Settled date · day 19 of 32 in the sign

9 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 17.31° of Cancer
Day within the sign 19 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 17.31°

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 9 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 16.54° 2 Capricorn Mula 3 Saturn
1931 Cancer 16.31° 3 Taurus Ashwini 3 Saturn
1932 Cancer 17.03° 22 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 2 Venus Saturn
1933 Cancer 16.8° 5 Aquarius Shravana 4 Saturn
1934 Cancer 16.57° 6 Gemini Mrigashira 2 Mercury Saturn
1935 Cancer 16.34° 7 Libra Chitra 2 Jupiter Saturn
1936 Cancer 17.06° 8 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2 Jupiter Saturn
1937 Cancer 16.83° 9 Leo Pushya 3 Jupiter
1938 Cancer 16.6° 1 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1 Jupiter
1939 Cancer 16.37° 11 Aries Revati 1 Mars
1940 Cancer 17.1° 3 Virgo Purva Phalguni 2 Mercury Venus
1941 Cancer 16.86° 22 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2 Mercury
1942 Cancer 16.63° 5 Gemini Krittika 4
1943 Cancer 16.4° 6 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4
1944 Cancer 17.13° 7 Pisces Shatabhisha 1
1945 Cancer 16.9° 8 Cancer Punarvasu 1
1946 Cancer 16.67° 9 Scorpio Vishakha 3
1947 Cancer 16.44° 1 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4 Mercury Jupiter
1948 Cancer 17.16° 11 Leo Magha 1 Venus Jupiter
1949 Cancer 16.93° 3 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1 Jupiter
1950 Cancer 16.7° 22 Taurus Bharani 2 Jupiter
1951 Cancer 16.47° 5 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3
1952 Cancer 17.19° 6 Aquarius Shravana 4
1953 Cancer 16.96° 7 Gemini Mrigashira 4
1954 Cancer 16.73° 8 Scorpio Swati 1 Mercury Mars
1955 Cancer 16.5° 9 Pisces Shatabhisha 2 Saturn
1956 Cancer 17.22° 1 Leo Pushya 3 Venus Saturn
1957 Cancer 16.99° 11 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 3 Saturn
1958 Cancer 16.76° 3 Aries Revati 4 Saturn
1959 Cancer 16.53° 22 Leo Magha 2 Jupiter Saturn
1960 Cancer 17.26° 5 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1961 Cancer 17.03° 6 Gemini Rohini 2 Jupiter Saturn
1962 Cancer 16.79° 7 Libra Hasta 3 Jupiter Saturn
1963 Cancer 16.56° 8 Aquarius Dhanishta 1 Saturn
1964 Cancer 17.29° 9 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Venus Saturn
1965 Cancer 17.06° 1 Sagittarius Anuradha 2 Saturn
1966 Cancer 16.83° 11 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2
1967 Cancer 16.6° 3 Leo Pushya 4 Mercury
1968 Cancer 17.32° 22 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1
1969 Cancer 17.09° 5 Taurus Krittika 1
1970 Cancer 16.86° 6 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 1
1971 Cancer 16.63° 7 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4 Jupiter
1972 Cancer 17.35° 8 Gemini Mrigashira 4 Jupiter
1973 Cancer 17.12° 9 Scorpio Swati 4 Mercury Jupiter
1974 Cancer 16.89° 1 Pisces Shatabhisha 4 Mercury Jupiter
1975 Cancer 16.66° 11 Cancer Punarvasu 3
1976 Cancer 17.38° 3 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4
1977 Cancer 17.15° 22 Taurus Ashwini 3
1978 Cancer 16.92° 5 Virgo Magha 3
1979 Cancer 16.69° 6 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2
1980 Cancer 17.42° 7 Gemini Rohini 3 Mercury
1981 Cancer 17.19° 8 Libra Chitra 2
1982 Cancer 16.96° 9 Aquarius Dhanishta 2
1983 Cancer 16.72° 1 Cancer Ardra 1 Jupiter
