Settled date · day 13 of 32 in the sign

3 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 11.59° of Cancer
Day within the sign 13 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 11.59°

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 3 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 10.82° 5 Libra Hasta 4 Saturn
1931 Cancer 10.59° 6 Aquarius Dhanishta 2 Saturn
1932 Cancer 11.31° 7 Cancer Ardra 3 Venus Saturn
1933 Cancer 11.08° 8 Scorpio Vishakha 1 Saturn
1934 Cancer 10.85° 9 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4 Mercury Saturn
1935 Cancer 10.62° 1 Leo Ashlesha 1 Jupiter Saturn
1936 Cancer 11.34° 11 Sagittarius Mula 2 Jupiter
1937 Cancer 11.11° 3 Taurus Bharani 1 Jupiter
1938 Cancer 10.88° 4 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3 Jupiter
1939 Cancer 10.65° 5 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4 Mars
1940 Cancer 11.37° 6 Gemini Mrigashira 1 Venus
1941 Cancer 11.14° 7 Libra Chitra 4 Mercury
1942 Cancer 10.91° 8 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2
1943 Cancer 10.68° 9 Cancer Punarvasu 3
1944 Cancer 11.41° 1 Sagittarius Anuradha 4
1945 Cancer 11.18° 11 Aries Revati 4
1946 Cancer 10.95° 3 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1
1947 Cancer 10.72° 4 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2 Mercury Jupiter
1948 Cancer 11.44° 5 Taurus Krittika 3 Mercury Venus Jupiter
1949 Cancer 11.21° 6 Libra Hasta 4 Jupiter
1950 Cancer 10.98° 7 Aquarius Dhanishta 4 Jupiter
1951 Cancer 10.75° 8 Cancer Ardra 1
1952 Cancer 11.47° 9 Scorpio Vishakha 2
1953 Cancer 11.24° 1 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 3
1954 Cancer 11.01° 11 Leo Ashlesha 3 Mercury Mars Saturn
1955 Cancer 10.78° 3 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Saturn
1956 Cancer 11.5° 4 Taurus Bharani 1 Venus Saturn
1957 Cancer 11.27° 5 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3 Saturn
1958 Cancer 11.04° 6 Aquarius Shravana 2 Saturn
1959 Cancer 10.81° 7 Gemini Rohini 3 Jupiter Saturn
1960 Cancer 11.53° 8 Libra Chitra 4 Jupiter Saturn
1961 Cancer 11.3° 9 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1962 Cancer 11.07° 1 Cancer Pushya 1 Jupiter Saturn
1963 Cancer 10.84° 11 Sagittarius Anuradha 2 Saturn
1964 Cancer 11.57° 3 Aries Revati 3 Venus Saturn
1965 Cancer 11.34° 4 Virgo Purva Phalguni 2 Saturn
1966 Cancer 11.11° 5 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 4
1967 Cancer 10.88° 6 Taurus Krittika 1 Mercury
1968 Cancer 11.6° 7 Libra Hasta 3
1969 Cancer 11.37° 8 Pisces Shatabhisha 1 Mars
1970 Cancer 11.14° 9 Cancer Ardra 3
1971 Cancer 10.91° 1 Scorpio Swati 4 Jupiter
1972 Cancer 11.63° 11 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2 Venus Jupiter
1973 Cancer 11.4° 3 Leo Ashlesha 4 Jupiter
1974 Cancer 11.17° 4 Sagittarius Mula 2 Mercury
1975 Cancer 10.94° 5 Taurus Ashwini 3
1976 Cancer 11.66° 6 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 2
1977 Cancer 11.43° 7 Aquarius Shravana 4
1978 Cancer 11.2° 8 Gemini Mrigashira 1
1979 Cancer 10.97° 9 Libra Chitra 2
1980 Cancer 11.7° 1 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Mercury Venus
1981 Cancer 11.47° 11 Leo Pushya 3 Mercury
1982 Cancer 11.23° 3 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1
1983 Cancer 11° 4 Aries Revati 1 Jupiter
1984 Cancer 11.73° 5 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1 Jupiter Saturn
1985 Cancer 11.5° 6 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2 Jupiter Saturn
1986 Cancer 11.27° 7 Gemini Krittika 4 Mars Saturn
1987 Cancer 11.04° 8 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Mercury Saturn
1988 Cancer 11.76° 9 Pisces Shatabhisha 1 Venus Saturn
