Boundary date · 39 switches since 1930

21 June — Gemini or Cancer?

This date sits on a sign boundary, so the honest answer needs your birth year. Across 1930–2029 it came out Gemini in 62% of years and Cancer in 38%.

Which sign, by birth year

2014 · sign changed at 10:49 UTC on this day

Born before 10:49 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2015 · sign changed at 16:37 UTC on this day

Born before 16:37 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2016

Cancer all day — the crossing fell on a different date that year.

2017 · sign changed at 04:12 UTC on this day

Born before 04:12 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2018 · sign changed at 10:00 UTC on this day

Born before 10:00 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2019 · sign changed at 15:48 UTC on this day

Born before 15:48 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2020

Cancer all day — the crossing fell on a different date that year.

2021 · sign changed at 03:24 UTC on this day

Born before 03:24 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2022 · sign changed at 09:12 UTC on this day

Born before 09:12 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2023 · sign changed at 15:00 UTC on this day

Born before 15:00 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2024

Cancer all day — the crossing fell on a different date that year.

2025 · sign changed at 02:36 UTC on this day

Born before 02:36 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2026 · sign changed at 08:24 UTC on this day

Born before 08:24 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2027 · sign changed at 14:11 UTC on this day

Born before 14:11 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2028

Cancer all day — the crossing fell on a different date that year.

2029 · sign changed at 01:47 UTC on this day

Born before 01:47 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2030 · sign changed at 07:35 UTC on this day

Born before 07:35 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2031 · sign changed at 13:23 UTC on this day

Born before 13:23 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2032

Cancer all day — the crossing fell on a different date that year.

2033 · sign changed at 00:59 UTC on this day

Born before 00:59 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

2034 · sign changed at 06:47 UTC on this day

Born before 06:47 → Gemini. Born after → Cancer. This is the one case where your birth hour decides your sign.

This is why two sites give you two different signs for 21 June. Neither is lying — they are both publishing a fixed range, and a fixed range cannot be right for every year. The 39 switch years since 1930 are the proof.

Venus-ruled decan of Gemini

Decan 1 of 3 · 0°–10°
Sub-ruler Venus
Sign ruler Mercury
Sun on this date 0.14°

Venus softens the sign toward attachment and taste; the same drives, aimed at being liked. Sitting in the first ten degrees, the sign shows in its rawest form — least mixed with the sign before it, and least worn down.

