Settled date · day 13 of 31 in the sign

2 May — Taurus

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

Where in Taurus this falls

Sun's degree on this date 12.11° of Taurus
Day within the sign 13 of 31
Same sign in 100 of 100 years — settled

Moon-ruled decan of Taurus

Decan 2 of 3 · 10°–20°
Sub-ruler Moon
Sign ruler Venus
Sun on this date 12.11°

Moon pulls the sign inward, toward memory and mood, and makes it react before it decides. 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 May. 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 Taurus 11.35° 11 Gemini Mrigashira 4 Saturn
1931 Taurus 11.12° 3 Scorpio Vishakha 1 Mercury
1932 Taurus 11.85° 4 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 4
1933 Taurus 11.62° 5 Leo Pushya 4 Jupiter
1934 Taurus 11.38° 6 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Jupiter
1935 Taurus 11.15° 7 Taurus Ashwini 4 Mars Jupiter
1936 Taurus 11.88° 8 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 3 Jupiter
1937 Taurus 11.65° 9 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3 Mercury Venus Mars
1938 Taurus 11.41° 1 Gemini Rohini 3 Mercury
1939 Taurus 11.18° 11 Libra Chitra 4
1940 Taurus 11.91° 3 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 2
1941 Taurus 11.68° 4 Cancer Punarvasu 2
1942 Taurus 11.45° 5 Sagittarius Anuradha 3
1943 Taurus 11.21° 6 Aries Revati 3
1944 Taurus 11.95° 7 Virgo Magha 4 Mercury
1945 Taurus 11.71° 8 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1 Venus Jupiter
1946 Taurus 11.48° 9 Taurus Krittika 2 Jupiter
1947 Taurus 11.24° 1 Libra Hasta 2 Jupiter
1948 Taurus 11.98° 11 Aquarius Dhanishta 3 Jupiter
1949 Taurus 11.74° 3 Gemini Mrigashira 4
1950 Taurus 11.51° 4 Scorpio Vishakha 1 Mars Saturn
1951 Taurus 11.27° 5 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2 Mercury Saturn
1952 Taurus 12.01° 6 Leo Ashlesha 2 Mars Saturn
1953 Taurus 11.77° 7 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Venus Saturn
1954 Taurus 11.54° 8 Taurus Bharani 1 Saturn
1955 Taurus 11.31° 9 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 1 Saturn
1956 Taurus 12.04° 1 Aquarius Shravana 1 Saturn
1957 Taurus 11.81° 11 Gemini Rohini 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1958 Taurus 11.57° 3 Libra Chitra 4 Jupiter Saturn
1959 Taurus 11.34° 4 Pisces Shatabhisha 4 Jupiter Saturn
1960 Taurus 12.07° 5 Cancer Punarvasu 4 Jupiter Saturn
1961 Taurus 11.84° 6 Sagittarius Anuradha 3
1962 Taurus 11.6° 7 Aries Revati 3
1963 Taurus 11.37° 8 Virgo Magha 3
1964 Taurus 12.1° 9 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 3 Mercury
1965 Taurus 11.87° 1 Taurus Krittika 2
1966 Taurus 11.63° 11 Libra Hasta 3
1967 Taurus 11.4° 3 Aquarius Dhanishta 3 Mars
1968 Taurus 12.14° 4 Cancer Ardra 2
1969 Taurus 11.9° 5 Scorpio Vishakha 1 Mars Jupiter
1970 Taurus 11.67° 6 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2 Mercury Jupiter
1971 Taurus 11.43° 7 Leo Ashlesha 2 Mercury Jupiter
1972 Taurus 12.17° 8 Sagittarius Mula 1 Jupiter
1973 Taurus 11.93° 9 Taurus Bharani 1
1974 Taurus 11.7° 1 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 1
1975 Taurus 11.46° 11 Aquarius Uttara Ashadha 4
1976 Taurus 12.2° 3 Gemini Rohini 4
1977 Taurus 11.96° 4 Libra Chitra 4 Mercury
1978 Taurus 11.73° 5 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 1
1979 Taurus 11.49° 6 Cancer Punarvasu 3 Saturn
1980 Taurus 12.23° 7 Sagittarius Anuradha 4 Saturn
1981 Taurus 12° 8 Aries Revati 3 Jupiter Saturn
1982 Taurus 11.76° 9 Virgo Magha 4 Mars Jupiter Saturn
1983 Taurus 11.53° 1 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 2 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1984 Taurus 12.26° 11 Taurus Krittika 3 Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn
1985 Taurus 12.03° 3 Libra Hasta 2 Saturn
1986 Taurus 11.79° 4 Aquarius Dhanishta 4 Saturn
