Bhadrapada 1 Jupiter
1984 Cancer 10.77° 4 Leo Magha 1 Jupiter Saturn
1985 Cancer 10.54° 5 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2 Jupiter Saturn
1986 Cancer 10.31° 6 Taurus Bharani 4 Mars Saturn
1987 Cancer 10.08° 7 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Mercury Saturn
1988 Cancer 10.81° 8 Aquarius Dhanishta 1 Venus Saturn
1989 Cancer 10.58° 9 Cancer Ardra 1 Saturn
1990 Cancer 10.35° 1 Scorpio Swati 3 Saturn
1991 Cancer 10.12° 11 Pisces Shatabhisha 3 Saturn
1992 Cancer 10.84° 3 Leo Pushya 4 Saturn
1993 Cancer 10.61° 4 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Mercury Saturn
1994 Cancer 10.38° 5 Aries Ashwini 2 Mercury Saturn
1995 Cancer 10.15° 6 Virgo Magha 2 Jupiter
1996 Cancer 10.87° 7 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3 Jupiter
1997 Cancer 10.64° 8 Gemini Rohini 3 Jupiter
1998 Cancer 10.41° 9 Libra Chitra 1
1999 Cancer 10.18° 1 Aquarius Dhanishta 2
2000 Cancer 10.9° 11 Cancer Punarvasu 3 Mercury
2001 Cancer 10.67° 3 Sagittarius Anuradha 3 Mars
2002 Cancer 10.44° 4 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4
2003 Cancer 10.21° 5 Leo Ashlesha 1
2004 Cancer 10.93° 6 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2
2005 Cancer 10.7° 7 Taurus Krittika 2
2006 Cancer 10.47° 8 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3 Jupiter
2007 Cancer 10.24° 9 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4 Mercury Jupiter
2008 Cancer 10.97° 1 Cancer Ardra 1 Jupiter
2009 Cancer 10.74° 2 Scorpio Vishakha 1 Jupiter
2010 Cancer 10.51° 3 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 1
2011 Cancer 10.28° 4 Cancer Punarvasu 4
2012 Cancer 11° 5 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4
2013 Cancer 10.77° 6 Taurus Ashwini 4 Mercury Saturn
2014 Cancer 10.54° 7 Virgo Magha 4 Saturn
2015 Cancer 10.31° 8 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3 Saturn
2016 Cancer 11.03° 9 Gemini Rohini 4 Saturn
2017 Cancer 10.8° 1 Libra Chitra 4 Saturn
2018 Cancer 10.57° 2 Aquarius Dhanishta 3 Mars Jupiter Saturn
2019 Cancer 10.34° 3 Cancer Ardra 2 Jupiter Saturn
2020 Cancer 11.06° 4 Sagittarius Anuradha 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
2021 Cancer 10.83° 5 Aries Revati 3 Jupiter Saturn
2022 Cancer 10.6° 6 Leo Ashlesha 3 Saturn
2023 Cancer 10.37° 7 Sagittarius Mula 1 Saturn
2024 Cancer 11.09° 8 Taurus Krittika 3 Saturn
2025 Cancer 10.86° 9 Libra Hasta 1
2026 Cancer 10.63° 1 Aquarius Shravana 2 Mercury
2027 Cancer 10.4° 2 Gemini Rohini 4 Mercury
2028 Cancer 11.13° 3 Scorpio Vishakha 2
2029 Cancer 10.9° 4 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4

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 2 July

Day of the year 184 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 20 of 100 years (20%)
Most recent of those 2000, 2007, 2013, 2020, 2026, 2027
Full moon fell on this date in 7 years — 1966, 1985, 2004, 2015, 2023
Most frequent moon phase Waxing Crescent · 19 years

Every figure here is specific to 2 July: 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

2006 Cancer life path 8
2007 Cancer life path 9
2008 Cancer life path 1
2009 Cancer life path 2
2010 Cancer life path 3
2011 Cancer life path 4
2012 Cancer life path 5
2013 Cancer life path 6
2014 Cancer life path 7
2015 Cancer life path 8
2016 Cancer life path 9
2017 Cancer life path 1
2018 Cancer life path 2
2019 Cancer life path 3
2020 Cancer life path 4
2021 Cancer life path 5
2022 Cancer life path 6
2023 Cancer life path 7
2024 Cancer life path 8
2025 Cancer life path 9
2026 Cancer life path 1
2027 Cancer life path 2
2028 Cancer life path 3
2029 Cancer life path 4

The sign column never changes; only the number does.

Life path numbers this date produces

The most frequent is 4 with 12 years; the scarcest is 2 with just 3. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 8 of those years. Master numbers are never reduced further, which is exactly why they are scarcer than single digits on any fixed day and month. Why 11, 22 and 33 are treated differently →

Why the answer holds

2 July sits 11 days past the start of Cancer and reached 10.63° 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.