Settled date · day 17 of 32 in the sign

7 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 15.4° of Cancer
Day within the sign 17 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 15.4°

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 7 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 14.63° 9 Sagittarius Anuradha 4 Saturn
1931 Cancer 14.4° 1 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4 Saturn
1932 Cancer 15.12° 2 Leo Magha 2 Venus Saturn
1933 Cancer 14.89° 3 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3 Saturn
1934 Cancer 14.66° 22 Taurus Krittika 3 Mercury Saturn
1935 Cancer 14.43° 5 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3 Jupiter Saturn
1936 Cancer 15.16° 6 Aquarius Dhanishta 2 Jupiter Saturn
1937 Cancer 14.93° 7 Cancer Ardra 2 Jupiter
1938 Cancer 14.7° 8 Scorpio Vishakha 2 Jupiter
1939 Cancer 14.46° 9 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Mars
1940 Cancer 15.19° 1 Leo Ashlesha 1 Venus
1941 Cancer 14.96° 2 Sagittarius Mula 2 Mercury
1942 Cancer 14.73° 3 Taurus Bharani 1
1943 Cancer 14.5° 22 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1
1944 Cancer 15.22° 5 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4
1945 Cancer 14.99° 6 Gemini Mrigashira 1
1946 Cancer 14.76° 7 Libra Chitra 4
1947 Cancer 14.53° 8 Aquarius Dhanishta 4 Mercury Jupiter
1948 Cancer 15.25° 9 Cancer Punarvasu 4 Venus Jupiter
1949 Cancer 15.02° 1 Sagittarius Anuradha 4 Jupiter
1950 Cancer 14.79° 2 Aries Revati 3 Jupiter
1951 Cancer 14.56° 3 Leo Ashlesha 3
1952 Cancer 15.28° 22 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3
1953 Cancer 15.05° 5 Gemini Krittika 4
1954 Cancer 14.82° 6 Libra Hasta 2 Mercury Mars
1955 Cancer 14.59° 7 Aquarius Shravana 3 Saturn
1956 Cancer 15.32° 8 Cancer Ardra 2 Venus Saturn
1957 Cancer 15.09° 9 Scorpio Vishakha 3 Saturn
1958 Cancer 14.86° 1 Pisces Uttara Bhadrapada 1 Saturn
1959 Cancer 14.63° 2 Leo Pushya 2 Jupiter Saturn
1960 Cancer 15.35° 3 Sagittarius Mula 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1961 Cancer 15.12° 22 Taurus Bharani 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1962 Cancer 14.89° 5 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Jupiter Saturn
1963 Cancer 14.66° 6 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 1 Saturn
1964 Cancer 15.38° 7 Gemini Mrigashira 1 Venus Saturn
1965 Cancer 15.15° 8 Scorpio Swati 2 Saturn
1966 Cancer 14.92° 9 Pisces Shatabhisha 3
1967 Cancer 14.69° 1 Cancer Ardra 4 Mercury
1968 Cancer 15.41° 2 Sagittarius Anuradha 4
1969 Cancer 15.18° 3 Aries Ashwini 1 Mars
1970 Cancer 14.95° 22 Leo Magha 2
1971 Cancer 14.72° 5 Capricorn Mula 3 Jupiter
1972 Cancer 15.44° 6 Gemini Krittika 4 Venus Jupiter
1973 Cancer 15.21° 7 Libra Chitra 1 Mercury Jupiter
1974 Cancer 14.98° 8 Aquarius Dhanishta 1 Mercury
1975 Cancer 14.75° 9 Gemini Mrigashira 2
1976 Cancer 15.48° 1 Scorpio Vishakha 3
1977 Cancer 15.25° 2 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4
1978 Cancer 15.02° 3 Leo Pushya 4
1979 Cancer 14.79° 22 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1
1980 Cancer 15.51° 5 Taurus Bharani 3 Mercury
1981 Cancer 15.28° 6 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3
1982 Cancer 15.05° 7 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3
1983 Cancer 14.82° 8 Gemini Krittika 4 Jupiter
1984 Cancer 15.54° 9 Scorpio Swati 2 Jupiter Saturn
1985 Cancer 15.31° 1 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Jupiter Saturn
1986 Cancer 15.08° 2 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Mars Saturn
1987 Cancer 14.85° 3 Scorpio Vishakha 4 Mercury Saturn
1988 Cancer 15.57° 22 Aries Ashwini 2 Saturn