1989 Cancer 11.53° 1 Cancer Punarvasu 1 Saturn
1990 Cancer 11.3° 11 Scorpio Vishakha 3 Saturn
1991 Cancer 11.07° 3 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3 Saturn
1992 Cancer 11.79° 4 Leo Ashlesha 4 Saturn
1993 Cancer 11.56° 5 Capricorn Mula 4 Mercury Saturn
1994 Cancer 11.33° 6 Taurus Bharani 2 Mercury Saturn
1995 Cancer 11.1° 7 Virgo Purva Phalguni 2 Jupiter
1996 Cancer 11.82° 8 Aquarius Shravana 4 Jupiter
1997 Cancer 11.59° 9 Gemini Mrigashira 3 Jupiter
1998 Cancer 11.36° 1 Scorpio Chitra 4
1999 Cancer 11.13° 11 Pisces Shatabhisha 2
2000 Cancer 11.86° 3 Leo Pushya 3 Mercury
2001 Cancer 11.63° 4 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 3 Mars
2002 Cancer 11.4° 5 Aries Revati 3
2003 Cancer 11.16° 6 Leo Magha 1
2004 Cancer 11.89° 7 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2
2005 Cancer 11.66° 8 Gemini Rohini 2
2006 Cancer 11.43° 9 Libra Hasta 2 Jupiter
2007 Cancer 11.2° 1 Aquarius Shravana 4 Mercury Jupiter
2008 Cancer 11.92° 11 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Jupiter
2009 Cancer 11.69° 3 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Jupiter
2010 Cancer 11.46° 4 Pisces Uttara Bhadrapada 1
2011 Cancer 11.23° 5 Leo Pushya 4
2012 Cancer 11.95° 6 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1
2013 Cancer 11.72° 7 Taurus Bharani 4 Mercury Saturn
2014 Cancer 11.49° 8 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Saturn
2015 Cancer 11.26° 9 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3 Saturn
2016 Cancer 11.98° 1 Gemini Mrigashira 4 Saturn
2017 Cancer 11.75° 11 Scorpio Swati 3 Saturn
2018 Cancer 11.52° 3 Pisces Shatabhisha 3 Mars Jupiter Saturn
2019 Cancer 11.29° 4 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Jupiter Saturn
2020 Cancer 12.02° 5 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
2021 Cancer 11.79° 6 Aries Ashwini 2 Jupiter Saturn
2022 Cancer 11.56° 7 Leo Magha 2 Saturn
2023 Cancer 11.33° 8 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2 Saturn
2024 Cancer 12.05° 9 Gemini Rohini 3 Saturn
2025 Cancer 11.82° 1 Libra Chitra 1
2026 Cancer 11.59° 11 Aquarius Dhanishta 1 Mercury
2027 Cancer 11.36° 3 Cancer Ardra 1 Mercury
2028 Cancer 12.08° 4 Sagittarius Anuradha 2
2029 Cancer 11.85° 5 Aries Uttara 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 3 July

Day of the year 185 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 19 of 100 years (19%)
Most recent of those 2000, 2007, 2013, 2020, 2026, 2027
Full moon fell on this date in 7 years — 1966, 1985, 2004, 2012, 2023
Most frequent moon phase Waxing Gibbous · 19 years

Every figure here is specific to 3 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 9
2007 Cancer life path 1
2008 Cancer life path 11
2009 Cancer life path 3
2010 Cancer life path 4
2011 Cancer life path 5
2012 Cancer life path 6
2013 Cancer life path 7
2014 Cancer life path 8
2015 Cancer life path 9
2016 Cancer life path 1
2017 Cancer life path 11
2018 Cancer life path 3
2019 Cancer life path 4
2020 Cancer life path 5
2021 Cancer life path 6
2022 Cancer life path 7
2023 Cancer life path 8
2024 Cancer life path 9
2025 Cancer life path 1
2026 Cancer life path 11
2027 Cancer life path 3
2028 Cancer life path 4
2029 Cancer life path 5

The sign column never changes; only the number does.

Life path numbers this date produces

The most frequent is 5 with 12 years; the scarcest is 4 with just 11. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 11 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

3 July sits 12 days past the start of Cancer and reached 11.59° 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.