1984 Cancer 17.45° 11 Sagittarius Anuradha 3 Jupiter Saturn
1985 Cancer 17.22° 3 Aries Revati 1 Jupiter Saturn
1986 Cancer 16.99° 22 Leo Ashlesha 1 Mars Saturn
1987 Cancer 16.76° 5 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Mercury Saturn
1988 Cancer 17.48° 6 Taurus Krittika 2 Saturn
1989 Cancer 17.25° 7 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Saturn
1990 Cancer 17.02° 8 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4 Saturn
1991 Cancer 16.79° 9 Gemini Rohini 4 Saturn
1992 Cancer 17.51° 1 Scorpio Vishakha 2 Saturn
1993 Cancer 17.28° 11 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3 Mercury Saturn
1994 Cancer 17.05° 3 Cancer Punarvasu 4 Saturn
1995 Cancer 16.82° 22 Sagittarius Anuradha 3 Jupiter Saturn
1996 Cancer 17.54° 5 Taurus Bharani 1 Jupiter
1997 Cancer 17.31° 6 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1 Jupiter
1998 Cancer 17.08° 7 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3
1999 Cancer 16.85° 8 Taurus Krittika 2
2000 Cancer 17.58° 9 Libra Chitra 4 Mercury
2001 Cancer 17.35° 1 Aquarius Dhanishta 4 Mars
2002 Cancer 17.12° 2 Cancer Ardra 2
2003 Cancer 16.89° 3 Scorpio Vishakha 2
2004 Cancer 17.61° 22 Aries Revati 3
2005 Cancer 17.38° 5 Leo Ashlesha 3
2006 Cancer 17.15° 6 Sagittarius Mula 1 Mercury
2007 Cancer 16.92° 7 Taurus Bharani 2 Mercury Jupiter
2008 Cancer 17.64° 8 Libra Hasta 2 Jupiter
2009 Cancer 17.41° 9 Aquarius Shravana 2 Jupiter
2010 Cancer 17.18° 1 Gemini Rohini 4
2011 Cancer 16.95° 2 Scorpio Swati 1
2012 Cancer 17.67° 3 Pisces Uttara Bhadrapada 1
2013 Cancer 17.44° 22 Leo Pushya 1 Mercury
2014 Cancer 17.21° 5 Sagittarius Anuradha 3 Saturn
2015 Cancer 16.98° 6 Aries Ashwini 1 Saturn
2016 Cancer 17.7° 7 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Saturn
2017 Cancer 17.47° 8 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 1 Saturn
2018 Cancer 17.24° 9 Taurus Krittika 2 Mars Jupiter Saturn
2019 Cancer 17.01° 1 Libra Chitra 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
2020 Cancer 17.74° 2 Pisces Shatabhisha 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
2021 Cancer 17.51° 3 Cancer Ardra 4 Jupiter Saturn
2022 Cancer 17.28° 22 Scorpio Vishakha 2 Saturn
2023 Cancer 17.05° 5 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4 Saturn
2024 Cancer 17.77° 6 Leo Magha 2 Saturn
2025 Cancer 17.54° 7 Capricorn Mula 3
2026 Cancer 17.31° 8 Taurus Bharani 1 Mercury
2027 Cancer 17.08° 9 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4
2028 Cancer 17.8° 1 Aquarius Dhanishta 1
2029 Cancer 17.57° 2 Gemini Mrigashira 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 9 July

Day of the year 191 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 19 of 100 years (19%)
Most recent of those 2006, 2007, 2013, 2019, 2020, 2026
Full moon fell on this date in 5 years — 1941, 1960, 1979, 1998, 2017
Most frequent moon phase Waxing Gibbous · 20 years

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

The sign column never changes; only the number does.

Life path numbers this date produces

The most frequent is 3 with 11 years; the scarcest is 2 with just 5. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 7 of those years, 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

9 July sits 18 days past the start of Cancer and reached 17.31° 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.