Settled date · day 3 of 32 in the sign

23 May — Gemini

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

Where in Gemini this falls

Sun's degree on this date 2.38° of Gemini
Day within the sign 3 of 32
Same sign in 100 of 100 years — settled

Jupiter-ruled decan of Gemini

Decan 1 of 3 · 0°–10°
Sub-ruler Jupiter
Sign ruler Mercury
Sun on this date 2.38°

Jupiter widens the sign — more appetite, more optimism, and less patience with detail. Sitting in the first ten degrees, the sign shows in its rawest form — least mixed with the sign before it, and least worn down.

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Every year, computed

All 100 years for 23 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 Gemini 1.62° 5 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 3 Mercury Saturn
1931 Gemini 1.39° 6 Leo Ashlesha 2 Saturn
1932 Gemini 2.12° 7 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 4 Saturn
1933 Gemini 1.88° 8 Taurus Krittika 1
1934 Gemini 1.65° 9 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 1 Jupiter
1935 Gemini 1.42° 1 Aquarius Shravana 2 Jupiter
1936 Gemini 2.15° 11 Cancer Ardra 3 Mercury Jupiter
1937 Gemini 1.92° 3 Scorpio Swati 4 Mercury Mars Jupiter
1938 Gemini 1.68° 4 Pisces Shatabhisha 4
1939 Gemini 1.45° 5 Cancer Pushya 1
1940 Gemini 2.18° 6 Sagittarius Mula 2
1941 Gemini 1.95° 7 Taurus Ashwini 3
1942 Gemini 1.72° 8 Virgo Magha 3
1943 Gemini 1.48° 9 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 1 Mercury
1944 Gemini 2.21° 1 Gemini Mrigashira 1
1945 Gemini 1.98° 11 Libra Chitra 2
1946 Gemini 1.75° 3 Aquarius Dhanishta 3 Jupiter
1947 Gemini 1.52° 4 Cancer Ardra 4 Jupiter
1948 Gemini 2.24° 5 Sagittarius Anuradha 4 Jupiter
1949 Gemini 2.01° 6 Aries Revati 1 Mercury Jupiter
1950 Gemini 1.78° 7 Leo Ashlesha 2 Mercury
1951 Gemini 1.55° 8 Capricorn Mula 4 Saturn
1952 Gemini 2.28° 9 Taurus Krittika 3 Mars Saturn
1953 Gemini 2.04° 1 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Saturn
1954 Gemini 1.81° 11 Aquarius Shravana 1 Mars Saturn
1955 Gemini 1.58° 3 Gemini Mrigashira 3 Saturn
1956 Gemini 2.31° 4 Scorpio Vishakha 2 Mercury Saturn
1957 Gemini 2.08° 5 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 3 Saturn
1958 Gemini 1.84° 6 Cancer Pushya 1 Jupiter Saturn
1959 Gemini 1.61° 7 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2 Jupiter Saturn
1960 Gemini 2.34° 8 Taurus Bharani 1 Jupiter Saturn
1961 Gemini 2.11° 9 Virgo Purva Phalguni 2 Saturn
1962 Gemini 1.87° 1 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 4 Saturn
1963 Gemini 1.64° 11 Gemini Rohini 1 Mercury
1964 Gemini 2.37° 3 Scorpio Swati 1
1965 Gemini 2.14° 4 Pisces Shatabhisha 1
1966 Gemini 1.91° 5 Cancer Ardra 4
1967 Gemini 1.67° 6 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Mars
1968 Gemini 2.4° 7 Aries Revati 4
1969 Gemini 2.17° 8 Leo Ashlesha 4 Mercury Mars
1970 Gemini 1.94° 9 Capricorn Mula 3 Jupiter
1971 Gemini 1.71° 1 Taurus Bharani 4 Jupiter
1972 Gemini 2.43° 11 Libra Hasta 3 Jupiter
1973 Gemini 2.2° 3 Aquarius Shravana 3
1974 Gemini 1.97° 4 Gemini Mrigashira 3
1975 Gemini 1.74° 5 Scorpio Swati 3
1976 Gemini 2.47° 6 Aries Uttara Bhadrapada 2 Mercury
1977 Gemini 2.23° 7 Leo Pushya 2
1978 Gemini 2° 8 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2
1979 Gemini 1.77° 9 Taurus Ashwini 3
1980 Gemini 2.5° 1 Virgo Uttara Phalguni 1
1981 Gemini 2.27° 11 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 1 Jupiter Saturn