1987 Taurus 11.56° 5 Cancer Ardra 1 Saturn
1988 Taurus 12.29° 6 Scorpio Vishakha 2 Saturn
1989 Taurus 12.06° 7 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 1 Saturn
1990 Taurus 11.82° 8 Leo Ashlesha 3 Mercury
1991 Taurus 11.59° 9 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4
1992 Taurus 12.32° 1 Taurus Bharani 1
1993 Taurus 12.09° 11 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 1 Jupiter
1994 Taurus 11.85° 3 Aquarius Shravana 3 Jupiter
1995 Taurus 11.62° 4 Gemini Rohini 3 Jupiter
1996 Taurus 12.36° 5 Libra Chitra 4
1997 Taurus 12.12° 6 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 1 Mercury
1998 Taurus 11.89° 7 Leo Pushya 2
1999 Taurus 11.65° 8 Sagittarius Anuradha 2 Mars
2000 Taurus 12.39° 9 Aries Revati 3
2001 Taurus 12.15° 1 Virgo Magha 4
2002 Taurus 11.92° 11 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 1
2003 Taurus 11.68° 3 Taurus Krittika 1 Mercury
2004 Taurus 12.42° 4 Libra Hasta 2 Jupiter
2005 Taurus 12.18° 5 Aquarius Dhanishta 4 Jupiter
2006 Taurus 11.95° 6 Cancer Ardra 4 Jupiter
2007 Taurus 11.71° 7 Scorpio Swati 4 Jupiter
2008 Taurus 12.45° 8 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2 Saturn
2009 Taurus 12.22° 9 Leo Ashlesha 3 Saturn
2010 Taurus 11.98° 1 Capricorn Mula 3 Mercury Saturn
2011 Taurus 11.75° 11 Taurus Ashwini 3 Saturn
2012 Taurus 12.48° 3 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 1 Saturn
2013 Taurus 12.25° 4 Aquarius Shravana 3 Saturn
2014 Taurus 12.01° 5 Gemini Mrigashira 1 Mars Saturn
2015 Taurus 11.78° 6 Libra Chitra 2 Saturn
2016 Taurus 12.51° 7 Pisces Shatabhisha 4 Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn
2017 Taurus 12.28° 8 Leo Pushya 3 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
2018 Taurus 12.04° 9 Sagittarius Anuradha 4 Jupiter Saturn
2019 Taurus 11.81° 1 Aries Revati 1 Jupiter Saturn
2020 Taurus 12.54° 11 Virgo Magha 3
2021 Taurus 12.31° 3 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2
2022 Taurus 12.07° 4 Gemini Krittika 3
2023 Taurus 11.84° 5 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Mercury
2024 Taurus 12.58° 6 Aquarius Dhanishta 3
2025 Taurus 12.34° 7 Cancer Punarvasu 1
2026 Taurus 12.11° 8 Scorpio Vishakha 2
2027 Taurus 11.87° 9 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3
2028 Taurus 12.61° 1 Leo Ashlesha 3 Jupiter
2029 Taurus 12.37° 11 Capricorn Mula 4 Mercury Mars Jupiter

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 May

Day of the year 123 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 20 of 100 years (20%)
Most recent of those 2003, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2023, 2029
Full moon fell on this date in 8 years — 1977, 1988, 1996, 2007, 2026
Most frequent moon phase Waxing Crescent · 20 years

Every figure here is specific to 2 May: 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 Taurus life path 6
2007 Taurus life path 7
2008 Taurus life path 8
2009 Taurus life path 9
2010 Taurus life path 1
2011 Taurus life path 11
2012 Taurus life path 3
2013 Taurus life path 4
2014 Taurus life path 5
2015 Taurus life path 6
2016 Taurus life path 7
2017 Taurus life path 8
2018 Taurus life path 9
2019 Taurus life path 1
2020 Taurus life path 11
2021 Taurus life path 3
2022 Taurus life path 4
2023 Taurus life path 5
2024 Taurus life path 6
2025 Taurus life path 7
2026 Taurus life path 8
2027 Taurus life path 9
2028 Taurus life path 1
2029 Taurus life path 11

The sign column never changes; only the number does.

Life path numbers this date produces

The most frequent is 11 with 12 years; the scarcest is 1 with just 11. And this date can carry a master number: 11 in 12 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 May sits 12 days past the start of Taurus and reached 12.11° 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.