Look up your birth year

Every year, computed

All 100 years for 21 June. 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 Gemini 29.37° 4 Aries Ashwini 1 Saturn
1931 Gemini 29.14° 5 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1 Saturn
1932 Gemini 29.87° 6 Aquarius Shravana 2 Venus Saturn
1933 Gemini 29.64° 7 Gemini Rohini 3 Saturn
1934 Gemini 29.41° 8 Libra Hasta 4 Saturn
1935 Gemini 29.18° 9 Pisces Shatabhisha 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1936 Gemini 29.9° 1 Cancer Pushya 1 Jupiter
1937 Gemini 29.67° 11 Sagittarius Anuradha 2 Mars Jupiter
1938 Gemini 29.44° 3 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 3
1939 Gemini 29.21° 4 Leo Magha 1
1940 Gemini 29.93° 5 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 4 Venus
1941 Gemini 29.7° 6 Taurus Krittika 1 Mercury
1942 Gemini 29.47° 7 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 2 Mercury
1943 Gemini 29.24° 8 Aquarius Shravana 4
1944 Gemini 29.96° 9 Cancer Ardra 3
1945 Gemini 29.73° 1 Scorpio Swati 4
1946 Gemini 29.5° 11 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 1
1947 Gemini 29.27° 3 Leo Pushya 3 Jupiter
1948 Gemini 29.99° 4 Sagittarius Mula 2 Mercury Venus Jupiter
1949 Gemini 29.76° 5 Taurus Ashwini 3 Jupiter
1950 Gemini 29.53° 6 Virgo Purva Phalguni 1
1951 Gemini 29.3° 7 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3
1952 Cancer 0.03° 8 Gemini Mrigashira 2
1953 Gemini 29.8° 9 Libra Chitra 2 Saturn
1954 Gemini 29.57° 1 Aquarius Dhanishta 4 Mars Saturn
1955 Gemini 29.34° 11 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Mercury Saturn
1956 Cancer 0.06° 3 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 1 Venus Saturn
1957 Gemini 29.83° 4 Aries Revati 1 Saturn
1958 Gemini 29.6° 5 Leo Ashlesha 4 Saturn
1959 Gemini 29.37° 6 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1 Jupiter Saturn
1960 Cancer 0.09° 7 Gemini Krittika 4 Jupiter Saturn
1961 Gemini 29.86° 8 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1962 Gemini 29.63° 9 Aquarius Shravana 4 Saturn
1963 Gemini 29.4° 1 Gemini Mrigashira 4 Saturn
1964 Cancer 0.12° 11 Scorpio Vishakha 3 Venus Saturn
1965 Gemini 29.89° 3 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3
1966 Gemini 29.66° 4 Leo Pushya 3
1967 Gemini 29.43° 5 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4
1968 Cancer 0.16° 6 Taurus Bharani 2 Mercury
1969 Gemini 29.92° 7 Virgo Purva Phalguni 2 Mars
1970 Gemini 29.69° 8 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3 Jupiter
1971 Gemini 29.46° 9 Gemini Rohini 3 Jupiter
1972 Cancer 0.19° 1 Scorpio Swati 1 Venus Jupiter
1973 Gemini 29.96° 11 Pisces Shatabhisha 1 Jupiter
1974 Gemini 29.73° 3 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Mercury
1975 Gemini 29.5° 4 Sagittarius Anuradha 2 Mercury
1976 Cancer 0.22° 5 Aries Revati 4
1977 Gemini 29.99° 6 Leo Ashlesha 4
1978 Gemini 29.76° 7 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1
1979 Gemini 29.53° 8 Taurus Krittika 2
1980 Cancer 0.25° 9 Libra Hasta 3 Venus
1981 Cancer 0.02° 1 Aquarius Shravana 4 Mercury
1982 Gemini 29.79° 11 Gemini Mrigashira 4 Jupiter
1983 Gemini 29.56° 3 Scorpio Vishakha 1 Jupiter Saturn
1984 Cancer 0.28° 4 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2 Jupiter Saturn
1985 Cancer 0.05° 5 Leo Pushya 3 Jupiter Saturn
1986 Gemini 29.82° 6 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Mars Saturn
1987 Gemini 29.59° 7 Taurus Ashwini 4 Mercury Saturn
1988 Cancer 0.32° 8 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Mercury Venus Saturn
1989 Cancer 0.09° 9 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3 Saturn
1990 Gemini 29.85° 1 Gemini Rohini 3 Saturn
1991 Gemini 29.62° 11 Libra Chitra 4 Saturn
1992 Cancer 0.35° 3 Pisces Shatabhisha 3 Saturn
1993 Cancer 0.12° 4 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Saturn
1994 Gemini 29.89° 5 Sagittarius Anuradha 2 Mercury Jupiter
1995 Gemini 29.66° 6 Aries Revati 3 Jupiter
1996 Cancer 0.38° 7 Leo Magha 2 Venus Jupiter
1997 Cancer 0.15° 8 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1 Jupiter
1998 Gemini 29.92° 9 Taurus Krittika 2
1999 Gemini 29.69° 1 Libra Hasta 2
2000 Cancer 0.41° 11 Aquarius Dhanishta 1
2001 Cancer 0.18° 3 Cancer Mrigashira 4 Mercury Mars
2002 Gemini 29.95° 4 Scorpio Vishakha 1
2003 Gemini 29.72° 5 Pisces Uttara Bhadrapada 1
2004 Cancer 0.44° 6 Leo Pushya 4 Venus
2005 Cancer 0.21° 7 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4
2006 Gemini 29.98° 8 Taurus Bharani 1 Jupiter
2007 Gemini 29.75° 9 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Mercury Jupiter
2008 Cancer 0.48° 1 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4 Jupiter
2009 Cancer 0.25° 2 Gemini Rohini 3 Jupiter
2010 Cancer 0.01° 3 Libra Chitra 4
2011 Gemini 29.78° 4 Pisces Shatabhisha 3
2012 Cancer 0.51° 5 Cancer Punarvasu 3 Venus Saturn
2013 Cancer 0.28° 6 Sagittarius Anuradha 2 Saturn
2014 Cancer 0.05° 7 Aries Revati 4 Mercury Saturn
2015 Gemini 29.82° 8 Leo Magha 2 Saturn
2016 Cancer 0.54° 9 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2 Mars Saturn
2017 Cancer 0.31° 1 Taurus Krittika 1 Saturn
2018 Cancer 0.08° 2 Libra Hasta 3 Jupiter Saturn
2019 Gemini 29.85° 3 Aquarius Shravana 4 Jupiter Saturn
2020 Cancer 0.57° 4 Cancer Ardra 1 Mercury Venus Jupiter Saturn
2021 Cancer 0.34° 5 Scorpio Vishakha 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
2022 Cancer 0.11° 6 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 3 Saturn
2023 Gemini 29.88° 7 Leo Pushya 3 Saturn
2024 Cancer 0.6° 8 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4
2025 Cancer 0.37° 9 Taurus Ashwini 4
2026 Cancer 0.14° 1 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 2
2027 Gemini 29.91° 2 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2 Mercury
2028 Cancer 0.64° 3 Gemini Rohini 4 Venus
2029 Cancer 0.41° 4 Libra Chitra 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 21 June

Day of the year 173 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 19 of 100 years (19%)
Most recent of those 2001, 2007, 2014, 2020, 2021, 2027
Full moon fell on this date in 7 years — 1978, 1986, 1997, 2005, 2024
Most frequent moon phase Waning Crescent · 20 years

Every figure here is specific to 21 June: 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 Gemini life path 8
2007 Gemini life path 9
2008 Cancer life path 1
2009 Cancer life path 2
2010 Cancer life path 3
2011 Gemini life path 4
2012 Cancer life path 5
2013 Cancer life path 6
2014 Cancer life path 7
2015 Gemini life path 8
2016 Cancer life path 9
2017 Cancer life path 1
2018 Cancer life path 2
2019 Gemini life path 3
2020 Cancer life path 4
2021 Cancer life path 5
2022 Cancer life path 6
2023 Gemini life path 7
2024 Cancer life path 8
2025 Cancer life path 9
2026 Cancer life path 1
2027 Gemini life path 2
2028 Cancer life path 3
2029 Cancer life path 4

Notice the sign column changing — that is the boundary at work.

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 moves

There is no third sign and no blend — at your moment of birth the Sun was one side of the boundary or the other. For 21 June that came out Gemini in 62% of years and Cancer in 38%, switching 39 times since 1930. Most recently in 2024, 2027, 2028.