1982 Gemini 2.03° 3 Gemini Rohini 1 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1983 Gemini 1.8° 4 Libra Chitra 2 Mercury Jupiter Saturn
1984 Gemini 2.53° 5 Pisces Shatabhisha 4 Mars Jupiter Saturn
1985 Gemini 2.3° 6 Cancer Ardra 4 Saturn
1986 Gemini 2.07° 7 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Saturn
1987 Gemini 1.83° 8 Aries Revati 1 Saturn
1988 Gemini 2.56° 9 Virgo Magha 3 Venus Saturn
1989 Gemini 2.33° 1 Capricorn Mula 4 Mercury Saturn
1990 Gemini 2.1° 11 Taurus Bharani 4 Saturn
1991 Gemini 1.86° 3 Libra Hasta 1 Saturn
1992 Gemini 2.59° 4 Aquarius Dhanishta 1
1993 Gemini 2.36° 5 Gemini Mrigashira 3 Jupiter
1994 Gemini 2.13° 6 Scorpio Swati 3 Jupiter
1995 Gemini 1.9° 7 Pisces Purva Bhadrapada 4 Jupiter
1996 Gemini 2.63° 8 Leo Pushya 4 Mercury Venus Jupiter
1997 Gemini 2.39° 9 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 2
1998 Gemini 2.16° 1 Taurus Ashwini 2
1999 Gemini 1.93° 11 Virgo Purva Phalguni 3 Mars
2000 Gemini 2.66° 3 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 3
2001 Gemini 2.43° 4 Gemini Rohini 2 Mars
2002 Gemini 2.19° 5 Libra Chitra 2 Mercury
2003 Gemini 1.96° 6 Pisces Shatabhisha 3
2004 Gemini 2.69° 7 Cancer Punarvasu 2 Venus
2005 Gemini 2.46° 8 Scorpio Anuradha 1 Jupiter
2006 Gemini 2.22° 9 Aries Revati 1 Jupiter
2007 Gemini 1.99° 1 Leo Magha 2 Jupiter
2008 Gemini 2.72° 11 Capricorn Purva Ashadha 1 Jupiter
2009 Gemini 2.49° 3 Taurus Bharani 4 Mercury
2010 Gemini 2.26° 4 Libra Hasta 1 Saturn
2011 Gemini 2.02° 5 Aquarius Dhanishta 1 Saturn
2012 Gemini 2.75° 6 Cancer Mrigashira 4 Venus Saturn
2013 Gemini 2.52° 7 Scorpio Swati 3 Saturn
2014 Gemini 2.29° 8 Pisces Uttara Bhadrapada 1 Saturn
2015 Gemini 2.06° 9 Leo Pushya 4 Mercury Saturn
2016 Gemini 2.78° 1 Sagittarius Jyeshtha 4 Mars Saturn
2017 Gemini 2.55° 11 Aries Ashwini 2 Jupiter Saturn
2018 Gemini 2.32° 3 Virgo Purva Phalguni 4 Jupiter Saturn
2019 Gemini 2.09° 4 Capricorn Uttara Ashadha 2 Jupiter Saturn
2020 Gemini 2.82° 5 Gemini Rohini 3 Venus Jupiter Saturn
2021 Gemini 2.58° 6 Libra Chitra 2 Saturn
2022 Gemini 2.35° 7 Pisces Shatabhisha 4 Mercury
2023 Gemini 2.12° 8 Cancer Punarvasu 1
2024 Gemini 2.85° 9 Sagittarius Anuradha 2
2025 Gemini 2.62° 1 Aries Revati 1
2026 Gemini 2.38° 11 Virgo Magha 3
2027 Gemini 2.15° 3 Capricorn Mula 4
2028 Gemini 2.88° 4 Taurus Krittika 1 Mercury Venus
2029 Gemini 2.65° 5 Libra Uttara Phalguni 4 Mercury 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 23 May

Day of the year 144 of 366
Mercury was retrograde on this date in 20 of 100 years (20%)
Most recent of those 2002, 2009, 2015, 2022, 2028, 2029
Full moon fell on this date in 6 years — 1959, 1967, 1986, 2005, 2024
Most frequent moon phase Waning Crescent · 19 years

Every figure here is specific to 23 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 Gemini life path 9
2007 Gemini life path 1
2008 Gemini life path 11
2009 Gemini life path 3
2010 Gemini life path 4
2011 Gemini life path 5
2012 Gemini life path 6
2013 Gemini life path 7
2014 Gemini life path 8
2015 Gemini life path 9
2016 Gemini life path 1
2017 Gemini life path 11
2018 Gemini life path 3
2019 Gemini life path 4
2020 Gemini life path 5
2021 Gemini life path 6
2022 Gemini life path 7
2023 Gemini life path 8
2024 Gemini life path 9
2025 Gemini life path 1
2026 Gemini life path 11
2027 Gemini life path 3
2028 Gemini life path 4
2029 Gemini 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

23 May sits 2 days past the start of Gemini and reached 2.38° 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.