1989 Cancer 15.34° 5 Virgo Magha 4 Saturn
1990 Cancer 15.11° 6 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1 Saturn
1991 Cancer 14.88° 7 Taurus Bharani 3 Saturn
1992 Cancer 15.61° 8 Libra Chitra 2 Saturn
1993 Cancer 15.37° 9 Aquarius Dhanishta 3 Mercury Saturn
1994 Cancer 15.14° 1 Gemini Mrigashira 4 Saturn
1995 Cancer 14.91° 2 Scorpio Swati 2 Jupiter Saturn
1996 Cancer 15.64° 3 Aries Revati 1 Jupiter
1997 Cancer 15.41° 22 Leo Ashlesha 2 Jupiter
1998 Cancer 15.18° 5 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 3
1999 Cancer 14.95° 6 Aries Ashwini 2
2000 Cancer 15.67° 7 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Mercury
2001 Cancer 15.44° 8 Aquarius Shravana 1 Mars
2002 Cancer 15.21° 9 Gemini Rohini 2
2003 Cancer 14.98° 1 Libra Chitra 1
2004 Cancer 15.7° 2 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4
2005 Cancer 15.47° 3 Cancer Punarvasu 4
2006 Cancer 15.24° 22 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Mercury
2007 Cancer 15.01° 5 Aries Revati 1 Mercury Jupiter
2008 Cancer 15.73° 6 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3 Jupiter
2009 Cancer 15.5° 7 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3 Jupiter
2010 Cancer 15.27° 8 Taurus Bharani 4
2011 Cancer 15.04° 9 Libra Hasta 1
2012 Cancer 15.77° 1 Pisces Shatabhisha 2
2013 Cancer 15.54° 2 Cancer Ardra 2 Mercury Saturn
2014 Cancer 15.31° 3 Scorpio Swati 3 Saturn
2015 Cancer 15.07° 22 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4 Saturn
2016 Cancer 15.8° 5 Leo Magha 1 Saturn
2017 Cancer 15.57° 6 Sagittarius Mula 1 Saturn
2018 Cancer 15.34° 7 Aries Ashwini 2 Mars Jupiter Saturn
2019 Cancer 15.11° 8 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Jupiter Saturn
2020 Cancer 15.83° 9 Aquarius Shravana 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
2021 Cancer 15.6° 1 Gemini Rohini 4 Jupiter Saturn
2022 Cancer 15.37° 2 Libra Chitra 1 Saturn
2023 Cancer 15.14° 3 Pisces Shatabhisha 4 Saturn
2024 Cancer 15.86° 22 Leo Pushya 3 Saturn
2025 Cancer 15.63° 5 Sagittarius Anuradha 3
2026 Cancer 15.4° 6 Aries Revati 1 Mercury
2027 Cancer 15.17° 7 Virgo Magha 3
2028 Cancer 15.89° 8 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2
2029 Cancer 15.66° 9 Taurus Krittika 2

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 7 July

Day of the year 189 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 18 of 100 years (18%)
Most recent of those 2000, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2020, 2026
Full moon fell on this date in 7 years — 1963, 1971, 1990, 2009, 2028
Most frequent moon phase Waning Crescent · 19 years

Every figure here is specific to 7 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 22
2007 Cancer life path 5
2008 Cancer life path 6
2009 Cancer life path 7
2010 Cancer life path 8
2011 Cancer life path 9
2012 Cancer life path 1
2013 Cancer life path 2
2014 Cancer life path 3
2015 Cancer life path 22
2016 Cancer life path 5
2017 Cancer life path 6
2018 Cancer life path 7
2019 Cancer life path 8
2020 Cancer life path 9
2021 Cancer life path 1
2022 Cancer life path 2
2023 Cancer life path 3
2024 Cancer life path 22
2025 Cancer life path 5
2026 Cancer life path 6
2027 Cancer life path 7
2028 Cancer life path 8
2029 Cancer life path 9

The sign column never changes; only the number does.

Life path numbers this date produces

The most frequent is 9 with 12 years; the scarcest is 8 with just 11. And this date can carry a master number: 22 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

7 July sits 16 days past the start of Cancer and reached 15.4° 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.